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by martyvis 6y ago
I am always amazed at how people can hold this thought, considering the billions of lucky moments that would have had to go right over the eons, at the same time as one that demands diligence and deliberateness in planning and executing on
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by martyvis 6y ago
I love how the ground personnel are checking that that iPad is in "airplane mode". The Dragon isn't an airplane so that might be their problem. ;-)
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by martyvis 6y ago
The Crew Dragon is very similar to the Cargo Dragon that has already had nearly 20 returns from orbit without incident, so there is already quite a bit of experience in the systems that will be used tomorrow.
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by martyvis 6y ago
Free space optical system *intentionally" spread the laser beam using a lens. The light beam still consists of parallel rays, and when they hit the receiving lens they focussed again on the receiving diode (or whatever sensor). The ide
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by martyvis 6y ago
Yep, I'm halfway through watching Inception for the first time and I was thinking exactly this.
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by martyvis 6y ago
"People were excited just to see documents that lived on other computers across the world—and not just in plain text, but with headings and lists, too!" - I remember that feeling so well.
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by martyvis 6y ago
Yup, I'm an Aussie, born when inches and miles ruled and I live ninety two "k" from my office and I drink beer from three seventy "mil" stubbies (glass bottles). Not hard at all
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by martyvis 6y ago
I have had a few low end Breville machines. The current one is $150 2nd hand model with a burr grinder that meters out an exact dose into the basket. A good hard tamp, and then the espresso shot is also metered out. Easy to steam the milk,
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by martyvis 6y ago
In the early 2000s I was on a project that was planning on using the fibre that was embedded in the neutral conductor in the local grid here in eastern Australia. It was used for telemetry and power control, but they thought they could sell
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by martyvis 6y ago
I'm wondering whether all these paranoid engineers have poked a screwdriver through their speakers? (Every kid in sure has used a speaker as a mic)
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by martyvis 6y ago
Only the other week we were doing some testing on a new HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) I'm doing the network for. At the end of the test period, we were having some storage sync issues. Everything seemed to PING ok, except my col
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by martyvis 6y ago
Graphviz got me a company paid trip to Orlando back in 2003. I built a Perl script that parsed a firewall configuration file to produce a visualisation of the policy and relationships between the various entities like network addresses, pro
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by martyvis 6y ago
My introduction to computers was standing in front of a TRS-80 at a Tandy store (Australia's outlets for Radio Shack). I would visit sometimes after school and spend 15 minutes or so typing things in from the manual and adjusting them
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by martyvis 6y ago
Location referred to in the story was https://what3words.com/murky.founding.spoonfuls
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Rescuers pinpoint location of injured walker on Flinders Island using what3words(abc.net.au)
6 points by martyvis 6y ago|2 comments
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by martyvis 6y ago
Same here on Chrome on Android. I thought it was me
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by martyvis 7y ago
Yes, I've seen it used as a way to steer the reader to open their browser for further information with URL written in plain text. Like hyper footnote
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by martyvis 7y ago
The very matter-of-fact education channel, Kurzgezagt, uses this style. I imagine partly because of the speed and ease of creation of the videos, but also for the unambiguous and direct capability in conveying information. https:/&#x2
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by martyvis 7y ago
I heard the mayor of Byron Bay literally say on this evening's news to potential holiday makers this Easter "We don't want you here". Clearly things are serious when a region that thrives on tourism income pretty much fo
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by martyvis 7y ago
I remember getting some reference software and methods from NIST maybe 20 years ago on handwriting recognition. Never put it into practice, but maybe they have some updated software available
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by martyvis 7y ago
Having collected so many data points, I wonder how it was used at the time? Clearly it was probably summed to give yearly totals and possibly monthly averages, and so on. But were the same sheets revisited year after year then?
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by martyvis 7y ago
It's almost as if the decision makers that might buy these can't multiply by 10 very well. (Oh wait, they are probably politicians ... )
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by martyvis 7y ago
One thing I particularly fell in love about the Dyson vacuum (DC29) we bought about 5 years ago was how easily serviced it was. We burned out a motor and everything about the machine was designed for simple manufacture and serviceability. T
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by martyvis 7y ago
Anyone seen any info on the Dyson AirBlades used for hand-drying in public restrooms? They are very effective at drying , but flick a lot of water up and onto the unit. I guess if everyone has properly washed their hands the WHO way, the ri
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by martyvis 7y ago
The way the story is written it sounds like their attendance was there was serial temporal distance involved (they didn't come at the same time)
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by martyvis 7y ago
While the site and dataset is good, that particular link doesn't work well on mobile Android Chrome. This one works a treat https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
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by martyvis 7y ago
Don't researchers like this just go to WHO for support and assistance? This is a list of candidate vaccines. https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/l...
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The Case of the Missing Hit(gimletmedia.com)
1 points by martyvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 7y ago
You have a distracting typo on your title page - "Spaced Repetion" :-)
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by martyvis 7y ago
Would it really have made any difference? As far as I have observed each and every country ( and in some cases states and provinces) are setting their own levels of containment and will continue to do so.

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