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Adaptive morphing for stable flight of avian-informed drones [video](youtube.com)
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by gnatman 2y ago
Viewing this image has less value than someone reading the parent comment and imagining the snow globe for themselves.
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by gnatman 2y ago
There's a video on the product page here, plus dimensions. https://timestoptech.com/products/d-20-steel Case Width: 37 mm Thickness: 10 mm Lug-to-Lug: 41 mm Lug Width: 20 mm Weight: 48 g
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by gnatman 2y ago
This is interesting information but I don't think it has any bearing on the current or future general popularity of the platform. 99.9% of users would have no idea what you're talking about-- they just want to read posts, probably
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An estimated 28,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama canal. Even in the "safer" US-managed phase the death rate was 1 out of every 10 workers. Obviously there's an apple/orange effect to consider here. Neve
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Great post! One book that got a lot a press a few years back was Reza Aslan's "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth". It works to establish the historical Roman & Judaical context that Jesus the person would ha
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by gnatman 2y ago
I guarantee you someone will repeat this stat earnestly lol
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by gnatman 2y ago
First of all I don't think that's the whole point of cheese. Secondly, dehydrating and powdering dramatically extends shelf life and makes shipping cheaper.
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This is sort of an "assume a perfectly spherical gambler" type problem.
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There's some interesting examples in the "See Also" section on Wikipedia, e.g. the Rohonc Codex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript#See_also
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> For some months, we’d had a very interesting idea. The idea consisted of the words “graph theory”, which we’d occasionally gravely recite to each other and nod knowingly, with some vague gesticulations, and not much else. Yes! This par
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by gnatman 2y ago
there was a similar checkbox game of life at the top of HN earlier this week, albeit one operating under different rules edit: i see that it’s back!!
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How else are you supposed to learn about it? The main reason I come to HN every day is to hear about the stuff I don't know about!
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>> UK deep-tech company Materials Nexus announced on Tuesday that it has designed a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet with the help of its AI platform. It says the AI-driven discovery and development process was 200 times faster th
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I remember Cities: Skylines being the SimCity successor - I haven't played it though!
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That's fair- low quality rebuttal on my part, sorry about that.
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Every small dead or dying forum I've ever been in pushes new contributors away with some version of "did you even try to use the search function???". https://xkcd.com/1053/
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"once all the air-filled plastics [...] are crushed down" is doing a lot of work in this scenario but still an interesting thought experiment!
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Cool! >>Released in 1977 from Gabriel, Chutes Away challenged players ages six and up to save the day as the pilot of a Coast Guard land and sea rescue plane. The mission was to drop a set of eight plastic parachutists into various sc
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by gnatman 2y ago
What difference does it make? There was a great line in a recent New Yorker article about free will / determinism, and compatibilism. >>All these modes of explanation tell us, in various ways, that people are causal systems, enme
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It's incredible, really. I haven't heard these in 25+ years and yet recognize them immediately. Probably because I heard them repeated 50 million times!
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When one of the potential customers in this "extremely niche" space has an $800 billion annual budget, you don't lose sleep over it.
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I installed Rectangle about 4 hours ago based on another thread! Tim Apple knows all.
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Brazil has a pretty rich home car manufacturing scene- learned about it in this Donut video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8FFzS_CIHE
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by gnatman 2y ago
3 things I wish someone had told me: - don't buy a new car. there's plenty of reliable vehicles between 5-10k that will serve you well for many years - most banks will let you set up as many checking accounts as you want. figure o
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This was well after two of the most important televised musical performances of the 20th century, both on the Ed Sullivan Show- Elvis in 1956 and the Beatles in 1964. Of course, Professor Adorno probably wouldn't have regarded either o
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by gnatman 2y ago
I would like to encourage you to interact with the art & music spaces in your city!
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Indiana Jones & Short Round fought the Thuggee cult in the 2nd movie.
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I was struggling to see the planetary nebula inside that blue circle before I realized that is the planetary nebula. cool!
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I actually really like the ARNGREN.net site- reminds me of the funky product classified ads that you used to see in the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics.

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