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Indigenous song Twinkling Stars tells science of the seasons(abc.net.au)
1 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
What happens to all the pumps that break? Chances are that the mechanics break before the electrics, so there will be a bunch of broken pumps with intact electronics somewhere in the wild. Can they be had as freebies for reverse engineeri
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by femto 8y ago
From the docs: "One of the most frequently asked questions is “I have a 723 pump but it has version 2.5B software version. Has anyone figured out a way to make newer model Medronic pumps compatible? Like flash older version of software
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by femto 8y ago
Reading around, it's the controller software that is DIY, and it's grown to the point where a DIY device has been built to run the controller software. The sensor and pump/actuator are proprietary Medtronic devices, connecte
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by femto 8y ago
It would make sense if you could get electronic textbooks which are already in the question/answer form required by spaced repetition software, ready to "load and learn". Rather than reading a traditional textbook, you would
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by femto 8y ago
Why not integrate a "bubble car" into building lift/elevator systems? The capsule brings you 20 km from home, switches to the rails within the lift well and zips up, depositing you directly on your floor. Thirty years ago lo
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by femto 8y ago
If interested in this, you might also be interested in the lead author's other research papers http://abedavis.com/research.html and his 2016 PhD thesis, which includes the "chip bag" research. http:/&#
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MyHealth adds reputation cancellation options to contracts (in lieu of security)(abc.net.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
Carry something metallic, so the neural network no longer classifies your reflection as human?
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by femto 8y ago
Potentially not that simple, as there are fundamental limits on the information capacity of a MIMO system, based on the surface area of the volume occupied by the antenna array (in wavelengths squared). The capacity limits apply whether yo
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Foodora faces allegations of sham contracts and underpaying workers(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
That's why we have judges (and why we should preserve the judiciary rather than undermining it with mandatory sentencing laws): to deal with the corner cases. The law could be kept simple and judges be trusted to deal with the complex
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Tech giants to be targeted by laws to help police access encrypted data(abc.net.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|2 comments
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by femto 8y ago
Apparently those words mean NZ is "pre-approved" to join the Commonwealth of Australia and she can unilaterally join at a time of her choosing [1]. If true, it would make for an interesting scenario if acted upon. [1] http:&#x2
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by femto 8y ago
On the flip-side, Australia ran invade NZ commercials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUYbI64QHI albeit tongue in cheek! (Potentially where the no army/navy/air force myth came from?)
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by femto 8y ago
The Catalan independence movement would be serving to overcome the apathy which would otherwise be present. A significant number of Barcelonans would be keen to limit the ability of Madrid to use information from the phone network to squas
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Data mining and poker machines: you don't even have to play them(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Joker: the Australian who is the biggest gambler in the world(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
Funnily enough, all diodes actually are light emitting, and light receiving, to some extent. It's why diodes are generally in opaque encapsulation. Whether a PN junction is an LED, PV cell or rectifier/switch is a matter of what
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by femto 8y ago
What's your policy on database updates? I ask, as the map on your home page is missing some updates that I made to my local area about 6 months ago. As an aside, are you are of any method for distributing changes to the OSM database a
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by femto 8y ago
A classic book is "Cross Country Navigation" by Neil Phillips and Rod Phillips (1989), aimed at the sport of Rogaining. It emphasises navigation by using the surrounding landscape and its features, rather than trying to impose a
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by femto 9y ago
One of the rice paddy pictures has a sister image on WikiCommons. It's by the same photographer and potentially shot in the same session, as the region in the getty image is evident in the lower middle section of the wikicommons image
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Breast screening error 'shortened up to 270 lives'(bbc.com)
2 points by femto 9y ago|0 comments
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by femto 9y ago
IEEE has a background piece for those (like me) wondering "who is this guy?" https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-high-sc... Impressive.
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by femto 9y ago
Australians may wish to refer it to the ACCC if Facebook offers them a "take it or leave" choice. Even if the laws regarding unfair consumer contracts turn out not to apply, it would be interesting to get the ACCC's formal r
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by femto 9y ago
Mark Zuckerberg said yes, but he doesn't call the data a shadow profile [1]. With apologies to Shakespear: "What's in a name? That which we call a shadow profile By any other word would smell as repugnant;" [1] https:&#
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by femto 9y ago
As a Sydneysider, I see it as the state government giving up, and trying to sell their ineptitude as a good thing. Successive governments have botched transport to the point where it is no longer possible to commute between large sections
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by femto 9y ago
That was my reading too. It's still a machine, so treat it like any other machine and hold the designers liable. The cynic in me says that this is what happens when the principles used in idealised software environments, where failure
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by femto 9y ago
> The pedanty here is insane. One person's pedant is another person's clear conscience. There's massive disagreement in the self-driving debate as to the extent to which we are dealing with safety critical systems. As yo
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by femto 9y ago
Self-driving car companies are "newbies" who could learn from railway companies, which have decades of experience with keeping drivers alert in vehicles that keep moving without driver action. For example, locomotives have "

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