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by jakogut 2y ago
The problem with coil guns in particular is the ferrous slug is drawn to the center of the magnetic field. The field has to be collapsed at the right time to avoid sapping velocity from the slug, counterproductively. Many designs that achie
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by jakogut 2y ago
The energy density and expense of capacitors, along with the efficiency of the electromagnetic coils makes them impractical. Coil/rail guns that achieve velocities comparable to real firearms are actually quite loud, as the air is comp
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by jakogut 2y ago
It would have to be, CS2 is the fourth major installment in the Counter-Strike franchise. Then again, all kinds of companies take liberties with naming including numbers. Look at Windows 7 (12th major release), Windows 10 (successor to Wind
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by jakogut 2y ago
Also, the successor to CS:Go is...Counter-Strike 2.
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by jakogut 2y ago
The issue is not removing old pipes, but even getting access to install new pipes. This typically means opening up walls and floors, and patching the resulting holes after it's done.
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by jakogut 2y ago
I've previously developed a commercial product that used buildroot. In that case, it used an A/B partition layout like Android, along with a custom update script and kernel-based bootloader to implement atomic updates and fallback
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Buildroot(buildroot.org)
81 points by jakogut 2y ago|32 comments
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by jakogut 2y ago
Another project to check out if you enjoy LFS is buildroot. Buildroot uses Kconfig (and associated tools like menuconfig, config, etc.) same as the kernel, to generate a configuration for building an embedded Linux system. This configuratio
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by jakogut 2y ago
I grew up gaming on PCs. I still game regularly, and haven't used Windows for around ten years. Anybody that wants to explore alternatives to Microsoft has every reason to do so, the software works about as well or better than running
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by jakogut 2y ago
Absolutely, there's a point of size and complexity where trying to bundle everything into an initramfs image is counter-productive. One example of loading the kernel and initramfs slowly is netbooting over TFTP. You're better off
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by jakogut 2y ago
Very true, you can call into the C library or use system calls directly and have your application do all the init itself.
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by jakogut 2y ago
You can still save quite a bit by bundling your application in an initramfs linked into the kernel, which obviates the needs for any filesystem mounts in simple cases. In some cases, you can even replace something like BusyBox init with a s
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by jakogut 2y ago
Go is a good language for when I want binaries an order of magnitude larger than necessary.
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Everything Is an Antenna [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jakogut 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakogut 2y ago
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. At a certain point it becomes apparent that proprietary operating system vendors don't have your best interest at heart, and the only winning move is software freedom.
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by jakogut 2y ago
I think it is actually a reasonable thing to compare. I've had similar thoughts on the Android comparison. Yes, Linux is the most widely used kernel in the world, but that doesn't mean that desktop GNU/Linux is up to the sa
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by jakogut 2y ago
There are already high quality implementations of every version of Direct3D released over the past couple decades built on top of Vulkan. Writing a Vulkan driver is purportedly a much easier task than for higher level graphics APIs like Dir
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by jakogut 2y ago
Precisely. Modern games incorporate all manner of middleware to add functionality. Compression, video codecs, shading, ray tracing, physics, animation, anti-cheat. What's one more piece of software in the pile to abstract away platform
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by jakogut 2y ago
Linux market share is considerably ahead of macOS according to the Steam hardware survey. Just this past month, Linux is sitting at 2.32% compared to macOS at 1.47%.
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Tensegrity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jakogut 2y ago
Distribution maintainers are also the people that pushed out a fix as quickly as the compromised version was released. It's unrealistic to expect software to never have security holes, bugs, or vulnerabilities. How they're handled
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by jakogut 2y ago
It seems that likely that would further exacerbate the inflation we've been seeing for years now.
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by jakogut 3y ago
Look up tc, the traffic control utility that interacts with the Kernel's packet scheduler using the netfilter framework.
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by jakogut 3y ago
I've been getting into compression molding composites and remembered seeing this video some time ago that's relevant. Wood pulp from paper products can be recycled using a blender, binder, and very similar compression molding tech
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Recycle Cardboard into Anything with 3D Printing [video](youtube.com)
11 points by jakogut 3y ago|3 comments
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A crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup(npr.org)
34 points by jakogut 3y ago|12 comments
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by jakogut 3y ago
This doesn't translate into lower ticket prices?
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by jakogut 3y ago
Pipes are so useful. I find myself more and more using shell script and pipes for complex multi-stage tasks. This also simplifies any non-shell code I must write, as there are already high quality, performant implementations of hashing and
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by jakogut 3y ago
> you also could not pay me enough to crawl around under a poorly jacked-up car Absolutely, I agree. However, like any work, there's a safe way and a million unsafe ways to perform it. Crawling under a car on a jack is unsafe. Crawl
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by jakogut 3y ago
> I’m honestly not sure why springs are common at all in this application. Properly adjusted springs effectively cancel out the weight of the door. This makes it easy to open and close with and without an opener, and greatly limits the d

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