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by cr0sh 7y ago
I was just at my local library over the weekend, not having stepped inside one for a very long time. I was actually there to get my library card renewed, as I hadn't used it for so long it became out of date. So, I'm browsing the
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Only for manufacturers and resellers, from what I read. If it's for domestic use and not resale, then you shouldn't have to pay the tariff to import the item. Problem is - once the tariffs on the electronic components and other si
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Let's say that $1.00 item now costs $5.00 with shipping after the change. How much would that item cost to purchase and ship here in the USA? I always use the example of Ametek vs TSiny - they are both DC electric gearmotor manufacture
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by cr0sh 7y ago
While not really what you're asking about - how about fractals using video feedback (essentially analog fractal computation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9pbs-jjis
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This is somewhat easy to do if you have a roof-rack or somewhere similar on your vehicle to mount a small-ish panel, and you are handy and understand your vehicle's electrical system (though this may be tough with newer models since ev
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> BTW, if you take the ferry to Alcatraz, they will try to impress with you solar panels and a helical wind turbine on the ferry itself. I missed that the time I went to Alcatraz - but it was probably because it was a night tour...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I personally don't know if it did - I've never seen any information on operator safety of this machine, though I have read a lot about it and Ralph Mosher over the years. He's also the guy behind the GE Hardiman exoskeleton:
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I could also see Brook's Genghis platform being extended to "centipede" multiples of legs and probably working well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Robot EDIT: fixed mistake - put "Dante&quot
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by cr0sh 7y ago
To me, I envisioned them as being a wheel made with a bunch of shock-absorber leg-like "spokes" with feet. They seemed similar to old-tech Pedrail wheels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrail_wheel I think s
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The was also the OSU Adaptive Suspension Vehicle: http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1984-osu-asv-adapt... https://library.osu.edu/documents/university-archives/subjec...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-propelled_vehicle
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There are still a couple of companies that sell 6WD (and 8WD) vehicles like these - Argo is one of them (and that machine up-thread looks like they just strapped some stuff to one of those): https://argoxtv.com/ The other k
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by cr0sh 7y ago
And that's where you have this divide of people who have an EE degree but can't assemble their own designs to save their lives, and those with just a technical background who may struggle to design and understand their own circuit
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One of the other nice things about welding - while it may not make you rich - is that you can do it to some degree almost your entire life. It's the same with a lot of trade skills. I'm a software engineer - that is what I know, a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
What should really be the shocking thing is that somehow, 10 billion is considered "low". I don't live in SV, and I'm just a software engineer making under 6 figures, but living comfortably all the same. I am ignorant ab
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Do you know about OpenSCAD and OpenJSCAD? https://www.openscad.org/ https://openjscad.org/ They are both basically "CAD/CAM for programmers" - and allow for parametric models to be designed.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm not saying it was - but what if Oumuamua was some kind of "derelict" - an intergalactic equivalent of the "Mary Celeste" - a ghost ship from deep space? Imagine a civilization that is maybe 500 years more advanc
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It's hearing things like this that make me regret having supported Luckey on his Kickstarter. I had followed him for a few years on the MTBS3D forum when he was experimenting with various HMD prototypes (usually modding the heck out of
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'll second it - LaserDisc was an analog medium - not digital. CED was analog also, but used a "stylus" to pick up capacitance changes from the "groove" depth. There's plenty of information out there on both pr
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm not sure when I learned recursion, so I don't know if I can say whether or not I had any trouble with understanding it. I do know that once you understand recursion, knowing how to properly change a routine to a stack or other
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Found a C "goto" in that code, too - eek. Maybe there was a good reason...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> This pretty clearly carries the implication that being "well-regulated" is more than just well-equipped. In that context, it seems that to the writer, "well-regulated" meant trained, likely continuous training kept
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by cr0sh 7y ago
We are having mass shootings at a minimum of one a month. Ordinary person-on-person gun violence happens daily. Ideally, neither of these would be regular occurrences, but they are. Are we to just throw our hands up in the air and say &quot
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I did not know that MB was not considered "mainstream" or scientific, nor did I know that likely no such test is (one I have reference before is the MMPI). I have recently in other venues advocated for the idea of such testing as
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by cr0sh 7y ago
As noted in the talk, Hillis is fascinated by how simpler units form more complex and dynamic systems from which ultimately emerge greater levels of intelligence. He also wonders how we can understand such an emergent intelligence (EI), and
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One individual that has always interested me - and for some reason, has seemed to be "black-holed" by those in computer science (but maybe that is my own perception of things) is Hugo de Garis: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The Tinkertoy "computer" was a tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses) playing machine: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Longer flight times are possible, if an engine is used instead (plus servos to change prop pitch). I'm just not sure why it hasn't been pursued much (can't be the noise - electrics aren't exactly silent)...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> What‽ Well that's going to make my once-in-a-while cable terminating experience better. Believe me - you'll love it. I bought my house in 2002 and ran Cat5e to a few places in the home (not everywhere), running 100 Mbit. Last
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I suspect, though, that you're not trying to grow your own food. If you were, you might find the desert to be less suitable to human occupation than Minnesota. Ahem - Yuma. Where your salad probably came from (maybe with some food

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