Apparently the sled started at 370 lbs. Didn't get much lighter as current Antarctica explorers pack everything out including their own feces.
It will have become significantly lighter during the trip due to loss of water weight. Most of the water he brought with him will have gone into the air. Only a small amount of it will have remained in his poop.
I'd be willing to get bet that in a double blind test most audiophiles couldn't tell which were wired and which were AptX either.
Give them the prices, and they could. That's because most bluetooth headphones don't support AptX, that comes at a premium. When you couple that with the fact that most phones don't support it, it's barely worth mentioning at all.
Yes we should force their talented developers to stay in India. That will show them who's boss.
Why would their talented developers come here? They can work from anywhere, and their money will go much further at home. They're not sending us their best and brightest. They're sending us their poorly educated. I would as well were I in their position, but there's really no good reason for the USA to import any tech workers from India. There is only short-term profit.
I did a lot of work with "Banana Pi" singe-board computers, and everything thhat comes out with that name, has atrocious hardware support, atrocious hardware and atrocious support.
That's how I feel about AllWinner in general, which is who makes the SoCs they use. I guess my very old AllWinner CPU finally is supposed to work with a mainline kernel, and the only binary blob you are supposed to need after boot is for the GPU, but for literally years the mainlining effort appeared stalled and there were no meaningful updates.
If you have Prime, they show you they Prime version even if it is more expensive. I think they have some text in a small font that tells you it is cheaper from other sellers, but it is easy to miss if you aren't careful.
So be careful. I'm not only careful about that, but I have the camelcamelcamel addon that puts Amazon's own price history for the item into every Amazon page. If the price takes a hike for the holidays, I know about it and I can look somewhere else.
In general, once I identify an item for sale on pretty much any site, I google for the product by name, part number, etc. and see if I can find it cheaper somewhere else. Often I look for a cheaper alternative. For example I needed a 1" heater hose splice connector, they don't carry that kind of size in your local hardware store. So I tracked down the Gates catalog for hoses and hose-related fittings, and found the Gates PN. But I wound up finding an Aluminum part on eBay for less money than the FRP part. All to save four bucks. But hey, four bucks is four bucks. If it were in a more convenient location, I probably would have looked around for a flow sensor, I probably could have got a whole one of those for about the same kind of money. But what if my cheapass flow sensor leaks?
Anyway, I know, cool story bro. But the fact is that if you've got internet access, there's no good excuse for not doing this kind of research. It is tedious to do on a handheld, but very easy on a real computer, and possible in either case.
I don't know what you're talking about. Carbon-zinc batteries are the right choice for low drain devices that operate for months or even years at a time, such as wall clocks.
You don't know what I'm talking about because you didn't or couldn't read my comment, but you seem to be the only one who had a problem so I'm reasonably certain that there was nothing wrong with it. Maybe try reading it again, and try finding the place where I said that carbon-zinc batteries were bad. When you find it, let me know. Quote it in your response. Thanks.
However, since we're on the subject, I disagree. I think the right battery for e.g. a wall clock is a ULSD NiMH. They last plenty long enough to do that job.
They're a decent choice for outdoor temperature sensors, although you will have to swap them out TWICE a year instead of once.
Yeah, I put Eneloops in those, and guess what? I only have to swap them out twice a year, and when I do, I can recharge them. NiMHs are enormously durable batteries, and even after they are deeply discharged they will come back if you have a good charger. I bought a Gaiam charger on sale at Real Goods because it would charge 1xAA[A] individually, and as it turns out, that charger is spectacular at resurrecting low-voltage cells. However, I also have hobby chargers (Ye Olde IMAX B6) which are even better at jobs like that.
If you really needed longevity out of those batteries, you'd be using Lithium AAs. They would last at least twice as long. But the fact is, you don't. Not only will a good NiMH last just as long, but it doesn't matter if you have to replace those batteries twice as often. It's not arduous. We don't use those kinds of batteries in places where it will be.
People are all more the same than they are different. I'm a believer in amending or replacing the social systems that convince them otherwise for the profit of a few who would abuse them.
Yeah, there's been a lot of bad stuff done over the years... Stop focusing on it and celebrate the good.
People are still doing bad things, and part of progress is getting to where there's less of that happening. You can't get there by pretending you're somewhere you aren't.
The problem with Clear Lake, CA and many polluted cities is CA and federal restriction of "ocean dumpingâoe.
