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by edrxty 4y ago
Precisely You can make literally anything work with enough arduinos and duct tape, but should you?
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by edrxty 4y ago
"engineering"
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by edrxty 4y ago
Strong disagree on "technical debt" Rather, the entire world is built on it and there's some level of acceptance required, but we definitely need a shorthand phrase for "we're doing something stupid that will save u
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by edrxty 4y ago
And in non closed systems the set of problems that prevent fully autonomous cars is the same set of problems that prevens fully autonomous trains, ie, recognizing shit getting into the lane of travel but not panic braking for random trash.
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by edrxty 4y ago
Tangential but hits on google isn't really a metric for...anything at all. For instance, "potatoes cause cancer" give us 14,900,000 results. Potatoes do not cause cancer.
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by edrxty 4y ago
I work with similar systems a lot, given the modulation and power output, 1-10km would be a reasonable range band, 10km being line of sight under real world conditions, 1km being light urban propagation. It could theoretically be much worse
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by edrxty 4y ago
M17 is possibly what you're looking for? Not specifically mesh but could be used similarly or extended. It's a a protocol that provides data and digital voice transmissions and works (with some modification) on a few existing co
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by edrxty 4y ago
I feel like we're reliving the golden age of flight sims again. There are a lot of good options available now including X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator, DCS World, VTOL-VR, Tiny Combat Arena, etc.
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by edrxty 4y ago
Well, I've seen someone build a web scripting engine that parsed C because they really just liked C for whatever reason. I guess a better way of putting this is, with this at the top of HN, what are people excited about building in thi
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by edrxty 4y ago
So what's the real use case here? Microcontrollers are generally pretty single purpose, you aren't exactly swapping apps in and out of them like you are with phones. Anything that needs that functionality is using an embedded CP
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by edrxty 4y ago
Can confirm, I went through several and they were all massively formative experiences. I wouldn't trade them for anything. If anything, children should be offered more opportunities to seek this kind of free form enrichment.
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by edrxty 4y ago
It wasn't really the FAA, the FCC just blindly started auctioning off spectrum before thinking to test anything. If they'd left a larger buffer between the bands this wouldn't be an issue but $$$.
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by edrxty 4y ago
The implication is that leaded gas will eventually be outlawed. It's also significantly more expensive and as such is putting pressure on an already expensive market.
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by edrxty 4y ago
I got the feeling they recut a lot of the first act in post. A lot of effort was put into the darkstar both in production and in marketing and it was turned into a throwaway
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by edrxty 4y ago
Recreational paddlers generally aren't going to notice a difference at all. The issue is balancing losses from force vectors, the blades pushing and pulling towards/away from each other at the extremes of the stroke, and fluid dy
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by edrxty 4y ago
Funny enough, rowing, in all it's Olympic glory still isn't sure what the optimal oar size or length is. There's some contention over what the right surface area and geometry is with many higher performance groups using olde
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by edrxty 4y ago
Holy shit, fuck all of that. I don't want that info being sent to my bank or collected at all.
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by edrxty 4y ago
And objects can't commit crimes
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by edrxty 4y ago
"this isn't enough fuel to get more than 80% of the way there!" "you don't need fuel for the descent though"
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by edrxty 4y ago
Keep in mind, if you compromise maintenance for costs, you'll make up the costs in crew wages as they obviously have 1-2 orders of magnitude more risk exposure than the average passenger and won't be willing to fly for anything le
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by edrxty 4y ago
It's not hard, if they had spent time around aircraft they provably had a rudimentary understanding of the controls. The dicey part is staying calm during the final stage of landing. You need to stay slow but not too slow and not pan
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by edrxty 4y ago
Google is "propped up" by index funds*. Everyone who isn't an edgy reddit wsb/crypto meme lord has been told over and over to buy SPY et al with religious devotion and take the "guaranteed 6/7/8/9&#x
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by edrxty 4y ago
Best I can tell the average HN reader is in the low 80s but believes themselves to be high 150s. Could probably get a few papers out of this crowd :)
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by edrxty 4y ago
ifixit is a somewhat political organization, they're pushing right to repair and grade products on repairability. I'd rather they stay independent from Apple.
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's not the electrical cost so much as system complexity. They could use less heat shield, more payload, spin the payload less hard, etc.
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by edrxty 5y ago
This is a slightly unique situation as prevailing winds are from the west so fallout would just end up in Russia most of the time.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Interesting points but I'm struggling to find the thesis here, at least with respect to military intervention. Russia and China have a weird relationship. They were, in a way, born together into their current statuses, but Russia isn&
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by edrxty 5y ago
>only...nuclear war Uhhhh 0_o That seems like a good reason in its own right... Right? That said, they're suffering a lot of consequence at the moment so it's worth letting that pan out. The west drastically overestimated the
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by edrxty 5y ago
Doesn't take too much space, people have done them in apartments, otoh the machine shop (unrelated to the rv build) definitely does :) Go find a builder class, you'll learn a lot and have a good time, even if you decide not to go
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by edrxty 5y ago
That's why I left the "at this time" caveat in there. Yeah, if the Russian military actually gets its shit together and manages an offensive that achieves that we need to reevaluate but...I don't think they have any cha

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