mercuryrising

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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Where's the source code? I'd like to see how long it takes someone who doesn't know either language to figure out what's happening in the code (a 'new' kind of response time).
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
If we know it affects animals, why do we wait until it starts affecting people to change our actions?
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I wouldn't use plates or silverware that I printed on my 3D printer unless I coated it. Do you have one? I couldn't think of that many things to print when I made one, but now that I have one (kind of like the hammer and the nail), I can se
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
That kind of sucks actually... If I was getting fired from a job, knowing that more than half (or whatever percent) of the people felt I was incompetent and should be fired would really rock the friendships I made. Having a manager fire you
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
It would be really nice if there was a way to configure a key command in ST2 to run a specific script depending on the language you're writing. I don't usually write C unless I'm writing stuff for Arduinos. The Arduino IDE isn't very nice,
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Extreme one way: Stop pretending the United States exists. It's an imaginary line in the sand that has changed many times through the years. There is nothing different about the physical land between Mexico and the United States, or the bor
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
This is one of the coolest things about HN. There's a link there, and it crashes your browser. Instead of getting angry, you try to help the person whose creation crashed your browser.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I'm reading this like 'the singularity is upon us'. We aren't there yet, but articles like this are very good (even if they are slightly non-realistic at the moment) to throw a dart at where we, as a civilization, could end up. We have lost
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I'll counter some of your counter points :). + 3-D printers aren't economical — Something like a drywall anchor takes a couple seconds to produce in a traditional injection molding process. It would likely take 15-30 minutes using an FDM 3
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
That was a really good show! I took a microelectronic fabrication course in school, and the Deal-Grove model [1] was one of the things we studied. Cool to see the people who discovered the reasons for the weird things that happen in microel
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I don't intentionally try to structure when/where/how I think about things, but after 23 years, I've gotten pretty in tune with knowing how things 'feel' inside. I know if I'm going to have a shitty day or a great day the moment I wake up,
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I don't think Amazon's 'edge' is sales tax, I think it's a wide variety of goods, and me buying things on my couch. Because of tax, time, and gas, it's more expensive to drive to a store 20 minutes away, get 'hassled' by employees, and purc
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
The title on this one is better without context.
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Did I already look at this? I don't remember this title... Why's it grey? Oh yeah, I did read this! This website isn't really a democracy. We, the users, can complain all we want, but until a) people are taken into the back alley when they
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Asbestos is dangerous when it goes in, and when it comes out. The pipes in my house are insulated with Asbestos, but as long as I don't go break the insulation apart, I'll be fine. In many cases, Graphene or nanotubes will be used in a fixe
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
So my goal is to be a "Millionaire by May". I have 0 dollars right now (living in my parent's basement), and am close to an MVP. I'm going to start a company by myself, do everything myself, rake in the profits by myself. It'll be hard as h
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
When he went through the "how do I become smart" section, I was expecting these to be creative techniques, as these are the ones I frequently use in the day. Inversion: Flipping the problem on it's head. You want to fill up a water bottle a
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Wow that was really cool. It's too bad the pictures started breaking when he was documenting his time in North Korea, all of those would be really interesting to see. Odd how easy it was for them to get in. Flash a couple passports, visas,
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I have no idea what you tried for your prototype, but I find it kind of interesting that almost nothing ended up with nice parts. They won't always be nice, but if they're designed with the constraints of 3D printing in mind, they can be si
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Can you more generally explain what your comment means? Here's my stab (way off I'm sure): So some people have options of Apple's stock. They have to buy 100 shares for every option (contract) they have. The options make interest from when
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5699
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I think you should look at this blog post: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2407 It's a tour of the Arduino PCB manufacturing facility, with QA systems, and PCB manufacturing equipment. He alludes to sending the stack of PCBs to the S
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
The thing that made these 'thoughts' different is that they felt real. I experienced hearing something in another language, I wasn't just thinking about it. This happens with music, and every once in a while I'll hear my name. They aren't j
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
We're just starting to unlock the secrets of the brain, but for all those hoping that this is the one that does it, I will take the risk of saying "It won't happen this time". We don't know what the information transfer mechanisms are in th
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
This is pretty cool. For general purpose components, this would be nice for only a few of them. As parts get smaller, markings are less common, and if you have a few parts spill out and mix, testing them may be the only way to figure out wh
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color? Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I'm working on making a 3D printer to speed it up (and to force me to learn CAD). But most of the stuff I do is electronic, so if I don't have a specific part that a) I don't have, and b) the surplus store doesn't have, then I need to wait
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
I have been amassing stuff for a long time. My friends call me a hoarder, but I shrug it off. Every time I move I have boxes and boxes of stuff to bring with me. It's a pain. But, I am getting ever so close to the day when I wake up in the
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Almost all of that is a load of horse shit. > Engineers are required. Programmers are optional. > To be an engineer, you have to be licensed. No, if you want to work for the 'public good' (doing city works, verifying things that p
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by mercuryrising 14y ago
Python.org was pretty simple. bs4 really hits the brakes on the NYT page. ==== Total trials: 100000 ===== bs4 parsing time: 0.6 bs4 selecting time: 146.3 pq parsing time: 0.0 pq selecting: 15.7 lxml parsing time: 0

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