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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'd also argue SMT technology; while things were moving in that direction before then, it seems like the Apollo program really kicked it in high gear with the need for the compact AGC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by cr0sh 7y ago
On a side note, not related to the article... ...but during the same period Radio Shack attempted to compete with the C64 and Atari 8-bit machines with their TRS-80 Color Computer line; specifically the Color Computer 2 (the Color Computer
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by cr0sh 7y ago
You'd probably want fine sand - not coarse. But I think even the finest sand you could buy at a big-box home improvement store might be too coarse, and/or have impurities in it. So you'd be left with getting certain purified
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci have been a programmer and digital artist instead of a mechanist/inventor if born today? Possibly. He was a "robotics engineer" of sorts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by cr0sh 7y ago
On a historical note (and most of it has come to pass, though maybe not in the way they wanted it, and certainly not as "unified" as they conceptualized it), check out the Xerox PARC project that was termed "tabs, pads, and b
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Is there a college lab or a research department or some other place where people are trying really different things? From a UI perspective, I've found this to be very innovative and interesting - but I'm not sure how practica
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I noticed the form designer and properties in the screenshot posted in the repo. Does that system only design forms, and you have to manually "glue" them to code - or is there a visual programming system behind it? I guess what I&
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If I left a laptop in my vehicle it'd turn into a taco in the Phoenix summertime...lol! Where do you live that you're able to do this?
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'd be curious to see the dual-slit experiment done using this camera as the "observer". I'm not sure it'd yield anything we don't already "know" - but it might be worth trying just because.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One click pull/update for forked repos? Not holding my breath on it... This is something that more than a few people want, and at one time, it did exist; a simple button you'd click on your fork of a repo, that would go and pull d
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There are actually a great many of these "mechanical movement" books from that time period, circa 19th to early 20th century. They are contemporary with similar books on "electrical machinery" (generators and motors, mai
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The author is the same guy behind the animated engines site: http://www.animatedengines.com/ He explains how he did those animations: http://www.animatedengines.com/howto.html Which was rather laborious; pe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Some of them would be virtually impossible to build with Lego, as they rely upon machining just not really available in the Lego space (unless there's a wizard of Lego out there that could fashion such parts using certain strange Lego
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I kinda hope this branches out into complex automata; I tend to wonder, though, if such mechanisms from the 17th thru 19th century could ever be improved upon in purely mechanical terms, but to me it's a fascinating thought.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Already sort of happened in the mechanical watch space. So-called "Tourbillon" escapements, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourbillon Fantastic (and expensive) works of mechanical movement a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I wish like knots these mechanical movements had names instead of just the index number. Some do have "names" (most don't), but you have to go to the movement itself to see it: http://507movements.com/mm_
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've never used it, but based on what I have read about it, this language seems fairly radical (well, not completely - LISP could be considered a prototypical form?): https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ It is open-sour
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I would theoretically be possible to write some software/reporting solution for every use of Excel but it wouldn't be an efficient use of resources. One company I know which did this was called "Actuate"; that was y
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I switched to a Dell Precision 5530 running Ubuntu 18.04 If you want a desktop experience that comes close to MacOS on Ubuntu, give Budgie Desktop a try; it's developed for Solus: https://github.com/solus-project&#
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Nobody is forcing you with a gun to your head. Don't want to be "forced" - don't go do business in China. What if the gun is economic? Ok - I'm gonna say this is not my element or knowledge - so I'm pullin
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've only purchased and read the W3D book. To answer your question would depend on what you want to gain from the book(s). Are you looking to solely learn how the games were made and work to learn their techniques to apply to your own
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I bought the first W3D edition via Amazon and loved it! It had it's quirks and such (addressed in the errata) but it was enjoyable and educational nonetheless. This update comes at a great time; I hadn't known he'd released a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Our political system rewards lies and disinformation, and when a significant portion of the population believes these lies without any skepticism, then we're no longer debting rationally. I know it's the topic under discussio
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> one's capacity for either self delusion or idiocy knows no bounds. The fact that it's the 21st Century, and despite all the progress of science that religion still exists, should give you pause.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Government can with the stroke of a pen decide to fully fund any program. This is largely true. Notice how easily our government, "with the stroke of a pen", can fully fund state-sanctioned violence and institutions of violen
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Does anyone, of any political leaning, really think that politicians or insurance companies -- really anyone other than the individual and their doctor -- making medical decisions is what we should strive for? That depends on if the pa
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Here's my own anecdotal story; note that it's third hand, I wasn't directly involved, so people should take it as such. Around the corner from my house one early morning (around 3am?) erupted a 4-alarm fire at a neighbor&#x27
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Of course it is! Finding joy in the learning and application of knowledge - for it's own sake, and for applying it to other areas of study, learning, or practical use - that was a key part of being a "Renaissance Man" (as we
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Something else that is sometimes forgotten - LDV's notebooks were for his personal use; none (that I recall) were ever published during his lifetime, and then they were "lost" (squirreled away by others would be a better term
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I have also heard that the FBI is notified if you buy more than a certain quantity of fertilizer. I'm not even sure it matters any longer; have you ever tried to find ammonium nitrate based fertilizer at your typical big-box store

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