slavik81

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by slavik81 3mo ago
Natural gas burns at ~2200 K. Ambient temperature is ~300 K. 1 - 300/2200 = 86% as the Carnot limit?
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by slavik81 3mo ago
If you slide off the road and get stuck in a ditch in the middle of the night, an EV is a lot more comfortable. Standard advice for keeping warm is to run the engine for ten minutes every hour and keep the window cracked open due to risk of
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by slavik81 4mo ago
Americans were our brothers. We had been partners for over a hundred years.
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by slavik81 4mo ago
I keep thinking back to that e-card, "once you hate someone, everything they do is offensive." I don't think tech companies appreciate the extent to which they used to get the benefit of the doubt just because people liked th
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by slavik81 4mo ago
China is the world's largest exporter of alternatives to oil. This adventure has done nothing but strengthen their relative economic position.
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by slavik81 6mo ago
Options are a bit riskier than RSUs. If you have RSUs issued at $100 and the stock goes down to $50, then your RSUs are worth half. If you have the option to buy stock at $100 and the stock goes down to $50, then that option is worthless.
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by slavik81 6mo ago
Not everyone was so optimistic. Many people argued that the money spent going to the moon would be better spent on problems here on Earth. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Tom_Lehrer_song_lyrics_(...
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by slavik81 6mo ago
That had more or less been the explanation in the books for decades, and even in George Lucas' notes from 1977: > It's a very simple ship, very economical ship, although the modifications he made to it are rather extensive – mo
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by slavik81 6mo ago
In our case, it was suggested that the first transfer of the first cycle had a 15% chance of success. Whether that's "very rare" is perhaps a matter of perspective. It was low enough we assumed it would be a failure and we we
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by slavik81 6mo ago
The total number might be a little out there due to her non-medical treatments, but the general sentiment is accurate for IVF. My wife filled up an entire sharps box with the injections she needed to take and that was with success on the fi
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by slavik81 6mo ago
Taiwan's biggest problem is that the average age is currently ~45 and in 15 years it will be ~55. It's going to be hard to keep the economy going once half the country's retired.
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by slavik81 6mo ago
It's understandable that parents are upset, but tech companies are not the ones harmed by these laws. When we've outlawed privacy, it will be the public who suffers.
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by slavik81 6mo ago
Do you mean Dory, the fish from Finding Nemo?
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by slavik81 6mo ago
> instagram and the like are uniquely and disastrously harmful Could we perhaps regulate them to require that they be made less harmful for everyone? > anything the reduces the power those companies have over our lives (and our politi
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by slavik81 7mo ago
It was in the manual and the Player's Guide. You can find ditto on page 47 of the latter. https://www.scribd.com/document/586237858/Pokemon-Red-Versio... https://archive.org/details/Ninte
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by slavik81 8mo ago
The £700M (960M USD) spent on fish protection measures at Hinkley Point C would be a topical example [1]. It's expected to save an average of a few hundred twaite shad, six river lamprey, and eighteen allis shad per year, plus one salm
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by slavik81 8mo ago
If manipulative algorithm are the problem, then perhaps we should consider regulations that would protect everyone.
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by slavik81 8mo ago
The comments on Reddit from folks who claim to have worked for Northvolt are pretty wild. I would take them with a grain of salt, but they're interesting to read. https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comm
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by slavik81 8mo ago
Shade on older solar systems would impact energy production disproportionally. You would typically see dramatic reductions like 50%-80% reduced output due to 10-20% shade. New shade-tolerant solar systems are closer to being proportional.
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by slavik81 8mo ago
The Greener Homes Grant and Greener Homes Loan you describe have ended, but the 160% tarrif on imported solar panels remains. Solar prices in Canada are still quite expensive, and regulations are needlessly strict. Solar fencing is illegal
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by slavik81 8mo ago
The proposed bans on open source 3D printers in Washington and New York would be examples of bad laws proposed by Democrats in the name of gun control. https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/washington-state-bill-see
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by slavik81 8mo ago
> The next salvo is going to be US statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan. There is already partisan support within those provinces, and Trump is going to offer money to push it. The polling puts it at 20% support and 80% opposed. This i
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by slavik81 8mo ago
Corsair Vengeance 128 GB (2 x 64 GB) DDR5-6400. $339 in Sept 2025. $1599 in Jan 3026. 4.7x increase. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/LPvscf/corsair-vengeance-12... I cancelled my plans to upgrade my workstation,
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by slavik81 8mo ago
> the Mazda CX90 is a real car A Mazda 3 has been my daily driver for the past decade and I really wanted to like the Mazda CX90 PHEV when I was buying a larger vehicle last year. It was pretty difficult to justify the CX90 PHEV, though.
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by slavik81 9mo ago
My copy of Mirror's Edge from EA is unusable due to DRM. It's still listed on my EA account as belonging to me and I can download the game from them, but it can only be installed five times and I have reached that limit.
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by slavik81 9mo ago
What improvisation is required? A traffic light being out is a standard problem with a standard solution. It's just a four-way stop.
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by slavik81 9mo ago
It's worth noting that upstream gdb (and clang) are somewhat limited in GPU debugging support because they only use (and emit) standardized DWARF debug information. The DWARF standard will need updates before gdb and clang can reach pa
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by slavik81 9mo ago
Snowboard Kids 2 was a great N64 game. It was one of a number of racing titles inspired by Mario Kart, but the snowboarding added a bit of a different feel. The battle items were clever, and the stages were really well made given the techni
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by slavik81 10mo ago
> Do you ever grab one of those "stranded" shopping carts on the way in to the store? Of course. They're typically more convenient than the carts that have been properly returned.
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by slavik81 10mo ago
The Korean War played a major part, according to "Why Only Three Countries Bother Building Ships Anymore". https://youtu.be/0Gk61ginOqo

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