Unbalanced quotes? You almost pulled off that C&P correctly. However, Clear Lake is polluted due to typically unmanaged tailings from historic mercury mining.
when your land is contaminated by company X that has been milked dry before you even realized the pollution, you are not allowed to dig up soil/sediment and dump them to sea by barge!
That's correct, nor should you be. That would just be polluting the ocean, and due to currents and bioconcentration the waste has a way of coming back to haunt us. But that's irrelevant to the current discussion, because the pollution of the lake is historic, and it's not really feasible to dig up the lakebed and take it out to sea. It would be too much material, and the very act of doing it would cause problems.
You forget, putting a home power system into your home is not institutional but entirely your choice,
This can only be done so rapidly, though. Most people are incapable of executing it correctly and will be forced to contract assistance. The equipment can only be produced so quickly as well. If everyone decided to install solar tomorrow, there wouldn't be enough hardware. There wouldn't be enough batteries, charge controllers, inverters, panels... And nobody wants to overproduce in idle times, and it takes time to bring on new staff and spin up more production facilities. Inertia.
Depends upon how many major manufacturers make the jump when and if consumers are willing to invest in vehicles that will lose market value based upon the cost of a electric conversion, I wont, my next car will be electric.
I've never bought a new car and won't start now, so if my prior trends hold, I'm going to have probably two more ICEs before I have an EV.
The drone actually hovered by the windows of the control tower, seriously, who would be stupid enough to do that and not expect police to follow the drone back to the users, manually.
How do you expect them to do that? Given the range involved, and the ability to fly over obstacles, they can't follow your drone without an aircraft. You need drones to catch drones.
People donâ(TM)t know how to cook, and they arenâ(TM)t willing to learn. So fake, ultra-processed âoefoodâ is what they get.
Western society is apparently designed to produce victims. Those people have been convinced that cooking is hard. They can be convinced otherwise. Educating them is government's job, at which it is deliberately failing for the benefit of corporations.
Today, I just opened my second tube of Krazy Glue (in the green cylinder) that I got from Dollar Tree. Like the first one, it was ROCK SOLID before I even opened it. It's the "name brand" glue, but I don't know what they did to it to make it cure INSIDE the tube.
Repeated thermal cycling, leading to packaging failure. This is why the only super glue you should ever buy is a multi-pack of the cheapest stuff possible. CA glue is very simple and there's no benefit to buying name brand unless you want gap-filling, in which case I recommend buying "Zap!" from a busy hobby store which rotates stock regularly.
Once upon a time, pretty much everything at the dollar stores was something that some other business couldn't sell. Today, most of the stuff at dollar stores is actually manufactured for them; they bought a design from some business that was going under. However, all the name brand goods still fall into the category of "someone else's stock". Those goods have been handled at least three times as much as goods which have only be shelved once, and they've had that much more opportunity to sit around on a hot loading dock, and even more opportunity to sit around in a warehouse without temperature controls while it's figured out where they'll end up.
The stuff in the first category is poorly designed, and made from the cheapest possible materials by the lowest bidder. It's safe to assume that they will poison you. The stuff in the latter category is old and abused. It's safe to assume that it will be stale at best. Either way, it's safest to avoid such stores completely. They will actually cost you money in the long run, if you live long enough.
Dollar stores don't provide union jobs. If they did nobody would have a problem with the goods they are selling
I would. Virtually everything they sell is garbage. Most of it is toxic and all of it is underdesigned and will fail prematurely. Goods with short lifespans are inefficient, and we are already consuming more of the planet's natural capital than is being replenished. Everything about a dollar store is loathsome.
$30 gift card = 30 kitchen items. A perfect present for a couple who are just getting married.
Yeah, cancer is the perfect gift for someone you love. Sometime check out how many recalls those kinds of stores have had for lead paint and the like. And that's just the products someone actually caught...
What you're missing there is that SGI built all the glue logic to make that possible, which resulted in some computers which yes were very powerful, but which were also very expensive per MIPS, ironically. SGI machines cost more per unit of performance than anything else, but also offered more performance than anything short of a Cray. That led to their use only in specific niche markets, and their eventual dying out as x86 processors left MIPS behind. (SGI did sell one PC at the end, but it was overpriced as was their wont, and it failed rapidly in the market.) They could have scaled any processor to that total number of cores with the strategy they used, but they were MIPS licensors so they wound up using MIPS — to their detriment. If they had been using literally any other popular comparable architecture, it would have scaled to higher clock rates and they might have been around for years longer than they actually were.
MIPS has a well-earned reputation for being the cheapest credible architecture, but it also has a well-earned reputation for being the least performant currently-maintained architecture.
