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by jetrink 6y ago
I had to lookup the 'rolleron' because I couldn't picture how it worked from the description. Here is a video demonstrating the mechanism from a guy who got his hands on Sidewinder tailfin. https://youtu.be/cf
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by jetrink 6y ago
At the start of my career, I had some bad tendencies in both writing and programming. I delighted in being clever. I was eager to demonstrate my knowledge and ability. I was more concerned with having fun while writing than serving the read
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by jetrink 6y ago
I have a photo of my friend, his ex-wife and a few others standing together on a camping trip. I wanted to share that photo with the group since it was the tenth anniversary of that trip, but didn't want to remind my friend of his divo
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by jetrink 6y ago
This is interesting to read having worked with Clojure, but never Haskell or CL. I expected the Haskell examples to look alien and the CL to look familiar, but the idiomatic Clojure solutions to the examples are almost identical to the Hask
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by jetrink 6y ago
I had a similar experience with a SunSaver solar charge controller. I was out in the field trying to fix a problem with a solar power supply and I called into their support line to ask about the error lights we were seeing. Within a few min
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by jetrink 6y ago
Maybe you could use a tamper-evident security token along with the password. Could be as simple as a fortune cookie. Keep it safe and crack it open at the end of the year to write the fortune next to your password. In the case of a probable
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by jetrink 6y ago
I think not. The difference between cellphone and APS-C cameras is in both quality and category. A dedicated camera has an ergonomic shape, a viewfinder, interchangeable lenses, hardware dials, switches and buttons. The people who don'
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by jetrink 6y ago
My prediction is that full frame cameras will eventually be squeezed out by APS-C and medium format. On one side, medium format cameras are shrinking in both size and price. The Canon 5D Mark IV is thicker, taller and heavier than Fuji&#x27
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by jetrink 6y ago
It reminded me more of Tiger King: a group of people driven by a petty feud to commit increasingly spiteful and illegal actions against a couple who make their lives at work difficult.
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by jetrink 6y ago
You're thinking of the wrong definition of master. Git's master refers to the primary copy of something from which derivative copies are made. E.g. In casting, a master is used to form new molds[1]. In audio engineering, a master
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by jetrink 6y ago
Wow, that is more violent than I expected! I think both effects are at work. Thought experiment/hypothesis: If you detached the plate and merely held it in front of the fan blades, I think the fan would still rotate due to the decrease
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by jetrink 6y ago
I used Rhizome[1]. (It looks like it is no longer being maintained, but I didn't run into any issues.) 1. https://github.com/ztellman/rhizome
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by jetrink 6y ago
I found a great use for Graphviz recently. I needed to implement a model that was created by a scientist with no programming experience outside of a Fortran class in the early 1980s. Meanwhile, I didn't have much knowledge of the subje
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by jetrink 6y ago
I'm curious what the level of risk actually is. The earth is struck by many small meteorites every day. We don't know how many, but based on how many are observed, it's probably on the order of 10/day. The last person s
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by jetrink 6y ago
> It's shitty behavior, for sure, but it's rational Can we just reflect on that though? The College Board states on their website that, "We value critical thinkers who assess the accuracy and relevancy of data and use it t
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by jetrink 6y ago
One indicator is when The Economist declares you a leading economist.
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by jetrink 6y ago
This brings to mind Carmen Hermosillo's 1994 essay, Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace[1]. i have seen many people spill their guts on–line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself.
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by jetrink 6y ago
I remember the outrage that this revelation generated and I am still stumped by it. First, the probability that a Google car happens to capture sensitive information as it drives past your residence once per year is basically zero. Even if
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by jetrink 6y ago
A lot of people I know are getting into baking their own bread right now. Sourdough seems to be particularly popular. I would guess that most people are buying the flour to use it, not to hoard it.
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by jetrink 6y ago
That presumes that IBM knows how to create something of value with its R&D department. If the R&D department is just finding faster ways to answer Jeopardy questions, real resources are going to waste. Those smart people could be do
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by jetrink 6y ago
They compare themselves to museums, libraries and universities, but maybe the better analogy would be a graveyard: you pay once for a small amount of storage that is yours forever (or at least until the nearby airport needs to add a runway.
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by jetrink 6y ago
Also, a robot vacuum scoots under the couch, bed and other furniture, cleaning places every day that I used to get to once a month (at best).
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by jetrink 6y ago
To be doubly pedantic, it probably is an int in many places, to avoid rounding errors.
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by jetrink 6y ago
That sounds like exactly the type of escapism that I need right now. Are the novels meant to be read in order? If not, do you have one or two that would be good to start with?
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by jetrink 7y ago
Then why not target it specifically towards landlords who have forgiven rent?
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by jetrink 7y ago
I noticed something similar. My theory is that the set of people who are unwilling to heed stay-at-home orders has a significant overlap with the set of people who are inattentive or reckless drivers. As a result, there is a disproportionat
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by jetrink 7y ago
I will never understand how this trend started in the first place. If you look at e.g. digital cameras, they all have touch screens these days, but they also still have buttons and dials everywhere. The one in front of me has eight physical
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by jetrink 7y ago
It's telling that Spirit Airlines (among the least likely airlines to be bailed out) has 3x the cash on hand as American Airlines.
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by jetrink 7y ago
Populist politicians claim that they represent "The People." The problem, as Umberto Eco pointed out, is that The People is a fiction. We have only The Public, which is a collection of individuals with diverse interests and belief
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by jetrink 7y ago
This is a good observation and applies to non-professional skills as well. For example, you can learn to repair your clothes at an 85% level using only a $20 sewing kit and some YouTube videos. Taking a well-loved shirt to a tailor is a cho

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