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by Vexs 11y ago
NYPD coming out of the toilets maybe? No-flush warrants.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I think it's kinda funny that most of the tessellations are just using pentagons to make other shapes that tessellate naturally. I suppose the same could be said of most tessellations though, but it's still interesting.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Not only is that not what I was thinking of, which was more akin to a grandfather clock, but I don't believe that at all. Just using piezoelectric vibration sensors I was able to charge a cap to light up an LED- a rotor mechanism would
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by Vexs 11y ago
You're absolutely correct; I quoted a gross oversimplification of the theory. It's more to do with per generation than actual old people, and people are always protective of home value. Consider, however, that when an elderly pers
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by Vexs 11y ago
There's an entire economic theory that progress only happens when the older generation dies off. A bit grim, but I can believe it. There's a subdivision near my house that allows only 55+, and anytime anyone wants to do anything i
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by Vexs 11y ago
I can see that potentially being a problem, especially if dirt or something gets caught in it. However, the most delicate part of it is the most replaceable, that band could be easily made out of cloth or leather, and motors are usually fai
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by Vexs 11y ago
And before anyone jumps in and says "lithium batteries self discharge!" Yes, yes they do. But it's really, really small. It discharges quickly initially, but then tapers off to about 1% per month.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Might be fun to make an electric clock that uses gravity, go full circle.
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by Vexs 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the obtuse fast inverse square root algorithm came from early lighting engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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by Vexs 11y ago
I think that's the best way to get kids into coding, not some forcefed programming gui, but "Hey, here's a game you can play in class!" and then just give suggestive nods towards the source code and "what happens if
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by Vexs 11y ago
Autohotkey is a crazy dense macroing tool; I originally thought it was just move the mouse and type, but it can do so, so much more- interface with spreadsheets, web browsers, heck, there's even a tiling window manager out there that&#
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by Vexs 11y ago
Thats a feeling I'm familiar with, I could never remember the formulas, but I could remember the steps to derive the formulas from what was on the page and the basic equations-It's not too different from stream of consciousness vs
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by Vexs 11y ago
Nope. Passwords used by them young folk just fit the requirements, and nothing else. Now, geeky XKCD readers probably use a variant of correcthorsebatterystaple, so we've got that going for us.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Thats one of the reasons I like uBlock origin- supposedly, it says the ad was displayed/clicked on a webpage, which means I don't deal with ads and websites don't deal with money loss.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Shooting any aircraft out of the sky, at any height, is technically a felony.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Shooting anything out of the sky, at any height, is technically a felony.
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by Vexs 11y ago
They've been clocked at 80+. Remember though, they're not going to be descending at 80mph, which is really the only time you'd need to worry about collisions.
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by Vexs 11y ago
No idea if this is right, but I imagine that's how long it takes to get the word out to start tracking this number, after which the actual tracking happens quickly.
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's pretty cool- afaik, it's based off of the teensy 2.0 uC. There's actually some neat firmware that lets it emulate a flash drive at the same time as a keyboard/mouse, allowing you to deploy software on the flash driv
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by Vexs 11y ago
"tool that Salazar and Petro created basically emulates mouse and keyboard presses" USB Rubber ducky? Neat tool that is.
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by Vexs 11y ago
You know, there's no (non-psychological) link between sugar and hyperactivity- it's basically the same as giving kids fizzy applejuice, saying it's beer and watching them get "drunk". They act hyperactive because th
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by Vexs 11y ago
I suppose you could rework this to actually encode the message in the shape much like a qr code. You could do it by having the first 9 characters be done by just moving around the 3 sides of the triangle, then the next set would have a dot
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by Vexs 11y ago
Have you heard of elian script? This reminds me a bit of it.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Have you heard of elian script? This reminds me a bit of it. Also, elian script is fairly easy to write once you get the hang of it, if you were very good at it it could be faster than the latin alphabet, as it takes less movements per char
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by Vexs 11y ago
Some bloomberg articles are downright gorgeous to look at, this brilliant minimalist gradient design.
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by Vexs 11y ago
That would be a pretty interesting functionality built into their website if it did in fact localize text. I wonder if there's a localization "dictionary" out there, this could make a neat webapp.
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by Vexs 11y ago
This came up on reddit a while ago; the general tone of the conversation I got was that it really depends on which warehouse you're working at, some had horrible managers and others had really good working experiences. It's still
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by Vexs 11y ago
I find it slightly amusing how so many difficult programming problems can be fixed by just tossing a neural network at it. They're not great for non-organic data, but they work so well for organic data, like text, handwriting, images,
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by Vexs 11y ago
That cat in the hat movie was an abomination. I mean, the source material isn't much to work with, however they just took the character and plopped him into some nonsense storyline with naught but suggestive glances towards the book. H
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by Vexs 11y ago
Most phones have emergency lockscreen dialers, heck, some samsung phones have hold-down-button-for-emergency systems. That's besides the point though, what he's pointing out that this part of the iphone was a backtrack in capabili

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