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Well, where? I live in MA, lived in NH and visited MSP quite frequently, also spent a winter in Toronto… but even a quick search suggests that in MN it “dips” to negatives Fahrenhe…

Because gallon of fuel weighs 6lbs! As a scientist and an adult immigrant to the US, I came to appreciate both systems as useful for different objectives. Celsius/Metric is neatly …

ATSC. Technically orginal RTL tuners handled both (in really thin gateware, which is why the chip was so hackable for SDR, you just turned its debug mode and it would stream its IQ…

Well, the reality of those types of businesses is that once set they do become a relatively low maintenance (and for some, very low 'urgent' maintenance) passive income. It's reall…

Probably was that way before we got married and had a kid. And before our dog started getting older and we needed to watch what she eats. Now the notion of "cook fresh every day" i…

1.5lb / day? I'd wager it's quite equally in thirds, would love to see the data. I'd believe 0.5lbs/day/person in my household - cook enough for everyone to have seconds, but most …

It certainly does, I mentioned it in an comment below, good callout. I am however also more interested in how this affects other types of consumer behavior - and whether that is a …

Yeah - powerful confounder to all the analyses of customer behavior. Even the article itself calls it out - there probably is a good way to segment it, as GLP1 availability is not …

Or.. is it a GLP-1 byproduct? These are powerful appetite suppressants.. in fact I'm curious if the mechanism of action of these peptides affects other impulse behavior, including …

Lol. Full circle. RTL-SDR was originally the DVB-T tuner, hacked for SDR, to become.. a DVB-T tuner. Great job!

Well, if they actually did a semi-decent comparison table, it would be easier. It's a very crowded, relatively low barrier to entry, high barrier to switch space.

How does it compare to Mattermost?

Nice! I’ve dabbled with something similar on my own lately (originally wrote/vibed to explain some concepts that came up when discussing D&D) at diceplots.com - different approach,…

I’ve been in this profession for two decades as well. As both things. My take on this is that we need both, because the market is cyclical. It’s just that it’s hard to perceive any…

Honestly, stop the KYC regime everywhere else . We're making our law enforcement's job marginally easier, by making the criminals' job infinitely easier by creating millions of jui…

I fear the same thing, but still am unsure why or how :) Google/Microsoft and hosting your own email is a byproduct of how difficult (socially, not technically) hosting your own em…

Yes, but equally so, some intelligent voters (who might've moved out of CA by now, as moving might be the best way to solve that disconnect) might also believe that we should be li…

Awesome idea! I wish we have agreed on some fp16/fp8 format by now to add to it..

That explains the over-representation of Oceans in NYC’s supercharging network, and one of the worst side-effects of opening that network to non-Tesla operators. Overall I think it…

Correct. Well, almost correct. Will see how much uptake this service will take (if any), and we can probably place it really close to the edge - for now it's on an Oregon server on…

Thanks! It's truly a special concept somewhere between an overload and a pattern match. And unexpectedly performant - most of these are just type coercions, that resolve compile-ti…

Pretty much functions with pattern matching all-across, passing around bitstrings, relatively dynamically typed. Grab a buffer, make sure it's at least as long as BHS, shove into B…

The Pi4 shim actually exposes USB device as well. This works way, way better (and IMHO mostly because wired network is better than wireless for latency, ESP32’s feeble CPU aside)

Well, sort of. I think a big portion about it for me was figuring out the TaskAttribute and ACA handling. Basically, many of these assumptions are (well?!) communicated to the bloc…