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by fho 5y ago
That "I am feeling lucky" button does not seem random at all, it brought me in order to: Microsoft Windows, Blogger, The Financial Times, Github, Adobe ... As every other location I randomly scroll to has no recognizable image on
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by fho 5y ago
Yamaha builds so much stuff that this could have been about ... a boat ... a motorcycle ... a guitar ... or the iconic synth :-)
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Ask HN: How do you maintain your glasses?
4 points by fho 5y ago|6 comments
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by fho 5y ago
That's where more advanced type systems shine. You get to encode things like "this number is not null" and a safe division function will only take "not nulls" as the input. The workflow would then be: 1. prove
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by fho 5y ago
HN does reddit?
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by fho 5y ago
DF is just one of those games that you either love or just don't get ... I just love it and it is the only game I have played on and off for so many years now. That one time that was just so amazing to me is after one of the big tree u
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by fho 5y ago
Germany chiming in ... We have something that is called "Rote Beete" (eng: beet root) which sounds similar to "rotabagge" (eng: rutabaga), but apparently is a different plant.
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by fho 5y ago
In theory it could inform programs like messengers to behave battery friendly. In practice I don't think that is implemented.
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by fho 5y ago
I guess the "easy" solution to that is to have a small fraction of presented content to be randomly selected from outside the echo chamber. Either by presenting completely random content or randomly from contributors that have alr
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by fho 5y ago
Next up: John Deere invents a hydraulic rights managment (HRM) system that implements a communication protocol between hydraulic components using high frequency pressure changes in the hydraulic lines. These signals are interpreted by mec
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by fho 5y ago
You can get reasonable results printing minifigs with a FDM printer ... tiny nozzles (0.1 mm), tiny layer heights (0.05 mm) and very slow print speeds (<10 mm/s) will get you a long way ... but even then resin printers just blow the
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by fho 5y ago
Actually, humans have relatively large male genitals relative to body size when compared with other animals. (I am at work ... so no way I am looking up sources for that ;-) )
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by fho 5y ago
> I guess these days some views might look a bit flat but I'm not sure they've improved on the Mario formula since. ^ this It has been decades, but you can still put people in front of Mario 64 and they will still instantly hav
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by fho 5y ago
> Thanks to crappy tv channels and no internet I think you have that the wrong way around. That should be: > "Thanks" to modern distractions like binge watching and doom scrolling people lose their creativity and drive to do
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by fho 5y ago
I feel like this discussion is missing a bit about auditory detection. Maybe that is just my naive conclusion, but mosquitos (at least around here) make a very distinct buzzing sound. Picking that up with some sensitive microphones, isolati
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by fho 5y ago
Sad but true ... Last time I checked they still had the old standalone hidden on their web pages somewhere ... might be enough to open and convert your projects.
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by fho 5y ago
I am pretty sure that I saw some ads for a commercial PCB cad program that showed functionality for exactly that. But yes ... probably not open source.
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by fho 5y ago
Yep ... It's not exactly integrated, but usable. I feel like somebody could have a academic career based around that
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by fho 5y ago
But that's strange, isn't it? Higher currents basically just require wider traces, higher frequencies require very specific trace lengths. That's nothing that can't be incorporated into an auto router.
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by fho 5y ago
I don't think it is ... and I think some it is some sort of "get of my lawn"-ism. I passed a degree in electrical engineering at some point (haven't used it too much after that), and "don't use the auto-router&
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by fho 5y ago
Also: the Autorouter in Kicad is actually pretty useful ... if you use it as a tool, not as a magic problem solving machine. I normally place components somewhat randomly, big chip in the middle, connectors at the side, small stuff close to
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by fho 5y ago
Birdshot at 100 shots per second ;-) Second thought: is there something like a "constant airgun"? Where you just drop in pellets from a hopper into a high speed airstream?
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by fho 5y ago
And [load them up with birdshot]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28757668 ) ... or even salt. I guess most props won't handle any impact well.
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by fho 5y ago
Very nice! Apparently this topic was actually researched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749131
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by fho 5y ago
> shells fired by the Phalanx cost around $30 each That's pretty crazy to think of ... I guess the only justification for that is that the assets that are protected by such a system are worth more than that. > You could imagine f
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by fho 5y ago
I am neither American nor a gun nerd, but from what I "overheard" on the internet a single Phalanx system should be able to take out drone swarms at incredible rates?
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by fho 5y ago
Ok ... I am directly going to piggyback on this: 1. Subjectively this years weather predictions have been way off, compared to the years before. I heard several theories on that: (a) the year was extraordinary (less cars, less flights) and
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by fho 5y ago
Ooooh ... smart! Now ... I wonder if I can do the same thing for my 3D printed (hobby-) VAWTs!
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by fho 5y ago
Ah ok ... no I was asking about the full size wing with that second wing attached to it.
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by fho 5y ago
Could somebody please TL;DR the wing design (of the big boat) for me? The one with the additional extra wing?

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