martyvis

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by martyvis 4y ago
After the devastating bushfires in Eastern Australia in the summer of 2019/20 I started sketching ideas of a robot to that do that. My idea is that would identify fuel that could be ameliorated (possibly harvesting and burning in the m
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Fine here in Australia.
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At one point in the video, he appears to splash clear water into the filled maze. You can see the non-moving parts lighten their colour compared to the active path.
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I remember getting a rubber stamp set as a kid here in Australia, probably around time I started school in 1968. They definitely had an ampersand, dollar and cents stamp and even "No." (with the superscript o)
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That's rather interesting. In late summer when I think there are lot of bugs in the grass, I would find if I had my headlamp with the default white light (even fairly dim) they tended hit my face more to my liking when walking in my ba
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In Australia most of the airports have Macca's or KFC selling at street prices. I think that sets precedent for the other food outlets to not price gouge.
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Yep I did the same (I worked at BHP the Aussie industrial multinational, and funnily ended up at DEC in '97 and still work there via HPE). Initially I was doing the regular downloads to a SGI workstation and writing the floppy images
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by martyvis 4y ago
From what I observed (reading the normal Reddit fluff, listening to NSF banter, and Tim Dodd the EA's interview with Musk) the issue with Raptor was being able to produce it reliably and rapidly. In the EA interview with Elon you can s
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I imagine because of ITAR etc they particularly want to have very little to be able to recovered by foreign parties.
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by martyvis 4y ago
To those that wondered what it was like to get Linux running in those early days, here is a post I made in April 1993 (30 years ago this month!) to the "comp.os.linux" Usenet group trying to dual boot Linux and DOD on my new 486 P
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by martyvis 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you should share them (statue of limitations and all that ;-) ). I probably went to my first SLUG meeting maybe '94 or '95. (I bought my 1st PC specially for dual booting DOS and Linux with Slackware early &#x
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I tried to launch the links, but when Google Play Store comes it says it is for older versions of Android only (I'm on the latest, 13 )
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And with a lot of people uploading reviews or DIY videos to YouTube it's going to be pretty easy to harvest enough of a voice print. If you have written comments on forums and other social media such as right here on HN they also have
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It sounds like the Street Library project here in Australia. Every little suburb and village now has multiple little enclosures that basically encourage to people to put in a book they have finished reading and take if they want. All grass
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Well I guess "FFFF" might be what you utter when you are about to curse after hammering your thumb and you just see Mum around the corner.
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I love streaming music ( I subscribe to YouTube Premium). I get to listen to music I couldn't afford to when I was young (except when visiting friends or borrowing cassettes from the public library). I also am very eclectic - while pro
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I actually have worked for HP (well one of their spinoffs) for 25 years and ditched them in favour of Brother laser printers. I and 2 of my children have the B&W MFC-L2750DW and I bought the L3750CDW color one for my Mother-in-law. They
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Crypto is a great read. Seeing cryptography progress from something that only spooks care about to technology vital for the commercial internet is covered really well and you also get to learn a little about the characters involved.
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Here is a pumped hydro project which will be able to store maybe ¼ of Australia's electricity needed for a week. https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SH1...
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It seems you are basing your thoughts just anecdotally. For instance, I'm sure "winter" in USA doesn't mean 6 months of snow and cloud. I'm sure in some areas winter actually is probably better. And sure wind isn&#x
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What if the AI gets to see you playing sample pieces or even if you have say a weighted keyboard that it gets to see the forces you can apply? I mean I've seen the Australian Sports Academy do all sorts of video and biomechanical instr
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You can only use that trick so much. The island I live on (Australia) has a population of 25.6 million (1/13th) of the USA yet also seems to get on the fine with no school shootings (and very restricted gun ownership)
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I think I bought my first Intel based PC (a 486DX66 with 4MB RAM) in March 1993 - I was just shy of 30 myself. A core goal, which I achieved, was to dual-boot MS-DOS6 and Linux. While I started with SLS and Ydraggisil, I did end up giving R
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Coincidentally I have just started listening to this keynote from the Everything Open conference that was held in Melbourne, Australia a few weeks ago. Seb Chan has had digital curation experience with the likes of the Smithsonian and the S
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Very frustrating for older people when web sites become adventure games with hidden doors and changing maps
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My 89 year old mother-in-law doesn't have great vision but also poor situational awareness around web sites for government and financial services. For someone that is used to paper forms, it is extremely difficult to navigate your way
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One I can think of is circles-in-circles where you are bundling wires or optical fibre cores into cables. (And probably for tensile cables used in bridges and so on)
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It is perfect for Audio Description [1]. Certain broadcast TV programs have had this here in Australia to allow those with poor vision to be able to follow along - it allows them to appreciate content that has originally be produced as aud
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The article says that having crops under panels might help them through cooling. Options are worth investigating if it makes the whole system more viable.
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There are plenty of places in the garden around my home that either are always shaded or are only in full sun for a few hours a day. Yet there isn't one spot (except under my house) where nothing grows. Suitable spacing, height and ang

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