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by martyvis 6y ago
QF-32. (BTW the pilot Richard Champion de Crespigny wrote a fantastic book on the incident. The intensity of going though procedures on an iPad and manuals as alarms were going off, while remembering to just fly the plane, was the thing tha
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by martyvis 6y ago
Thanks for making me look for things. I just found this brilliant duet with Chick and Herbie. https://youtu.be/14ovAQNNmWQ
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by martyvis 6y ago
Coincidentally I saw a tweet yesterday which said that albeit looks like a German word but isn't
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by martyvis 6y ago
I discovered Chick only a couple of years ago, through a segue from Miles Davis and then the band Return to Forever (you must listen to Romantic Warrior). My wife who is more of a classic pianist, and didn't like to many of my jazz exp
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by martyvis 6y ago
Actually they do if they have Google Assistant, which I imagine anyone with Android 7 or later will. If you use the Google Lens feature it will decode barcodes and QR codes. But unfortunately this feature is pretty much self-discovery rathe
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by martyvis 6y ago
I studied "Computer Graphics" as an elective subject for my Electrical Engineering degree. It was taught by one of the the maths lecturers I think. (Peter Castle at University of Wollongong, maybe 1984). I do remember him playing
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by martyvis 6y ago
It seems almost meta that they have scanned the pips on a CD https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/wp-content/uploads/LaserScanC...
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The Story Behind Blinka (CircuitPython)-Limor Fried (2021)(youtube.com)
1 points by martyvis 6y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 6y ago
As promised, here is the keynote speech at linux.conf.au last weekend by Limor Fried from Adafuit on the reason and drivers behind CircuitPython https://youtu.be/jZnDCs80b_A
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by martyvis 6y ago
What revenue sources does an ISP get for having NAT? In Australia, you pay retail ISPs to provide backhaul from the national broadband provider. I pay $10 per month extra for a fixed public IPv4 address, the public /64 for IPv6 comes f
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by martyvis 6y ago
I have played a bit with MicroPython and I had heard of CircuitPython but wasn't across the differences and reasoning behind the fork. Limor actually did the Sunday morning Keynote at the the Linux.Conf.Au conference held over last wee
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by martyvis 6y ago
Similar here, my 5 year old laptop doesn't support it. I'm willing to accept lower performance if a nonaccelarated software route could be made to work
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by martyvis 6y ago
If you are interested in colours and where many originated and became available and used Victoria Finlay has written a great book called Colour
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by martyvis 6y ago
Some of the code was from X10!
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by martyvis 6y ago
If a large population is going to "shred" a track to get around its going to end up a muddy rut in no time, or only works for able 15-55 year olds.
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by martyvis 6y ago
Actually nearly every enterprise backup system my company has deployed in the last 5 years is tapeless. Most systems involve snapshot backup management that are replicated across multiple disc/SSD systems. (I'm the network guy, so
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by martyvis 6y ago
I'm pretty eclectic in my tastes, but my wife is classically trained, but now even learning some jazz theory. After a few minutes of the album by KMRU, I got comments like, "What is that noise", "didn't they get in
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by martyvis 6y ago
I guess a RAM drive, where you aren't using mechanical methods for mass storage, can be considered a solid state drive
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by martyvis 6y ago
Interesting that Oracle's move got a lot more attention here on HN than HPE's announcment it is moving it's HQ to Houston a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25271263
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by martyvis 6y ago
How so is Australia actively destroying the Barrier Reef over and above the world as a whole? The main issue is coral bleaching, which seems to driven by sea temperature rise - Australia only contributes maybe 2% of global CO2 emissions at
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by martyvis 6y ago
Currently you are correct in that the ground station and the end user need be in sight of the same Starlink satellite. In a future revision, the satellites will be able to bounce traffic between them in a mesh, thus allowing coverage in the
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by martyvis 6y ago
It's getting real. 12.5km hop test hopefully happening within the next 24 hours. 3 Raptor engine launch, free fall in "belly-flop" orientation and powered landing with 2 engines at launch site. Proceedings scheduled to start
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by martyvis 6y ago
Yesterday, while listening to a song in the car, I asked Google Assistant to "play more of this album", and of course I it began playing a song called "More Of This" by an unknown band rather than what you would think wo
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Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapses(youtube.com)
1 points by martyvis 6y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 6y ago
I've met Keith on a few occasions. Really nice generous smart guy - but just software, but involved in hardware and things like amateur rockets, and working on things that help kids learn computer skills. I'm thinking though he mu
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by martyvis 6y ago
I studied a metallurgy subject that focussed on crystals as a bit of fillin in my electrical engineering degree some 35 years ago. The thing is that large scale macro features like crystalline surfaces and grains are driven by atomic struct
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by martyvis 6y ago
I studied a metallurgy subject that focussed on crystals as a bit of fillin in my electrical engineering degree. The thing is that large scale macro features like crystalline surfaces and grains are driven by atomic structure that was firs
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Who's On First – A gazetteer or big list of places(whosonfirst.org)
2 points by martyvis 6y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 6y ago
When I went to page, I was waiting for something to load. After 10 seconds I realised the background was the logos. I think you need them a bit bigger and with better contrast to demonstrate your work effectively
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by martyvis 6y ago
"The voter approaches their table, and gives their name and party affiliation. The party affiliation is used as a signal that something fishy might be going on if the ratio of R to D is very different from the votes recorded." Thi

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