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Added to the books in 2016, the law directs the CHP to develop "educational guidelines" for the practice. https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-21658-1/

Maybe there are other major uses in war, but the casings and jackets of firearms cartridges are mainly copper. A sibling comment mentions nickel which is the major component of the…

CSACs are small and efficient enough to put in a 1U box and that is all that is required by the markets that the manufacturers are chasing.

Symmetricom (now owned by Microchip) released the first Chip Scale Atomic Clocks in 2011. It probably took some time for them to become available to watch designers and for them to…

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/xAo6tMt-f...

Sadly I think you're right.

This is cool because we need more open competition for the app/identity locked ecosystems of sports related electronics like gps watches, bike computers, and action cams. I hate ho…

Whatever the US did in 2009 doesn't seem to have had any long term effect on Swiss GDP. It dipped in 2009, like everyone else, from the "global financial crisis" but recovered the …

> It will work in many cases, but it'll break down if you try to make the MUD easily programmable by users. It can still be done, but at some point, it might be easier to start fro…

> n+1 is a New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction. It is published in…

Is it not a conflict of interest for a model provider to supply the harness? They are not motivated to minimize your costs.

The usage stats on GitHub are declining, for example. Devs are choosing Kotlin, Rust, and Go over Scala. IMHO there are a bunch of reasons * Scala 3 was a Python 3-esque disruptive…

> ie. The brain is not necessarily a pre-requisite for consciousness. I'm not saying brains are the only way to produce consciousness, just that the evidence shows that they are th…

Consciousness is what the brain is doing. I look forward to more precise definitions.

TLA+ = formal language for modeling software above the code level and hardware above the circuit level by Leslie Lamport (of vector clock and Paxos fame, among other things.) https…

Sadly, this project is dead. It appears the startup that was working on it couldn't raise money and folded. I built half of a MUD-like thing with it but later rewrote it in Scala 3…

The point of this article and video is there is no problem with 16-bit 44-kHZ PCM. It thoroughly covers the audible range and is there is absolutely no need for more when distribut…

@xiphmont also made an amazing video response to the many responses he received to this article. Using analog equipment he busts a bunch of myths and demonstrates what really happe…

> The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses. The rest is history. The WIV is 20km from the Hua…

ha ha brilliant name!

You might be lucky enough that a local museum regularly hosts a telescope making workshop. In the SF Bay Area you can go to the Chabot Space & Science Center on Fridays 7-10pm.

There was another article about cheating at Brown that said Princeton hasn't proctored tests since the 19th century so maybe you are right and Hegseth is an idiot but still managed…

Very nice!! What are you using for interferometry?

The GOP. This is part of Project 2025. They want to outlaw porn. > Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and publ…