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by avhon1 2y ago
Just wondering, what does this have to do with the article, which is about code that positions desktop icons on the screen (in KDE)?
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by avhon1 2y ago
So that there can be more welders?
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by avhon1 2y ago
Parachutes give little or no control over where and how the rocket lands, are unreliable (unfurling fabric behaves chaotically; modern spacecraft still don't have 100% reliability on their parachutes), and are surprisingly heavy. Wings
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by avhon1 2y ago
Lua is another language that lets you do this!
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by avhon1 2y ago
With pictures "made up of only 30 to 60 lines", they were transmitting much less data!
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by avhon1 2y ago
Siemens Solid Edge is also available in a free community edition. https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/download-solid-edge-c...
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by avhon1 2y ago
Zotero with the browser plugin
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by avhon1 2y ago
If you think that a 3-letter agency is making a concerted effort to tamper with your personal computers, then you basically can't trust anything about your computers at all, forever. What makes you think that your SSD actually got over
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by avhon1 2y ago
These make tools run, but they're dangerous because they break the safety battery safety features which are built into the tool. With the exceptions of Ryobi and Makita, most power tool battery safety features are built in to the tools
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by avhon1 2y ago
Diamond turning is used to produce optical surfaces with lathes. Here's a recent example on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTFFPLOzCw
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by avhon1 2y ago
Other mass-market uses for small rubies are for bearings in precision gear trains, and wear-resistant tips for precision measuring devices.
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by avhon1 2y ago
Sets like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092D4CV56 are also sold in U.S. hardware stores https://www.harborfreight.com/needle-file-set-10-piece-69876... https://www.menards.com/mai
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by avhon1 2y ago
It's legislated by individual states. A well-known example is Mats Järlström in Oregon, USA. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
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by avhon1 2y ago
Just to add, FreeCAD still doesn't ship with a way to do constrained assemblies of parts. You can arrange multiple parts together without any constraints on them, but if you want them constrained together then you have to pick an ext
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by avhon1 2y ago
Commonwealth robotics studio doesn't seem to be suitable for designing typical FRC robots. It looks like it's meant to design and simulate robots that mostly consist of servo-driven legs around a central body. The only open-source
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by avhon1 2y ago
It doesn't render anything for me in Firefox, just a blank white page. After a moment, a message shows up: "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page."
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by avhon1 2y ago
The known brands aren't much better. The Lenovo and Sony rootkits come to mind.
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by avhon1 2y ago
Your definition slightly off. Here it is from the guy who coined the term: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys > Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; th
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by avhon1 2y ago
Every other year, (solar-)electric cars scratch-built by high school students drive on public roads from Texas to (usually) California. This is considered a reasonable level of challenge, and something which insurers will cover (entrants ar
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by avhon1 2y ago
PowerWalls use NMC cells. And the majority of "diy powerwall" builds are reclaimed 18650 cells.
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by avhon1 2y ago
Here's what SpaceX put on their website before their most recent (fourth) flight test of Starship. http://web.archive.org/web/20240601140837/https://www.spacex... and here's what they posted be
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by avhon1 2y ago
The "strain" would depend on how many milliamps your 5V device draws. I don't know the current consumption of these logitech dongles, but it seems to be adequately low for this hack to work.
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by avhon1 2y ago
Isn't performing paid work activities with a keyboard application profiting from using the keyboard?
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by avhon1 2y ago
At least as often as old Android API versions being dropped. More realistically, as often as bugs are identified and patched.
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by avhon1 2y ago
The display is a (reflective) LCD, so the display latency should be low.
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by avhon1 2y ago
Just to be clear, the daylight computer does not use e-ink. They call it an e- paper display, and it's basically a reflective LCD.
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by avhon1 2y ago
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious > Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
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by avhon1 2y ago
Exactly! Re-entry is the transition from orbital dynamics to aerodynamics. If you want the transition from orbit to flight to occur at a lower speed, then you need to be able to produce lift equal to your weight at that speed, at the altitu
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by avhon1 2y ago
Lots of 2-key keyboards exist, and are even for sale inexpensively. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2+button+keyboard&t=ftsa&iar=image... Not very convenient for having both buttons near your thumbs, though. I've bee
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by avhon1 2y ago
That's not enough. Just uBlock Origin's default list "uBlock filters – Ads" already accounts for over 38,000 rules. EasyList is over 87,000!

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