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by joshvm 5y ago
EfficientNet is a nice simple example of this. It's family of networks with different sizes, controlled by a single scaling parameter. That parameter controls depth, width and resolution - see here for more details, the figure is easy
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by joshvm 5y ago
It's physically easier to touch the reader than to hover over it? Especially if the reader is a bit janky/older and takes time to complete the transaction. If you look at Oyster (TFL) for example, most people physically touch thei
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by joshvm 5y ago
There are established people in this space with very easy to setup solutions, like Zettle (PayPal) for example - who also offer connected receipt printers, barcode scanners, tablet/phone terminals and integrations with ecommerce, accou
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by joshvm 5y ago
I have a 13 (not pro), coming from a Pixel 2. I used it almost exclusively while tramping around NZ for a month. It's definitely good enough to replace a larger camera for day-to-day adventures and the ultra-wide is very useful. I put
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by joshvm 5y ago
Depends how complex you want. Jekyll --watch is fine for testing blogs and reloads very fast with --incremental builds. We have it set up with a self hosted netlify for editors - updates get pushed to a repo by netlify, the repo is watched
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by joshvm 5y ago
The problem with coffee/caffenol as a developer is that you still need fixer, and while apparently salt works, it sounds hit and miss. So it's kind of hard to argue it as a sort of eco/cheap solution when you still need other
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by joshvm 5y ago
Realistically most people at home will dilute and flush down the sink. Ilford recommend this for small quantities (no definition of small though). https://www.ilfordphoto.com/health-and-safety/
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by joshvm 5y ago
I was a winterover for IceCube 2020-21. Mostly sysadmin type work, and some hardware maintenance in the field. https://icecube.wisc.edu/category/news/life-at-the-pole/
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by joshvm 5y ago
Kiwix is nice, I maintained the the wiki server at the South Pole last year. Very useful when internet is down. However the tools are a bit janky and difficult to customise, though they’re being updated at the moment. Odd things like you ca
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by joshvm 5y ago
The law is a little vague. It says that someone convicted of money laundering may be disqualified for acting as a company director (ish). I assume that would be part of sentencing, or it may be a decision made by Companies House (or whoev
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by joshvm 5y ago
This was also the case at this location. Alongside discipline around showing passes, scramble pads on doors and so on. It was even the case in the office building (we were nowhere near anything obviously dangerous). Super strong safety and
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The only real difference is that there's also a decommissioning aspect. Typically any consumables that get used in a nuclear environment get collected, put in a barrel and then sent off to a warehouse for later disposal (generally unsp
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by joshvm 5y ago
On safety - one of the places I had the opportunity to visit had a car park where you were only allowed to reverse in. I'm not sure if it was a holdover from a previous establishment, but I think they kept something on site that was vo
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by joshvm 5y ago
Slight addendum - actually you often want satellites to be reflective. Dark means good radiator, but also good absorber and a black spacecraft is about as bad as you can get for thermal management if you point it in the wrong direction. For
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by joshvm 5y ago
Plenty of places around the world offer dark enough conditions (but make sure it’s a new moon) - in the US you just need to get out to Arizona or Joshua Tree (or similar empty places). In Europe and elsewhere look for International Dark Sky
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by joshvm 5y ago
It's probably not practical for JWST, but starlight is actually fairly bright. If you travel to somewhere with essentially zero light pollution, like a desert, if it's a clear sky you can see with starlight. At the South Pole on a
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by joshvm 5y ago
Thinking that nuclear fission stations would lead to super cheap power is somewhat naive. Nuclear power stations are incredibly expensive to build. There is the cost of fuel, decomissioning and ongoing costs for waste disposal - note that m
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by joshvm 5y ago
In the UK if you really didn’t want to use a processor you could ask people to bank transfer you cash (free for both parties with Faster Payments) or send cheques, although most banks are phasing them out. There are definitely web stores wh
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by joshvm 5y ago
You can use things like `otool` which will tell you what path to the library the binary is expecting. Here's a tool I wrote to fix paths recursively for an application, for example: https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis&#
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by joshvm 5y ago
I understand Spotify actually has an advanced search (including range queries, lyric match and metadata like labels) but it's not documented well and the app itself doesn't present any options to the user. https://suppo
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by joshvm 5y ago
Almost all micros have brown out detection so you can tell if the device undervolts, and typically you can force the device to auto shut down/reset if that condition trips using an onboard programmable fuse. I don't know how much
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by joshvm 5y ago
This is a common concern in virtually all clinical studies and it's unlikely the researchers just ignored this. In principle these studies attempt to decorrelate confusing factors; from the abstract: > We used Cox proportional hazar
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by joshvm 5y ago
Steel is incredibly energy intensive. It's not unusual for casting plants to have their own dedicated power stations. Traditionally you'd use coke to melt things (well, smelt iron ore), nowadays with induction/arc furnaces yo
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by joshvm 5y ago
It gets a bit of a bum rep these days, but I've always liked Eagle and it's cross-platform between Linux/Mac/Windows. Autodesk made a lot of changes which people didn't like, but to be honest the software was stag
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by joshvm 5y ago
This has been possible for a while, people have even done it as a prank: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking... The loophole to get round minimum audiences is easy - you use the target email address
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by joshvm 5y ago
The NAS-14V2 also worked on the ground - it had multiple modes (astroinertial [default], inertial, airstart and dead reckon). See 10A-17 and Figure 10A-4 in the manual. If you read the following sections it describes procedures for calibrat
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by joshvm 5y ago
For advanced topics, I've heard good stuff about these: https://academy.fedevel.com/courses/online-advanced-pcb-layo... (high speed layout, BGAs, etc) Not free, but not super expensive and they also have introduct
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by joshvm 5y ago
There is also the accompanying book called Wilding, by Isabella Tree. Rewilding is the technique that Knepp promotes, and arguably got into popular culture.
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Also pushing the nose down is the first thing you're taught as a glider pilot for engery management: launch failures, stalls, spin recovery, etc. Flight Chops did a video on this - it's drilled into commercial pilots (as well as g
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In these cases mostly not, they require low jitter references and a good counter. An example that does - I work for IceCube, a big neutrino detector at the South Pole. The detector is essentially a time of flight system that detects emitted

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