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nomadluap
2y ago
You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of charcoal. Off the top of my head, for a given amount of wood bio
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2y ago
I'm sure a lot of it is already spent in the form of reverse-mortgages on homes.
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3y ago
I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.
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nomadluap
3y ago
Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.
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3y ago
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly with water afterwards. If you're really serious about
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3y ago
For one thing, it could delegate to a local service. Granted, the communication to this service is probably still be over a socket interface, but at least as a purely-local connection you would hopefully have some better worst-case performa
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3y ago
or just, "The Expert Problem"
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3y ago
At that point just start using an SQLite database as a data format.
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5y ago
I always thought it would be interesting if Spacex developed a "dragon utility module". It would launch in Dragon's trunk and consist of a docking port on one end, an airlock on the other, a miniature manipulator arm and a bu
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5y ago
And the form clears every time you go back/forward
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5y ago
A heat pump could be used to cool the water to below-ambient and inject that heat directly into the outgoing compressed air. I wonder if a system like that would be more efficient than installing a separate refrigeration-based system downst
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6y ago
I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.
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6y ago
No, but you could blackmail a social media manager to further your cause by planting a bug in the office, for example.
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6y ago
from the article, apparently Wayland display servers already support multi-touch gestures.
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6y ago
Does anyone have a clone of the original repository?
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6y ago
Even if the bad actors found the same nail polish to re-apply after tampering, the pattern of glitter flecks would be different. The recipient could compare a high-resolution photo of the nailpolish to a reference image to determine if the
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6y ago
There are already some solutions around that try to address this on a consumer level. I recently watched a teardown for a piece of test gear that utilizes frequencies injected directly to the mains supply in order to control home hot-water
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I was pleasantly surprised when I started my first R&D job after university. It's just like a FIRST team but everything is bigger including the robots. I don't think anything else in school has prepared me for the real world m
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6y ago
Minecraft with the OpenComputers[1] mod might fit your requirements. It adds computers and robots into Minecraft that are programmable with Lua. [1]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers
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7y ago
What advantage does fossil have over Git in this case?
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7y ago
For most paywall sites like this, you can also get the full content by being quick on the 'escape' key after reloading. If you can interrupt it after the static article content loads but before most of the javascript loads then th
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7y ago
That would be an interesting metric: normalized accident rates for self-driving cars vs octogenarian-driven cars.
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I bet most porch pirates will have an easier time fencing a tv rather than a desk, and so would be more likely to take a TV box.
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uBlock Origin seems to block all advertising on Youtube for me, including pre-roll and intermission ads in the videos. The only advertising I see on youtube these days is the sponsored sections inserted by the video creators.
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7y ago
SQLite has a page measuring performance of internal blobs vs external files: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html
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7y ago
The problem was that there was a prize at stake, and everyone else was playing by the rules.
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7y ago
Or even just remember size and position between instances
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7y ago
They may have already signed an exclusive streaming contract with another provider.
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7y ago
Just because it's 'working' doesn't mean it's legitimate.
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7y ago
This is literally explained by the parent comment.
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