mercuryrising

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by mercuryrising 13y ago
You have the power of the universe right between your ears, no computer necessary. It works in the dark, on the road, while drunk, without power, without money, but it's a blunt sword at first. It takes years of honing and sharpening and ex
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I forget what it's from, but your last sentence reminded me of this (paraphrased). > McDonalds and Burger King. McDonalds has it hard - they have to do market research, explore new areas, test whether they work. Burger King has it a lit
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I dislike that as well. It's a multifaceted coin with many things to discuss, but let's take an easy one to start. "It took me 3 minutes to run a mile." Neglecting history, it took you three minutes to run a mile. What about all the running
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
What makes you happy?
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I like this. I like this a lot. I think far too often people take the concepts we study too seriously. Things get challenging, things get precise, but the moment the humor leaves, the creativity is gone. Think of how easy it would be to lea
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
I think the general attitude towards 'lowest price' in America is what could eventually bring the downfall of America (as we know it). I like thinking about the movement of the 'American system' as an evolution. Back in the day, all the sto
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Built in flash is very harsh (it causes lots of shadows, and can wash areas out). When you use a good flash, the camera and the flash are more separated, which reduces the harshness a little, but you can point nicer flashes up in the air, a
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
It's just a theory, but I think some mathematicians intentionally 'unlearn' or 'forget' arithmetic when they start to understand what math is about because people who don't understand math will ask them if they add and multiply all day. The
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Here's a story. I always wanted to make a CNC machine. I got a bunch of parts off Craigslist from a guy, got some stuff off eBay, I was in college at the time so I never really had time to do anything with it (and money was tight), so I cou
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by mercuryrising 13y ago
Cool! I don't really know what the heck it does, but I like seeing weird examples of Python's other side. I don't know much about the underworld of Python, but is this kind of stuff similar to what PyPy does? I started working on a visualiz
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Why does Canada have such terrible internet? Is it a regulation thing, competition thing, or what? Why do you guys have such extreme data caps?
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
The thing I really like about the Haskell Fibonacci and that Python FizzBuzz is the ease of scale. Want the next value of fib? Grab it. Want to put more restrictions on fizzbuzz? Add them to this list. You build the sequence with only the n
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I really like this quote (from [0], an intro to Category Theory)- "[Category Theory] allows one to see the forest rather than the individual trees, and offers the possibility for study of the structure of the entire forest, in preparation f
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Wow those are some awesome lectures. Thanks!!
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that depends on who issued your card. Visa has a zero liability program for debit card - http://usa.visa.com/personal/security/visa_security_program/... These are the FTC's rules [1], I'm not sure if Visa or Mastercard can
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
He's got some good stuff on his website (didn't get much from the slides as I've only dabbled in Haskell a couple times). http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/essential_haskell.html http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/types.html
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
That's not very good reasoning. If all software patents are bunk, so are many electrical engineering patents. If software is built on hardware, anything I represent in software can be 1:1 related to the digital circuit equivalent. It may be
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I hope Stack Exchange doesn't rule with an iron fist about on topic questions. If I ask how to determine the resistor for an LED, I have a feeling they will close it as "Not specific to Arduino, go to the general Electrical Engineering exch
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Being 'bored' is the best part - setting a time to do 'nothing' during the day. There's always something to do, something to see, someone to talk to, but there's rarely 'nothing' to do.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
This looks pretty similar to when I tried it a few months ago. I used it once, and never used it again (not saying because it's bad or anything, but I like my tried and true Eagle to do circuit board layout, and I generally don't do analog
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Nice paywall - "You've been busy! Looks like you hit your 2 article limit." You can only see two of the pictures before you get the boot.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Weird, I'm in MN, and all the stuff I've ordered has taken more than a month. They must put it on some slow trucks from the West Coast.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
With new microcontrollers, almost everything has moved onto the chip itself. The "EE" perspective (the surrounding circuitry) is little more than following the datasheet and observing the rules for routing. Sparkfun is awesome not only beca
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Hopefully you don't need it soon, that will take 4-6 weeks to get to you.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Wow! Those are teeny! I've never seen microcontrollers that small. That'd make a pretty nice sized Arduino if Atmel made 328's that size. Same Kliment from #reprap?
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
An ex-CIA director did a feature on 60 minutes talking about Stuxnet- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCQqmV1LWDo
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
The beauty of flowers to humans is a byproduct of awesome evolving for the eyesight of bees. Have you ever seen a flower like a bee sees it? Bees can see in UV as well as visible. The results are interesting, as it's nothing we would ever s
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Awesome, I'm in Minneapolis too. That site is really cool, but I really wish they would rework the image navigation.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I'm always mystified when I see people's fingers move that quickly. I can see myself typing on the keyboard, but it's a simple letter that comes out when I press it. It might just be that it's so normal that I don't think it's cool anymore,
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
The 'hot glue' is thin enough and needs to be hot enough to let you 'float' what you're drawing in mid air, hot glue would stay viscous for too long to let that happen.

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