Isamu

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by Isamu 3y ago
Thanks! Looking forward to this!
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by Isamu 3y ago
Yeah the drawing thing is a compulsion. It’s hard for others to understand but that’s okay. I used to draw all the time but now I miss it. I used to be compulsive about making things. Way back when they still issued business cards I had to
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by Isamu 3y ago
He owned the X.com name, this is a way to get paid for use of it. That reduces the sting of the bad overall investment.
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by Isamu 3y ago
Good point, NFC is described as operating in a particular RF band but not through radio waves: > As with proximity card technology, NFC uses inductive coupling between two nearby loop antennas effectively forming an air-core transformer.
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>flawed hydraulic analogies I want to say that’s cool, avoid common pitfalls in explanations, but I want to to point out that all analogies fall short, otherwise they would be the same thing, and not an analogy. That is, if the hydraulic
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by Isamu 3y ago
Also, I’m not sure if people are aware of the number of radio systems that enable their smartphones. NFC (eg. Apple Pay) is a radio, range a few cm. Bluetooth is a radio, a few meters. WiFi is several radio systems, range tens of meters. Ce
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Good to hear, though you have to be pretty old to care.
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>“I was really surprised … It just went against the whole reputation of Five Points that it was this terrible, impoverished place,” he says. “It’s not that they were rich, but they weren’t poor. And their bank accounts clearly showed tha
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Non-toxic!
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The video is about launch abort I believe. As opposed to aborting a lunar landing.
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Hey thanks for pointing out this angle. I think it’s compatible with the idea that mastery of a thing is purchased at the cost of a shocking number of invested hours. This seems counter intuitive (hence the shock) and so people would rather
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Installing to the C drive! Luxury! We swapped those floppies back and forth out of the A and B drives because we had no hard drive and it kept prompting for the part of the compiler swapped out! And we enjoyed it! Kids these days don’t beli
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He had three others doing the research preparing the brief, that means especially the citations that were fake. He did not realize they didn’t do the due diligence to check that the citations were correct, let alone that they were not compl
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It’s mysterious only if you subscribe to some myth of capitalist supremacy, that is that nothing starts without capital. Everyone is powerless because they lack the levers of capital. When in fact many starts are without capital, outside of
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I guess I assumed that recycling advocacy groups did some due diligence, dug a bit deeper, took the trouble to find out how everything was going. And now we are claiming that nobody checked. The plastics industry was lying, and everybody ju
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Wish I could upvote more
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I loved those Magicubes too when I was a kid. Because you can just set them off mechanically have fun with them. And now I know what was in the stem that set them off. Finally.
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Yes, likewise I wrote a reader that simply tried to parse every bit of a complex ELF binary to report its structure and quickly found myself in poorly documented territory. It’s an education if you want it.
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Rounded corners is handled similarly to blurry images, one of the main ideas is readers to be forgiving in what they accept, and rely on the error detection bits to tell if it is way off. With error correction you can tolerate stylistic man
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In this case there is an example with articulated finger protection and a partial of the other hand >not to be confused with bracers, which cover the wrists and forearms but not the hands; bracers are common in medieval and fantasy cospl
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Phone eaten by a bear
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Probably not some shadowy conspiracy. There was a lot of pandering to China from the studios back then because they held onto the hope that the market in China would open up to them more. But it never really materialized.
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Go Astrobotic! Lunar Landers User Guide: https://www.astrobotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PUGLan...
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Reasonableness is frequently cited in judgments. Judges, especially at a high level, don’t just shoot from the hip. They cite the applicable laws, and pose the question: given the executive argues that what they did was permissible under th
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Ah, that’s the real explanation for dark matter: massive numbers of Dyson spheres everywhere
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Adding epicycles to the circular orbits - an example before Fourier! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle
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Some will say: it’ll be log structures again
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Why clear tape?
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Despite the headline, the robot arm itself probably has no smarts and is just triggered to follow a routine when external sensors on the line are activated. The issue is that the person may have been unaware that the robot was energized, an
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I remember punch card Christmas wreaths. You twist each card into a cone (a kind of modernist holly leaf) and you staple them together in a big ring, spray paint green and add a big red bow. Somebody made giant wreaths this way for an offic

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