jonnydark

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by jonnydark 10y ago
The balancing stems from an inverted-pendulum problem, and that's something that's reasonably well understood in robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum Of course it's more complicated
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by jonnydark 12y ago
From what I can tell the writer is arguing that abstractions and encapsulations are wasteful of resources. The author claims that this is an inherent problem of abstractions and a lack of understanding of their implementations. The justific
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by jonnydark 12y ago
It's a bladeless fan, not a fanless fan. It works using an impeller in the base and it feeds the air through a thin gap in an annulus shaped aerofoil. Strictly speaking you could argue that impellers have blades and all they've do
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by jonnydark 12y ago
It'd give somewhat better traction but at the same time you increase the likelihood of stalling your motors. How does the machine know if the motors are stalling because there's something jammed in the wheels or because the vacuum
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by jonnydark 12y ago
Haven't got a ruler to hand but it's about 4-5 inches. It's not very wide compared to others, hence why it looks tall.
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by jonnydark 12y ago
The innovation is mostly in using the monoscopic 360 degree camera in such a way that it can do SLAM.
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by jonnydark 12y ago
I tend to try and avoid "the zone" because I'll often find I'm holding too many ideas in my head rather than in the code and as such I'm not expressing myself well in code. I used to come across code I'd writte
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by jonnydark 12y ago
In the USA
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by jonnydark 12y ago
It verifies that you're actually connected to the server and it is listening to you rather than just some dumb box that keeps nodding and replying with "OK" with glazed over eyes regardless of what you say.
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by jonnydark 13y ago
But it's not just HTML and CSS - you need to create a completely new user journey because you can't make asynchronous requests to the server. In some instances you may even need to manage server requests completely differently. UI
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by jonnydark 13y ago
I've been at a Hackathon for the last 15 hours and we've cobbled together a text message service that you can ask questions to and it responds in the style of Yoda. It's imaginatively called "Ask Yoda" Pretty useles
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by jonnydark 13y ago
Join the ranks of VIMmers! One of us! One of us!
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by jonnydark 13y ago
I am reminded of the Henry Ford quote "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." The design idioms seen in Gnome 2 and Windows 7 are essentially highly refined versions of what existed on the App
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by jonnydark 13y ago
It's not just prestige though, it's also legitimacy. Scientific journals have formal peer review and it is this process that is supposed to ensure that papers that get published aren't totally spurious. One might argue that N