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by cr0sh 8y ago
Gotta agree with you on this. I jumped on the KS as soon as it was announced. I had followed Luckey for a while on MTSB3D forums as he modded headsets in his garage (so to speak). At the time, there were maybe a handful of people still play
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by cr0sh 8y ago
If you enjoy "unusual" engines from that site - these seem very scary: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/petrol/petrol.htm Imagine a steam engine - in which the working fluid come from boilin
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> 1910 battery tech was pretty primitive. The whole electric powertrain was primitive. The motor speed controller was essentially a giant multi-tap resistor (such a motor controller is still used for most automobile HVAC blower speed con
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Third grade me was told that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (margarine, crisco, etc) was healthier for my heart vs other fats. For 30+ years "they" were basically slowly killing us. Whether they knew it or not. In this case
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> nobody in their right mind ...until you have a world leader who wonders why we can't use them if we have them.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It looks like DTL (diode-transistor logic) is being used; if implemented properly, quite a few parts are needed for just a NAND gate, and a BCD decoder uses a lot of them. That said, counters aren't lightweight in that arena either...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Definitely could be done; you'd also need an electromagnet to "pulse" the pendulum (much like the magnetic "perpetual motion" toys out there). Also - I would suggest using regular bulbs instead of LEDs. If you can d
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I don't think modern life is "complete garbage", but I can see the author's point. I hope he or she can find their way, and be happy, whatever that means for them. For myself, one area which I have often thought about is
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Parents shouldn't be allowed to harm their children. But not getting them vaccinated doesn't harm their children... ...provided that everyone else around their children is vaccinated. But when that population drops low enough
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by cr0sh 8y ago
My biggest complaint with the pattern is that there's no way to easily save the text with the images. If you "download the post", you get the images, but not the text. Even an XML or JSON of the text as a large "blob&quo
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Any ideas how to reach people without gatekeepers? I have just one way: a desktop app or mobile app that is allowed to periodically wake up and poll a server. If you're asking "anybody today" then yes, that's probab
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Most flats include them and states are passing laws that say you can install chargers in your space. That certainly can't be cheap. The cost of the charger aside, you'd still have the costs of: 1. Permits and inspections
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by cr0sh 8y ago
A roof box on an electric vehicle - also known as "how to kill your range"...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I would suggest, if you have an ICE car, trade it in now while you can still get more money for it. Just as soon as I can get a low-cost, 300 mile range 4wd vehicle, that I can put on 30+ inch tires and a 3-6 inch lift. Until the batte
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by cr0sh 8y ago
There's some weird stuff here in the USA though with the CAFE rules, which strangely makes building larger trucks the thing to do if you want to pass. There's a large number of people who want smaller pickups, for instance (I&#x27
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Look at the number of people driving around town in full-size SUVs or 4-door pickup trucks. Unfortunately it is difficult to impossible to get a 2-door standard cab pickup truck any more. And forget a short bed. I wish, wish, wish I co
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Nah, Android phones have done this forever Your only option today is MTP on Android, and it stinks. At one time, Android did support showing up as a mass storage device. I know when I first got a G1, then the phone I had after that - b
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by cr0sh 8y ago
This is the museum mentioned: http://www.ausgolfmuseum.com/media/ You can find more pictures and a writeup on the machine there - it's a very interesting system, certainly!
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by cr0sh 8y ago
For a little bit of completeness sake - it was also possible on the PC CGA card to gain artifact colors in certain modes, using a composite monitor. This led to some interesting possibilities, which were later exploited: https://
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by cr0sh 8y ago
On the CoCo 3 you didn't have to hit reset; there was a way to switch it in software. Also on the CoCo 3, there was the 640 x 192 4-color "hires" mode. Way, way back - I believe published in Hot CoCo - someone figured out tha
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm 45, soon to turn 46. If I could pop back in time, it would be to (somehow, because I didn't back in 1992) recognize that where things were at was the Bay Area, and moved there instead of staying in Phoenix. But here is where I
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by cr0sh 8y ago
From what I understand, the greatest difference between mainframes and minicomputers (and later, microcomputers), is that mainframes were batch-oriented machines, while minicomputers were interactive-oriented. Mainframes (pretty much "
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Highly interesting writing. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing with points - but mostly agreeing. At the same time, some of it "plucked at my liberal nose", which bothered me, but further reading seemed to indicate that
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> only a small percent of those will actually do so. Even then, it won't save them the money. Like anything else, if you want to save the money - you have to move it out of your regularly accessed account, and put it somewhere else,
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by cr0sh 8y ago
But technically this is a "voxel editor" - because originally "back in the day" - voxel engines (those few that existed) rendered everything with pixels. With a bit of googling, you can find some of these engines - here&
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Do payday loan customers typically comparison shop? I'd say that if they were savvy enough to comparison shop, they wouldn't be payday loan customers. Look at the person in the article, Angela. She started out @ $300 for appr
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by cr0sh 8y ago
For me (and for a lot of other people) what I wish they would release as open source is VB6. There are a ton of good reasons why this is unlikely to ever happen, though (third-party licenses mainly). There are a ton of VB6 applications out
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I think if you wanted to get into the self-driving car arena and were a startup on a budget, and you wanted to play with 3D LIDAR - then the place to hit up for one would be Ebay. Lately I've seen used Velodyne 3D LIDAR units being sol
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Your first one could probably be done with photogrammetry (plus software), and the second could be done with a 3D scanner. For the third, the beam spread probably wouldn't pick out a person at that distance away from shore.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> While capitalism as a whole isn't an AI How do you know this isn't true? That is, how are you certain that these various organizations, either alone or together, don't actually exhibit the emergent behavior of intelligen

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