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by keenerd 12y ago
Whatever they go with, the tech is going to make a really killer subwoofer amp. Looking at the requirements (mostly the high DC input) it seems that an IGBT class-D would be the logical starting point, but those are hampered by a 150kHz-ish
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by keenerd 12y ago
Most people here have mentioned how a reflective or transflective display helps a lot. These used to be much more plentiful, they were standard on PDAs for example. Kind of rare and expensive now. One thing that no one has touched on. It
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by keenerd 12y ago
We are talking about risks to people working in the fields. Every time a farmer applies anything to a field, he will have to put on safety gear, measure out an amount, mix it with water, load it into the sprayer, drive the tractor around,
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by keenerd 12y ago
Only primary sources. Pick a few chemicals, find their LD50 from a MSDS, find their application rate. Run the numbers. An organic fungicide: copper sulfate pentahydrate (aka CuSO4) A non-organic fungicide: iprodione (aka Rovral) LD50 of
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by keenerd 12y ago
As someone who comes from a family of small farmers, this is not really true. Organic pesticides are on-average more harmful to the people who use them than modern pesticides. Simply put, organic pesticides attack animal/fungal life
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by keenerd 12y ago
Sorry about that, the problem was updated at some point. Used to be 5 digits, now is 13. The answer key I was using also had the old one.
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by keenerd 12y ago
The mobile emitter came from 500 years in the future. Its allowed to be "magic" even by Star Trek standards. Energy is cheap in an interstellar economy. It kind of has to be, otherwise you are not going to space today. The most
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by keenerd 12y ago
That is actually not completely unreasonable. Tricky part will be adding them with my eyes closed. Edit: done!
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Local Euler: Now with all 476 puzzles and images(kmkeen.com)
75 points by keenerd 12y ago|12 comments
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by keenerd 12y ago
All 476 (with graphics) are over here: http://kmkeen.com/local-euler/
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by keenerd 12y ago
Fixed.
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by keenerd 12y ago
Weird, my server seems to be telling browsers that text files are not utf8. The junk 'Ã' and other characters won't appear if you view the text file in an editor.
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Local Euler (flat text mirror of PE) updated with all puzzles and images(kmkeen.com)
1 points by keenerd 12y ago|1 comments
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by keenerd 12y ago
Nah, it is cool. I really find this whole thing very amusing from an accidental historical preservation perspective. I do hope the rest of the puzzles can be recovered.
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by keenerd 12y ago
I'm equally surprised at seeing my Local Euler being used for something.
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by keenerd 12y ago
Only if you get lazy. It is certainly possible to write in a mostly declarative fashion, though loading of initial conditions and saving results don't map well. I write non-trivial declarative stuff (I hesitate to use the word progra
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by keenerd 12y ago
> show that you have sufficient funds to support you during the first two years (SEK 200,000) SEK 200,000 == $30,000 USD
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by keenerd 12y ago
Just to be more clear on what I talk about when I'm talking about the Acorn version, here is an excerpt from http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Archimedes_Elite . Of course this version was from 1991, predating bot
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by keenerd 12y ago
Let me make my point clearer - this article gives a lot of credit to Oolite for things that other Elite games did first. Keep in mind, I'm only critiquing the way the article was written, not oolite. Oolite is a fun and well designed
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by keenerd 12y ago
This review is slightly less impressive if you are aware of the other (official) Elite games, "Frontier: Elite II" and "Frontier: First Encounters". > It has to be said that the premise of oOlite is based upon the Eli
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by keenerd 12y ago
Your antenna is probably bad. I live in the middle of nowhere USA and get planes all the time. (Using rtl_adsb.)
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by keenerd 12y ago
My second choice after Reading Rainbow would be Square One. I had only watched it between the ages of five and nine, but it literally put me three years ahead in mathematics during elementary school. (Helped along by a fantastic teacher t
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by keenerd 12y ago
The clay is not that special, it is called bentonite. You can order it by the pallet load, and it is a whole lot cheaper than cat litter. I'm surprised that the spec did not call for bentonite directly, and that no one in these comme
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by keenerd 12y ago
Most of the time the country in question was in central/south america or africa. I would never have expected Finland to be a counter-example. Thank you. But pretty much everyone else in your thread here disagrees about the tools part
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by keenerd 12y ago
> So for those of you who live in the US, congrats. The situation in my area is nowhere near as good. I've got a couple Garmin GPSes ... This smells of FUD. First, we are talking about OSM. Not whatever tiny dataset is loaded on
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by keenerd 12y ago
Alright, something that is almost my day job. I can make you one as small as you want. How many microamps do you need?
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Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects (1993) [pdf](www-psych.stanford.edu)
15 points by keenerd 12y ago|3 comments
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by keenerd 12y ago
Whoops, I probably should have checked the exclude.php page in the Wayback Machine before pinning a date on it. My bad. > An updated robots.txt does not irreversibly delete prior captures, so if the robots.txt changes again, access to p
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by keenerd 12y ago
PSA/ranty thing: Just because something is archived in the Wayback machine, do not trust that archive.org will keep it there for all time. If you need something, make a local copy! A few months ago TIA changed their stance on robots.
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by keenerd 12y ago
So, John Searle's Chinese Room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

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