mercuryrising

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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I was thinking about doing something similar for a bit :). If I may make a couple of suggestions - I put in 24 ATMEGA328P-PU-ND. It found where they were, it found the lowest price. They're $3.16 PU - total ~$76. If I get one more, 25
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Have you used your AWS free tier up yet? If not, you should consider jumping on it. Free 24/7 micro server for a year - and you host the webserver, so you can install Apache, Nginx, whatever you want. I used it for a while, and the mos
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Awesome, signed up as well. Is your QC&QI book still accurate after 10 years of being in the wild? Have there been any advances that verify / invalidate the ideas you present?
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
How does this compare to Octoprint[0]? What makes PrintToPeer different? [0] - http://octoprint.org/
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Hey thanks for NFLgame! I've been using it to make a stat tracker to watch live feeds of Sunday's action.
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I'm a little confused - what exactly are you doing? Are you making the projectors? Are you programming the game? What software are you using? Are you sensing what it's being projected on?
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I see a couple of extremely powerful advantages to having a self driving car. Your family only needs one car. You go to work at 8, and your kids go to school on the way so you drop them off. You get to work at 8:15, the car drops you off an
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
This is really interesting. Is there any hope for a hybrid language? Like python with haskells time system, or writing lambda functions like lisp and using python to execute? Basically, taking the 'best' parts of languages and com
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
You don't build a coal power plant speccing in how much variable renewable energy will be produced. You spec for over the max power - in the middle of summer, with all the air conditioners on, and then you throttle down from there. As
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Delete your google cookies then resign in.
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
That quote is taken a little bit out of context. The first part is referencing the opinions of others about InstallMonetizer - people said they think IM was installing crapware. PG said that crapware is a relative term, and if people have t
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I'm sure he's said it a few times. This is the one I was referring to - > Even more so when he tells us that none of the design innovations in the rocket are patented. “Since our primary competitors are national governments, th
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I forget the quote exactly, but there was an interview with Elon and the lady was asking him about not patenting things at SpaceX. He said something along the lines of "Patents aren't going to do you much good when your competitor
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Depends who's doing the stealing. If you patent something, someone else can read the patent. Then they learn what you are doing. From there, they can either find a way around what you patented, seek licensing from you, or blatantly cop
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
The dyson motor doesn't show any sizes, but 100k spindle motors are not impossible to make. They're commonly used for PCB production > Some of the high performance spindle motors used on large-size mass production PCB drilling
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Someone in California should figure this out - I checked quick on CA's DMV website but couldn't find an email to ask someone. If you buy a car in another state, California will charge you the difference in sales tax to bring it up
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Whoops, that should have been translucent. Yeah you tune the gold nanoparticles to absorb radiation that is able to be transmitted into the body (I can't find any graphs of the human body's vis/ir transmittance - although wat
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I made this comment yesterday in another thread, but it provides some of 'why' for the colors we see in stained glass. > You've seen it before... Stained glass. Stained glass was one of the first use of nanoparticles and p
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Doesn't it look cooler if we use gold? Short of practical purposes, if you have something that you need to convince a politician to support, wouldn't gold be better than silver for no reason other than it looks good?
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
You've seen it before... Stained glass. Stained glass was one of the first use of nanoparticles and plasmonics to become commonplace. The wide range of colors that you can get in stained glass is due to the nano properties of the mater
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I remember watching an interview not too long ago about Elon being disappointed with how slowly the regulations around cars are to change. He mentioned specifically putting cameras in place of the side mirrors, and how Tesla petitioned to h
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Just an idea, but if you get a bunch of tips coming in, that'd be awesome if you tip them to projects that you use. You probably have a pretty good idea of what the cool things on the horizon might be.
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
It's easy to burn through RAM in Python because it's easy to keep unnecessary data around. Iterating through a large dataset is better than storing it all (and all the subsequent 'filtered' data) in memory at once.
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
This might be a little dated now (a year or two), but I had a class with some emphasis on deep brain stimulation. The overall consensus from the professor was that we know that it does work, we know how the electronics and everything work,
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
iPads and laptops aren't sitting there, listening to everything you say, waiting for you to say 'xbox, on!'. It listens to everything you say while waiting for that one command (like Glass, too). It'd be easy to give som
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Not entirely on the same page, but the RRoD bricked two of my 360s. One was in warranty, they sent me a new one. It RRoRed a little while later, but I was out of warranty now, so no replacement for me. I bought a new one, then that one RRoR
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I'll take a shot too. I don't use most of the fancy features on Github, so I have almost no experience with these things. <> - code ! - warning / danger |7 - merge a fork (or accept a pull) E]E] - I think that might be
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
It's still sitting in a vacuum by taking notes. I think a very effective way of remembering is by constantly linking what you're reading to what you know, trying to fit it in your current web of knowledge. The more you read, the bigger web
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Maybe this always happens when something is 'new', but it seems like people put 3D printing in the same category as computers. A computer is a device that allows you to communicate with (almost) anyone on the planet, learn about almost anyt
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
My friend and I have 'Tuesdays'. School used to suck, so we went to the bar every Tuesday to get away from it. We've been doing this for about two years now. It's an open time to talk about whatever comes up. We've built some nice mental st

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