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by jonah 11y ago
I didn't see any Yaw motion in this video. (Rotation about the Y axis.) Does it support it? Is it not necessary for the motions they're trying to induce? Would you have to make the seat rotate on the platform?
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Volkswagen’s Little Engine That Couldn’t(pbs.org)
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by jonah 11y ago
It also only makes passing reference to more modern photopolymer plates as well as the Linotype[1] method of setting type. My grandfather started is career in the newspaper business and they were still using a linotype back then. [1] https
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by jonah 11y ago
A friend and a cousin both own letterpresses. They - like most small printers - create digital files and have photopolymer plates created to print from. Easier, safer and less toxic than casting lead or other more traditional methods.
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Generating Captions: Describing Videos with Neural Networks(medium.com)
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Scale-free urination and speed bump diagnostics take home Ig Nobels(arstechnica.com)
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by jonah 11y ago
That's pretty neat, though I'd probably prefer trees on a good part of mine.
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by jonah 11y ago
Will you tell us more about what you were doing while you were there?
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by jonah 11y ago
I was just visiting Glacier National Park last month and the stories surrounding private landowners inside the boundaries of the park are pretty colorful. http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/private-land-ins
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by jonah 11y ago
They're pretty interesting. The inholdings I've encountered are in the Los Padres National Forest in central California. It's strange to be hiking miles and miles into the wilderness and then come across a homestead complete
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by jonah 11y ago
And whatever tasks he doesn't like, accounting, bookkeeping, etcetera. He can hire someone full time or even just part time to handle for him. That way he can focus on the things he does well, selling and doing the work.
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by jonah 11y ago
Does the sphero SPRK info help? It's the education/dev version. http://www.sphero.com/sphero-sprk
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by jonah 11y ago
Good to see them working on something worthwhile.
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by jonah 11y ago
The secrecy following the attempt led to creation of the now widely known and used Glomar Response: "We can neither confirm nor deny..." http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/ https:/&#x2F
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by jonah 11y ago
He also implied that the entire stock of an item isn't in the same place. This makes sense - the computer will tell the picker to get an item from the location that's closest to the rest of the items they're picking at that t
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by jonah 11y ago
How has/hasn't CPU reliability changed over the decades? Are these generally as sturdy as a 486? A 286 machine was mentioned in a recent article here, will you be able to find a running Skylake machine in 2045? How does the proces
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by jonah 11y ago
François Brunelle did a photoseries called "I’m not a look-alike!" photographing unrelated people who do look alike. Pretty neat. https://portrait.photogrist.com/francois-brunelle/ http://blog.ch
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by jonah 11y ago
If you want to try fountain pens but don't want to spend $$ on a nice one at first, check out the Pilot Varsity line.[1] They're cheap and disposable and seem to write pretty well. (I'm no expert on fountain pens though.) I u
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by jonah 11y ago
My grandparents/dad/uncle lived in Tehran in the 50s. They always had such wonderful things to say about the people and the culture and the art. Today, in the US, the Iranians I talk to say "we hope one day it will again be a
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by jonah 11y ago
I've always understood them as recognition for accomplishments like other awards, medals, etc.
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by jonah 11y ago
The embedded videos show some good mimicry but not much understanding. Handler: How about coughing? Ape: Sneezes. Handler: That was good! Handler: Koko, can you sneeze? Ape: Blows Nose. Handler: ... Not impressed. Just bec
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by jonah 11y ago
We had silkies growing up. I don't remember their meat being black, maybe we didn't eat those for some reason? (They're smaller than a standard chicken.)
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by jonah 11y ago
So, why don't they just subsidize the cost of the IUD - and fund marketing for the program - instead of a large cash payment? That would take care of the accessibility issue without being such blatant population control.
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by jonah 11y ago
However neither carries a full copy of a person's DNA. They're only "alive" in that they're biological.
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by jonah 11y ago
Interesting. Most of the people I hear supporting abortion won't acknowledge that it's a life that's being ended. Whether they don't know or just won't admit it varies by person.
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by jonah 11y ago
We used them in my education too. Do you have the track?[1] It can help with the concrete/abstract correlation. [1] http://marcialmiller.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...
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by jonah 11y ago
I added flexbox in certain areas of a bootstrap site to cleanly show varying size thumbnails in a grid. (Probably uglier than necessary.) .row-flex { display: -webkit-box; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display
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by jonah 11y ago
Here's a piece from 2014 about sending propaganda to NK via balloon. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/we-...
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by jonah 11y ago
Martin Niemöller's quote[1] is an important one, possibly even more so today than when he first said it. We're so caught up in our own selfish bubbles, we're failing to consider those around us. There are many variations of t
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by jonah 11y ago
So it's an optical notch filter? It doesn't shift anything, just blocks the ambiguous "inbetween" colors.

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