Tossrock

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Daniel Garcia, developer of FastLED, has died(reddit.com)
7 points by Tossrock 7y ago|4 comments
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by Tossrock 7y ago
The right motorcycle with two riders can get over 120!
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by Tossrock 7y ago
The Wendelstein 7-x is not designed to ever reach ignition. It's a (very large, very cool) research reactor studying stellarator geometry. Ignition will require a yet larger device, and barring any disasters, ITER should definitely get
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by Tossrock 7y ago
OnShape is pretty darn quick.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Hah, I appreciate you taking the time to answer all those, but they were mostly hypothetical questions I already knew the answers to but had difficulty discovering without doing a bunch of searching. Except the grease pencil thing.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Not the OP, but I've used Blender and UE (though Unity more), and I would say the main problem with Blender is how undiscoverable the core actions in the interface are. I'm sure for you, as a 15 year user, the shortcuts are all pe
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Pneumatic air muscles are in the same strength to weight range - for example, the Shadow 30mm version is ~470 minimum. They can also be simply manufactured today, cycle very quickly, and are easy to control.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
It was Mathematica, they provide the code in the paper.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
I love the inclusion of the "help4u@verizon.com" address in the email attempting to get their attention on a Severity 0 event. It was worth a shot!
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Circuit Launch has hot air rework stations, apparently.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Definitely a trend. There's also the TechShop bankruptcy and the subsequent "TheShop.build" clusterfuck, MotoGuild shutting down, etc.
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by Tossrock 7y ago
It doesn't violate the laws of physics, just of typical human aircraft engineering. The lack of visible thrust could be due to using interaction with the Earth's magnetic field[1] to generate thrust, as one random example. 1: htt
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by Tossrock 7y ago
Since this is recirculating in the public consciousness, I'm going to repeat my pet theory: they're automated Von Neumann probes that have been in the solar system (and probably ~all star systems in the galaxy) for longer than hum
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by Tossrock 8y ago
People seem to break it down into three potential categories: misinterpretted/bad data/not real, secret project carried out by other nation, or extraterrestrial craft. Extraterrestrial doesn't make sense, because of the diffi
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Pillars of Eternity was successfully funded through Kickstarter, and they just put out the sequel, which also had a Kickstarter campaign.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Maybe people should start tipping in cash again. Every service person I've asked has preferred it.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
The first two, maybe, but there's no way we could build a golfing robot that gets a hole in one on every shot.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
If you find it interesting, the founder / inventor recently was a guest on the Omega Tau science & engineering podcast: http://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/ They go into much greater detail than the
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Calling it now: granite piston based gravity storage is going to be the grid-scale storage solution: http://gravitypower.net
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by Tossrock 8y ago
I'm still[1] waiting on those silicon nanowire batteries. 8 more years! 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/dnlnf/breakthrough...
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by Tossrock 8y ago
This is powerful stuff - palm oil production is clearly an evil. But what really struck me from this was the rather cavalier mention of their guide killing dozens of people with a machete, during an ethnic cleansing. Isn't there a cour
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Neil Blomkamp of District 9/Elysium fame has released some shorts made with the Unity engine and was pretty effusive about the benefits of using a real time engine for animation: https://unity.com/madewith/adam Th
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Rafikov, 2018: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06389.pdf
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Given Oumuamua's well documented non-gravitational acceleration, what was the cause? That's the key question this article – and the paper it cites – are investigating. Comet-like off-gassing has been mostly ruled out due to the la
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Sounds like you should check out VR. There's not much in terms of development tools yet, due to the low angular resolution of current gen hardware, but once it gets there it could enable what you're talking about.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
The natural fit here is a naval nuclear reactor. For example, the A4W reactor on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier puts out 550MW(th), and of course it has a continuous 100% duty cycle, and 20 years of operating time before requiring refuelin
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by Tossrock 8y ago
I see what you're saying, but that doesn't actually strike me as too crazy of a goal. 0.8 is 16% of 5, and 6x-ing an industry seems within reach, given sufficient incentives.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
Aaron Diaz may have beaten you to that particular punch: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
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by Tossrock 8y ago
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not. I think it's very reasonable to want alternatives in any case.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
You're playing some weird games with numbers here. "100% if we subtract the failures" isn't 100%, and something that hasn't been tested yet doesn't really have a 0% success rate, it just doesn't have a suc

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