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by andars 10y ago
Originally read this as "plans to launch (rocket-bearing) satellites" (as in satellites which carry rockets), which would have been interesting indeed. I suppose all satellites have thrusters, but that isn't what came to mind
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by andars 10y ago
Since you only work with 90 degrees, you don't even need the full machinery. In my solution I used (a,b) -> (-b,a) and its dual.
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by andars 10y ago
I'd say if it depends on how you think about complex numbers. If your understanding of the imaginary unit is limited to "that thing that when you square it you get -1", I agree with you. But if you think of the imaginary unit
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by andars 10y ago
"it's still fair to say Newtonian mechanics is an "incomplete" view of the universe" The arguments back and forth on this fascinate me. On one hand, on some scales, Newtonian mechanics is "correct enough"
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by andars 10y ago
Sweet. Thanks for the reference. Hopefully these cards will become more widespread.
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by andars 10y ago
You're probably right, but I guess it would be a possibility if we just replaced the battery in current phones. For the other things I didn't necessarily have a battery in mind (doesn't change your point though).
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by andars 10y ago
Would it store music, or just information about music?
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by andars 10y ago
What kind of revolution are you expecting? Loads of people already have smartphones and I don't see them switching, and you can already get a flip phone for < $10.
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by andars 10y ago
I can see the appeal, but it still seems way easier just to put a cheap computer in eah location with equivalent compute power to a phone and carry around the SSD.
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by andars 10y ago
FPGAs in desktop/laptop computers. That would open all kinds of interesting possibilities. Energy from nuclear fusion. Highly dense electrical energy source. I want to see electric planes, phones that last for months, drones that stay
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by andars 10y ago
I don't understand. If you already are planning on using it with 3 monitors, what is the advantage of making it so portable? Why not just leave a slightly larger device where the monitors are and use the small device as storage /
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Another startup takes on the strange world of the digital paper tablet(techcrunch.com)
2 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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by andars 10y ago
The timing is everything. I read it as a "whatever" in response to the news. Note that that tweet has since been deleted and so it probably shouldn't be considered an official statement of the company. My guess is that the em
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by andars 10y ago
Interesting opinion. However, this isn't current U.S. law. See, for example, the numerous successful suits against Toyota for unintended acceleration. In addition, it may soon be questionable to say that an occupant of a vehicle is &qu
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by andars 10y ago
This is not relevant. If a corporation builds a product that kills people, the corporation is responsible. No corporation is responsible for the behaviour of humans.
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The Death of Moore’s Law Will Spur Innovation(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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by andars 10y ago
Yeah, I can definitely relate. I'm a current EE student in an equivalent course and am still getting used to being so rigorous with everything. Anything Fourier is starting to look pretty edgy (esp. since most the transform integrals d
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by andars 10y ago
Was your undergrad in math?
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by andars 10y ago
This doesn't strike me as a reasonable analogy. 1) Microchips don't grow autonomously in the first place, unlike organisms. 2) The article's point is that not only do humans have the "mask artwork and silicon wafers&quot
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Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++(kevinbeason.com)
2 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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by andars 10y ago
Question I've been wondering about for a while: where does PCI fall into this? Do modern x86 PC systems still use in & out at all?
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by andars 10y ago
I don't think so. We aren't interested in reconstructing the signal, so if we have 10 samples of the flashing screen we will have 10 bits. If I'm wrong please correct me.
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by andars 10y ago
Looks like they are. Actually a good idea IMO assuming they are just using them as robust 8 bit interconnects and not actually Ethernet.
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by andars 10y ago
Unlikely. It will be a phased array so they will need some spacing between the antennas. I've heard mention of ~pizza box size
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Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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We Become What We Behold, a Post-Mortem(blog.ncase.me)
1 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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by andars 10y ago
Perhaps the alliteration.
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Visualizing Dynamical Systems(andars.github.io)
2 points by andars 10y ago|0 comments
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by andars 10y ago
I'm sorry. I see now that I am unable to even understand how what I have said made you so upset, so all I can do is apologize.
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by andars 10y ago
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