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Comment · 2 years ago
Search google for "EV fire blanket". They don't extinguish the fire so much as contain it.
Comment · 2 years ago
One of the primary FPGA developers a while back said that it's unlikely that the MisterFPGA project will evolve to a much larger FPGA anytime soon because it's an immense gap between the current most complex cores and the systems that come after it.

Not only would it require a much larger FPGA, but writing the cores is becoming way more difficult.

Comment · 2 years ago
My apartment complex won't even let you park an EV inside or under any of the structures because of the fear they have of EV fires.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think there can be good remedies that can reduce the amount of harm. Like gambling is legal where I live, but only card rooms where players play against each other and not a dealer, the house just takes a cut. This way almost all of the money stays in the community.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's the best case for most of us, but probably not Beeper Mini, since the cat-and-mouse game is their killer competitive advantage. With the barriers gone the space will be totally flooded with options, not to mention just normal Android integration.
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Comment · 3 years ago
I'll never figure out why it turned my entire feed into NBA players and teams, I didn't follow a single one. I had to mute dozens of accounts to get it to show me something else. I actually found it kind of entertaining though, they could make the mute button a little more satisfying and then you'd have a game there.
Comment · 3 years ago

    "Prior to controlling for wealth, however, the results indicate that schools with legacy preference policies indeed have much higher alumni giving. These combined results suggest that higher alumni giving at top institutions that employ legacy preferences is not a result of the preference policy exerting influence on alumni giving behavior, but rather that the policy allows elite schools to over-select from their own wealthy alumni. In other words, the preference policy effectively allows elite schools essentially to discriminate based on socioeconomic status by accepting their own wealthy alumni families rather than basing admissions on merit alone."
So it's likely that if fewer people from wealthy families become alumni then alumni giving will go down.
Comment · 3 years ago
For the fun of it:

  jq '.[]["songs"][].file | match("\\.([^.]+)$") | .captures[0].string' songs.json -r  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

  3169 xm
  1011 mod
   226 it
    86 s3m
     4 nsf
     3 rad
     2 amd
     2 S3M
     1 mtm
Comment · 3 years ago
A possible nice thing about it being an external battery is that (presuming they will sell them individually) you can carry more than one.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
In particular I would like people to consider the implications of "state approved application"
Comment · 3 years ago
I think people may be overlooking a bigger story here:

https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FBil...

  Reasonable age verification methods under subdivision (c)(1)
  of this section include providing:
  (A) A digitized identification card, including a digital
      copy of a driver's license under § 27-16-601 et seq.;
  (B) Government-issued identification; or
  (C) Any commercially reasonable age verification method.

  "Digitized identification card" means a data file available
  on a mobile device that has connectivity to the internet through a state
  approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file
  from the Office of Driver Services that contains all of the data elements
  visible on the face and back of a driver's license or identification card and
  displays the current status of the driver's license or identification card,
  including valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, revoked, active, or inactive;
Comment · 3 years ago
I think of <0F and >100F as being when weather starts becoming lethal if you are poorly prepared.

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