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by jpt4 10y ago
From the article: First, Florida, not California. Second, the lede: "Moon Express, based in Cape Canaveral, Fla., announced Wednesday that it had received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to set a robotic lander on the
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Edit: landless peasant citizens
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Which shift in socio-economic demographics was only accelerated by the formation of latifundia [0], enormous aristocratic estates consolidated from small farmholds, at least partially due to the latter's failure when their owners were
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Every Roman legionary post-Marian reforms received a plot of land after their 25 year service [0], officers monetary rewards, and auxiliaries Roman citizenship for their children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_re
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by jpt4 10y ago
Namespace transfer is more like creating a new PGP key and revoking the old. You broadcast the new key and can prove that the old key is invalid via the revocation certificate, but there is no distributed consensus mechanism, e.g. a blockch
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Which are now comets, and yachts are now moons, for the record.
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A low power:weight ratio disqualifies one from useful service in the citizen's militia.
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by jpt4 10y ago
I am afraid I don't know specifics. For a while the only suppliers were non-American (primarily Russian), so the market prices were not equitably comparable. /r/floathouse (link [1]) will have up to date information.
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An alternative to steel for concrete reinforcement is glass blown basalt [0], which struck my interest via its use in a project for free-floating, (geopolymer) concrete seasteading vessels [1]. [0] http://basalt-rebar.com/
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Out of curiosity, how thick of a machine would you be willing to accept? The Toughbooks are around two inches deep and still require professional laptop industry component packing knowledge to fit everything, but doubling that dimension yie
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by jpt4 10y ago
> you can get a used Panasonic Toughbook Indeed one could, but then it wouldn't be upgradeable. The BeagleBox needn't be Beagle powered forever. > coat the electronics with a waterproof silicon conformal coat.[2] (Mask the c
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by jpt4 10y ago
I am unsure. Your link is for the STM32F303CBT6 breakout board, mine the STM32F103CBT6, but perhaps they are interchangeable.
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The Original Post's final sentence can be summarized as: "Unless evidence to the contrary appears, the fight for privacy in the USA and Europe has been lost." There never was such a fight in China, so neither victory nor defe
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A picture of the initial set-up and first boot from USB: https://github.com/jpt4/cots/blob/master/IMG_20160522_053135...
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No doubt. SCII:LotV is the most graphically intense game I run on a regular basis, and my personal performance benchmark. If it didn't work, I would lose trust in the overall capabilities of the system.
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Most impressive. Yes, approximately that, running off motorcycle batteries, thus the compromise of no discrete GPU, which would (conservatively) triple the power budget. Regarding the keyboard, on the roadmap is a hand-made "gull wing&
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In a phrase, I want to increase the density of my personal computing platforms: as small, powerful, and self-contained as feasible. I fear I am radically out of date with the Toughbook series if they now include i7 processors and 2K resolut
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1) Replace my heavy but relatively delicate four year old Asus gaming laptop with a solid state machine that can be packed in a Pelican case and dropped down the stairs without concern. 2) Try my hand at hardware a bit below the metalshop,
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I take it a CAD model of the stand parts would satisfy your hinted desire?
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Thank you very much for this detailed alternative. Echoing other commenters, I chose the Adafruit Qualia kit (not even buying the screen and driver board discrete and separate from Adafruit) as an exercise in known, commercially available c
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A few of my friends and I are working on the design of a robust, portable computing form factor. After previously consdering various of the Gigabyte Brix Pro series, we settled on the Skull Canyon as the core of the ensemble, currently comp
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The exact phrase, yes, but I read "Temper the fighter, not the sword" here: [0]. The general observation that either the tool or the operator can be improved in an operator-tool system is semi-regularly invoked in discussions of n
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Temper the soldier rather than steel, and a club becomes a sword. A fairer example might be to compare the Nix and Guix package manager codebases, which aim to implement the same model of declarative system wide dependency management. The f
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This comment alludes to a UI/UX goal commonly voiced as an obstacle, that of some 'ware not being market-ready until it's "Grandmother operable". This thread, however, is a discussion of matters of digital defense.
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Left school at 11; personally apprenticed to a metallurgical chemist; a voracious autodidact; quantitative in a qualitative field, who kept one foot in the trenches, eschewing the managerial mindset - all told, a veritable steampunk hardwar
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Thank you for clarifying. Can you comment on the relative expressive power of Shen's type system versus e.g. Haskell? I understand that the former can accept as well-typed terms the other can't; in what way is this a consequence o
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> I'd love an implementation of a Lisp with a Hindley Milner-esque type system. I am not certain of whether it is more Hindley-Milner or more "esque", but you may find something of interest in Shen [0]. [0] http:/&#x
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In pursuit of a mathematically derived Scheme, you might be interested in John Shutt's Kernel [0], based on his formal theory of F-exprs called the Vau Calculus [1]. [0] http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/09/
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Though I had adopted the maxim s contained within as worthy of remembrance, I had searched in vain to find this page again after my first encounter with it several years ago; thank you for restoring it to my bookmarks list.
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To expand: "Why wasn't the Linux kernel written in C++?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405387

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