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by avhon1 4y ago
I keep two (a 5" Knipex and an 8" Irwin) in my ~~tool~~ bags. (The small one in my everyday backpack and the bigger one in my toolbag.) They're much smaller and lighter than a set of wrenches. They're also useful as para
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by avhon1 4y ago
Reddit user u/aleafinwater already started this! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOo1cWHieEPCi0nIpW7KU6xO...
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by avhon1 4y ago
It still seems to require JAX somewhere to work. On my desktop, running the example > python image_from_text.py --text='alien life' --seed=7 results in > RuntimeError: This version of jaxlib was built using AVX instructions,
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by avhon1 4y ago
I saw it unaided this morning. I live at roughly 40°N 85°W, and went out at 5:30AM. With a clear view of the horizon, Mercury was unobstructed but hard to see with the pre-dawn light. I might go out again tomorrow morning at 5:00 or 5:15 to
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by avhon1 4y ago
It's not a perfect vacuum out there, there is an interstellar medium. You could create non-negligible drag with a huge sail or magnetic field, like a Bussard Ramjet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
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by avhon1 4y ago
> Yes, they could steal the front wheel, but it's hardly worth the effort. It's difficult to sell, and you can't get away quickly. That doesn't seem to be the case where I live (South-central Indiana). It's commo
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by avhon1 4y ago
> the established threshold above which safety to humans starts to be a factor Specifically, 50 volts is approximately the threshold above which electricity can pass through the skin and shock you. Lower voltages will only shock humans i
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by avhon1 4y ago
I don't think that's an accurate way of saying it, and that a better way is that "Solvespace doesn't have tools to generate fillets and chamfers. The developers have shown some limited examples, but adding full-featured
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by avhon1 4y ago
I've definitely seen "Have you ever been arrested and held for >24 hours?".
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by avhon1 4y ago
My guess is that the image was intended to be displayed as a full-spread advertisement in a magazine, and the extra space in the middle makes the words appear the correct distance apart when viewed on bound pages.
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by avhon1 5y ago
Be wary of, or careful when using, these dumb adapters. Lithium batteries require protection electronics, in particular ones to shut off the tool when the battery reaches too high a temperature or the cells reach too low a voltage. Most man
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by avhon1 5y ago
The rover is on the move. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-h... This map shows how, after initial testing, the helicopter and Rover travelled roughly together, but are now taking differen
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by avhon1 5y ago
> every AA, AAA, etc. are lithium ion rechargeable Are you actually using Li-ion rechargeable AA and AAA cells? Those exist, but because they put out 3.7 volts, are pretty uncommon. Almost all household rechargeable AA and AAAs are nickl
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by avhon1 5y ago
That is "merely" a matter of record / archiving. I'd be happy to annotate my first-party copies with copies of the license, so there would exist copies of the work with the license / public-domain declaration attach
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by avhon1 5y ago
Relicensing from second parties to third parties is acceptable, because so long as my publication is discoverable (via catalog, search engine, etc...), the third party could obtain the public-domain permission for (the copyrighted parts whi
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by avhon1 5y ago
I've been frustrated that there exists no lawyer-verified, internationally-viable way to permanently waive all claims and rights to things (software or otherwise) I publish, and to assert that those rights will not be later reclaimed
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by avhon1 5y ago
> the affected devices are at latest from 2013 The BlackBerry Passport is one of the affected models, and was released in October 2014. I bought mine new around 2017.
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by avhon1 5y ago
234 knots is also equal to 269 miles per hour.
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by avhon1 5y ago
What makes you think annoyingnoob didn't read the article? The MP in the article, Mark Strahl, is quoted referring to this as "a glaring example of censorship", and annoyingnoob appears to be saying that "censorship&quot
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by avhon1 5y ago
Which one focuses which way? When I think "workstation", I picture people doing CAD, video editing, and GPU-accelerated simulations and number crunching, in addition to people compiling code. Games aren't just GPU-bound, eith
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by avhon1 5y ago
Apart from styling, what is the difference between a portable workstation and a gaming laptop?
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by avhon1 5y ago
The movie was sorely disappointing, which was itself disappointing because Ender's Game isn't at all unfilmable (except that the main characters are all children in a really messed-up environment). It really is similar to Neon Gen
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by avhon1 5y ago
For sure, nobody needs to worry about reading any of the books other than the original. The story begins, happens, and ends, all in one not-very-long novel. After that novel is a whole series of novels that follow Ender into distant futures
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by avhon1 5y ago
Ender's Game, too. [spoilers follow] To ensure that the young boy entrusted with the saving of humanity succeeds before he goes insane, the adults spend years (at least a decade), and incredible amounts of money and political power, to
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by avhon1 5y ago
...which, for those not familiar, is available as a browser extension. It crowdsources timestamps for non-necessary parts of youtube videos, and can automatically fetch those timestamps and skip over them in videos you're watching.
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by avhon1 5y ago
Fortunately, using Linux doesn't necessarily entail installing or using either.
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I wouldn't lay the blame on NASA. Congress ultimately decides what NASA does and does not do. Constellation was the system that was supposed to succeed the Shuttle. It had one successful first-stage launch in October 2009. In 2010, Con
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by avhon1 5y ago
A large amount of the testing is performed by their proprietary test harness. > TH3 consists of about 71.5 MB or 978.3 KSLOC of C code implementing 46622 distinct test cases. TH3 tests are heavily parameterized, though, so a full-coverag
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by avhon1 5y ago
They do sell licenses to their proprietary test harness. https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html
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by avhon1 5y ago
USB-C cables are not all capable of carrying 60 Watts. They're supposed to, but there's no way to know that the cable you are holding, or looking at buying, is actually capable of that. Back in 2016, Benson Leung tested many USB

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