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by femto 5y ago
A nice result, but I was getting the heebie geebies watching him push a round piece of metal though the band-saw with his knuckle across the line of the blade. One slip... Why didn't he rough it out in the mill?
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by femto 5y ago
The great hope of Australia's vaccine strategy was the University of Queensland's "Molecular Clamp". Unfortunately the clamp molecule, derived from part of the AIDS virus, triggered false positives in AIDS tests. They
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by femto 5y ago
Another part of the story is to compare the public mindedness of Farouk Al-Kasim with Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer.
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by femto 5y ago
If anything the respective COVID responses show that Australia and the US are quite different, despite the frequent parallels drawn.
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1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision(en.wikipedia.org)
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by femto 5y ago
Despite the last entry on the linked page being in 2018, the source repository shows that it is an active project. https://github.com/YosysHQ/icestorm From memory (simple?) VHDL is supported by using gHDL as a synthesi
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by femto 5y ago
Don't forget that adding an ISSN comes with legal deposit obligations. https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-deposit-your-digital-publicati...
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by femto 5y ago
If there are no people on board, couldn't the air pressure be boosted to match the external water pressure? If the pressure is balanced, removing the need for a pressure hull, the sub could have a more rectangular cross section, allowi
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by femto 5y ago
Powerful lasers, as used by laser depth sounders, will penetrate water to an 80m depth [1]. Might be possible to do a laser link directly to an overhead UAV or satellite? If they are following regular shipping lanes, it might be possible
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by femto 5y ago
Given the lack of weather and other disturbances, I wonder if it would work to spray a conductive layer directly onto the crater's interior surface, maybe using a hovering rocket with the conductive material injected into its exhaust?
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by femto 5y ago
Maybe the convention should be that all permanent settlements go on the side of the Moon closest to Earth? That way Moon bases get 24/7 communications with Earth and are sited on the side of the Moon that gets all the electromagnetic
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by femto 5y ago
Solar would also do, as long as it has about 14 days of battery backup. Lunar weather is pretty consistent! :)
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by femto 5y ago
The perception partly comes about because putting the boot into the government is Australia's national sport. When Australians repeatedly rip into their government the Internet eventually starts to believe what they say. Ironically t
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by femto 5y ago
Your comment conflates two meanings of the word "minority". The first meaning relates to a group with a shared inherent property, such as race, and is irrelevant here. The second meaning, which I used, simply means a small numbe
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by femto 5y ago
When it all started in February 2020 that's exactly what Australia was doing, but a minority could not be trusted and broke quarantine and consequently COVID started spreading. At that point the model changed to mandatory quarantine i
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Developmental genetics of color pattern establishment in cats(nature.com)
1 points by femto 5y ago|0 comments
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by femto 5y ago
One could argue that Australia has always been this way. The full quote is: "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck." written by Donald Horne in 1964. These words were true prior to 1964
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by femto 5y ago
Satire would be to graciously close the account and immediately delete all data.
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by femto 5y ago
In that case Israeli/Palestinian would be an input to the function?
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by femto 5y ago
Australia has already shown what the end-game is, with its "The Assistance and Access Act 2018" [1]. It's not illegal to have end-to-end encryption, but it's illegal to deny access to the ends of the encrypted pipe. As
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Green roofs make solar panels 3.6% more efficient(abc.net.au)
23 points by femto 5y ago|4 comments
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by femto 5y ago
I just extracted the audio from the sample mp4. Each data record seems to be a lead-in tone with a frequency of 3.6kHz, followed by something (data?) followed by a lead-out tone with a frequency of 3.6kHz. The spectrum of the "somethin
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by femto 5y ago
You should be aiming to play the tapes once only. If you have something that can physically play the tapes without damaging them, make the highest fidelity PCM (digital) recording possible of the analogue signal, without any regard to furt
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by femto 5y ago
It could work to have two towers. The first carries the cutting tool. The second carries a measurement device and is subject to negligible forces. Alternatively some form of photogrammetry, possibly with a structured light field.
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by femto 5y ago
Recognise the fact that he was in the right place at the right time. If a few things outside his control were slightly different, he would have come away with little to show for his effort. He is the outlier, not you. Hard work leads to a
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by femto 5y ago
Here's a case study. The solution was: cover it up. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-bushfire-investigati...
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by femto 5y ago
A lot of work has been done on this in Australia, though the mostly eucalypt Australian situation might not apply to the US. It seems that at best logging has little effect on bushfires, and at worst logging makes them worse. https:/
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by femto 5y ago
> All the ambiguity had to be hammered out. Which meant there was no place for a deeper level of meaning to hide, making a censor's job easier?
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by femto 5y ago
Is this the foundation for the "holographic" description of the universe? Photons, traveling at the speed of light, effectively don't see one of the dimensions, so can be described using "N-1" dimensions. (Edit: Or
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by femto 5y ago
The best tools are typically at the bleeding edge of technology, as the tool generally has to be of better quality than the thing being made/measured with it, so if you are going to make the best you need a tool that is better then the

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