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From trustworthy wikipedia: "A 2011 study found that the amount of NMHC pollutants emitted by a leaf blower operated for 30 minutes is comparable to the amount emitted by a Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from Texas to Alaska. The two-stroke engines used in most leaf blowers operate by mixing gasoline with oil, and a third of this mixture is not burned, but is emitted as an aerosol exhaust. These pollutants have been linked to cancer, heart disease, and asthma," cited with https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-... and https://www.wsj.com/articles/leaf-blowers-are-loud-ugly-and-...
Re:Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:19AM (#27004090)
amazon! probably
Re:Spirograph on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:09AM (#26383302)
You’re a crackpot! What is an atomic field? Are you referring to the electromagnetic fields generated by subatomic and ionic particles? If so, they are indeed a linear superposition, whose constituents do have wavefunctions, which do include (spherical) harmonics.
Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?) on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:39PM (#26126639)
I noticed the same. Disabling or lowering noise cancellation in-app fixed everything.
Re:Snakes Found a New Way to Slither on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:17AM (#25761086)
space lab space
thanks, yeah havent implemented stalemate, and the ai is a bit crufty. funny to see you call it fast; with -O3, which is whats online, it takes up to ten secs and when enabling debug symbols, it takes millenia, likely because my vector implementation is relatively slow
Why is it that posts from quantamagazine consistently appear on the front page, just to be debunked (though this one literally does not contain any substance!). Why do you upvote this?
I do not read anything relating inclusivity to demographics. I think they are just discouraging ignorance of other editors.
Re:Ask HN: Your must-read HN post? on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:41PM (#23228079)
I already read this one though.
Re:Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:20AM (#23150562)
They are commonplace puzzles that serve to measure commonplace intelligence. What else were you thinking?
Re:$699 Apple Pro Wheels on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:35AM (#23140050)
Thanks for the warning.
Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:59PM (#23127832)
Yep, it’s not Win32, it is a software renderer (according to renderer.c).
Re:Humans Not Invited on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:47PM (#23083354)
No, but in the source you can get a message if you are the first to solve it.
Re:Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:01AM (#23076974)
why not just use nlp to generate sql from the query /s
Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:56AM (#22280965)
VS code?
it was clearly worth it
Re:How fast do I talk? on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:23AM (#21648573)
i also do this and say stupid shit i never knew it was possible to actually think before you talk