jlgreco

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901.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Probably to a similar extent as airliners these days, though without the pilot actually sitting in it. They can take off and land themselves, though they still have a human sitting around (probably reading a paperback most of the time.)
902.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Damn straight. They built a better shuttle, then had the common sense to realize the idea was silly. They were right about the Space Shuttle and the US military too; much of the design of the Space Shuttle was influenced (compromised) by
903.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Does that actually work? I'm having... trouble... googling it.
904.
by jlgreco 13y ago
There are Aldi in America too, and I don't trust them either. Their produce, at least at the locations I have been to, is really sketchy.
905.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Regular milk spoils much faster after you open it though. Everything that I can find on the web suggests that UHT milk expires just as fast as regular milk after opening.
906.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Wouldn't the benefits of ultra-pasteurization go out the window once you open the package, thereby contaminating the milk?
907.
by jlgreco 13y ago
The resin is buoyant in salt water; is the cured resin? So long as the liquid resin floats on salt water, I don't see why salt water should provide less support than liquid resin.
908.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Interesting... a few months ago I noticed exactly the same thing. I've begun walking a half mile further a few times a week to a Safeway rather than go to the Trader Joes two blocks from my home because of this. (I refuse to use store
909.
by jlgreco 13y ago
> Real professionals should not need spammy social networks to prove themselves. Yup. As far as I can tell/am concerned, the old fashioned 'meatspace'-networking method never stopped working. I get recruiter spammed wit
910.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm thinking you would throw in a cheap microcontroller and basically use it as a modem to control the printer. If the carrier signal is lost, then it stops printing. This would retain most of the benefits of using the audio jack, in
911.
by jlgreco 13y ago
It looks like the resin they are using is "Makerjuice" ( http://makerjuice.com/ ). I don't know anything about that resin though.
912.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Perhaps, with slightly more hardware, you could rig it up to kill the power to the laser if the sound level dropped to zero (which is typically how computer audio hiccups manifest). Printing would stop for a moment, but you wouldn't h
913.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder if this will work with a combined headphone/microphone jack. Regardless, I love the approach taken here; really quite clever.
914.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Yeah, that comment is something of a Yogism.
915.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Linux? Almost beyond any doubt at all. Git? The official tools probably will be, but that doesn't really matter one way or the other. "Git" is more a data model and a frame of mind than it is a piece of software, and you c
916.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I think you meant "Icelandic" to mean the 'cultural region' (like Balkan). In English you could use "Nordic" instead, and possibly also "Scandinavian" (although "Scandinavian" technically e
917.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I suspect it is a popular topic because of all the things that Linus is involved with, his use of profanity requires the least amount of technical knowledge or credentials to talk about. If you want to talk about something Linus does, talk
918.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Absolutely agree.
919.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Eh, I suspect there were people who thought the same as you when Shakespeare packaged up Greek mythology and fart jokes for the unwashed masses.
920.
by jlgreco 13y ago
My fear with this is that it will be less "bullet proof" than creating a PDF slidedeck. With this I'll have to worry about getting the fontsize correct on the projector, which means I have to worry about getting a terminal s
921.
by jlgreco 13y ago
True, but I suspect that doesn't massively prolong most movies, only big ones that people are passionate about ( Star Wars , The Godfather Trilogy , etc). Just randomly picking... 2004. Top 10 movies from that year, and pulling futur
922.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Frustratingly, italics on the chrome browser on android seem to not work. I usually give it a combination of '>', quotation marks, and italics.
923.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Of course not, those profits will be primarily used to build the business further, or given to the investors. Do you think that McDonald's distributes their profit across all of their fry-chefs?
924.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't think that either GTA or most movies targeted to adults have the sort of longevity that Disney movies have. I therefore think that it is fair to compare GTA to blockbuster movies (or at least I think that Disney isn't a
925.
by jlgreco 13y ago
You can model a rock-dropper-omatic with mathematics, but what you get is just a mathematical description of the rock-dropper-omatic, it isn't a rock-dropper-omatic itself. However a mathematical description of an algorithm is the al
926.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I suspect Disney may be atypical in that regard. People are constantly having kids for the first time, and there is then a steady stream of people buying movies for their kids that they know kids like. Most other genres probably have not
927.
by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, the W39 was a Teller-Ulam design bomb. It wasn't a boosted fission bomb (though maybe the primary was? I don't know). I believe the Castle bombs were as well.
928.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Besides a massive marketing budget (which obviously paid off), I have to imagine it took a small army of modellers and artists to actually make that game world. From what I have seen it blows other 'large world' games out of the
929.
by jlgreco 13y ago
That they thought they could make money off of an airplane patent is proof that they understood that airplanes would be useful in their own right. Had they not done it, somebody else would have, with or without patents; it was inevitable.
930.
by jlgreco 13y ago
A fizzle of the (relatively small, fission) primary would be some percentage of a number much lower than 4 megatons. Most of that "oomph" comes from the fusion secondary which is set off by the primary detonating as designed. I d

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