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by paulgerhardt 21d ago
Part of getting deals done in China (in the old days) involved drinking. After enough trial and error, I found I had luck with pre-gaming bioavailable pre-pre-precursors and water about 6 hours before drinking. More so than just water. Or j
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by paulgerhardt 1mo ago
> that’s seamless I wish it were. The double click to pay is pretty annoying compared to “express mode” Apple Watch apps like Suica and UniFi Touch Pass.
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by paulgerhardt 1mo ago
I recall we were seriously talking about using one during the early days of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. For a variety of reasons it wouldn’t have worked in that instance. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-sovi
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by paulgerhardt 2mo ago
I just restored an 1800’s house and we redid the paint in limewash as part of that process. (Effectively zero VOCs but pretty caustic when wet.) Historically (for interior paint) you would use regular limewash in dry spaces and add casein&#
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by paulgerhardt 2mo ago
Seeing the index in action next to an oura I appreciate how much smaller/thinner the index is (or at least how much less it seems to “spread” my fingers apart with of a width of 6.5mm vs 8mm). It’s effectively a regular ring with a but
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by paulgerhardt 2mo ago
Sounds like a kanji version of their Big Tic line. You can find old copies of the JR-1999/JR-8034/JR7978 on eBay but if you’re curious about fashion history (as I am) the backstory is more interesting[1]. You may be pleased to kno
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by paulgerhardt 4mo ago
Recurring revenue, K-factor, long shelf life and low actuation rate. Few verticals outside of video storage could support a monthly subscription putting negative pressure on supporting a shipped product. Most smart home products are anti-so
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by paulgerhardt 4mo ago
Some lesser god of protein folding is big mad we just copied her homework instead of spending 6 billion years in the lab like she did.
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by paulgerhardt 4mo ago
Watched this when it came out. I felt like it had that typical Technology Connections problem where it will take one under explored point along a Pareto frontier and conflate it for the global optimal design. At least that was my experience
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by paulgerhardt 4mo ago
This recent article[1] answers a lot of these questions with great photos too. I would go so far to say it’s the most authoritative piece to date. Previously [2]. [1] https://apps.npr.org/life-on-tristan-da-cunha/ [2]
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by paulgerhardt 5mo ago
Pretty clever solution to rabbit starvation.
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by paulgerhardt 5mo ago
Some napkin math suggests July 11, 2478 AD assuming 1% annual growth and utilization of PtL / Fischer–Tropsch. Closer to March 19, 2063 if you just mean crude oil supplies only.
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by paulgerhardt 5mo ago
First couple of crews to orbit the earth at 0’ AGL had mortality rate of 9 in 10. I’d say we’re doing better!
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by paulgerhardt 6mo ago
I mean there are multiple, multiple boundaries in place for this reason. I’d start by saying most “in the middle of the night” updates target non-safety critical systems in the car like the IHU. The update I received last night has a build
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by paulgerhardt 7mo ago
“Cyberfunk”
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by paulgerhardt 7mo ago
Just went through this. Sample size one: While the fire resulted in the total loss of the house it was actually the water from the fire department not the heat that did proportionally more damage. As a mental model you shouldn’t think of it
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by paulgerhardt 7mo ago
I’ve seen it a lot in ‘90’s hacker / net adjacent cultures. It always reads as gen-x/elderly tech millennial to me - specifically post 1993 net culture but prior to mass adoption of autocorrect. It was the norm on irc/icq&#x2
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by paulgerhardt 9mo ago
I would imagine the endorsement requirement reduces submissions by a few orders of magnitude.
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by paulgerhardt 9mo ago
I was curious about the forecasting success story here too. The German LOK article is better in this regard: https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/62410-oesterreich...
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by paulgerhardt 10mo ago
That unreplicability between chips is actually a very, very desirable property when fingerprinting chips (sometimes known as ChipDNA) to implement unique keys for each chip. You use precisely this property (plus a lot of magic to control f
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by paulgerhardt 10mo ago
Thanks. Higham explicitly addresses the authors substitution crime in section 2.5. Wonderful resource. My complaint stems more to the general observation that readability is prized in math and programming but not emphasized in traditional e
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by paulgerhardt 10mo ago
I wish there was a Strunk and White for mathematics. While by no means logically incorrect, it feels inelegant to setup a problem using variables A and B in the first paragraph and solve for X and Y in the second (compounded with the implic
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by paulgerhardt 11mo ago
Because it keeps coming up there is an anti-Novamin crowd that says it’s useless and Biomin is the true re-enamelizer.
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by paulgerhardt 11mo ago
While I understand the spirit of this comment, if you look at the fossil record you’ll see that’s objectively not true. Roughly half of the shifts in the last 11 evolutionary periods, over the last 500 million years, were caused by changes
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by paulgerhardt 11mo ago
Aside from the skin lotion thing[1] that got popular recently, what is the state of the art in 2025 for allergy prevention? It feels like there is a lot of common ignorance in this space but literature is full of better practice. [1] https
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by paulgerhardt 11mo ago
A few ways. This particular project is doing it by hand and very tedious. The traditional way of transplanting large trees while keeping the root system intact is with a hydrovac. A machine the size of a jet engine that liquifies the soil w
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by paulgerhardt 11mo ago
Do recommend the LG C series (C5 or C4 are new or the C1 series if you want a deal on classifieds - same hardware as the higher end models but needs a firmware bit flip). The OS is very rootable and it makes a great TV that doubles as a mon
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
I’ve recently thrown out all my masking tape (crepe paper) in favor of Washi tape (rice/mulberry paper with a 3M adhesive). I use Blue Dolphin for house painting and Nichiban for airbrushing. Very nice quality of life upgrade. Masking
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
Impressive work for a solo effort. Would love to see less front loading on the registration side - I fell off onboarding because I couldn’t get through the 12(!) page questionnaire. The value proposition is clear, just let me use the app. N
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by paulgerhardt 1y ago
I’m sure I’m missing something here but isn’t this common knowledge in sailing and climbing? Specifically tying a knot with opposite chirality to one existing on a line can cause both knots to capsize and roll out. One would not take it as

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