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Isn't it much more efficient to use pwm than resistors to adjust energy in that fashion?

The glass rose is definitely for smoking crack. Else why is it ofen sold as a combo with a peice of (also-required) chore-boy. 5 bucks for both. Usually on the same shelf with the round-ended meth pipes which dont seem to require any cover but being called "oil burner"

Why is it obvious fictional music crime inspires more real crime than fictional game crime? Just like games, one could come up with random examples of fans doing real world violence, but the vast majority of the suburban kids that prop up the industry are just looking for escapist thrills.

This matches my experience. Ive recently been more open about science-based (to the extent i can as a layperson) perspectives that dont fit neatly into the binary news representation(s), and discovered many more nuanced perspectives than the internet would have you beleive.

Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice

Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.

I play guitar in a traditional jazz band. Found HN while self-teaching computer science as a quarantine hobby. I love the random interesting links and substanitive conversation. A lot of the conversation in the comments gives me direction in studying.

It might help to know that the "instrumental magic" is that he literally adds a beat. Each bar has 4 beats and he switches where they're clapping by giving one bar 5 beats. You kind of have to stop/restart counting to intellectualize it.

In the US, there is typically a vertical stud every 16 inches, and no lateral braces at all, except for windows and doors, and where dimensional lumber terminates. There's lots of lateral support from ceiling, siding, etc, but the question seemed to imply there aren't many vertical sticks in a wall. Apologies if I misunderstood.

This is a totally correct usage, it just makes you sound like a romantic poet or a 19th century orator.

I use Lyft instead of Uber because Uber forced me to do so many traffic-related captchas to install(presumably with the aim of eliminating employees eventually), I felt like they were squeezing free labor from me. It's getting there.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-security-captchas-crowdsour... (Not the best source perhaps, but I just picked one among dozens) It's not a conspiracy theory, it's actually true that captchas are used as data for self-driving car algorithms, and that the data would be useless unless it was relevant to things those cars are likely to encounter. The reason they're so common is they are distributed for free, for the same reason: more data. I often feel like I ought to get paid when presented with an annoyingly long queue of them.

I have a feeling that, for the poster, the creative process itself has enough value. I appreciate their generosity in taking the time to share their creativity, and inspire others to think of creative ways to test limits and subvert standard ways of doing things- like using a bulky office suite, or putting a big demo button, rather than encouraging readers to interact with interfaces in ways they hadn't considered before.

Of course, if you're trying to monetize, or make sure it's easy for less savvy folks to access a useful tool, you're probably absolutely right.

Oxford language has intelligence as: 'the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.' Wikipedia says: 'Biological material may refer to: Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, or is composed of organic compounds' Of course, both 'intelligence' and 'life' are words that are difficult to put a pin down. But most people imagine their 'intelligence' as being a separate entity from the body itself.(I'm not one of those, though I often wish I was) It is debated whether a virus is 'alive' but it certainly seems to exhibit something like intelligence. Most of the debate in the comments refers to AI, which may someday be something like intelligent, but will continue to not be biological. I find the story amusing because it illuminates the limits of our understanding when we're fettered by presuppositions, and reminds us that, at the end of the day, all of our 'objective science' is colored by the inevitable prejudices that come from our biological perspective. Just because we lack the imagination to visualize intelligence without life, doesn't mean that it's impossible. The alien accepting the report is baffled and confused because IT can't believe that intelligence DOES exist in biological matter.

I think this is the attitude is what the author is trying to parody. It is OUR assumption that intelligence must emanate from something biological, whereas these entities are having sentimental chats with a hydrogen core cluster.

I'm new to HN, and find myself coming here more and more often to luxuriate in open-ended discussions between people with divergent, qualified opinions. I'm realizing the lighter-gray text is donwnvted posts. Is it a large number to cause it? I see nothing inflammatory here, it's a well-reasoned response, where both posters essentially agree - we are at an impasse do to the fundamental incompatability of the modern versions of teams Red and Blue. Am I to infer that the it's being downvoted simply because it suggests that both sides are responsible for the state of affairs? I am used to encountering this in the world from both sides, but it's sort of extra disappointing to see such behavior here. Forgive me if I'm missing something.

Most intercontinental freight moves on boats. They can move orders of magnitude more than a plane.