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by tesseract 2mo ago
You're going to make me quote the "Dive Manual" scene from _Cryptonomicon_ again, aren't you. (It features a software engineer introspecting about the fact that his line of work has caused him to dramatically overvalue r
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by tesseract 5mo ago
And are often _encouraged_ to be wasteful by "use it or lose it" type provisions.
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by tesseract 5mo ago
> there is that CO2 on the air that we actually want to get rid of For this reason I have long been slightly baffled that development of compostable/biodegradable bio-based plastics is such a priority in materials research. Sure, it
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by tesseract 5mo ago
What with so many fans, it shouldn't be too surprising that jokes are just blowing every which way.
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by tesseract 5mo ago
"Side hassles"... hahaha. Love it.
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by tesseract 5mo ago
That's pretty much what a food co-op is supposed to be.
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by tesseract 6mo ago
American food contains maize, obviously. This works for multiple understandings of the word "American" :)
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by tesseract 11mo ago
That is true but it's also an infamously unusual aspect of the Bay Area.
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by tesseract 1y ago
Many of those big bells in other cultures are on fixed mountings (in a carillon, for instance). The idea of mounting the bell on a rotating wheel - which imposes limits on what music can be played due to the rotational inertia of the wheel,
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by tesseract 1y ago
More likely a hall effect sensor, which is solid state and a lot smaller. And yes, older MacBooks had something like that, as evidenced by the fact you could put them to sleep by holding a magnet in the right place (just to the left of the
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by tesseract 1y ago
CPC is in this market too https://www.cpcworldwide.com/Liquid-Cooling/Products/Blind-M... Non-spill fluid quick disconnects are established tech in industries like medical, chemical processing, beverage dispensing
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by tesseract 1y ago
A fairly intellectual audience, in the 50s and 60s when the space race was big news and von Braun's Nazi past was recent history? I'd guess a majority.
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by tesseract 1y ago
> My family had a small B&W CRT that fascinated me with its image quality, in that it always reminded me more of a b&w photo than color CRTs reminded me of color photos. The problem of a finite dot pitch interfering with image qu
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by tesseract 1y ago
(1) SSL (2) 37. I've been an Internet user since ~1995 and been working in tech since 2004.
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by tesseract 2y ago
The real project is the sense of accomplishment we gained along the way, or something like that. But anyway, there are institutions like the Craftsmanship Museum < https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/ > that exist to presen
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by tesseract 2y ago
In my opinion it's not always the most readable codebase, due to some idiosyncratic style choices, but it definitely has the advantages of being small and focused.
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by tesseract 2y ago
Telemetry was included in what was open sourced, e.g. < https://github.com/google/pebble/blob/3b927684809fba173ee540... > My read of that caveat from Google is that the code that was removed was third par
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by tesseract 2y ago
It was based on FreeRTOS, but FreeRTOS at the time was extremely bare bones and only provided a preemptive scheduler, task management, and synchronization primitives. Everything else (memory management, I/O, ...) had to come either fro
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by tesseract 2y ago
I have been happy with my pepper mill with a Crushgrind mechanism. (The mill happens to be from Normann Copenhagen but Crushgrind supplies mechanisms to a number of pepper mill manufacturers as well as selling their own.)
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by tesseract 2y ago
Flash as an animation tool and applet platform was already on the downswing when the iPhone happened, though. The consumer demand for Flash on mobile seemed to be mostly about video streaming, because at the time Flash was experiencing sort
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by tesseract 2y ago
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-...
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by tesseract 2y ago
Ben Rich, and yes: he was the 2nd director of the Lockheed Skunk Works. I think the book may have been out of print for a while but it's easily available now.
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by tesseract 2y ago
If you apply a constant current to a capacitor, the voltage across the capacitor will increase linearly as the capacitor stores energy in the electric field. If you apply a constant voltage to an inductor, the current through the inductor w
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by tesseract 2y ago
> Honestly, eating cereal just isn't appealing anymore. All cereal grains or are you just referring to breakfast cereal here?
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by tesseract 2y ago
The meme started as eating paste , back when that meant wheatpaste (made from flour and water). In that context it's less surprising that kids might try to eat it! I wonder if there's been a bit of a conflation with the other mem
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by tesseract 2y ago
Yes, it does. There's also audio of Don LaFontaine reading the ad in his signature movie trailer style [1] - I'm a little unclear on whether the YTMNDer requested it from him or if he came up with the idea himself, but it also pre
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by tesseract 2y ago
In the days before cheap, low-power radio networks a "central system" would have meant dedicated wiring to each door lock. So it would have been much more expensive to install than a standalone battery powered unit mounted directl
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by tesseract 3y ago
Yeah it seems like basically a hybrid of a roundabout and a Michigan left, with unclear advantages over either of those alone?
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by tesseract 3y ago
Yeah the advice to "use trimmings!" seems very based in a restaurant situation where (a) lots of vegetables are getting prepped regularly and (b) cutting techniques are based on the goals of speed and uniform product, so you'
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by tesseract 3y ago
So much peripheral functionality has been pushed inside the CPU that a modern desktop motherboard is from one point of view essentially a fancy DC-DC converter that happens to also handle I/O port breakout. The motherboard has to trans

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