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by _Microft 2y ago
"Her grandmother was a “hyperosmic,” and she [was] teaching [Joy] to distinguish the scent of the petals from the scent of the leaves from the scent of the pistils and stamens." One might wonder how much of Joy's hyperosmia
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by _Microft 2y ago
Double jumps work for me.
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The same user has also got a board with touch sliders, consisting of inversely tapering touch areas that allow to compute the touch position along the axis (same for rotary sliders that use three of these in a circle configuration). https:
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Picotouch – Tiny Capsense Touch USB MIDI Keyboard from a Raspberry Pi Pico(github.com)
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I also did not understand this complaint. On a Pico, any GPIO can be used for touch (using PIO of course). Example with 23 touch buttons if I counted that correctly: https://github.com/todbot/picotouch
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by _Microft 2y ago
Here's a quote from Eben Upton (CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, 2023): “We know what people don’t like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted at the event, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], could have more RAM, could have more GPIO [General
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by _Microft 2y ago
The creator of this also made a tool to design custom, 3d-printable Lego-compatible pieces: https://marian42.de/article/partdesigner/
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Designing a Lego orrery(marian42.de)
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I always wondered the same about ultrasonic parking/proximity sensors on cars.
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by _Microft 2y ago
This is very cool. I found shapes that do not work well with the simulation: a very wide and narrow shape (like a needle) oscillates wildly and does not seem to stop or to even slow down.
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by _Microft 2y ago
I’d bet that Starship will have a continuously updated, estimated landing point throughout the whole maneuver anyways. A plane can easily go 6km in about a minute (at a mere 360km/h), so if there was a plane trying to film the descent
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by _Microft 2y ago
Raptor is a full flow staged combustion engine [0], that means that the preburner exhaust is fed into the main combustion chamber. This is more efficient than dumping it separately like it happens on the Falcon 9 engines [1]. The black, so
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by _Microft 2y ago
I think you just invented ullage rockets (if you meant that the thrust of these small rockets should help to settle the fuel at the bottom of the tanks). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullage_motor
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_defect
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The stream has ended now. I'm editing the comment to provide guidance for the next time that someone wants to watch a SpaceX stream via VLC: Get the URL by going to the Twitter feed (e.g. via spacex.com/launches if you don't
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by _Microft 2y ago
Anytime you use a device you need to trust the manufacturer itself is not malicious. The difference between storing and decrypting a database on an internet-connected Apple device and storing it in Apple’s iCloud is minuscule.
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I would have to trust Meta on top of Apple for that (and there is no way that you do not have to trust the manufacturers of your devices anyways, imo).
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And we still can’t backup our chats on iOS [0]. Does that mean that we might lose the history of all our messages? Signal developers really seem to have some misconceptions about the priorities of their users… [0] It‘s not a limitation of i
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by _Microft 2y ago
Oh, great - the plasma ring shown in this video is super stable! The project submitted here is aiming for an all PCB version (most likely because it makes assembly a lot easier?) or in their own words (taken from the project page): The end
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Plasma Toroid – inductively-coupled radiofrequency plasma toroid in xenon gas(hackaday.io)
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"Unfortunately, while their radiative forcing estimate is well within the range of others in the literature, their calculation of the resulting warming relies on an overly simplified model that results in a substantial overstating of
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A problematic estimate of warming from low-sulfur marine fuels(theclimatebrink.com)
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Ask HN: What happened to HN Badges?
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Salt/seawater is a possibility. The proposed method is called marine cloud brightening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
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How to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet (BBC Archive) (1982) [video](youtube.com)
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And Gwynne Shotwell, COO of SpaceX.
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More comparisons: the power of water cookers, (a single) electric stove top and fan heaters are usually in the order of 2kW (at least in Europe with 230V AC)
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by _Microft 2y ago
What is kw/h with a lowercase w ? I’m familiar with W which stands for Watt, a unit of power. Could it simply be a typo like in GP’s comment who misspelled kWh?
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Maybe make sure that there is no medical condition if you are experiencing night sweats regularily https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_sweats
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> In windows you just click twice. Uh, oh, that means you're working on an admin account. If you are using a normal user account, you will be prompted to enter your admin credentials instead. (You can also force this behaviour on ad

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