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by martyvis 3y ago
Why 1.18k and not 1180?
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by martyvis 3y ago
I greatly enjoy the exquisite drawing and watercolours that people make of our nature. This nicely little service publishes once each day pictures from the USDA of apples and related fruits. (They are on X/Twitter but stopped the daily
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by martyvis 3y ago
That's what the NTSB investigators on board since the crash would be seeking to find out.
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by martyvis 3y ago
I just found my copy of Planiverse, bought at the University bookshop - I was in my 3rd year of my engineering course when it was published. Just rereading the introduction when it covers the simulation program 2DWORLD I remember at the tim
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by martyvis 3y ago
Every person aged between 20 and 120 at least in the west probably had copious quantities of baby powder applied all over them. Also this 60 year old man used talc based powders as underarm deodorant until aerosol based ones became dominant
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by martyvis 3y ago
Just saw this story that the Australian government is to kick-start a billion dollar program to develop the solar panel supply chain here. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/anthony-albanese-anno...
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by martyvis 3y ago
For a standard published 4 years ago, I'm surprised my googling isn't showing up any reference boards or the like that would attract wannabe hobbyists like myself. Is there some fundamental problem why it doesn't seem to have
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15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum [video](youtube.com)
3 points by martyvis 3y ago|1 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
It works fine on Chrome on Pixel as well
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by martyvis 3y ago
Title should have the (2020) suffix
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by martyvis 3y ago
All prices anywhere are "just made up". It's cost + taxes + profit margin you want to make on this deal. The market elasticity determines how often you want to move that price up or down.
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by martyvis 3y ago
I got a laugh out of this set of published things that were blamed on bicycles as they became the "in" thing. https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1561848479470694403
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by martyvis 3y ago
Any discount store bicycles in Australia are made in China and all have aluminium alloy frames from what I have seen. (Most are of a mountain bike or BMX style)
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by martyvis 3y ago
And while in large cities, the need for horses had subsided, anyone living a distance from a rural village on a farm would have horses in any case for work which could also be used for visiting town.
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by martyvis 3y ago
It only was an "asset" because they created a restricted supply oligopoly. Somehow they were being rewarded for very ordinary service. Uber created a necessary disruption to shake up the identity.
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by martyvis 3y ago
I was interested to learn on a recent episode of FLOSS Weekly [1] that Randal Schwartz had moved on from Perl somewhat and is now effectively an MVP and trainer of Dart and Flutter. [1] https://hackaday.com/2024/01&#x2F
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The biggest hand calculation in a century – Pi Day 2024(youtube.com)
1 points by martyvis 3y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
Which ones? The ones that do are almost all prototypes (for instance SpaceX Starship) that have new technology innovations. Unless they are manned the safest thing to do if they are operating outside limits is to use the FTS (flight termina
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by martyvis 3y ago
And when estimating the effort required, multiply by pi. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28667174
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by martyvis 3y ago
I noticed that Apple and Banana rank in the top two. While clearly they are very familiar fruit to your audience, they are also near the beginning of the alphabet. I wonder if alphabetical order creates a bias.
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by martyvis 3y ago
It would be interesting to try to estimate what each person's demand triggers in government or corporate spend. For instance a new public swimming centre with say a 30 year lifetime might cost $10M. If they get 100 000 visits per year
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Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day(au.pcmag.com)
15 points by martyvis 3y ago|10 comments
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by martyvis 3y ago
'“We’ve got to try to train a neural network to zoom around the Mandelbrot set,” Kapiamba joked.' This actually sounds to me to be fine goal. An AI that sounds out unexplored depths to reveal interesting sights that maybe resemble
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by martyvis 3y ago
The Garmin Instinct range is great. It natively is a smart watch but I guess you can turn it off, and just use the GPS to sync time. I have the original version and it lasts 2 weeks on a charge. The always-on memory-in-pixel is most readabl
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by martyvis 3y ago
That's right. The Earth's escape velocity is just over 11km/s or 4000km/h. If you have a rocket that only has enough force to propel you at say 100km/h away from the earth you can go anywhere you want in the univers
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by martyvis 3y ago
Yes I'm trying to work out how we managed to survive without a 2G fallback here in Oz. 3G is shutting down by the end of this year.
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by martyvis 3y ago
Often passed through firewalls or effectively proxied through resolvers
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by martyvis 3y ago
With a constant rotation of contractors and the government staff overseeing them, offering innovative solutions at a better price than the next bidder, opportunities to learn from experience are difficult to achieve with large multi year pr
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by martyvis 3y ago
While I think Japanese society has lots of good traits and outcomes such as a low crime rate, and a ethic to involve everyone in process improvements, this is another clear example of what the English call "keeping up appearances"
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by martyvis 3y ago
While a little orthogonal to this, Tom Scott's latest video [1] with him climbing a power transmission tower concludes with discussion as to how the generating sources have gradually been moving from the centre of the country, away fro

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