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by camtarn 4y ago
Hey, it's alright - rasz just asked a question, and it was a fair one :)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yep, that's a fair point: both the Raspberry Pis and the smart PLCs were indeed absolutely overkill for the project. However, they're what we know best, and minimising development time for a small prototype multi-site deployment w
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yeah, exactly this: there's no way for the author to tell if the method is actually any better, so this article seems a little premature!
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by camtarn 4y ago
Hah, it's great to hear that the etch-and-polish approach actually works! I've considered doing this to my glasses to remove messed-up antireflective coatings, but always chickened out before actually doing it.
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by camtarn 4y ago
I wish I could do this - I've asked my opticians if I can have lenses without the coating, but they've said that the lenses automatically come coated and there's nothing they can do. Which seems pretty strange given that the
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yep. We use smart PLCs (programmable logic controllers - basically an Intel Atom powered realtime platform with modular high-speed analogue/digital I/O) for a lot of our projects. For one project, we were planning on deploying a c
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by camtarn 4y ago
As if the ulcers gained from Atmel's DMA implementation weren't enough, you just have to delve deeper ;) Excellent work, excellent writeup. Hopefully those lucky should who receive these cards from you understand how much sweat an
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by camtarn 4y ago
Mods might be sandboxed though - for instance by only allowing mods via a built in script interpreter.
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by camtarn 4y ago
"My business card emulates a long-obsolete MIPS-based DEC computer, which then runs Linux" is a more accurate, and certainly significantly more impressive, description :)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Thanks for the full translation. I don't know much Latin but even I could tell that the 'translation' in the article was most likely complete bunk.
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by camtarn 4y ago
Another ex Amazon guy here. I visited the Dunfermline FC, did picker training, and shadowed a picker for an hour. I also followed company email lists and FB groups for years. It became extremely obvious to me that what I saw in my curated e
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by camtarn 4y ago
There are even mail order services which will send you a pretty box with a pre inoculated block in it. Open the packaging, keep it under your table and check it so often, and you get tons of mushrooms. It's really fun. The utility of t
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Argon Flash(en.wikipedia.org)
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Cybersecurity expert reviews TV cybersecurity drama The Undeclared War(theguardian.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Evolution: Climate, a board game about being small furry/scaly creatures at the dawn of time. It uses a fun system of cards with abilities (defenses against carnivores, being able to survive too cold/too hot weather, being able to
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by camtarn 4y ago
The last point is fair though. I love a good night out at a nice pub, but I'd hate trying to design a system in one!
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by camtarn 4y ago
It's an easier UI. I visited a car park recently that had switched to ticketless operation, and now in order to pay, you have to enter your car license number using the on-screen keyboard. It's not exactly hard, but it's an o
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by camtarn 4y ago
It was watching the recently-HN'ed Displaced Gamers video on Super Mario's warp zones that actually got me curious about how the Game Genie codes were encoded :) I'm definitely going to go through his past videos - looks like
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by camtarn 4y ago
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous. I wonder what the motivation was for such over-the-top decoration? Lots of money sloshing around and a desire to make things beautiful for beauty's sake? Individual or governmental prestige?
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by camtarn 4y ago
With the beautiful art deco ceiling and walls, it almost feels more like a palatial monument to the power of electricity, rather than a mere control room. Imagine if we strove to make our industrial spaces as attractive nowadays! Modern con
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NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001)(tuxnes.sourceforge.net)
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Ask a Roboticist: Meet Cassie – Boston Dynamics(youtube.com)
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Spot at GlobalFoundries – Enterprise Asset Management(youtube.com)
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Ask a Roboticist: Meet Josh – Boston Dynamics(youtube.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
TL;DR - modern carburetors are immensely more complex than the simplified explanation of 'a venturi draws in fuel through a jet' often used!
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Holley Carburetor Operating Principles(cartechbooks.com)
5 points by camtarn 4y ago|2 comments
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Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant – Loss of Offsite Power Simulation [video](youtube.com)
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Specialist makers working hard to keep unique skills alive(theguardian.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Reply from my partner, a horticulturist at RBGE who works with the titan arum: "It's green so it's almost certainly is doing some photosynthesis but almost all of the energy is coming from the corm. There's enough energy
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yep, the smell dissipates pretty quickly, likely dispersed by the flower heating itself up about 10°C above ambient. I visited the bloom my partner works with on the day after it opened, and while he attested that it was pretty stinky on op

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