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by leoedin 6y ago
Are you using the PartDesign workbench? In my experience for simple things (not 3D sketches) that almost follows the same workflow as Solidworks sketch -> extrude.
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by leoedin 6y ago
You can simulate G-forces in an enclosed simulator (it doesn't work if you can see outside) - you're just limited to 1G. I've flown a 737 simulator which tilted back to simulate takeoff thrust. It felt eerily realistic
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by leoedin 6y ago
Those are all good points. Unfortunately there's a huge amount of noise in the green technology space, which has the tendency to drown out the scientific thinking. However, I don't think dismissing biomass (or biofuels) completely
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by leoedin 6y ago
Climate change is being driven by people extracting carbon from deep underground and releasing it into the atmosphere. By that measure, burning biomass is CO2 neutral. The carbon released is not carbon which was extracted from the ground. I
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by leoedin 6y ago
That price is not really based on mass market affordability though. The UK GDP per capita is $43k USD and the US is $63K USD. The average salary in the UK is $38k/year and the average salary in the US is $63k. By all measures the UK is
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by leoedin 6y ago
My guess from the list of premium airports is that Microsoft has made a judgement based on wealthy geek density. People love to fly their local or familiar airports, and the kind of people in San Francisco who play flight simulator are weal
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by leoedin 6y ago
I agree with you in general. In this case, though, the article talks about "a few months over the quarantine" and "including a 3 month break due to life and COVID impacts". That makes it pretty easy to date!
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by leoedin 6y ago
> one of those jobs is spotting near Earth asteroids with a collision potential What actually happens if they spot an asteroid with collision potential? Is there anything we can do about it?
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by leoedin 6y ago
Benefit is a very broad word. Maybe you don't benefit financially, but you benefit in other ways. It's rather reductionist to assume that the only people who will support UBI will benefit financially from it. Means tested welfare
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by leoedin 6y ago
I did a course on topological optimization at university which covered pretty much this concept. We used some software from a company called Altair. Essentially you defined some physical constraints and it generated the optimal 3D bracket.
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by leoedin 6y ago
They bury it slightly, but in the FAQ: "The primary energy for HomeCool™ is derived from clean open flame burn of natural gas. This can be converted with an optional kit to propane and also hydrogen* (*once commercially available).&quo
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by leoedin 6y ago
I've realised over the past decade that my brain just isn't wired to allow me to be a music buff. I absolutely love music and the emotional effects it has. But I can never remember the names of songs, or how they sound. It means w
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by leoedin 6y ago
Why don't the finances work? As an example: I'm paying for Netflix and Amazon prime. I'm not going to pay for more services because I don't value watching TV more than that. We buy or rent a specific movie maybe once a q
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by leoedin 6y ago
> The majority of the cost of road construction and maintenance comes from general taxes. Fuel taxes haven't paid the majority since the 80's. My point isn't that fuel taxes pay the full costs of the road, but that electri
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by leoedin 6y ago
This is something I don't think is fully understood by most people. Most people think "clean energy is just about building solar panels" - it's viewed as this linear process. I think the media often present it this way.
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by leoedin 6y ago
My experience in London was that Uber radically disrupted things. Yes, private hire cars existed, but the experience was pretty bad. You'd phone a number or go to an office, they'd say "20 minutes" and then, hopefully, a
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by leoedin 6y ago
You're not going to do much outward communication with a receive-only SDR though. Not really hacking as much as listening.
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by leoedin 6y ago
It depends what you're doing - for analogue circuits the free software LTSpice is pretty great. It's clunky and you need to follow some tutorials, but it's a brilliant way to sanity check an analogue design before you build i
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by leoedin 6y ago
This is interesting. We collectively spend _so much_ of our energy on heating and cooling buildings, and there's very little change happening. The problems identified in the article are such low hanging fruit. Everywhere you look in re
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by leoedin 6y ago
Once you figure out simulation and EDA tools, breadboards are pretty much pointless. If the circuit is simple enough to breadboard within half a day, it's also simple enough to simulate effectively. If it's complex (normally due t
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by leoedin 6y ago
I think there's 2 fundamental questions here: 1. Does the current system encourage work? When you require means testing for benefits and have sharp discontinuities, the incentive to work isn't very strong. If a full time job pays
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by leoedin 6y ago
The best interview test I've done was a take-home test with a fixed time window. I was given a working development environment with an existing app and asked to fix some tests, implement new tests and then implement a few new features
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by leoedin 6y ago
That's only the case if most people are happy sitting back and living off UBI. That's not a given. I've known people who inherited reasonable sums of money - enough to live a frugal life for a decade or so. None of them have
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by leoedin 6y ago
That's fascinating - and kind of what I was hoping this article was about. That lead to the E-Ship 1 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1 ) - a wind turbine servicing ship with 4 Flettner Rotors. There's
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by leoedin 6y ago
I do wonder what the inflationary effects of UBI would be. In areas where there simply isn't enough spacious housing to meet demand (which includes most of the internationally known cities in the west), you'd expect to see rents r
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by leoedin 6y ago
About 7 or 8 years ago I built an internal testing system used to test a satellite payload which used a microcontroller board from a reputable manufacturer, purchased through a reputable electronics supplier. When we updated the ftdi driver
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by leoedin 6y ago
Completely agree. The author is trying to blame tests for code complexity. GetSolarTimes() is a simple function evaluating an equation - treat it as such. If your code is broken down clearly into logic and plumbing, unit testing the logic b
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by leoedin 6y ago
It's not much of a rhetorical trick - anger for unfair treatment is driven by a fear of loss of power, status and control.
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by leoedin 6y ago
The platform thing is an interesting take. If you're invested in a platform, you really really don't want it to turn out that it's not the winner. Then you have to throw away all the sunk cost and learn a new platform - sudde
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by leoedin 6y ago
I live in Europe! My house is not old for the area, and there's millenia of documented history for this spot. It used to be an observatory! But it's still interesting - on a personal level - to think about the lives of the people

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