mikeInAlaska

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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
>I've never heard an explanation of the strong > or weak forces that I actually "get" I thought this was excellent (in all ways) but particularly for your question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYW1
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I saw the cat in the bed grows an extra limb...
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
The diameter of a neutron star, despite its mass, typically ranges from about 20 kilometers (12 miles) to just under 30 kilometers (about 18 miles).
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
When some of my favorite google groups forums were going away, I wrote a perl scraper that started grabbing materials from my groups. Eventually Google perceived it as unwanted or suspicious contact, and shut off access to google for the en
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I went to Chicken a couple years ago hoping to photograph Mountain Bluebirds, but they never showed. There were very cooperative Phoebe's though and after watching them for a long while, I saw that one had a real pattern to his hunting
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
The low voltage power rails on consumer Ryzen and Intel chips exceed 100 amps.
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Possible, but also possible that a bunch of us live here, hike every week, are familiar with the conditions and know that the deep freeze is almost always preceded by snow that keeps this from happening.
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Actually, after taking a second, third and fourth look at these, and as a backyard astrophotographer for 18 years, I'm going to say these actually are all individually resolved stars and clusters in M51. Clearly in this https:/&#
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
You gotta be kidding me. Are those the stars of M51 individually resolved all over the image?
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
When we reached the Moon in 1969, could we have read it?
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
It may actually prove to be the opposite case as the capacitors in these old scopes self destruct and eat their own circuit boards and surrounding components. I have a Rigol and an Agilent over 10 years old now and going strong. Honestly th
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
A Europa submarine mission is a good bucket list, but don't sell us too short. * Humans on Mars * Room temperature Superconductors and their effects on humanity. * Sustained Fusion Power for the masses. * General Artificial Intelligenc
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I have a Klein Torque screwdriver. Holy cow have they become expensive in the decade since I bought it.
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
What a beast. It doesn't apply much to my life, but I did notice one thing that would have been nice on several builds in the past. The torque for the heatsink screws is specified in exact lb/feet. I have made builds in the past w
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I remember working for hours and hours, failing, to get a 32kb transfer to work between two Commodore 64's with 1650 Automodems. I wish I could remember the app, it would be a nostalgia overload to see a screenshot of it again.
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Outside of Pate' style catfood, it seems my 15 year old Calico will only eat one thing. Cane's Chicken Strips. (A piece of the white meat, with the breading torn off.) She smells that arrive and goes crazy waiting. Even making sty
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I remember a Thai train slowing to a near standstill, followed by an excessive tilt to the side for a couple car lengths of movement, then back up to speed. Also remember lines of Thai people being stopped by a guard with a machine gun for
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Now imagine that the Chandra telescope has a 1.2 meter diameter aperture that those 19 photons passed through. That represents 1.13 square meters of light collecting area, peering into that expanding spherical wavefront at the point where i
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
ARMA game dev team?
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Speaking for myself and my coworkers, the numbers required for software engineers to pass will need to be set differently.
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Thinking back about it. I believe the MIDI specs were in the Roland TR505 drum machine docs
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I have seen ball lightning here in Alaska. One time, at night. Distance maybe 120 feet away. I watching a glowing orb perhaps 3 feet in diameter drift from the front of my parents garage towards their house before disappearing. An absolutel
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
My final project in a 1989 Electronics class was a MIDI interface for the IMSAI 8080 PC. I had various instruments mapped to each of the red/blue switches. Now thinking back about it, I wonder how the heck I got any information on MID
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
MIDI 1.0 is 38 years old, I wonder if that is some kind of record for a protocol standard. But, what about the years between with MIDI over USB? Is that fairly called MIDI 1.0 still no matter the transport mechanism?
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I have had great luck running ESP32 apps with the Arduino framework. Everything I have tried works. Admittedly I am only using GPIO, SPI bus displays, I2C sensors and displays, WIFI web servers serving REACT apps, WIFI posting to other web
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
Mercury by average. I've wondered in the past it we could land people on Mercury... at the right distance from the sunset terminator where the surroundings had cooled to, say 21 degrees C, (70F). With a 1408 (Earth) hour day, the landi
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by mikeInAlaska 3y ago
I remember sitting on my front deck with my telescope watching Mars for a couple hours. The local atmosphere settled and the planetary features and colors were amazing. After a while I kept noticing a speck appearing and disappearing off th
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by mikeInAlaska 4y ago
Interesting choice for the first Webb exoplanet at 41 light years distance. There are 11 stars within 10 light years of us. Does their choice mean that none of the closer stars have systems that are edge-on to us?
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by mikeInAlaska 4y ago
I had a fingernail infection that turned into cellulitis in December 2021. Doctors prescribed doxycycline and then bactrim when it failed to resolve. (This fixed the infection.) Shortly thereafter my ears started ringing 24/7 and it ha
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by mikeInAlaska 4y ago
I was surprised to see such sloppy/risky wiring for the Internet hookup along side such fine RF engineering.

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