Well, I'm a globalist, and I want them to drop those countries as well. No country should be trusted on the basis that only individuals and not organizations are worthy of trust, but no country which has deliberately compromised cryptology should be trusted even slightly.
We know what it looks like when each country is more localized, and it's not pretty.
You have to use both native and Google search to find stuff on most sites, including Amazon. Let's face it, even eBay has this problem, and they have more filterable metadata on products than almost anyone else. I regularly find eBay items with Google instead of the native search. If it happens there, you know if happens everywhere
"It will end up all quite short, sharp and brutal occuring over not many years. "
This idea ignores the difficulty of actually achieving this. Even putting political issues aside, there are physical reasons it cannot happen that fast. We can't build battery packs, fast charging stations, OR grid improvements that quickly, let alone all three — and all three would be required to meet that schedule. Changes on that scale cannot be made that quickly in general, and there are specific reasons why this particular change cannot as well.
I agree that EVs will dominate, but not within your time estimate.
You can expect an entire additional generation of ICE-powered vehicles before EVs become dominant. It will be characterized by widespread deployment of mild hybrid vehicles. This is what every major automaker is planning, because it can be accomplished with the minimum possible R&D and capex investments. Switching to building EVs means developing whole new platforms, this is not something that happens overnight.
"usb keyboard - amazon showed me the deals for prime only deals so add $99 to the cost,"
Amazon does NOT stop showing you non-prime items if you have prime.
"The book, marked up +$12 over a competitor store, also non amazon sale."
So what? They are in business to make money and they've figured out that enough people will buy it at an elevated price point that it's more profitable for them to set that price.
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Apparently the sled started at 370 lbs. Didn't get much lighter as current Antarctica explorers pack everything out including their own feces.
It will have become significantly lighter during the trip due to loss of water weight. Most of the water he brought with him will have gone into the air. Only a small amount of it will have remained in his poop.
I'd be willing to get bet that in a double blind test most audiophiles couldn't tell which were wired and which were AptX either.
Give them the prices, and they could. That's because most bluetooth headphones don't support AptX, that comes at a premium. When you couple that with the fact that most phones don't support it, it's barely worth mentioning at all.
A doctor saving a patient. Well he was paid to do that. Just his job.
It's not about getting paid, it's about saving someone at [potential] cost to oneself. Compensation is irrelevant to heroism.
Yes we should force their talented developers to stay in India. That will show them who's boss.
Why would their talented developers come here? They can work from anywhere, and their money will go much further at home. They're not sending us their best and brightest. They're sending us their poorly educated. I would as well were I in their position, but there's really no good reason for the USA to import any tech workers from India. There is only short-term profit.
I did a lot of work with "Banana Pi" singe-board computers, and everything thhat comes out with that name, has atrocious hardware support, atrocious hardware and atrocious support.
That's how I feel about AllWinner in general, which is who makes the SoCs they use. I guess my very old AllWinner CPU finally is supposed to work with a mainline kernel, and the only binary blob you are supposed to need after boot is for the GPU, but for literally years the mainlining effort appeared stalled and there were no meaningful updates.
TL;DR: there are orders of magnitude of difference between how Intel CPU are affected by Spectre and every body else in the CPU market.
Is that true? What about IBM POWER? That's vulnerable to MELTDOWN as well, is it as vulnerable as Intel to SPECTRE-type attacks?
If you have Prime, they show you they Prime version even if it is more expensive. I think they have some text in a small font that tells you it is cheaper from other sellers, but it is easy to miss if you aren't careful.
So be careful. I'm not only careful about that, but I have the camelcamelcamel addon that puts Amazon's own price history for the item into every Amazon page. If the price takes a hike for the holidays, I know about it and I can look somewhere else.
In general, once I identify an item for sale on pretty much any site, I google for the product by name, part number, etc. and see if I can find it cheaper somewhere else. Often I look for a cheaper alternative. For example I needed a 1" heater hose splice connector, they don't carry that kind of size in your local hardware store. So I tracked down the Gates catalog for hoses and hose-related fittings, and found the Gates PN. But I wound up finding an Aluminum part on eBay for less money than the FRP part. All to save four bucks. But hey, four bucks is four bucks. If it were in a more convenient location, I probably would have looked around for a flow sensor, I probably could have got a whole one of those for about the same kind of money. But what if my cheapass flow sensor leaks?
