Torkel

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by Torkel 6y ago
No, for some reason I decided to use a regular duvet. With a sleeping bag it would probably have been less of an issue.
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by Torkel 6y ago
I agree - I packed an air mattress to sleep on during camping when it was cold on the ground. The air didn't insulate as well as I expected so I was freezing from below. There are so many things around us that are such incredible achie
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by Torkel 6y ago
This is an interesting idea, would be great to see this tried with graphs. Why don’t they do this with the ice blocks you get for keeping food cold on camping trips?
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by Torkel 6y ago
I think the lockdown is a large reason why it looks like this. There are simply less things to spend money on at home, and all the free time at home means people are looking over their economy. And speculating/investing.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Did you see the pdf manual? I would actually have preferred something online for docs, but there is not a lack of documentation for Tracy.
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by Torkel 6y ago
On application side I recommend using an instrumenting profiler that will let you know down to sub-microseconds what the code is doing. Tracy is a good choice ( https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ) but there are others, e.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Good info! I didn’t know this :)
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by Torkel 6y ago
We have a cuckoo rice cooker in Sweden (purchased in Korea). It is great! Our cuckoo is a preassure cooker, and the rice it makes is the best I’ve had. We currently live in Tokyo, and the Panasonic we got here is not as good as the cuckoo.
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by Torkel 6y ago
It's about the 'why'. The thing that Mars has to offer that Antarctica does not is "backup solution for humankind". An asteroid impact can make earth uninhabitable. With a self sustaining backup on Mars we can keep
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by Torkel 6y ago
The video mentions that this was done because the people in the driver cabin became covered in diesel soot as the sealing between engine and cabin was not 100%.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Here's a twitter thread by a guy who built a nice model of one: https://twitter.com/PeterOlsson/status/1280940641472655367
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by Torkel 6y ago
As other commenters I'm reminded of the classic RIM roadrunner effect - the decapitated chicken that keeps running. Another thought though: is it completely unthinkable for Intel to pull an AMD themselves and spin out their fabs and re
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by Torkel 6y ago
I tried to share the link to this via fb messenger, and it blocked it because it "goes against our Community Standards". A while back the same happened to pouet ( https://twitter.com/pouetdotnet/status/124
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by Torkel 6y ago
Now, this is probably nothing. The sensors are doing their thing and from time to time there is a spike. On the other hand, this is how Chernobyl first was reported... For more radiation horror pease read about the ”Goiânia accident”: http
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by Torkel 6y ago
Yeah, I was also disappointed in this story. Shallow and bad explanation and after reading it I am still none the wiser as to in what way those textbooks would be in need of rewriting.
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Apple’s ARKit uses ”localization imagery” for improved positioning in cities(developer.apple.com)
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by Torkel 6y ago
To quote Linus Torvalds: "Some people think that "the cloud" means that the instruction set doesn't matter. Develop at home, deploy in the cloud. That's bull *t. If you develop on x86, then you're going to wan
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by Torkel 6y ago
There's a chocking secret at the end of it... hope that guy doesn't get in trouble for this.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Here's the twitter profile of Anastasia Opara: https://twitter.com/anastasiaopara I recommend following her - she does amazing things at Embark Studios these days :)
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by Torkel 6y ago
Yep. It's a lot of work creating a non-stuttering, fast-seeking player using ffmpeg/libav. For high resolution / high bitrate streams ffmpeg doesn't issue frames smoothely in itself (I-frames takes longer) so I had to cr
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by Torkel 6y ago
”Source: Discussion with various SpaceX engineers at GDC 2015/2016” I wonder if they had to change any of this for the human rated mission? Would be super exciting to hear tech talks from Spacex!
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by Torkel 6y ago
Nice build :) Have you checked out EasyEDA + jlcpcb? It can improve the electronics aspects of robot projects. I searched a bit now to see if any new projects have shown up. Came across this one: https://hackaday.io/project&
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by Torkel 6y ago
No. For these motors to do their job at these low speeds you need to know where the windings are relative to the magnets so you can apply a controlled force instantaneously. Btw, this is true for gimbals too, and good gimbals use sensors.
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by Torkel 6y ago
It's not that rc-servos are not sexy. It't that they suck. For a number of specific reasons well listed in other posts here. RC-servos are very cheap and very easy to use, so there are many projects using them. But there is no way
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by Torkel 6y ago
Sure. I should have written "rc-servo". But in this context it was not ambiguous and the point stands - anything that uses rc-servos is a dead end. Personally I'm also skeptical of series elastic actuators - it seems like a h
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by Torkel 6y ago
Here are two: MIT Cheetah: https://biomimetics.mit.edu/ Unitree/laikago: http://www.unitree.cc/
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by Torkel 6y ago
It has the wrong kind of motors to be interesting. Servos are a dead end, imo. The interesting robot projects now are the ones embracing brushless motors with encoders and dynamic walking gaits. It’s the same components that are used in dro
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by Torkel 6y ago
We did this in our binary - adding a message in there which would be seen if attempting to reverse engineer or crack it. No emails from that yet though :)
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by Torkel 7y ago
That half-black mac logo... Am I the only one thinking transition to ARM?
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by Torkel 7y ago
I guess I should mostly attribute it to the Baader-Meinhof effect [0] then. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_effect

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