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by ansible 4y ago
Agreed about Flite Test. They have kits using water resistant foam board that will perform and look better. Also this delta wing has options like being able to purchase the motor kit needed: https://store.flitetest.com/ft-sp
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by ansible 4y ago
I also had at one point a steering controller that resembled a RC car controller. That worked a lot better for me than racing wheels that were much more common. Pairing that with the original ReVolt RC racing car game (don't buy the ri
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by ansible 4y ago
Wing Commander series, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Falcon 3.0, X-Wing series, Descent 1 & 2. Thrustmaster flight stick and throttle. Good times, good times. I never really mastered flying the F-16 in Falcon 3.0, but I at least got t
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by ansible 4y ago
Yep. The rotors on Ingenuity spin much faster than a normal drone. They actually had a short test hop recently: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/
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by ansible 4y ago
Agreed. I've watched a few Everest documentaries over the years. The camera work in the ones I saw doesn't quite give me an overall sense of the space. This was very nice to see.
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by ansible 4y ago
How fast are you driving that a 30 minute charge (even at a level 3 charger) gets you sufficient range for 5 hours of driving? It should be closer to an hour of charging I'd think, if you are driving at highway speeds.
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by ansible 4y ago
> I can sort of see the argument for hybrids, but charging networks will make them obsolete very soon. Eh, I don't know about that. The current-gen Prius can easily get over 600 miles on a tank of gas if you aren't a lead fo
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by ansible 4y ago
The samples I was shown definitely had a theme: robots, raccoons, hats, and raccoons wearing hats. Our brains are very thoroughly wired to detect faces in general, and flaws in faces. So we have a very, very high standard for what passes mu
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by ansible 4y ago
Did you want more information on Svelte itself? https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity
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by ansible 4y ago
At least he can ride a bike.
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by ansible 4y ago
That was deep in decline well before 2020, from a variety of factors.
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by ansible 4y ago
43 years without a single reset or revision to safe mode (a common feature on spacecraft)? The linked article says that they've updated the software many times, by live patching it, instead of rebooting?
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by ansible 4y ago
No, but thanks for pointing out its existence. Homepage: https://beyondgrep.com/
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by ansible 4y ago
I use find and grep a lot in code repos, so I came up with this bash function: alias filter_repos_z="grep -ZzEv '/tags|/\.hg/|/\.svn/|/\.git/|/\.repo/|\.o$|\.o\.cmd$|\.depend|\.ma
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by ansible 4y ago
Eh, not it is not hard to believe. The research was definitely worth pursing. A 1.2% overall efficiency gain is not nothing , and is indeed significant enough that I think people will want to implement it. On the other hand, without doing
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by ansible 4y ago
You've already received some good responses (particularly from /u/pjc50), but one particular point may not be real clear. Generally speaking, the power a wind turbine can generated is proportional to the entire swept area. So
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by ansible 4y ago
> They mention a host of things that the autorouters are bad at as evidence that autorouters are useless, instead of recognizing the opportunity to improve autorouters to make their jobs easier. Sounds like a job for DL! No, really, I
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by ansible 4y ago
> Not to discount the research or its usefulness, but I feel uncomfortable with sterile language that, to me, implies that humans are nothing more than accidental automatons that can eventually be replicated and replaced by AI. > &g
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by ansible 4y ago
It is understandable to want to avoid silicon doping tech, because that requires a substantial industrial base. But you could still try bootstrapping via germanium transistors.
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by ansible 4y ago
One of my current desktops is an Ivy Bridge i7. It isn't that fast anymore, but with 32GB of RAM, it isn't too bad. I could really use some more cores for parallel builds though. Might be time to upgrade.
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by ansible 4y ago
2015 / 2016 I bought the original HP Omen gaming laptop because it didn't have a numeric keypad. There weren't a lot of other choices in the 15.6in category.
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by ansible 4y ago
With Alexa, there is a manual hardware switch where you can turn off the microphones. With Echo Show, there is a manual hardware shutter for the camera. I'm not sure if that is the answer to privacy concerns, but at least it is there
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by ansible 4y ago
From the Gitlab approved hardware list, today I learned that Dell has some 15.6in screen laptops that don't have a numeric keypad: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/laptops/new-15-5560-wor... A
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by ansible 4y ago
> they lied to us this was supposed to be the future where is my jetpack, https://gravity.co/ - expensive and takes some training to fly > where is my robotic companion, https://www.bostondynamics.com
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by ansible 4y ago
> They absolutely nailed the "pushing buttons as a job" part. And in one episode, George's button-pushing finger is sore. Long before we talked about carpal tunnel syndrome.
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by ansible 4y ago
Thanks. I just like the elegance of the design of non-tiltrotor VTOLs, in the sense that there aren't a lot of extra parts, just two motors and two control surfaces. The downside with most designs is the stability of hovering in a cro
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by ansible 4y ago
Nice. I bought the original Crazyflie a very long time ago, when tiny quadcopters were not really a thing yet. I've been meaning to take another look at projects like Ardupilot to try out my own ideas for aircraft, like a VTOL wing tha
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by ansible 4y ago
I use LXC a lot for our relatively small production setup. And yes, I'm treating the servers like pets, not cattle. What's nice is that I can snapshot a container and move it to another physical machine. Handy for (manual) load ba
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by ansible 4y ago
If Stadia is shut down, they should offer activation keys for each user's purchased games on Epic, GOG, Xbox, GeForce Now or Steam. Or where ever, really, it doesn't matter.
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by ansible 4y ago
I also had one of these. I think I completed one of the designs included in the kit, but it broke apart relatively quickly. As alluded to in the article, it was relatively easy to make a surface weld that didn't penetrate far into tho

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