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by eichin 2y ago
One of the things that came up in one of the livestreams was that some of the changes to the starship heat shielding were to test a couple of different spots for those struts - because the booster doesn't do orbital-speed reentry, star
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by eichin 2y ago
I was talking about one of the other "for-life medications" in the previous comment that are more in the "can't get this any more? oops, in 6 months your head explodes" category...
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by eichin 2y ago
"largest area" immediately brought "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" to mind - not for actual impact, just because the physical painting is nearly 10 feet across, which noone seems to expect. Also i
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by eichin 2y ago
"1 year of experience, 15 times"
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by eichin 2y ago
eh, my inner "prepper" is annoyed by the dependency, the rest of me is pleased that I've already lived longer than any of my male ancestors. (Kind of hard to sneer at advanced technology given what I do for a living :-)
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by eichin 2y ago
I went to dig into this a bit (since the obvious way to find out what is trademarked is to read the filing) but the euro trademark viewer fails to load for me in the US; a bit more digging suggests that not only is it not trademarked, but f
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by eichin 2y ago
Ironically, we just hit an entirely different "sand catastrophe" - https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/113232531800424706 > the crucibles used to create ingots of silicon which become microchips are made fro
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by eichin 2y ago
Per https://github.com/Autossh/autossh/issues/7 this is not upstream - that would be https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/
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by eichin 2y ago
Refreshing but rare; usually this kind of eval gets done by someone excited to do it because they've already been "intellectually captured" by the hype.
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by eichin 2y ago
https://formlabs.com/blog/inside-production-robot-hand/ is from almost a decade ago, but yeah - print a mold, stick electronics in slots in the mold, pump silicone around it. Back then it was sort of novel that c
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by eichin 2y ago
Very nice, and much easier to manufacture than the old Takktile sensors https://biorobotics.harvard.edu/takktile.html - it also looks like you could use the skins to destructive levels of force, without damaging the circuit
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by eichin 2y ago
There are lots of laundry-folding "graduate student robotics project" systems. Most of the videos of them are sped up 8x to make them "merely slow", and involve a rough surface to drag the material against - since they
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by eichin 2y ago
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm is a good place to start (and you can just run them in-browser via cloudpilot.)
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by eichin 2y ago
ebay; the hardware has lasted surprisingly well. (That said, chrome on a recent samsung phone runs CloudPilot very responsively, start here https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm and you can just click on
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by eichin 2y ago
Worse than that, the dystopian stories are in the training data...
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by eichin 2y ago
If you look at bin/papersway itself, my $wm_ipc_socket = $have_sway ? $ENV{SWAYSOCK} : $ENV{I3SOCK}; my $wmipc = AnyEvent::I3->new($wm_ipc_socket); $wmipc->connect->recv or die "couldn't connect to WM IPC socket&quot
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by eichin 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifpqSiNSKA is the author showing it off (since the visual aspect is kind of the whole point.) (The little window-layout section of the status bar is neat, but I get the "monocle"
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by eichin 2y ago
That's why "dispatcher" is an actual job.
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by eichin 2y ago
A friend with an unreliable chocolate allergy turned out to have a soy allergy that the soy lecithin triggered (you can find alternatives with sunflower lecithin instead.) Once they figured that out, as far as they were concerned soy was
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by eichin 2y ago
SCCS was released in 1977 and it hasn't even turned up in these comments at all. "Not evenly distributed". (I introduced RCS as a replacement for "just editing files" at a job in 1990; "there's a man pag
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by eichin 2y ago
How much does the paper move when the hammer hits it? even with the padding of the ribbon (and having seen the video clips of it in action - ps. would love to see high-speed closeups if you get a chance) I'm not sure why the paper does
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by eichin 2y ago
compare, perhaps, the adjacent thread that had comments like "I got that complaint about my blog too, and here's how I fixed it" and a bunch of other things that seemed plausible and helpful? (I don't know if 100r will
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by eichin 2y ago
(Even with pandoc, https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extensions lists a bunch of syntax for things like this, brought in from github, php, and other places - for the example above, `implicit_figures` and `link_attributes` are
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by eichin 2y ago
Exactly - does anyone (well, maybe the author does since he did use markdown in previous works) use "basic" markdown anyway? There are always some extensions (either front-text metadata or syntax extensions like this one) in the
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by eichin 2y ago
One where he was trying to raise more money after the early 2000 bubble exits; as a CEO working with a $900million valuation (source: random google hit from the book about loudcloud) he was probably also facing very little sympathy (nor d
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by eichin 2y ago
Heh, the materials science side of particle physics is all sorts of fun: accelerate the particles to 10% of the speed of light - no big deal, but actually vaporizing them in the first place...
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by eichin 2y ago
Key point I missed: Livermorium here is just a benchmark for the new titanium-beam process (having been discovered in 2000.) Actually using it to attempt to produce element 120 is a future step.
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by eichin 2y ago
My rule (and the code review policy I impose) emphasizes complexity instead - a 50 line shell script is great if it doesn't use if or case. (It's not so much of a strict rule as "once you're nesting conditionals, or usi
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by eichin 2y ago
DSLs ("microlanguages", at the time) were a big idea in the late 80s - by being expressive in ways closer to the problem, they could leave out irrelevant things and the bugs they lead to. (Do you really want to have to explicitly
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by eichin 2y ago
When I've done it in the past, it was a vaguely tech-savvy law firm (the hard part isn't really the storage , it's the "evaluate the conditions of the escrow contract release terms".) (IIRC recommended by the cust

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