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by mNovak 2y ago
Yeah, also came here to point out Corelle. For many years I had a set of Corelle plates and bowls and such that they sold at Target, cheap and aimed at college students. Likely there's a very mundane reason it hasn't replaced all
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by mNovak 3y ago
Just because something is important doesn't mean it has to be inconvenient. A lot of people conflate opening a business with a major life event and embarking on a career, where a few weeks of admin is some kind of minimum commitment. B
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by mNovak 3y ago
The whole thing is a red herring. How many of these old antennas exist, maybe a dozen? At "25 homes" each, it doesn't meaningfully impact the cited 50 TWh need. Sure the structure is free so why not, but even that needs maint
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by mNovak 3y ago
To be fair, the actual paper is much less grandiose [1]. This is just the usual pop-science breathless reporting. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44770-w
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by mNovak 3y ago
Well if we follow the historic development arc, frequency-scanning waveguide arrays would come next. Nicely, very minimal modification required, and you can start cranking up the antenna gain. Mostly just a physical fabrication challenge, w
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by mNovak 3y ago
14dBm EIRP is extremely low power for a radar however. Off the bat the author is using 1W (30dBm) PA, and you could readily get another 20dB from a moderate sized antenna (e.g. repurpose a scrap DirecTV dish). Unless you're next to a
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by mNovak 3y ago
Actually I could see this being very popular for wedding planning; something inherently collaborative, with clear categories, that people are actively trying to budget to a specific number. I mean yes, numerous spreadsheet templates exist f
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by mNovak 3y ago
>> Can other GNSS give usable timestamps? Seems like it'd be tricky for a jammer to target all of them Actually the opposite; GNSS systems are all purposely designed to operate at virtually the same frequency (check out this figu
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by mNovak 3y ago
With synchronized receivers you could do some rudimentary direction finding. Note that synchronizing SDRs is much more achievable if they're physically nearby (e.g. can run a cable between them for a common clock) vs if they're ph
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by mNovak 3y ago
Like the article states, many people use GPS as a shorthand for GNSS generally. In any case, they're all at similar frequencies, so typically they'll all go out together if there's significant interference.
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by mNovak 3y ago
Michael Redmond, to my knowledge the highest ranked English-speaking Go player, does youtube analyses of Go matches, including Pro vs AI games, which are very insightful.
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by mNovak 3y ago
I wonder if the tiny unipolar motor in a quartz watch would have enough torque to spin a small half-character wheel. Those things are dirt cheap, and thin, so you could realistically drive each cell independently.
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by mNovak 3y ago
I'd just solder paste and reflow, like a large surface mount device. Challenging to get consistent no doubt, and the alignment would have to be very accurate (or have a few separate boards), but I think doable. Seems like you could lar
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by mNovak 3y ago
I'm wondering if a 'bed of nails' approach could be used to eliminate the mechanical difficulty of the flying probes? Basically a grid of (many thousands) probes at some resolution, connecting to essentially the same switch m
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by mNovak 3y ago
I agree some format to attach more metadata into schematics is useful, especially if enough good modules become easily available -- something as simple as "hey this is a 5V rated component" is nice not to have look up sometimes. B
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by mNovak 3y ago
The scroll segmentation looks like it'd be a very manageable task for distributed volunteer work too, at least as a kickstart if that's really the bottleneck now. Just a 100 or 1000 halfway dedicated volunteers (small by internet
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by mNovak 3y ago
A lot of people pointing out the various studies saying that plastic consumption increases after a bag ban; but isn't that expected in the short term? Everyone has to go buy 3-4 heavy reusable bags for the first time (or few times as t
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by mNovak 3y ago
Looks great! I'll poke around--my dream is make a WH40k-like turn based strategy.. curious to see if this can handle sufficiently convoluted rules.
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by mNovak 3y ago
Looks really cool! Just a quick note - The 'Live Demo' probably shouldn't be locked behind a login unless there's a good reason for it. More broadly, do you plan to have general free courses? i.e. would I go to your site
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by mNovak 3y ago
I thought for sure realtors would get the gig-economy treatment during the rise of Uber and AirBnb; just a person to handle showings while the mega-corp drops prices slightly and collects huge profits. Not sure if I'm happy or sad that
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by mNovak 3y ago
I was also definitely surprised this didn't already exist; but hey I never thought of it either! My apartment has a bunch of bookshelves with hanging bars in them (?) definitely not big enough for normal hangers unless you turn them si
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by mNovak 3y ago
Mythbusters tested "talking to plants;" as I recall it did in fact work, loud music also caused greater growth than controls. [1] https://vimeo.com/15521523
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by mNovak 3y ago
Interesting that much of the issue isn't necessarily the cables, rather the insuring of the cables
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by mNovak 3y ago
For me personally, the 'bad accounting' comes into play with contract work. You build some widget for customer, and if it's anything less than work-for-hire (i.e. you give customer a commercial license but retain copyright or
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by mNovak 3y ago
I was also surprised how few comments there are. It has been making the rounds in the SBIR community, (you'll see that if you read a few public comments) but I saw almost no one mentioning the software side of it. I submitted one on be
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Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses
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by mNovak 3y ago
The browser built-in blockers still seem to work. What would it take to defeat those?
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by mNovak 3y ago
How much power and weight budget will you have for payloads? I work with a startup that's developing tech for very low power consumption RF beamforming; I think HALE applications seems like a natural fit. Feel free to DM if you want to
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by mNovak 3y ago
I mean, I would settle for a simple RTS style 2D web interface! A lobby and match making, if I'm really ambitious. Unit rules are a special problem--Wahapedia has a csv download of unit and weapon rules.. I think there were several tho
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by mNovak 3y ago
Very cool. I've seen a lot of these out there for DnD specifically, and am always impressed by how polished they seem, but I've long since wished there was a better way to play WH40k or other wargames online. The closest thing see

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