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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
A general jumping-off point for this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping It's a very cool concept, similar to sculpting bonsai trees with copper wire, just on a bigger scale. However unless it can re
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
Noticed this direct shipping years ago, the first time it took weeks for a small part to be delivered. I think the absurdly low cost reveals just how much you can jam into a shipping container for the current flat rate. Weirder when you thi
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
lifeProtip- Goodwill prices all belts the same in every store I've been to. They're like 1-3 dollars and there's usually a couple real leather ones on the rack. I have several just hanging around now.
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River Another interesting note of history in the United states, specifically, the Cuyahoga river was so polluted that it caught fire at least a dozen times. The resultin
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
I played the pseudo-sequel (perfect dark) around then (early 2000s-ish?) and enjoyed it. The AI was humorous, but brutal on higher difficulties. I had no coding experience at that time. A few years after that I got a hold of Unreal/UT
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
*Note to mobile/metered internet users: first link contains 30MB+ of gif images, click at own risk.
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
I've lost so many tubes from glass fragments. Sometimes the tire even shifts around when going flat and pokes several more holes nearby. Still not as bad as people who throw bottles in the creek though.
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
As someone who rides a bicycle and hikes, glass bottles are the bane of my existence.
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by anon_cow1111 7y ago
Well, this sounds really bad. Though on a positive note, I guess we could try a similar exploit in meatspace to figure out if we're living in a simulation or something. /sarc but also maybe not
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Oh, it's great when it works out like that, but this place wasn't worth staying with long term. I should clarify; I was a grease monkey/operator, not tech support. You would never break 15usd/hr even as a foreman. The sl
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
In the last job I had, Win 95/98 was on a computer used to send programs to a 20-ton piece of metal working equipment. Of course, you had to drop into DOS to use the necessary software. Transfer rate was around 900 baud. The computer t
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
213 or 21.3? (link didn't find peers) A 4k bitmap is still only 28mb.
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
If the system becomes that large and profitable, those surveillance drones are going to end up mounted on plaques like big game trophies.
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Twitter is one of the worst sites to post artwork on. Not due to compression, but the complete lack of features a dedicated art gallery normally has. Tagging and searchability are bad. Artists don't usually make separate accounts for a
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
>This reminds me of a few years ago when they did "cash for clunkers" to stimulate the economy. Psst.. Are you ready to feel old today? The Cash for clunkers program was from 2009. Yeah, really. (The federal program in the US a
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
I looked road markings up earlier because it was also my first guess, but everything I've seen indicates they just use plain glass microspheres in reflective paint and such. For the roads themselves, more reflective might be a bad thin
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Well, coal is mostly carbon and its atomic radius is around 70pm. Converting miles to metric and calculating based on that, we can assume at minimum 72 liters of coal was burned, but not more than the total volume of earth.
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Oh, wow, this is basically a chip full of trigatrons isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron For anyone who doesn't feel like reading the wiki, these things are normally switches you use when all ot
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
It's definitely against their rules to publicly tell people how much youtube's paying you. 0.50-1.00 USD per 1k is also the range I've heard. But there are ways you can completely screw yourself over... If you get a copyright
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
If you're still having problems with the lead-acid battery, you might want to try swapping it out for NiCads at some point. The battery packs from cordless drills often contain these; they're just a bunch of 1.2v cells in series s
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
I've done a road trip more than 1000k on a ~$100 aluminum frame and vibration was never even a minor concern. If you're going at very high speed or constant rough ground I can see how it'll get you, but seat design and quali
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
I wonder how this deals with the stippling seen in black and white printed pages. As someone familiar with digital drawing/editing, any slight imperfection in the pattern becomes super obvious and it's even worse with stippled gra
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
The last time I bought welding wire it was 3-4 dollars/pound for cheap flux core stuff, so I can't imagine how much this cost to 'print'. Most metal printers seem to work in a box full of helium/argon, but in this c
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
The data was visible as a block of jumbled pixels as the bottom, not sure how concatenated files render visually (especially jpg format), so for all I know it may have been exactly what you're describing. Pretty sure I found it on an i
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Someone did something similar to make a point during the 3d printed gun debate. There's a .png floating around of the PM522 (3d revolver) with the print files encoded directly in the image. IIRC it just requires zipping and changing th
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Archive seems to work https://web.archive.org/web/20181013150132/https://www.econo...
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by anon_cow1111 8y ago
Random mint 18.04 user here. I just noticed about a week ago that flatpak was downloading huge amounts of data (like hundreds of MBs). I had all system updates set to download and install manually, and hadn't installed anything new for