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You should save the exaggerated euphemisms for your audiophile subreddits. "square waves pressed on to vinyl" just proves you have no clue of the physics to an HN audience.

Re thumb vs finger control. RSI researcher once told me "Which could you live without, a finger or your right thumb?"

You think you do. The issue is it's just about impossible to isolate translation from rotation. You would always be doing just a little rotating every time you touched the ball, wh…

Just because one corp does something x bad, it means some other corp is ok to do something 10x bad? There's a huge difference between a utility scale power plant (you know, with th…

Also works in Firefox (144.0.2) / MacOS (10.15)

"There will come soft rains" Ray Bradbury

>Photos cannot be rare BS. Only if you pedantically define 'photo' as collecting an image at xyz location at a particular instant. I'm quite certain that photos of the Eiffel Tower…

This article might point to a way: https://neuburger.substack.com/p/cities-panic-over-having-to...

FYI, on this android tablet (android v12 / FF 144.0.2), the 'start typing a book title...' field doesn't do anything. On the Mac, it brings up a list of matches to select from.

A long time ago, worked on a comm satellite program. It used a whack of tuned cans to combine high powered transmit signals with harmonics in each others' frequency bands to feed i…

Orbital and escape velocities??? The elevator is sitting over a stationary spot... it's moving at earth's rotational velocity. Only the portion above the GEO anchor is moving at or…

Not really? "I imagine Pepys used Shelton’s Shorthand because he had to take copious notes of Navy Board meetings and take official government minutes." Since the diary (and so his…

To begin with, airplanes do fall out of they sky, sometimes right on your backup generator. (speaking from military experience where yes, there is an entire backup studio waiting t…

An aspect missing from the article and comments here is that magnesium is also available as a topical application. I have some in a spray that I can apply to my knees before bed, w…

Sure there is. It's called single payer. There's no way to fix this with the current layers of middlemen milking profits from what should be a public utility.

Checklists are great! Until TPTB decide everything should be a checklist, and then that everyone needs to be trained to the checklist and no more than that, and then start punishin…

You obviously didn't live through it, or you wouldn't be spouting such offensive, naive nonsense. How many working class families do you know that can afford to buy economically si…

If you only want to see what you want to see, it's easy to find evidence. On the other hand, look at the commonly posted wages vs productivity graphs (productivity goes up pretty m…

Off the top of my head: Shannon, Nyquist, Hamming. Lapping them you say.

Economics, and the Powell Memo, followed by Milton Friedman and the Phillips curve and trickle down and Reaganomics, to start with.

It was spin stabilized. A stuck relay would have just created equal thrust all the way around the spin - ie the thrust would cancel out to zero. This design required thrusters that…

Define early. And it does not include this vehicle. I can't personally speak for Skynet 1A, but the DSCS II satellites, first launched in 1971 (so developed at roughly the same tim…

Interesting enough read, but the post title is misleading. It was hardly a gift, it was an estate tax payment. Not everyone is a greedy narcissist only out for themselves!

*Dead* satellites are supposed to be boosted into a graveyard orbit so they don't clutter up the neighbourhood for everyone else. Of course if it just fails, and can't be commanded…

Oh come on... there's lots of reasons. Understanding where the money goes. How much are you spending on dining out each month? How much does your car cost when you add it all up at…