terramars

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by terramars 1y ago
"We found that when people broke the rules, teams were less likely to win games." This seems like a prima facie bad conclusion to their hockey study, considering that the Panthers won the cup while being effectively tied for the l
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by terramars 2y ago
if this is due to that specific manufacturer having battery fires, i don't hate it as it seems like the battery replacement option is basically the same as a recall. completely different from a random bug causing it or an across-the-b
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by terramars 2y ago
This isn't really accurate, they're targeting industrial wastewater yes but they are working with and have tested brackish water up to several thousand TDS. They had a working EDR system for drinking water installed in Gaza until
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by terramars 2y ago
This is a questionable way to present what's an excellent project and hopefully soon to be commercialized technology. The big deal here is it's a presumably installation ready application of EDR for desalination instead of RO whi
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by terramars 2y ago
i'm down with solar robots, but this is definitely one of those problems that's only a problem because of overly restrictive immigration laws. installing panels is pretty easy, there are tons of people who would be delighted to c
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by terramars 2y ago
i thought it was making fun of flat earthers? it's pretty amusing they have a good writeup on a very technical piece of very circular math if that is not the case.
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by terramars 2y ago
This is really cool research, but to say "symplectic geometry, an abstract field of math that is generally far removed from messy real-world details" in the context of orbit planning is a gross mischaracterization. All serious so
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by terramars 2y ago
There are several African energy startups named Okapi, I don't think it's an appropriate name for a CRM startup considering competition for visibility. https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/stories/refugee-l
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by terramars 3y ago
you can only account for 6hrs of sun per day, so it's more like 30liters per day. that gives you 10m^2 per American. however serving Americans is not a practical use case. i agree these kinds of systems are not going to be competiti
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by terramars 4y ago
I took couple years off coding to build a Kenyan infrastructure engineering firm - we're still going although I've started programming again. The biggest thing we've done is 6.7km of a mountain / lakeside ring road in H
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by terramars 4y ago
love foraging seaweed and eating it in a bunch of different things. large scale consumption of it is pretty difficult unless you're somewhere that conveniently has both a lot of good stuff locally and has a food culture that knows how
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by terramars 4y ago
I implemented the RS encoder that ended up being used on the production satellite bus for the telemetry system in space systems / Loral upgraded bus during my engineering coop in school! All in verilog. It's complicated especially
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by terramars 4y ago
one of the reasons why tech culture has an 18-24 month half life at jobs... it's almost impossible to get a market competitive internal promotion. "not doing performance reviews" and only doing normal 1:1s + an occasional di
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by terramars 4y ago
Scheduled my call with them in a week! Long overdue, but I wonder if the protein subunit still makes sense in an age where mRNA is an option. Obviously too much sunk cost to change the platform even if it was better though.
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by terramars 4y ago
i highly highly recommend trying Colmap if you like ODM. it's not suitable for drone footage by itself (it works but why), but it has amazing performance for just handheld video walkthroughs or if you have a lot of geotagged photos.
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by terramars 4y ago
This is a pretty well debunked ratio for actual actions as it's pretty rare to get that level of multiplier... this goes over it briefly with some WW2 data although it's not as good or relevant as the original one I saw : http:&#
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by terramars 5y ago
yeah.... a good friend of mine (dual citizen) who manages a large engineering team there for US startup was picked up randomly not at the protest shortly after they started, thrown in jail, denied access to consular services, his very good
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by terramars 5y ago
this is a terrible title. what the article says is, a third of the corn belt has lost all of its topsoil. the rest of it has lost a large percentage of it (some of which may just have migrated). so the situation is actually quite a bit wors
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by terramars 6y ago
Did no one else notice the gem in here that BBC failed to mention, that this lizard has one of if not the largest dicks relative to body size of any vertebrate? Due to gender size dysmorphism and internal fertilization.
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by terramars 6y ago
I agree this is ripe for abuse, but I also know enough about the CA water ecosystem to know it's a welcome development from an agriculture capacity planning perspective. There may be some speculators, but overwhelmingly the people tra
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by terramars 6y ago
Wow... this much bullshit makes me really glad I never interviewed for them and recently switched to Gemini... Talk about taking corporate censorship to the next level!
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by terramars 6y ago
I like how this whole yield paper and model is based on the results of a 3'x3' trial area... "With artificial lighting increasing the intensity and duration of light beyond what can be captured from the sun in a field, the sh
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by terramars 6y ago
it's not cheap even domestically, N95 china retail price is 20RMB right now (not like 3M, domestic brands). Compare to US price ~$6-7 most of that difference is shipping. The price inflation goes all the way to the source production
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by terramars 6y ago
my friend probably had the virus (2 inconclusive tests) and tried to get into this study. some group asked her for $125 to get tested. i'm not sure if she saw any of the facebook ads. so, grain of salt about representativeness of th
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by terramars 10y ago
abokifx.com
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by terramars 10y ago
IITA would be all over that! Their internet is really bad.
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by terramars 10y ago
How would you compare your service to Express Wifi (or similar), is it competitive or does it serve a different market segment? I'm also curious how you manage forex risk and the regulatory system there.
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by terramars 11y ago
this is garbage, the geographic variation of salaries are significant (maybe not for teachers or servers, but for others certainly). also, all the astronauts live in florida or houston ;)
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by terramars 11y ago
In line with this, $1-10/day basic income in the developing world would be a much cheaper and potentially more impactful way of testing the concept compared to the ~$30/day minimum for meaningful impact in the US.
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by terramars 11y ago
Enabling technologies for improving quality of life and economic opportunity in the developing world, in a way that doesn't require large capital outflow or aid-based investing. EG, low cost renewable power generation, labor reducing

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