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When you hear the buzzing of an approaching drone, look in a mirror and ask yourself "Am I a part of a marginalized group or community". If the answer is yes...

The best line charts have only two points. R squared = 1 every time.

My mid 60 year old neighbor has an electric fat bike for winter riding and loves it. Says it helps him keep up with us youngins. Two moms at my daycare pull trailers with their kids in winter on fatbike electrics. I bike to work on a conventional fatbike in winter and I am frequently passed by...

Especially when international readers can't even take advantage of these deals.

The thing that really annoys me about the "reddit search hack" is that it is replacing functionality that Google ONCE HAD. They once had a search filter called Google Discussions. It was before reddit, and it directed you to forum discussions on the topics relevant to your search. Same exact...

Man this is cool stuff, and I wish I saw this a year or two ago. I too work with problems caused by a "confined domain involving gas in a tube and a series of liquid slugs separated by bubbles", specifically sewer geysers. The process isn't really one to one here, viscosity changes aren't a...

Obviously many things are coming out from this fiasco but the two I am noticing is that more people and even agencies no longer think of these units and service as Starlink satellites or even SpaceX satellites; they are Musks satellites. And that is a considerably weaker foundation to sell the...

I am expecting that eventually the big reveal by Ars will be that this so called "Benj" fellow is infact an AI script writer all along. They'll be like "it's even in his description, Benj is an AI, machine learning reporter"

In a decade or two, I will want to look back and see if the James Webb had a noticeable impact on how we visualize space in fiction. Because photos like these really outdo what I've seen being previously imagined as "realistic", even when it is outside the visible spectrum.

Off topic, but your comment kind of rocked me a bit here. Is peanut butter not savory? What is it then? I treat it as a savory in cooking and now I am wondering if I am misusing the qualifier.

It won't. There is the aggregate world market price of crude oil (that will go up because of this) and then the prices for individual markets. the prices in individual markets depends on the available customer base. Western Canadian Select crude for example has almost always been $20 below the...

I know a lot of us really want there to be redundancy in this area of passenger transport into space and so have been at least somewhat reluctantly wishing for Boeing to be able to successfully bring the starliner into service. But redundancy is only beneficial if they can provide a satisfactory...

I do not see how this is a false dilemma. The previous poster was not presenting a set of choices and saying you can only choose one at the expense of the other(s). All they said is that one of the choices isn't actually a real option/solution to the problem the first poster is concerned about...

I think you misunderstand his point. Building the capacity to satisfy peak power demand is expensive for the utility in a way that won't necessarily translate to your bill in an obvious way. The utility has to think about spending hundreds of millions for building power infrastructure for the...

Yeah, also as someone more outside then in on the VR scene; it's all been Oculus Quest 2 and nothing much else. If the Steam hardware survey is anything to go by, non-oculus users are becoming the minority. Quest 2 is #1 and controls 25% of the steam VR space. While 1 in 2 headsets on steam...

I mean you are right to a point, we are not be able to forecast detailed daily weather very well past 14 days, but there is a trade off here in detail that you are not accounting for. We are not asking for the daily high and the chance of precipitation, in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Feb 3rd...

And 1200 MW of hydro in Alberta. This is a market that is moving so fast that it it hard to keep up with the reality of what makes up our energy market though. So I don't blame the parent poster for not realizing that wind is not only tenable in the Prairies but already accounts for 12% of...

Maybe they are looking for Gamers Nexus response times. Their detailed breakdown somehow got posted less than 1 minute after the livestream. That man must dable in the arcane.

Have we had any attempts to roughly quantify the magnitude of deaths that might be COVID but are not being properly attributed to COVID? Probably a dicey area to look into at this stage but...

Yeah I don't have any numbers on hand, this was all speculation on my part, but I wasn't thinking that one year 2% of all cars on the road are EV and the next 65% are EV. I was thinking of a scenario where we start with a consistent year to year new car purchases of EV being around 2-4% then...