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Does anyone know of any macos transcription apps that allow you to do speech to text live? Eg, the text outputs as you are talking? Older tech like the macos dictation as well as d…

Wow, when I was a kid back in the early 2000s, howstuffworks was my favorite website. I bet I read every article on how various things work (there were many hundreds). I found that…

That is very location dependent as you need to transport water to where it's needed. Mining can happen almost anywhere.

Is this even an issue? Presumably without a steer by wire system a human would not be able to turn the wheel this fast. Also the delay looks longer than it actually is because of t…

I'm not arguing whether the use of electricity is compelling or not. I'm arguing that the unique energy demand characteristics of bitcoin mining allow it to support building renewa…

Leaving stuff on when you are away is completely different than how bitcoin mining demand response works. Firstly, at regular electricity prices, bitcoin mining is profitable and i…

Has anyone looked into the theory that SO2 is an "anti-greenhouse" gas and that much of the greenhouse effects of CO2 have been negated by SO2. Essentially SO2 particles stay in th…

"Retro Game Mechanics Explained" is exactly what you're looking for for retro games. They talk about things like memory layout, how unintended bugs work, the cpu instruction set, h…

Do they deliberately underrate the operational lifetimes of the nasa stuff for publicity reasons? Eg Spirit and Opportunity rovers survived 25x and 60x of their mission lifetime of…

This recently happened to the trust wallet browser extension due to using mersenne twister to generate their private keys. Issue is that this PRNG is not cryptographically secure. …

I use a chrome extension called Imagus that will load any linked image on mouseover (either instantly or after a configurable delay). The image can be shown as large as your curren…

Any preliminary data about her sleep schedule? I was hoping the article would say something about that.

With the proliferation of high wH usb-c power banks (for less than 100 bucks), I don't see the value in getting a computer that adds weight or bulk for battery life. Reason being b…

Interesting, from the article: > Does the fact that an olive oil does not have your seal mean that the olive oil is not authentic? > The answer is emphatically no. According to a s…

You can use sponsorblock to automatically skip a variety of creator-inserted ads and interaction reminders ("please subscribe/like" etc). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…

The concept of visa/mastercard was also largely unregulated at the time they launched. Take a look at the history of visa article on wikipeida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_In…

The author is just defining "decentralized" based on what he can come up with arguments against. In doing so, he misses some very important properties of this decentralization (tha…

I think it's that you don't notice things that work well. House foundations, light switches, filesystems, silicon manufacturing, water delivery, grocery store logistics, etc etc et…

There was a recent great podcast interview of How I Built This with the goodreads founders. I would strongly recommend listening. IIRC they talked about the early days, reasons for…

Have you looked into auditing decentralized finance (defi) protocols? There is currently a huge demand and very low supply of good auditors. I believe there also are very many "ano…

Here is SEC commissioner Hester Peirce's dissenting opinion: https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-blockfi-20220214 Essentially she says that while they did misrepresent the ov…

> We can use storage systems to smooth out supply/demand of electricity. They have a max capacity. They cannot be steady consumers of electricity for the 95%+ of the time that ther…

> Aluminum smelters are typically slow to curb production as the costs of shutting down and restarting capacity are high. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/europe-…

They have a max capacity. They cannot be steady consumers of electricity for the 95%+ of the time that there is enough electricity to go around.

> The “work” does not need to be done. That point is up for debate, but that's not the point I'm addressing. > Doing the work cannot have a societal benefit I'm just pointing out t…