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by foofoo55 11y ago
That was one of the most disappointing robotic demonstrations and videos I've seen in a while. I fail to see the ant correlation. On the surface I don't see anything robotic, just a bunch of light winches operating in parallel (
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by foofoo55 11y ago
That article really needed a map: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-214-x/2010000/m003-eng.htm
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Compared to SolidWorks, SketchUp, and even parts of MS Visio. The UI and meta-data handling is very cumbersome and every time we use it we think how much better some parts could be. As with many mega-corps they tend to follow or buy the i
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by foofoo55 11y ago
I can see that most comments here didn't read your entire article. I work at my two-monitor desktop 90% of the time. I really like your ideas. Most of the time I only need to see two application windows at a time. Maybe the your art
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Novodaq has been using fluorescence imaging to identify cancer cells for years, but with endoscopy. [1] They bought a company called Xillix who brought the technology to market in the early 2000's. [2] Xillix was created from some te
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Same (49, freelance).
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by foofoo55 11y ago
I highly recommend The Design of Everyday Things to everyone I know who is designing any kind of user interface, whether machinery, houses, or software. I believe that until there is some effective, easy, and universally-accepted metric o
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Because for some, children are a wealth far greater than money. Survival with 6 kids not that hard with a different lifestyle, lots of re-use of stuff, sharing, and valuing the important things in life (hint: not karate lessons).
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Everyone is different. Some love plans, others hate them. Some like to make something and keep it on display, others like to make it then play with it, while others just want to make stuff. Some of my kids have used sites like this [1] f
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Windfinder's Superforecast has a 12km resolution: http://www.windfinder.com/help#superforecast
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by foofoo55 11y ago
And if you live in the PNW, mariners (boats, not baseball) here find that the "superforecast" from windfinder.com is consistently far more accurate that the government forecasts, especially for wind on the water. The only big cha
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Anaerobic bacteria thrive inside landfills and compost [1], just not so much at the surface. The awful stink (and methane) from dug up trash or wet compost is from anaerobic bacteria. [1] http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compo
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by foofoo55 11y ago
As with his Chernobyl interest, I believe he's focusing on how a nuclear disaster causes seemingly permanent loss of human habitat. This includes emotional upheaval, lost personal identity, and lost way of life, as well as the loss of
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Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock… and Ourselves(blogs.artvoice.com)
3 points by foofoo55 11y ago|1 comments
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Depends what you mean by successful. Most industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) can be programmed with a visual language, typically function block diagrams. The blocks are then functions and the lines represent a data value and
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by foofoo55 11y ago
A customer with a fancy new $2M machine couldn't easily diagnose problems in the field because the LCD on the machine would only show fault numbers or classes of faults. So they paid me to make an additional display which tied into th
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by foofoo55 11y ago
I write control software for low-volume off-highway machinery, and I have never seen sensor serial numbers used in this manner. Calibration yes, serial numbers no. And lack of calibration just puts things off a bit, but doesn't preve
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by foofoo55 11y ago
How does the DMCA stop a tractor owner from replacing a faulty sensor, engine part, or a drive belt? The article implies that the DMCA stops the farmer from fixing even mechanical components.
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by foofoo55 11y ago
I much prefer QR Codes as there is nothing to buy and their embedded data makes them standalone. Meshtags seem more like a graphical version of bitly or tinyurl.
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by foofoo55 11y ago
For the love of the human race and all of us still using Windows, I really hope a faster version of Irfanview gets released as a result of this.
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by foofoo55 11y ago
FM antenna != cellular antenna
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by foofoo55 11y ago
Totally. Sit and eat with your kids. Make food with them, clean up with them. Make them seriously good times. Teach them good food habits, good life skills (chill out from the rat race and sit down for a decent meal), and improve both t
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by foofoo55 12y ago
They would only need a 2.7 gallon (USG) bucket to bring up 4 tons per day. But please check my estimate: A cubic yard of sand can weigh approx 3000 lbs, so that's 2/3 of a cubic yard per ton. 27 cubic feet per cubic yard, so 18
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by foofoo55 12y ago
On a Blackberry Z10 it's just two touches: the first touch gets the main settings menu from the top (I think the same as any Android), then hitting the Hotspot icon. I use this all the time to feed the Internet to my laptop and even a
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by foofoo55 12y ago
The main point is that manufacturing, especially high-volume, consumer, apple-quality products, is very hard and requires serious expertise. Such startups should bring in such mechanical & production engineering expertise, because the
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by foofoo55 14y ago
Being a controls engineer, these assumptions of thermostatic perfection drive me crazy. The things only measure air temperature, not that of the seats, dashboard, wheel, etc. When these objects are cold a person will feel colder than if t
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by foofoo55 14y ago
I fail to see how Onity should be expected to replace circuit boards in 4 million locks that take a deliberate effort to bypass. Mechanical locks can be picked with similar or less effort. Hotel customers should never leave valuables in t
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Fractal Video Compression: legit or fiction?(tmmi.us)
1 points by foofoo55 14y ago|0 comments
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by foofoo55 14y ago
Another view of incineration: - it's environmentally open-loop. Life on earth is fundamentally closed-loop. Energy extraction is a one-way street. (I find entropy depressing.) - it discourages the 3 waste r's (reduction, re-use, and recyc
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DynDNS accounts possibly compromised(dyncommunity.com)
1 points by foofoo55 14y ago|0 comments

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