splitrocket

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by splitrocket 4y ago
Check my karma: It's not spam. It really is really well built. Should be: took them years to get it built, I bought into their kickstarter early. That said, I learned huge amounts about building hardware from their engineering blog,
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by splitrocket 4y ago
This is deeply impressive.
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by splitrocket 4y ago
You take the stairs up, but the elevator down.
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by splitrocket 4y ago
I wouldn't bet against dumb in the short run: see brexit.
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by splitrocket 4y ago
I've tried to buy things with crypto. It's easier to barter. By a longshot.
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by splitrocket 4y ago
Getting a 404 error...
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by splitrocket 4y ago
And also: Poor folks don't survive long enough to become seniors who vote. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-often-do...
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by splitrocket 4y ago
If it's useless, I'd be happy to take it off your hands!
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by splitrocket 4y ago
The math here is pretty straightforward, however, it doesn't look like all of the components necessary to do the math are available. 1. How long do I "own a solar panel"? Indefinitely? 2. What is the wattage of the solar pane
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by splitrocket 4y ago
There are a couple of interesting options in a similar space: BedrockDB ( https://bedrockdb.com/ ) Dqlite ( https://dqlite.io/ ) Rqlite ( https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite ) I'm in
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by splitrocket 5y ago
The key component that is missing from many of these digital voice assistants is multi-listening device coordination: which device should answer if there are many devices listening. It's a hard problem. From my understanding, homepods
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Um, because moss is awesome? You can make a moss "milkshake" or "slurry" out of moss and beer, and then "paint" moss on whatever you would like to be delightfully green and fuzzy.
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by splitrocket 5y ago
They have. Exxon's 1982 predictions about the global average temperature in 2022 are pretty spot on. https://xkcd.com/2500/
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Do yourself a favor and read the writeup about the perfect home automation system by founder of Home Assistant ( https://www.home-assistant.io ) https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/per
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by splitrocket 5y ago
If your Mitsubishi uses IR for it's remote, this probably would work: https://github.com/geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump Or, you can use a Broadlink IR blaster to clone the remote. If your heat pump talks to
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Well, the gun control argument is that guns are inherently dangerous, far moreso than lawn darts or kinder eggs, which are currently banned for sale in the US. A gun is far more likely to kill a member of your own family than it is to prote
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by splitrocket 5y ago
And some of the lowest Per Capita gun deaths. Stop using anecdotes as data.
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by splitrocket 5y ago
SF and NYC have some of the lowest per capital gun violence rates in the country.
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Let me post the whole second amendment for you: `A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.` Your interpretation above, of an individual
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Seems to not be supported by the evidence. States that do not allow unlicensed carry of handguns have lower per capita gun death. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-deaths-...
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Looks like they need to Share the Safety: https://theyesmen.org/share-the-safety
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Virus particles do not travel naked in the air, instead they are colloidally suspended in liquid, both droplets and aerosols. So, if your filter catches the droplets and aerosols, which are much larger in size than the actual virus, the fil
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Not that this will settle anything. Anecdotally, I've not gotten even a slight cold while being socially distanced while consistently masked.
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by splitrocket 5y ago
If your identity was used without your consent, I wonder if you could sue?
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Burning coal causes cancer. A lot of cancer. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-...
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by splitrocket 5y ago
This is fundamentally incorrect. Vaccinated people have a lower viral load, thus are less contagious, thus lower the R1. If the r1 is below 1, then you eventually get to herd immunity. The more vaccinated people there are, the less dangerou
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by splitrocket 5y ago
Vaccination is variolating: it lessens the impact of the infection, not preventing the infection, and thus the potential to be contagious. A vaccinated person who has been infected is still contagious, just less so than an unvaccinated pers
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by splitrocket 6y ago
"Google won't get back to the mojo that gave us search, gmail, and maps before the petro curse is cured." - DHH Search, email and maps are essentially all search products, just with different domains, that's why google i
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by splitrocket 6y ago
Yes, but until then, the dam is still leaking like a sieve, and any hole that can be plugged needs to be plugged.
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by splitrocket 6y ago
This. 100% this.

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