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A Man Who Shoots at Birds All Day to Keep Them Off a Toxic Pit

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I made some crypto art

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To be fair, MTBF is not something you can measure in a reasonable time for these kinds of review sites. Far better for this kind of thing is niche-specific youtube channels.

But in any case, what you're asking for here is a prediction of your future satisfaction with a product. It's a non-trivial problem even for the most innocuous purchases.

Will I like Lysol or Clorox wipes more? Who knows, and the reviews aren't going to beat first-hand experience in any circumstances.

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Landlines are backed by large -48V battery banks, the uptime on landline phone service is much higher than the power grid.

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definitely. although one of the hallmarks in a good photographer is the ability to find the exotic in the mundane.

but now i'm curious how many foreign photographers we're missing out on.

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64dB SNR is pretty standard these days for MEMS – you will pay a lot more to get up in the 70s. Good studio mics will be in the 80dB+ range.

Here's the highest performing one today: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/tdk-invensense/IC...

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what exactly is the endgame with a borderline illegal, obviously non-monetizable service like this?

edit: my mistake - i see you're building a local client, not a remote cache. still, i wonder how you see this playing out in the future.

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can you post the emails?

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I'm not sure I agree on the safety aspect - if they only thing preventing unintentional peripheral access is verbosity, that's not really the kind of security that matters, is it?

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Why is it this way though - it seems to me like you could create a type that just works like the C code

  struct Uart {
    u8 CR2,
    // etc.
  }

Instantiate it as 'static with some macro that defines where it lives in memory:

  #[mcu::loc(0x1002010)] static UART1 = Uart::new();
  #[mcu::loc(0x1003010)] static UART2 = Uart::new();

And then have it bound directly to the memory locations on the MCU at compile time/link time.

Still learning rust, so apologies if this syntax doesn't make sense.

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What is a "small-hoster issue"?

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it goes beyond repairability though – look how much apple upcharges for SSD and RAM.

The majority of their profit margin comes from overpriced DRAM and flash storage:

RAM:

  - 16GB -> 32GB: +$400 (+$75 retail)
  - 16GB -> 64GB: +$800 (+$200 retail)

SSD:

  - 512GB -> 1TB: +$200  (+$40 retail)
  - 512GB -> 2TB: +$600  (+$150 retail)
  - 512GB -> 4TB: +$1200 (+$350 retail)

Since you can't upgrade it yourself, buyers are paying more at point of purchase, and a high end machine depreciates significantly more over time. With something like framework, you can buy a base model and upgrade it as needed, and resell value of all models is higher because they can easily be repaired and upgraded.

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the point is that healthcare costs have to be socialized – if you put the burden on the employer, you necessarily end up with the US system.

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Why can't tape be self-contained like HDDs?

Aside from the fact that most people using tape for archival storage don't want to pay extra for the read/write heads, SATA interface, etc., there is no reason why you couldn't package all these things into a self-contained tape unit with a small flash disk acting as a small cache and directory listing.

You could definitely package such a thing for consumers, for example, but most workloads there aren't a great fit for the medium. Basically the only thing that makes sense is using it for archival and backups.

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I thought this was about joke stealing, but it looks like the comedians want a cut for the performance and a separate cut for the writing. In other words, they want more of a percentage on the work that they're already getting paid for.

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I would bet money that the donor was obese.

Ah, yes indeed, you failed to include the headline from the article: "Woman Becomes Obese After Fecal Transplant From Overweight Donor"

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100%

This is the next logical step for semiconductor companies like AD, TI, etc.

AD doesn't tend to compete on cost, so high quality open source drivers become a key differentiator compared to other companies with lower cost parts, especially as these parts become increasingly complex. A 9 axis IMU with 10 different acquisition and buffering modes, built in algorithms, etc. becomes a lot more tractable if you don't have to write the whole driver from a datasheet.

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Could be pectin. or salicylates. or lots of things. How do you do with aspirin? Can you eat jam?

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I love drinking ice water, but I stopped after I found that even when using RO-filtered water in a separate ice cube tray, I was getting getting off tastes in the ice from something that was evidently living in the fridge/freezer.

I don't know if its spores or just odors or what, but I can't seem to get it out of the fridge; I'm pretty sure it's growing on or near the evaporator coils, in an area I can't access.

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sorry if this sounds dismissive, but I'm curious - how is this different than using google hangouts or facetime or zoom and doing screen sharing?

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It's not though. We don't consider America to have a scarcity of food, even though there are people starving there. Food scarcity happens when a region cannot produce its own food.

Shipping food to food scarce regions is not a sustainable solution to the problem of scarcity.

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don't show this to anyone at amazon!