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by placesalt 3y ago
I've found a plain (hardback, moleskine-like) notebook with no preprinted page numbers / dates works for me. Dates are filled in when entries are made. It avoids situations where there's a feeling of wastage when a page isn&#
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by placesalt 3y ago
Related, any recommendations on low-cost ways to start playing around with FPGAs? Boards, chips, projects?
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by placesalt 3y ago
AFAIK that usage traces back to the 1990s TV show "Quantum Leap", in which the protagonist would travel in space & time to a new place each episode. The phrase 'Quantum Leap', then, was popularly taken to mean a larg
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by placesalt 3y ago
I still miss the Trivia sections.
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by placesalt 3y ago
Have you tried using a broom?
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by placesalt 3y ago
The only downside I see for electric yard equipment is the vendor lock-in with batteries. Other than that, they work just fine. Pay up front for two batteries and a fast-enough charger, and you can charge one battery while you wear the othe
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by placesalt 3y ago
50cm, not 10cm, but enough. TBH I thought they had 15cm, but for human-scale large object monitoring (fires, traffic, construction) 50cm is enough.
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by placesalt 3y ago
The article also says > Obviously, it was wet with the weather last week, but I honestly can’t remember any huge puddles or anything like that. It’s not like I was driving my car through the Cairngorms.
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by placesalt 3y ago
What about the power/weight budget, esp. for the 110 ft. wingspan aircraft mentioned above?
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by placesalt 3y ago
Not live at that resolution, AFAIK. Planet has the spatial resolution but not the temporal resolution. NOAA has the temporal resolution but not the spatial resolution. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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by placesalt 3y ago
This kind of argument-against-perfection / argument-against-absolutes is so transparently useless. It may be that I've just been noticing it more, but it seems more common lately. Perfection of any kind does not exist in the physi
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by placesalt 3y ago
I was going to post the same thing. A moral of the story is: put a sticker on the cover of your laptop. Similarly, a bit of flagging tape[1] on luggage isn't a bad idea. Having an expensive and precious belonging that looks exactly the
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by placesalt 3y ago
age old
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by placesalt 3y ago
I guess one question is: should > did not have 2fa enabled be allowed to coexist with > pretty extensive and personal data
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by placesalt 3y ago
> I wish they hadn’t changed their name from the more evocative “International Earth Rotation Service”. It used to make me think, “What if we stopped paying them and they stopped cranking?” They always had the single most impressive name
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by placesalt 3y ago
About 10-20 minutes of your time, if you include the task-switching cost.
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Antarctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent/Thickness(zacklabe.com)
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by placesalt 3y ago
The effect of caching on Windows can be quite pronounced if you process large datasets on a machine with a large amount of RAM. If, say, you have 256GB RAM and a 100GB folder of ~1GB files, you will only ever have a few GB used actively. A
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by placesalt 3y ago
Same here, in Canada; it's a metaphorical use, by my reading, similar to '<blank> will only take a second'
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by placesalt 3y ago
I tried the above method, but I didn't see any change in Windows update. What seemed to work for me was a group policy (requires local admin, and probably the non-'home' version of win10): gpedit > Computer Configuration &
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by placesalt 3y ago
From the most biblically-named government department comes a biblical amount of data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/ See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs for in-browser viewing).
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by placesalt 3y ago
Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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by placesalt 3y ago
The meme was that fusion was always 30 years away. This is obviously a lot closer, so if nothing else it doesn't deserve to be tarred with that brush.
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by placesalt 3y ago
Does anyone know any more about Boox & GPL compliance? The wiki page effectively says they are in violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Boox#GPL_Compliance > As of 2022, Onyx International Inc. has decli
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by placesalt 3y ago
FYI the error message is > This prompt has been blocked. Our system automatically flagged this prompt because it may conflict with our content policy. More policy violations may lead to automatic suspension of your access. > If you th
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by placesalt 3y ago
They said during the broadcast that it deployed at 20kft instead of the planned 5kft. But GGP is correct, it really did look for a little while there like it maybe hadn't deployed on time.
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by placesalt 3y ago
Pretty exciting stuff, showing a live image of the capsule entering right now Edit: Neat seeing EDL from an earth POV, too. Kind of reverses the usual formula for eg landing on Mars. Edit edit: touchdown!
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by placesalt 3y ago
It took ages, but that is finally being phased out > On February 23, 2022, the FAA joined aviation and petroleum industry stakeholders to announce a comprehensive public-private partnership to transition to lead-free aviation fuels for p
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by placesalt 3y ago
A piece of software I use has google groups as the main interaction point among users & between users and the dev. It works quite well.
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by placesalt 3y ago
I think that was Churchill, but the point stands

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