auxym

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by auxym 12y ago
Pretty cool! Would be cool to add some sort of position sensor on, I guess GPS wouldn't be ideal though. Maybe hack a roomba to map signal strength in your house! Anyways, reminds me of this: https://vimeo.com/20412632
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by auxym 12y ago
I wish I had explored more artsy endeavours in high school and college, instead of being such a nerd focused on only science. Litterature, drama, creative writing, music.
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by auxym 12y ago
What do you mean you can't change the line type? http://matplotlib.org/api/lines_api.html#matplotlib.lines.Li... Other than that, I'd have to agree with you that mpl has quite a clunky interface. It can produ
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by auxym 12y ago
lubuntu right now because my current pc is an old laptop (c2d, 2gb), works well enough. In the past I've used manjaro with xfce and OpenSUSE with KDE. I've found manjaro quite a good compromise between a bare arch install that req
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by auxym 12y ago
FTA: "The death of Chris McCandless should serve as a caveat to other foragers: Even when some parts of a plant are known to be edible, other parts of the same species may contain dangerous concentrations of toxic compounds. Additional
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by auxym 12y ago
I really enjoyed a couple of Patrick's posts on career advice, despite myself not working directly in the software industry. I was wondering, are any of you aware of similar bloggers/websites/books/whatever that have sim
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by auxym 12y ago
I tried awesome, and was somewhat disapointed by a community that felt 'dead'. Searching google for answers to questions I had often yielded old, out-of-date answers not relevant to the current version. I did however appreciate th
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by auxym 12y ago
Have you looked at e-bikes recently? Interesting things going on.
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by auxym 12y ago
Makes FF33 crash on my win7 machine.
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by auxym 12y ago
I'll agree to it being stupidly expensive, that's become pretty common for college textbooks. However, it's enough of a classic that finding a used copy, or an illegal pdf, shouldn't be too hard. The vast majority of the
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by auxym 12y ago
Also hidden, a great reference on mechanical design in general. Author mentions it for gear design, but it covers a broad range of topics including strength/stiffness analysis of parts, fasteners (nuts & bolts), materials, etc. Shi
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by auxym 12y ago
I'm very, very late to the party, but, do consider early retirement, and perhaps a part-time side gig as a consultant for projects that you feel like working on. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ http://earlyr
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by auxym 12y ago
I finished a mechanical engineering degree 2 years ago and as my final year design project, I chose to design and build (in a team with 7 other students) a small offroad vehicle from the ground up [1]. I learned that automobiles, from an en
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by auxym 12y ago
Vispy is what's been missing in the scientific python ecosystem, in my opinion. I've been watching the project closely for a good while, glad to see this release and will try it out as soon as possible.
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by auxym 12y ago
I don't have a reference on hand, but everyone I've spoken to who has worked close to engines (in the automotive, recreative and commercial transport industries) has said to me that compliance to emissions is now the leading des
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by auxym 12y ago
Crankshaft frictional losses are typically the smallest of the friction losses in a engine, the others being cylinder/ring friction and the valve train (you could also include accessories and pumping). You can play around with the appl
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by auxym 12y ago
Generally speaking the tradeoff is less steps in energy conversion means better efficiency, and less needed machinery (electric generator, motor, perhaps gearbox of sorts, perhaps battery), meaning less costs, weight and more reliability.
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by auxym 12y ago
A relatively short but complete book I'd recommend would be Ferguson & Kirkpatrick's "Internal Combustion Engine". It was used in an undergrad engines course I did. The classic, big textbook, AFAIK, is John Heywood&#
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by auxym 12y ago
Any thermodynamic machine (gas turbines, ICEs, your fridge) needs a hot end and a cold end/heatsink. It's the second law [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
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by auxym 12y ago
I seem to remember inskcape has a pstricks export. Searching on google also turns up this for svg to tikz conversion: https://github.com/kjellmf/svg2tikz
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by auxym 12y ago
I use Zotero. With Lyx/Lyz the workflow is really pleasant.
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by auxym 13y ago
I'll add a +1 for that. I love the SRH440's sound, plus they are closed-back so I can use them at work. Like you I found them to be so-so comfortable so I got SRH840 replacement pads for them on ebay. Cheap and they are super comf