Anyway, I know, cool story bro. But the fact is that if you've got internet access, there's no good excuse for not doing this kind of research. It is tedious to do on a handheld, but very easy on a real computer, and possible in either case.
If you blame the user and not the heap of crap shame on you.
The user chose the heap of crap in both cases. You're shaming me for their choices? I don't think you get how this works.
I don't know what you're talking about. Carbon-zinc batteries are the right choice for low drain devices that operate for months or even years at a time, such as wall clocks.
You don't know what I'm talking about because you didn't or couldn't read my comment, but you seem to be the only one who had a problem so I'm reasonably certain that there was nothing wrong with it. Maybe try reading it again, and try finding the place where I said that carbon-zinc batteries were bad. When you find it, let me know. Quote it in your response. Thanks.
However, since we're on the subject, I disagree. I think the right battery for e.g. a wall clock is a ULSD NiMH. They last plenty long enough to do that job.
They're a decent choice for outdoor temperature sensors, although you will have to swap them out TWICE a year instead of once.
Yeah, I put Eneloops in those, and guess what? I only have to swap them out twice a year, and when I do, I can recharge them. NiMHs are enormously durable batteries, and even after they are deeply discharged they will come back if you have a good charger. I bought a Gaiam charger on sale at Real Goods because it would charge 1xAA[A] individually, and as it turns out, that charger is spectacular at resurrecting low-voltage cells. However, I also have hobby chargers (Ye Olde IMAX B6) which are even better at jobs like that.
If you really needed longevity out of those batteries, you'd be using Lithium AAs. They would last at least twice as long. But the fact is, you don't. Not only will a good NiMH last just as long, but it doesn't matter if you have to replace those batteries twice as often. It's not arduous. We don't use those kinds of batteries in places where it will be.
Ah... A believer in making all people the same.
People are all more the same than they are different. I'm a believer in amending or replacing the social systems that convince them otherwise for the profit of a few who would abuse them.
Yeah, there's been a lot of bad stuff done over the years... Stop focusing on it and celebrate the good.
People are still doing bad things, and part of progress is getting to where there's less of that happening. You can't get there by pretending you're somewhere you aren't.
The problem with Clear Lake, CA and many polluted cities is CA and federal restriction of "ocean dumpingâoe.
Unbalanced quotes? You almost pulled off that C&P correctly. However, Clear Lake is polluted due to typically unmanaged tailings from historic mercury mining.
when your land is contaminated by company X that has been milked dry before you even realized the pollution, you are not allowed to dig up soil/sediment and dump them to sea by barge!
That's correct, nor should you be. That would just be polluting the ocean, and due to currents and bioconcentration the waste has a way of coming back to haunt us. But that's irrelevant to the current discussion, because the pollution of the lake is historic, and it's not really feasible to dig up the lakebed and take it out to sea. It would be too much material, and the very act of doing it would cause problems.
You forget, putting a home power system into your home is not institutional but entirely your choice,
This can only be done so rapidly, though. Most people are incapable of executing it correctly and will be forced to contract assistance. The equipment can only be produced so quickly as well. If everyone decided to install solar tomorrow, there wouldn't be enough hardware. There wouldn't be enough batteries, charge controllers, inverters, panels... And nobody wants to overproduce in idle times, and it takes time to bring on new staff and spin up more production facilities. Inertia.
Depends upon how many major manufacturers make the jump when and if consumers are willing to invest in vehicles that will lose market value based upon the cost of a electric conversion, I wont, my next car will be electric.
I've never bought a new car and won't start now, so if my prior trends hold, I'm going to have probably two more ICEs before I have an EV.
The drone actually hovered by the windows of the control tower, seriously, who would be stupid enough to do that and not expect police to follow the drone back to the users, manually.
How do you expect them to do that? Given the range involved, and the ability to fly over obstacles, they can't follow your drone without an aircraft. You need drones to catch drones.
"George Washington was right, it's neither our place nor our duty to become involved ing foreign entanglements."
George Washington was responsible for the standing US army. Guess he blew that one.
Also why is there no edit button /.?
Because there is a preview button, which is better for everyone else, if not for you.
People donâ(TM)t know how to cook, and they arenâ(TM)t willing to learn. So fake, ultra-processed âoefoodâ is what they get.
Western society is apparently designed to produce victims. Those people have been convinced that cooking is hard. They can be convinced otherwise. Educating them is government's job, at which it is deliberately failing for the benefit of corporations.
Today, I just opened my second tube of Krazy Glue (in the green cylinder) that I got from Dollar Tree. Like the first one, it was ROCK SOLID before I even opened it. It's the "name brand" glue, but I don't know what they did to it to make it cure INSIDE the tube.
