GravitasFailure

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Gadgets and Gizmos That Inspired Adam Smith(reason.com)
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Interesting, though I'm not seeing exactly what sets Polystruder's machines apart from everything that's already on the market, besides price. A major pain point of their competition has been an inability to produce decent qu
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Bronze is superior to iron, but not to steel. Both bronze and steel can take very sharp edges while only steel can be tempered to be springy and tough and therefore can make much lighter weapons. Iron is soft, weak, prone to rusting, can&#x
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
https://www.tinywhoop.com/pages/tutorials for small FPV racer-type drones. https://diydrones.com/ for bigger and more complex drones, especially semi-autonomous. https://dronenodes.com/
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
As a counterpoint, the users that don't care about the changes simply...don't care. There is no impetus to come out in force and massively upvote or downvote anything about the protests, they're simply getting on with their d
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Some flavor of TinyWhoop seems right up your alley. You can buy a bunch of independent components and build it up to your specs, or you can buy an off-the-shelf system, plus they're small enough to avoid FAA registration and you can fl
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Exactly, and even the people most skeptical of AI don't think it's going away any time soon.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
It doesn't look like it'll be doing anything critical, so might as well throw it up there and see how screwy it gets. Since it seems to be a physically small chip with low power consumption, it might be cheaper to do error checkin
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
"This is within the expected range of the thermal limits of the envisaged mechanical design of the coils and also indicates a minimum of 98% coil-to-coil power transfer efficiency." Key here is coil-to-coil, NOT total charging e
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Oh, there's definitely a poetry to them, though too often it's Vogon.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
"Water (H2O) microdroplets are sprayed onto a magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) and Nafion-coated graphite mesh using compressed N2 or air as the nebulizing gas."[1] Nafion[2] looks really interesting, too. [1] https://www.pn
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Funny you should say...I was eyeballing trying to make a LCARS interface to monitor two printers running Klipper and an AirGradient monitor.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
I'll chalk that labeling scheme up to trying to look good for a shot but not needing to stand up to any real scrutiny, but I have often wondered how usable a LCARS-inspired interface would be and what would need to happen to make it us
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
For the most part I believe you're correct, but certain goods do have a sufficiently high value density that space manufacturing might make sense, especially in cases (like I highlighted above) that benefit specifically from microgravi
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
How much of that high value stuff will wind up in satellites? Cut the trip down the gravity well and just build in orbit, especially low value items that are expensive to launch but cheap to make.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Anything where you need to manipulate the crystal structure or homogeneity of a mix, or cases where gravity will cause structural issues. It's possible to grow extremely high quality crystals in microgravity, so there's your semic
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
It's interesting, and I really appreciate that you aren't trying to out-Google Google. This seems like a useful tool in its own right in addition to what else exists.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
Oh, there's a lot about California that makes it completely intolerable. Unfortunately there's a lot about other states that make them completely intolerable as well. Pick your poison.
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by GravitasFailure 3y ago
https://archive.is/HxmzB
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
No. He said you did. How else would he catch up?
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
Crossing "T"s, dotting the "I"s. For a case this high profile it definitely pays to be diligent. It'll be interesting to see exactly what the evidence is and how the investigation unfolded.
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
> The flyby speeds are similar; but JUICE takes a time to get to that speed. Ahhh, that makes sense. Essentially Voyager did do a direct flight while JUICE isn't, instead building speed by doing slingshots off Earth and Venus. &quo
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
If I'm reading the specs correctly the Titan IIIE was a significantly more powerful vehicle than the Ariane 5 while launching a much smaller payload. JUICE also has to be going slow enough to enter orbit without carrying an insane amou
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
You mean the FM transmitters so that you can play your music on an empty station? I've had interference from them, too, but they're usually very low power and most useful when not stepping on another station, so there's some
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
I've had severe radio interference from Mexico while I was about 600 miles from the border and less than 50 from the US station's 5KW transmitter, and I have no idea how much further from the border the Mexican station was. Handhe
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
I know of at least one company that was looking at using Teslas for their executive drivers, but as soon as the security team looked at the always on wireless connections and interior microphone the plan got axed. If that's the conclus
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
I think around 2016 with the end of the Mk2/start of the Mk3 is when they really came into their own. Ultimaker, from my understanding, was always a business/institutional aligned company and only popular in the more well-heeled h
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
This is interesting. There's a lot of innovation going on from American distilleries right now that I think is riding the wave started by craft beer, so seeing what the future holds is pretty exciting.
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
Yes! Unfortunately the focal point is around 542 AU out (75 light hours), and Voyager is only 149 AU out, for perspective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
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by GravitasFailure 4y ago
>(Assuming you mean a small drone a citizen could be licensed to operate): Do drones have the ability to stabilize the recoil from a gun powerful enough to kill a pig? The FAA defines drones as being up to 55lbs, so yes. Most of the off-

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