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by femto 10mo ago
This guy (Gavin) built a physical version of the same music visualisation spiral. Fixed at 12 notes per octave and no ability to act as input. He feeds it with MIDI from a standard keyboard. https://tinkerings.org/2021&#x2
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by femto 10mo ago
Look to Sydney, Australia, if you want to see where this is heading, as Sydney is completely tied up with toll roads. On the point of them being regressive, the NSW government has been forced to reduce political pressure by capping annual
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by femto 10mo ago
With a sister website BAEaas (Backup and Extort as a service).
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by femto 10mo ago
This place claims to still be a manufacturer, with no plans to discontinue. https://www.thomaselectronics.com/ Edit: Reddit claims that Thomas aren't really a CRT manufacturer. https://www.reddit.com/r&
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by femto 10mo ago
Electrical engineering and science qualifications. Work on signal processing (FPGA/DSP/CPU), Radio hardware and firmware for WiFi/LMR/LTE. IC design. Radar systems. Counter-drone systems. The work can be interesting,
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by femto 10mo ago
I had a plotter that took these pens. I couldn't afford to buy new pens, so I sawed one in half and soldered a threaded insert in to make a cap, so I could refill it. Refilling worked, though wasn't as reliable as a new pen.
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by femto 11mo ago
> That's one capability that was lost with the space shuttle. There's nothing remaining nor planned that can bring something that size back from LEO. Surely the X-37 could be used to bring a satellite down, even if it's no
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by femto 11mo ago
For Australia, at least, the rail lines are shown in red and major roads are shown in maroon. The lines for the roads are mostly thinner than for the rail, but not consistently so. At first glance, it's difficult to determine which l
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by femto 11mo ago
> I think it was a subsequent generation product Maybe it was "spray on skin", an alternative approach? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray-on_skin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avita_
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by femto 1y ago
Other countries call it "Loss of Supply". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_supply Usually it is interpreted as a loss of confidence in the government, resulting in the formation of a new government or th
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Microsoft apologises, offers refunds to 2.7M Australians(smh.com.au)
5 points by femto 1y ago|2 comments
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by femto 1y ago
There's a convenience store in Sydney, which has a full blown A320 flight simulator in the back, behind all the shelves of snacks. The owner of the store is a migrant to Australia, who is (was?) waiting for his overseas aircraft maint
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Microsoft Accused of Misleading Australians(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 1y ago|0 comments
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by femto 1y ago
The exporter may sell less to the US, but typically they will then sell the difference into non-US markets, reducing the impost. This is exactly what happened in a lot of (not all) markets a few years ago, when China tried to intimidate Au
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by femto 1y ago
> when we can accomplish something there Realistically, the accomplishment will be a resource grab. It's not scientific. The moon will eventually be carved up by (disputed) territorial claims, like Antarctica. Countries will need
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How we sharpened the James Webb Telescope's vision from a million km away(theconversation.com)
10 points by femto 1y ago|0 comments
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by femto 1y ago
Not insurmountable, given the availability of srsRAN. https://www.srsran.com/
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by femto 1y ago
> and their fall kicked off the decline My feeling is that the response was the thing that kicked off the decline. At the time of the attack, the US had quite a bit of goodwill around the world. The US could have surgically gone after
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by femto 1y ago
... electricians ... are not going anywhere. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Power systems have a long way to go in terms of integration with data. One can envisage an inherently safe system whereby a data signal is superimposed on
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by femto 1y ago
A couple of suggestions: The completed entry should include the date of the test results, so currency can be judged, Ideally the completed entry should contain a scan of the full test report from each of the accredited laboratories.
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by femto 1y ago
That could be because the "happy" countries have good health systems with wide coverage, so the people that need anti-depressants get them. In the "sad" countries people with depression often don't get to see a doc
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by femto 1y ago
The elephant in the room is that Australian landlines stop working whenever there is an NBN/Internet outage, or the power goes off. No 000 for you.
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by femto 1y ago
Better to just not view it. Best thing for a copyright holder is if people pay for their stuff. Next best is if people consume it but don't pay for it, as that at least preserves their relevance. Worst is to be ignored and become irr
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by femto 1y ago
The cartographer just bought the tea towel on a trip to NZ? https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/o3u6uo/ive_had_...
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by femto 1y ago
Australia rolled out the HPV vaccine for girls in 2007. Boys were included in the program in 2013. Modelling says that "elimination" depends on both the vaccine and a screening program [3]. [1] https://www.cancercounc
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by femto 1y ago
> It reached the US, ... Behind that phrase is a whole story in itself, covered in the book "Wizards of Oz How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world" by Brett Mason. Mark Oliphant was heading a lab a
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by femto 1y ago
CSV is good for debugging C/C++ real-time signal processing data paths. Add cout or printf lines, which on each iteration print out relevant intermediate values separated by commas, with the first cell being a constant tag. Provided y
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by femto 1y ago
In that vein, I've always wondered whether the fact that we live in a fundamentally quantum universe is just a mathematically consistent side effect of the Fourier transform and the Universe's limited extent in space-time. Is the
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by femto 1y ago
Can we agree that a fun thing about the Fourier Transform is the many different ways such a simple idea (a liner combination of basis functions) can be viewed and the many subtle implications it has? For example, one viewpoint is that &quot
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by femto 1y ago
Same thing! :-) In the purest sense, finite bandwidth requires infinite duration and finite duration requires infinite duration. The real world is somewhere in between. It must involve quantum mechanics (in a way I don't really under

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