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by avhon1 2y ago
SolveSpace is how I teach people CAD at my local makerspace. It's the only program I know of that can be properly onboarded in an hour or so, figured out from there, is useful on its own, and that makes for a good stepping stone to Inv
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by avhon1 2y ago
QCAD is not a parametric 3D CAD program. You have to know what your part will look like before you draw it, because all it really does is neatly draw lines and curves. Contrast with Solvespace (or FreeCAD, or any of the popular commercial p
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by avhon1 2y ago
Java was introduced slightly before the cutoff -- 23 May 1995, so almost exactly 29 years ago. The earliest ancestor of its Swing desktop GUI library, called Internet Foundation Classes, was released 16 December 1996.
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by avhon1 2y ago
I stumbled across this recently: https://github.com/sz3/libcimbar
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by avhon1 2y ago
This site has most of the images, although not explicit backlinks. https://patterns-dev.github.io/patterns/clean2/patterns.htm
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by avhon1 2y ago
These lathes? https://www.crozierspeedlathes.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaOsPcaoi4 It looks to me like they're for hand-finishing (deburring or polishing?) parts. I wonder in what kinds of w
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by avhon1 2y ago
Indeed, someone does! TFA is a scan of a reprint of the original article. The reprint is "The Machinist's Bedside Reader" by Guy Lautard. The missing page is pg. 159. The Internet Archive has a copy which can be checked out a
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by avhon1 3y ago
The "System Losses" breakdown shows the various additional factors they are derating the system by. The figures seem reasonable enough, and give an additional loss of 14%. I put in my own address, which is in the 4.0-4.5 kWh/
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by avhon1 3y ago
If it ran at full speed, you could run tons of original 6502 software, which almost universally rely on cycle-accurate timing to generate video output.
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by avhon1 3y ago
That's about there not being a charger in the lot that the rental company uses as a matter of course when rentals are returned to them.
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by avhon1 3y ago
Like a taxi or bus?
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by avhon1 3y ago
Copy the link and open it in a new tab. Works fine.
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by avhon1 3y ago
Is that an accurate way of characterizing it? I've understood The Apple Vision to be augmented reality headset, not a virtual reality headset -- that Apple intends it to be used for applications more like HoloLens was envisioned for, r
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by avhon1 3y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to offer RSS feeds. Still, it looks like it really does let you view tweets and profiles without being logged in, so I may well use this.
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by avhon1 3y ago
Starship must utilize refueling. It can't get to, land on, and return from the moon without it.
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by avhon1 3y ago
It turns out that it takes thought effort to semantically tag/classify everything consistently and completely, so rather than make the decisions, it's easier to just not do it.
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by avhon1 3y ago
It absolutely is DRM, just a different form than media encryption. It's a purely-digital mechanism of enforcing rights.
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by avhon1 3y ago
I'm surprised that so many posts are people saying they want this. I've never felt a strong preference for shady seats while traveling. Why do (many) people prefer them?
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by avhon1 3y ago
Spirit literally calls them "big front seats". https://customersupport.spirit.com/en-us/category/article/KA...
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by avhon1 3y ago
Freescale owned the IP after Motorola, and they've since been acquired by NXP. For now, they are still available in the form of the derivative (simplified) ColdFire processors. Available ColdFire ICs: https://www.nxp.com&#x2
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by avhon1 3y ago
> SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc would really like to see rockets be an alternative to airplanes Why? Rockets are intrinsically less efficient and less safe than airplanes. Why would they try to compete for use cases where they are at such a d
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by avhon1 3y ago
Starship, Blue Origin's upcoming heavy-lift rocket New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance's upcoming heavy-lift rocket Vulcan, are all powered by methane and oxygen.
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by avhon1 3y ago
> Are there no 32-bit CPUs with a simple architecture and easy programming model? There really aren't. You could consider Arm (maybe with the simplified but 16-bit "thumb" instruction set), or MIPS, or RISC-V. Between all
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by avhon1 3y ago
I don't think a 10 MHz Z80 and 512 KB of RAM is enough for DOOM as we know it. There are some games called "doom" for the similar Ti 83/84 calculators, but they're more similar to Wolfenstein 3D: very cut-down from
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by avhon1 3y ago
Not the OP you're replying to, but yes, if I choose to open-source my intellectual property, then I definitely expect FAANGs to be able to use it for free. That's what I want when I license my code open-source or public-domain. I&
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by avhon1 3y ago
The Confederacy was never going to win outright, and they knew it. Their goal was to force a stalemate, allowing them to continue to exist as a separate country from the United States. edit: and for the first few years, it looked like they
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by avhon1 3y ago
Red is the spiritual successor to Rebol, from which its syntax comes. http://www.rebol.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBOL
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by avhon1 3y ago
I did not forget Artemis. Artemis 2 will not require Starship; it's just the Orion capsule going around the moon and back. Starship Human Landing System won't be needed until Artemis 3, which is currently scheduled for December 20
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by avhon1 3y ago
Most of the content of that report is about the deluge system for the launch pad. Since it tentatively appears that this worked, I have high hopes for much more expedient environmental reviews of future test flights.
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by avhon1 3y ago
Why don't you think they're trying to succeed? They got very close to orbit today, much closer than many prototype rockets do. Just earlier this year, Japan's new rocket also failed to achieve orbit. Its second stage just did

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