arctan

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by arctan 4y ago
There's a tool called PRET - the Printer Exploitation Toolkit -- "the tool that made dumpster diving obsolete" -- that some of you might find fun and useful. You can use it to test which print protocols (ps, pjl, pcl) the pr
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by arctan 4y ago
Where are all the printer firmware hackers at?
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by arctan 4y ago
I assume it's because there's only so much of that heat that the globs could radiate into space as (infrared) light. Maybe someone familiar with the intimate details of blackbody radiation could chime in here?
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by arctan 4y ago
That was the previous idea, but this work changes that. It implies that the cooling rates of meteors is actually much faster than previously guessed.
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by arctan 4y ago
This is exciting stuff for MatSci people. There are likely other interesting materials that could be made using this process, including the other alloys found in iron bearing meteorites. I expect that the process can be modified and exten
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by arctan 4y ago
FWIW, iron reduced in hydrogen is known to have a very high magnetic permeability, surpassed only by one of the Metglas alloys.
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by arctan 4y ago
Okay, three questions, if you'll humor me: What LISP resources particular to AutoCAD would you recommend, what are your favorite scripts, and for context what do you do / use AutoCAD for?
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by arctan 4y ago
Update: I found a solution to a particular problem, representing twisted pairs with bends in a cable without the hassle of sloppy line thickness settings, or making sure every bounding area is perfectly joined and closed for hatch fill: to
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AutoCAD is f-ing terrible. Let's talk about it
17 points by arctan 4y ago|18 comments