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by asteli 7y ago
The variant I hear/use here in west coast english goes something like "Oh yeah, no, for sure" for a positive/agreement. edit: USA west coast English
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by asteli 7y ago
I've been taking notes as I go, going to put together a slide preso at some point with stuff I learned in the process. I'm a lazy engineer, so I avoid doing tedious hand-crafted stuff. I'm using 30pt museum board for the flap
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by asteli 7y ago
followup: actually I went to the the builder's youtube video and they're claiming $25~$30 per module. so pretty good.
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by asteli 7y ago
That's just for the enclosure. It looks like it comes out to 60-70$ depending on how you build it. I'm targeting sub $50, but it's tough. Good resource though, didn't know about those cheap geared stepper motors.
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by asteli 7y ago
They're really cool! The original Solari board modules are mega expensive though. I looked at getting some to make a clock, and it probably would have cost me in the thousands. As an indirect result I now have a project in the works t
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by asteli 7y ago
I helped a friend-of-a-friend debug some control circuits on an ancient drill press. I wondered "why not throw a microcontroller and some SSRs in here instead of dealing with all this goofy relay logic?" Then I realized that I was
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by asteli 7y ago
I always did it in a dark bag, which doesn’t photograph well either. Looks and sounds like you’ve got your hands stuck in a nylon duffel somehow.
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by asteli 7y ago
Someone else wrote the comment I meant to, essentially doing the math to show that one would need an awkwardly large solar panel to power something like a quadrotor drone.
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by asteli 7y ago
To elaborate, solar energy hitting the Earth’s surface is about a kilowatt/m^2 if conditions are perfect. If you were able to convert solar power at the maximum theoretical PV efficiency (the Shockley-Queisser limit, 33.7%), you’d need
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by asteli 7y ago
That doesn't hold up, at least with my example. The glovebox latch on most vehicles is a couple of bits of stamped metal and a spring. By making it electrically actuated, Telsa necessitated adding a branch to the wiring harness, along
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by asteli 7y ago
I think they went overboard with the "everything must happen via the center console" interface strategy. From an aesthetic perspective, it is Very Pretty, but it's kind of hard to accept that the way to open a glove compartme
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by asteli 7y ago
It's kind of interesting to look at the marketing photographs on their site. Very keyed to the masculine eye. Photo next to a military cargo aircraft's landing gear. Two beautiful women in and next to the car, but only as passenge
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by asteli 7y ago
They just announced it today. They don't have a probe yet. They have to design and build and test all of the equipment and systems that are going to go into space. I think it's pretty reasonable for this to take 6 years.
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by asteli 7y ago
Happens to loads of people. I hear about people getting shot and having someone drive them to the hospital to avoid the ambulance fee. I was in a motorcycle accident and declined to even go to a hospital because I was uninsured at the time.
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by asteli 7y ago
There's nothing on a jump bike that can lock the rear wheel while in motion. The motor is in the front, and the brakes are operated by hand. I have ate it on one while crossing train tracks while at max power, as that combination of
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by asteli 7y ago
It's an understood, but uncommon word choice. "Fuel tank" and "gas tank" are the most common in American English.
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by asteli 7y ago
There's a company called Rivian that's working on an electric pickup. After doing engine work and chasing leaks on my older Tacoma, I admit I've entertained the thought of swapping in a Tesla powertrain. I think it's a g
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by asteli 7y ago
Apple are making a series of design trade offs. What portion of laptop buyers will be swayed by the ability to swap their RAM out? Will they sell more units by designing for interchangeable RAM or by being able to make their unit 2mm thinne
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by asteli 7y ago
I've seen this so many times. The introverts and smokers I can explain, but to this day I have no idea why people congregate in the kitchen even when there's nothing specific to draw them in there (food, etc.)
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by asteli 7y ago
You're not the only software engineer I know who's in the Reserves. The way my colleague talks about it, it feels like more duty than hobby. What tips it toward hobby for you? Asking as someone who has been curious about joining i
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by asteli 7y ago
I posted this down below, but I want to share my personal method of music discovery. Pick a few physical music venues nearby that you like, and make a list of all the artists playing shows there for the next month or two. Then take a song b
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by asteli 7y ago
I've been trying an experiment lately. I took a few local venues that I like, and put the top song from each of their headliners for the next month into a spotify playlist, then just listened on shuffle while I was doing something else
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by asteli 7y ago
I had no idea it was a thing. I thought I had ADHD-PI with a side of anxiety, but I’m blown away to find that RSD has a super strong link to ADHD. I think it’s treatable. Anecdote: I knocked doors for the Hillary campaign in Denver in 2016
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by asteli 7y ago
I'm doing EMC work at the moment. I've fantasized about putting a near-field probe on a 2-axis motion stage and building a 4-dimensional (X, Y, Frequency, Power) visualization with the data. The place I work is pretty well outfitt
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by asteli 7y ago
A homebrew device with some IGBTs controlling main voltages, controlled by an Arduino, is vastly different from a commercial product that has to pass UL/Intertek/TUV certification (not to mention FCC EMC compliance). Those certifi
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by asteli 7y ago
It doesn't necessarily. One thing that can come with ADHD is hyperfocus for certain activities. If one has ADHD and an intense interest in mathematics, you might be in luck. When I was in school, I have a hard time staying engaged in l
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by asteli 7y ago
Depends on the unit. On some designs (e.g. Velodyne HDL-64) the unit is split into two sections. The whole upper section, along with all the optics and some of the electronics, spins at 10-15 Hz, which naturally tends to shed precipitation
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by asteli 7y ago
You need a large space open to attach the rocket to, and it has to be at the center of lift. You can't have one fuselage and put the rocket to the side, because then the balance would change drastically when you add the rocket, and you
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by asteli 7y ago
Have you seen Wikipedia's current events portal? [1] It's pretty much what you describe there, sans critique (level 1, factual reporting). In trying to escape the aggregators and filter bubbles, I have blocked all news sources on
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by asteli 8y ago
like any transmitter, this depends on the gain of your receiver :)

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