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by thijson 6d ago
Plug in solar is nice because you don't have to hire an electrician, just plug into an outlet.
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by thijson 6d ago
The same thing happened in Afghanistan (to both Russia and the USA). Really has a David vs Goliath feel to it. Effectively the whole population is against you, so how do you win them over? No military strategy is going to be able to do t
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by thijson 7d ago
Smoking has morphed into vaping and zyn.
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by thijson 7d ago
They have a term for it, it's called brain rot. That's what I witness them watching anyway.
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by thijson 11d ago
I wonder if diamonds become cheap enough, and we are growing the crystal anyway, if we can introduce dopants and get interesting electrical properties.
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by thijson 16d ago
I remember in the 90's there was some sort of shortage reportedly due to fires. In the end it was found the shortage was due to collusion by the manufacturers. https://share.google/aimode/ewJpwCHUINOHzjBVg
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by thijson 26d ago
It's a slow moving train wreck. I hope the consequences of these petulant actions scar the minds of voters for years to come. We're seeing the yield on treasuries creeping up, I think that's one of the consequences.
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by thijson 1mo ago
This is anecdotal, however I remember hearing about farmers trying to maximize for egg production. Multiple hens would share a cage. The initial criteria was to only breed the hen that produced the most eggs. Overall egg production decli
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by thijson 1mo ago
These kinds of late design decisions can cost a huge amount of money. And it may cost lives because it's now shoe horned in, less reliable.
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by thijson 1mo ago
Climate change is inevitable, whether we exist or not. The sun will continue to get hotter over the next few billion years. Life is a struggle, it sounds like you would rather just give up. I guess evolution is working as intended.
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by thijson 1mo ago
Our DNA was largely coded by prior generations that didn't really have a choice of reproduction, it just kind of happened because it's a natural result of sex. That connection has been severed in modern civilization. It's g
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by thijson 1mo ago
I think Greenspan called it hedonics.
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by thijson 1mo ago
Isn't that when the Fed stepped into the reverse repo market in order to allow the banks to extend and pretend?
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by thijson 1mo ago
Using Euro's apparently.
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by thijson 1mo ago
After typing in the program, I found that single stepping the program in a debugger greatly helped with understanding.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I'm sensing a pattern here. Weren't foreign made grid tied inverters just banned?
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by thijson 2mo ago
I remember something similar happening where software was going to be outlawed from export: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann After a report from RSA Security, who were in a licensing dispute with regard to
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by thijson 2mo ago
We could only book our business travel through American Express. It must have made economic sense at the c suite level, I wasn't seeing it at my level, the flights were consistently more expensive.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I remember going to a university as a high schooler in the 80's and being amazed to see the GUI of an Apple computer, and the mouse pointer would change to an hour glass while waiting for something, When the hour glass filled, it would
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by thijson 2mo ago
Windows 3.11 was pretty unstable, because it wasn't using protected mode. I remember how unstable the Macs were back then too before the introduction of OSX. Applications also had to voluntarily give up control of the CPU, cooperative
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by thijson 2mo ago
We used Proakis in grad school. For undergrad we used: Communication Systems by Simon Haykin
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by thijson 2mo ago
I've watched youtube videos where the farmer is complaining that his million dollar combine has to do a regen cycle. Each hour that machine is running is costing the farm hundreds of dollars in depreciation.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I know that I trust products from Costco being good quality, I'm less likely to regret my purchase decision. I've been burned with stuff I got on Amazon being crappy.
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by thijson 2mo ago
Just got a window air conditioner on the Costco web site, delivered to the home. That was 25% cheaper than in the store.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I used mine in Iceland too. It was one of the cheaper places to eat there. Still expensive though compared to the USA. I heard that the Costco hot dog and a soda is still $1.50 in Hawaii, that's a bargain.
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by thijson 2mo ago
For top if you use the > character it will sort by memory usage. I use that sometimes to figure out why my host is becoming laggy. Also you'll see swapd is taking up CPU.
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by thijson 3mo ago
That would require an energy market with spot prices that incentivize the buildout.
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by thijson 3mo ago
Maybe mix it with cat nip. My Mom used to have to mix medicine in with the pig's feed. They were very good at eating around the medicine. To get around that she would prepare a concoction of beer and molasses and feed and the medici
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by thijson 3mo ago
One thing I've learned with concrete recently is that the drum mixer is less efficient than the mud mixer. For the drum mixer you prepare batches, the consistency between batches may not be very good. The batch of concrete is pretty
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by thijson 3mo ago
I think the Athenians named our current system an oligarchy. Selection by lot would take a lot of the corrupting influence of money out of the system too. There would need to be safeguards though, similar to how juries are protected durin

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