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by mojomark 7y ago
> I don't think anyone expects price parity -- but I'd expect at least basic features to work? I only worked on the LPD platform for a brief period of time, but as anyone in industry knows, the LPD-17 Class does indeed "wo
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by mojomark 7y ago
Hello PMS 317 support! The reason we checked ALL of those welds is one of the many many reasons why U.S. ships will remain afloat and remain 'in the fight' in time of war while other's won't. Protecting your country isn&
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by mojomark 7y ago
As someone who has worked in both commercial ship and U.S. defense ship design and construction for over 20 years, this is one of the most absurd and uninformed write-ups I've ever seen. VLCC's (an example of a commercial ship or
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by mojomark 7y ago
SeaTrain is not a new idea, but certainly viable. We actually built one last decade for another agency and it works well. There are other great ideas floating around (no pun intended) that DARPA simply takes a long time to act on, but I sup
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by mojomark 7y ago
It's like taking a tour of the Smithsonian, but only being allowed to view it through a paper towel tube.
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Some of my best ideas come whilst doing dog poop sweeps out of my yard. ... I know
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Interesting. For my data mining class I took NYC Open data - merging temporal Crime Data and Capital Expenditure data by geographic district/precinct, to see if there was evidence that spending money in a region had a positive impact o
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by mojomark 7y ago
In Light Emitting Diodes, electrons move across the electron transport layer, while "hole" particles move through the hole transport, where they meet at the heterojunction to combine and emit photon particles. Holes aren't re
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by mojomark 7y ago
Related G-CNN video: https://youtu.be/wZWn7Hm8osA
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Ask HN: NF; Lost in Space, S2:E1, 15:30 and Reinforcement Learning
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Ask HN: NF; Lost in Space, S2:E1, 15:30 and Reinforcement Learning
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by mojomark 7y ago
Monti's a priori knowledge absolutely matters and should have been stated in the article. If he had no knowledge beforehand about which door the prize was behind, then you would have to expand the probability table to include cases in
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by mojomark 7y ago
LinkedIn - didn't care for the phony endorsements from colleagues on specific skills. Never joined Facebook, twitter, etc. I keep tabs on my regions physical and mental state via Nextdoor.
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> I will also take a moment to rant about the fact that YouTube allows you to select from a bevy of lower resolutions, but doesn’t allow you to select a lower frame rate. Many times I would rather watch a 1080p30 video on slower hardware
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by mojomark 7y ago
Cheese and rice: "HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an LSD trip." Cards kind of sound like MongoDB documents.
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by mojomark 7y ago
Well, the crazy thing is, the underlying technology that ML was originally based on (i.e. U. Of Wahington's HIT lab VRD), is absolutely a leading approach in the path to AR. I personally think it's what will ultimately make AR the
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by mojomark 7y ago
I live in a city and have used my pick-up truck for 15yrs constantly to move furniture, haul trash to the dump, and bulk material (mulch, dirt, sand, pavers, etc) for myself and friends. It's a major time and money saver. Yes, parking
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by mojomark 7y ago
Article retitle" Some Humans..."
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by mojomark 7y ago
My commute is an 1.5 hrs each way, mostly by train. My industry still expects 8hr work days minimum (yes, it's archaic and annoying). I work on the train (2 hrs total) and only spend 6hrs in the office.
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by mojomark 7y ago
Nice work. I wonder if the animals wonder if they're really just living in a simulation designed and run by a superior intelligence for entertainment:)
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by mojomark 7y ago
You will need the resources to build it eventually. You can easily protect yourself from an individual entity stealing your ideas using a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Not always, but in general, a proof of concept prototype (built in par
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by mojomark 7y ago
I partially agree. It's not feasible to expect the patent examiner to reduce a technology to practice, primarily because a lot of physical technology requires very expensive equipment and some skill to master (chemical vapor deposition
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by mojomark 7y ago
This!!! I've told everyone who'd listen for years that an electric motor is the better option for a pickup trucks due to the more appropriate matching of the torque curve to the hauling load demands. When my beloved '00 Ram 1
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by mojomark 7y ago
I took a look and found plenty of semi-insulators out there, but no peep about what association those materials have to do with taming the gravitational force - or am I missing the point?
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by mojomark 7y ago
I see a number of folks saying this site ran flawlessly on their phones (and it did on my LG G7, chrome browser), but lags on laptops in various browsers. Seriously, what is going on here? This tangent is related, but slightly off-topic...
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by mojomark 7y ago
I grew up in MD and didnçt hear about the coal mine wars (1) until last year, which However, it could have been fairly important and impactful history for the region. However, I could have very well just not been paying attention. 1.) http
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by mojomark 7y ago
Related: International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules for garbage discharge overboard from ships... http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/PollutionPreventio...
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by mojomark 7y ago
Thanks for the link. Aside from the OP article's basic regurgitation of prior (perhaps stale - I couldn't read it either being behind a "sign-in wall"), the Smithsonian author clearly didn't view it as a race agains
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by mojomark 7y ago
> These types of systems are generally not competitive with PV for electricity, since they require a lot of concentrated solar energy thus limiting the options for deployment. > However, they are great for generating heat. And with he
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I know, it seems that way, but one can hope.

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