Repeated thermal cycling, leading to packaging failure. This is why the only super glue you should ever buy is a multi-pack of the cheapest stuff possible. CA glue is very simple and there's no benefit to buying name brand unless you want gap-filling, in which case I recommend buying "Zap!" from a busy hobby store which rotates stock regularly.
Once upon a time, pretty much everything at the dollar stores was something that some other business couldn't sell. Today, most of the stuff at dollar stores is actually manufactured for them; they bought a design from some business that was going under. However, all the name brand goods still fall into the category of "someone else's stock". Those goods have been handled at least three times as much as goods which have only be shelved once, and they've had that much more opportunity to sit around on a hot loading dock, and even more opportunity to sit around in a warehouse without temperature controls while it's figured out where they'll end up.
The stuff in the first category is poorly designed, and made from the cheapest possible materials by the lowest bidder. It's safe to assume that they will poison you. The stuff in the latter category is old and abused. It's safe to assume that it will be stale at best. Either way, it's safest to avoid such stores completely. They will actually cost you money in the long run, if you live long enough.
Dollar stores don't provide union jobs. If they did nobody would have a problem with the goods they are selling
I would. Virtually everything they sell is garbage. Most of it is toxic and all of it is underdesigned and will fail prematurely. Goods with short lifespans are inefficient, and we are already consuming more of the planet's natural capital than is being replenished. Everything about a dollar store is loathsome.
$30 gift card = 30 kitchen items. A perfect present for a couple who are just getting married.
Yeah, cancer is the perfect gift for someone you love. Sometime check out how many recalls those kinds of stores have had for lead paint and the like. And that's just the products someone actually caught...
Available in configurations up to 512 processors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Seemed to scale pretty well...
What you're missing there is that SGI built all the glue logic to make that possible, which resulted in some computers which yes were very powerful, but which were also very expensive per MIPS, ironically. SGI machines cost more per unit of performance than anything else, but also offered more performance than anything short of a Cray. That led to their use only in specific niche markets, and their eventual dying out as x86 processors left MIPS behind. (SGI did sell one PC at the end, but it was overpriced as was their wont, and it failed rapidly in the market.) They could have scaled any processor to that total number of cores with the strategy they used, but they were MIPS licensors so they wound up using MIPS — to their detriment. If they had been using literally any other popular comparable architecture, it would have scaled to higher clock rates and they might have been around for years longer than they actually were.
MIPS has a well-earned reputation for being the cheapest credible architecture, but it also has a well-earned reputation for being the least performant currently-maintained architecture.
Well, I'm a globalist, and I want them to drop those countries as well. No country should be trusted on the basis that only individuals and not organizations are worthy of trust, but no country which has deliberately compromised cryptology should be trusted even slightly.
We know what it looks like when each country is more localized, and it's not pretty.
You have to use both native and Google search to find stuff on most sites, including Amazon. Let's face it, even eBay has this problem, and they have more filterable metadata on products than almost anyone else. I regularly find eBay items with Google instead of the native search. If it happens there, you know if happens everywhere
"It will end up all quite short, sharp and brutal occuring over not many years. "
This idea ignores the difficulty of actually achieving this. Even putting political issues aside, there are physical reasons it cannot happen that fast. We can't build battery packs, fast charging stations, OR grid improvements that quickly, let alone all three — and all three would be required to meet that schedule. Changes on that scale cannot be made that quickly in general, and there are specific reasons why this particular change cannot as well.
I agree that EVs will dominate, but not within your time estimate.
You can expect an entire additional generation of ICE-powered vehicles before EVs become dominant. It will be characterized by widespread deployment of mild hybrid vehicles. This is what every major automaker is planning, because it can be accomplished with the minimum possible R&D and capex investments. Switching to building EVs means developing whole new platforms, this is not something that happens overnight.
TL;DR: You are ignoring institutional inertia.
"Germans like the tradition of the economic miracle "
That was based on growth of certain sectors which are now shrinking. Can't repeat or even maintain that in the modern age.
"prime is bad for the consumer if they have it."
What?
"usb keyboard - amazon showed me the deals for prime only deals so add $99 to the cost,"
Amazon does NOT stop showing you non-prime items if you have prime.
"The book, marked up +$12 over a competitor store, also non amazon sale."
So what? They are in business to make money and they've figured out that enough people will buy it at an elevated price point that it's more profitable for them to set that price.