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0.018 kilotons. Order of magnitude smaller at minimum.

Jobs would have been lost with that move...

Was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195

Have you tried Affinity Photo?

2/156 lost for Soyuz in 59 years, 2/135 for Space Shuttle in 30 years. Same rate. People often underestimate how intense STS actually was.

In QC, keeping cold is not just needed to superconduct, but to reduce thermal noise to level below the energy levels operated at.

I am using Leo Bodnar’s fast pulse generator (SMA) in my lectures to teach transmission lines. With sufficient length (I use ~1m) it works quite well to demo with a low cost scope. I originally bought it for TDR with 40GSPS/15GHz scope, which works very well with few orders of magnitude smaller lengths. Old on has upper length limit with 10MHz fixed frequency. There is a new one available with external sync and variable frequency, but I have not bought/tested it.

Except that after 11 years the equipment will have broken down or be obsolete, at which point you have to start over.

If my calculations are correct, that setup probably lasts at least 30 years. This is not a cell phone battery and panels do not degrade that fast.

A similar concept has been used for university lectures to start 15 minutes after the full hour. This was due to nobody having watches and everything being synced to the church bells ringing at the full hour. Then you had 15 minutes to get to the next lecture (in another building). Starting time was given as ct (cum tempore, with time) or st (sine tempore, without time). Usually only st was marked as everybody assumed the 15 minutes delay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_quarter_(class_timing...

In my EU country Gardasil 9 is the most common HPV vaccine nowadays. This protects against 9 most common strains. I would assume the same is true in other countries. We have gone from HPV 16/18 -> +6/11 -> +31/33/45/52/58 protection with 2/4/9-valent vaccines.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine

If the input to the weather forecast is mostly /dev/random, then yes, that is called a lie. There is a very big difference between modelling chaotic systems and providing random noise.

Taiwan strait is filled with offshore wind turbines from both sides. This is not an issue for PRC nor Taiwan.

Few things for starters:

- you have to look at it in frequency domain as well;

- speed of light is too slow;

- often capacitors are inductors, even more so when mounted on PCB;

- capacitance is not what is written on the component.

I am teaching this to robotics and computer engineering MSc students. Quite nice intro book into the topic that I recommend to my students: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/principles-of-power/978...

Most common quaternary storage system is probably DNA.

Funny thing is, that news, by definition, are written about things that are newsworthy. Newsworthy things are not common, but exceptional and rare. Thus one shall not worry too much about the news as those things practically never happen in everyday life.

In signal you can change your username any time.

The funny thing is, that MM in roman numerals means 2000.

It is to avoid confusing with "M", mīlle -- Latin for "thousand". Quite common in financial world still.

HOA = Homeowner association

Took me a while to figure this out.

Used to develop readers based on similar UHF chips (868 MHz in EU). They were quite expensive compared to printed bar codes those were replacing. Also large. With (folded) antennas we are still talking about 40*10 mm minimum for the label. You can not use them on metal surfaces. Readers nearby will interfere as it works by EM wave backscattering, unlike NFC which is essentially a transformer (with electric field intentionally supressed usually). I think it still is a solution looking for problem. QR codes are cheap and NFC (14 MHz) readers are everywhere.

Letsencrypt was founded 2012, but become available in the wild December 2015. git-lfs mid-2014. So same era in general.

This demo seems to be dated 1999. I recall the context where and when (school) I saw it first and I moved to a different school in autumn 1998. It seems there was an even earlier disk that I am confusing it with:

https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004

I would not be too surprised to find out that significant portion of Linux on Desktop here is actually headless Chrome web scraping.

Considering the ISS orbits in ~90 minutes, the 15 minute TTL is quite a long time.

Not only from 0W, but from negative capacity (max charging power) to positive capacity (max discharging power).

Have mailed live queen bees in Europe as well. Funniest was when receiving some (I think it was from Denmark to Estonia before we joined the EU) and one delivery got stuck in customs due to unpaid alcohol tax — someone had misread “Live Bees” as “Live Beer”. Fortunately this was cleared out within two days and bees were still alive (but a little short on food).

If you get sets designed in China and made at the same factories that make Lego bricks, they're like 1/3 the cost.

Lego does not outsource brick making. They tried it out back in 2005 with Flextronics in Hungary and got a painful lesson. Lego runs all their factories themselves now.

That is why Therac-25 was mentioned, I guess. Software kills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Bit more info about the startup behind it: https://www.gscan.eu/

From PCB perspective, LPDDR5(X) interface is quite different from regular DDR5. Same with DDR4 and LPDDR4. Source: have designed few boards with different memory interfaces.