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by smiley1437 4mo ago
"to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire
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by smiley1437 7mo ago
I agree with you, I can't stand ads However, I believe an ad it still influences you subconsciously as long as it is in your sight line. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot of investigation into subtly slipping advertising i
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by smiley1437 7mo ago
CATL claims 10,000 cycles for the Naxtra: https://battery-news.de/en/2026/01/26/catl-presents-sodium-i...
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by smiley1437 7mo ago
Out the gate, sodium ion advantages are so significant that unless there is some surprise show-stopper it will likely become the dominant energy storage medium. Crustal abundance up to 1000x that of lithium - pretty much every nation has ef
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by smiley1437 8mo ago
Strangely, this made me think about the recurrent laryngeal nerve in giraffes. The nerve takes a 15-foot detour down the long neck and loops under the aorta near the heart before it travels back up because evolution needed to stay backwards
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by smiley1437 9mo ago
> Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger. Funnily enough, I've used my nose to tap my watch when my hands are full Yes, I've gotten some strange looks
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by smiley1437 10mo ago
> mid-level -> senior-level transitions will leave a hole behind that can't be filled internally. Tech companies are betting that in 5 years, AI should be good enough to replace mid-levels. Rinse and repeat with seniors 5 years
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by smiley1437 10mo ago
Alliance Laundry which makes Speed Queen recently IPOed: https://ir.alliancelaundry.com/news-events/press-releases/de... Once a company goes public they tend to focus more on earnings per quarter, causing decision
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by smiley1437 11mo ago
The pods cost about 6x as much per load as powder. So, even if they had equal cleaning performance, economically the powder would come ahead. As it turns out, the 1/6th-as-expensive powder does an even better job than the pods, makin
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by smiley1437 11mo ago
Not the GP, but do you think Serena Williams - world number 1 womens tennis player for 319 weeks, who trained for 5 hours per day at her peak - has insufficient grit? Because she went on GLP-1 to lose weight.
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by smiley1437 11mo ago
How do you just start on retatrutide? Did you sign up for a Phase 3 trial?
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by smiley1437 11mo ago
I value my time as well that's why I have 2 Synology devices, one at my home, one at my sibling's home. Both on Tailscale and we use Hyperbackup between them. It was very easy to set up and provides offsite backups for both of us.
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by smiley1437 11mo ago
> Conversely, entire branches of knowledge can be lost if not enough people are working in the area to maintain a common ground of understanding. Especially if the work is classified. The manufacture of FOGBANK, a key material for a ther
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by smiley1437 1y ago
Instructions on Vine-glo grape concentrate during prohibition: "Do not place the liquid in this jug and put it away in the cupboard for twenty-one days, because then it would turn into wine."
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by smiley1437 1y ago
One useful addition for text file users: on Windows, create hotkey\macro timestamps using something like Autohotkey ( https://autohotkey.com/ ) 3 letter hotkeys seem to work well - long enough to be unique without overlapping
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by smiley1437 1y ago
Google was not marginally better Yahoo, their implementation of Markov chains in the PageRank algorithm was significantly better than Yahoo or any other contemporary search engine. It's not obvious if a similar breakthrough could occur
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by smiley1437 1y ago
Tirzepatide (and likely other GLPs) have limitations that are rarely brought up in the general media - Patients have about 72 weeks to reach maximum loss, they don't lose any more weight after 72 weeks even on the highest dose. - Patie
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by smiley1437 1y ago
> people aren't aware of how wrong they can be, and the errors take effort and knowledge to notice. I have friends who are highly educated professionals (PhDs, MDs) who just assume that AI\LLMs make no mistakes. They were shocked th
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by smiley1437 1y ago
I went through manually and these appear to have the highest volumes: H1 H2 CPM Magnacut Sandvik 12C27 Interestingly they are all weak on Edge Retention.
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by smiley1437 1y ago
Be careful - those magnetic adapters can fry your port https://www.pcworld.com/article/2307079/dont-buy-these-dange...
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by smiley1437 2y ago
Did you know you can buy an Oxford Nanopore sequencer for about $2000 euro? It sits on your desk and it will sequence DNA or RNA at about 450 bases per second https://nanoporetech.com/platform/technology It somehow gr
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by smiley1437 2y ago
Some pools use a electrolysis system to generate chlorine for the pool. They'are marketed as salt-water chlorinators. It splits the sodium chloride in the water into chlorine and sodium hydroxide so you don't have to keep buying
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by smiley1437 2y ago
> You actually don't have to power it down. If you hold the power and volume buttons for 2 seconds and reach the "slide to power off" screen, the phone is already hard locked. You then always have to enter the passcode to
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by smiley1437 2y ago
What about highly intelligent psychopaths? https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat... Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to be generous, thoughtful, and kind
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by smiley1437 2y ago
IPU6 for image sensors feels so much like GDI print drivers from the 90s
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by smiley1437 2y ago
thanks for the link! A great read as promised
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by smiley1437 2y ago
Over time, the explosive chemicals in the both the detonator and the main charge can frequently get MORE sensitive to disturbance, which is kind of perverse. That's why if you ever come across any old UXO (UneXploded Ordnance) you shou
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by smiley1437 2y ago
> modulate our own weight, up to 0 -- or even negative. Wolff's law suggests that if you set your own weight to zero or negative, your bones would become fragile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff%27s_law
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by smiley1437 2y ago
>Something I've been thinking about, and then I noticed this essay. Probably Baader–Meinhof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by smiley1437 2y ago
Any chance it's a legitimate screw up but they don't want to cause any Streisand effect?

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