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by Torkel 4y ago
"NASA is not being run by Germans anymore." Literally laghed out loud on this one and had to explain to coworkers what was so funny :)
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by Torkel 4y ago
Yeah, not a good article at all - I bailed half way through and went to the comments here in hope of a tldr/abstract…
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by Torkel 4y ago
HDMI out? Makes me curious what tech they have on the glasses vs in the dongle/box… maybe it’s convenient to use hdmi cable’s twisted pairs to just take the csi/mipi from the cameras straight out and then do processing externally?
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by Torkel 4y ago
I think it’s liquid oxygen/methane that goes into the engine. So backfilling with some other gas in the gas part of that should be ok. No expert though :)
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by Torkel 4y ago
In those video games people are in general playing as heroes. If million of kids where playing games where the "protagonist" was a school shooter then yes I believe we would see an increase in school shootings.
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by Torkel 4y ago
The article is about audio cassettes in Egypt and how Sadat banned them. (after a cursory glance-through) The headline is misleading. I thought I was in for reading about some open source version of Ableton or something about laws and sampl
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by Torkel 4y ago
The reason is that there will be more children abused. People who watch things will have a tendency to do that thing. Analogy: we had "fight club" fights outside bars 20 years ago. I think it makes perfect sense to ban child porn,
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by Torkel 5y ago
Hardcore History podcast, ”Supernova of the East”. Chances are most HN readers who upvote this story has already listened to this, but if there’s someone who missed it… go listen :)
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by Torkel 5y ago
Can we eat them then? Let’s say they manage to create a population in Australia. With an ever so small surplus, we could take that and eat it. Prices for legal rhino burger would probably be insane, right? I mean - that and horns are why th
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by Torkel 5y ago
Best advent of code I’ve done was the ”int-code computer” one. So good - one recurring theme of making a computer and in the end running games on it! Super excited for this year’s edition :)
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by Torkel 5y ago
”cows can be trained to navigate using the collar within 4-5 days” Umm, that sounds… labor intensive?
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by Torkel 5y ago
Multi-lane bike ”highways” would be awesome. What matters most (imo) is that all these riders are unprotected, and should be kept far apart from cars. If the unprotected, single rider, narrow vehicles want do drive at vastly different spee
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by Torkel 5y ago
Yeah, my thoughts too… Inspecting coredumps with command line gdb, feels like title should be ”like it’s 2001”. Because that’s when I learned gdb :P
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by Torkel 5y ago
Explorers do not become explorers from a wish for "easily living a very fulfilling life". There was nothing guaranteed about the quality of life offered by the great women and men who traveled the seas in ages past, and indeed man
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by Torkel 5y ago
The year is 1492. You're imagining standing on the shore of a vast continent, unexplored by your people. The only feeling/thought you have at that imagined moment is “What the hell am I doing here?” That is perfectly reasonable! B
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by Torkel 5y ago
Latency is a bitch. So remote hands from earth is most likely a no-go, for this reason alone. And if you bring astronauts close, then I guess that some EVAs in existing suits starts looking appealing vs developing those remote hands.
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by Torkel 5y ago
Good question... wikipedia did not yield an immediate answer. Could there be an "area effect", where one fog trap decreases yields of adjacent fog traps?
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by Torkel 5y ago
"A typical trap, with a 40-square-metre collecting area, yields about 200 litres a day. That is enough to supply around 60 people with drinking water. Such a collector costs $1,000 or so, and will last a decade." To me that sounds
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by Torkel 5y ago
Glass-to-glass latencies are extremely dependent on what cameras and displays are used. Common 4G link latencies are 15-30 ms. With fast cameras and displays we can get sub-50-ms glass-to-glass over 4G. For sure something like this should e
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by Torkel 5y ago
”A death sentencing system based on racial dynamics and then amplified by self-referential dynamics is inconsistent with equal protection of the law, but this describes the United States system well.”
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by Torkel 5y ago
I entered Japan close to two weeks ago from Europe. Super strict and well managed border control. Passengers were supervised and escorted to a special quarantine hotel for the first three days of quarantine. After that they use an app on my
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by Torkel 5y ago
Good data! Nice how martian gravity makes things lighter. If I'm doing the math correctly I get to to be an exposure time of around 0.1-0.5 ms. Fast!, but not unheard of fast :)
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by Torkel 5y ago
Yay! Cool that they made it :) The video feed had a "university team" feel to it that was sort of unexpected and nice :) I was surprised to see the tack sharp shadow on the image from the downwards facing navigation camera. My thi
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by Torkel 6y ago
I recommend listening to this podcast, it seems might not be totally dead there after all. Podcast was released yesterday and they talk about rebuilding it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv2l
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by Torkel 6y ago
Thanks for posting the link to this podcast! I enjoyed listening to it. It seems the situation is not as bad as Google Earth would have you believe - stuff got torn down in a storm but they are planning to rebuild it. One thing that caught
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by Torkel 6y ago
Yup, I should have used a through hole part. Power over audio cable felt iffy too - feels like it will short on insertion? Maybe it needs some thermal fuse in line with it or something.
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by Torkel 6y ago
I've done a similar journey during this lock down year. I started off with a small design of a custom latency measurement thingie that was a "rats nest" with wires and components soldered to an arduino. Converting it to a PCB
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by Torkel 6y ago
Most of these are GU10 from Ikea... wonderful combo...
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by Torkel 6y ago
Ikea fixture and Ikea LED lamps. I've taken many of them back. They give me replacements if I can show them the receipt... Maybe a good counter to poor quality LED lamps is making stores perceive them as a huge hassle with high return
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by Torkel 6y ago
On the contrary - Sweden is supposed to have a great power system...!

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