morcheeba

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by morcheeba 4y ago
I've always seen GT programs as a special-needs for bright kids who would be bored to tears in a traditional school.
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by morcheeba 4y ago
The Magic Window word processor would display uppercase letters in inverse (black-on-white, instead of white-on-black)
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by morcheeba 4y ago
A friend of mine worked at this company, and the bane of his existence was one popular Arizona green tea bottle. The plastic and glass versions looked identical[1], so no way to sort it visually. Great for brand identity, bad downstream.
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by morcheeba 4y ago
I read it as not a clearance problem, but that the lawyer didn't know who Lou Reed and Debbie Harry were and didn't want to release music from some randos the developers had found.
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by morcheeba 4y ago
Yep. Apple came out with their own connector because USB Mini (where everyone else wanted to go) sucked. We got a robust, flippable connector. All in all, using only two kinds of connectors over 14 years (so far) seems far better than the
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by morcheeba 4y ago
Let's test it at the NREL National Wind Technology Center!
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I went to a small show, and literally every single person there had earplugs.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
What are your other ways?
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Besides the wiping, these connectors are missing two other features: ESD protection and connection-sequencing. Most user-facing connectors have a metal shield around them connected to frame ground. The idea is that any ESD shock goes safel
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Flying is far cheaper than Amtrak.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I'm echoing a couple of replies before me, but I'll give concrete examples - MP3, JPEG, and H.264 are all lossy task-specific compressions. Lossless compression includes FLAC and TIFF. For genetic data, HapZipper beats general-pu
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by morcheeba 5y ago
One of the earlier iPhone jailbreaks was a tiff image... complicated decompression/rendering algorithms leave room for implementation errors, which can be taken advantage of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I worked for a medical company that did RF tumor ablation. In Japan we sold a machine that cooked small tumors as an out-patient procedure, because their easy MRIs would spot them early. In the US, we sell more complicated machines that wo
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by morcheeba 5y ago
At least you can find the W221 button by feel (as one does when they don't want to take their eyes off the road). The w205 one doesn't stick out at all. https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/2021-mercedes-be
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by morcheeba 5y ago
What's in the video? A one-sentence summary would save everyone a lot of time.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I've done carbon fiber boat repair, and removal is pretty easy - lots of cutting and sanding. Applying a patch works pretty well - mechanical bonding to the roughed-up surface is pretty good, and even if the patch uses 2x the material
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Sure! Printers were slow and paper not an unlimited resource, so you can hide stuff that you don't need printed. For example, commonly-used macro definitions, SINE tables, or hardware drivers. It was just a tool to print only the stu
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by morcheeba 5y ago
That sounds like the old days, when game cartridges needed to have code that would cause a Sega or Nintendo trademark to appear. The courts did not provide trademark/copyright protection for access control codes. From Sega v. Accolade
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by morcheeba 5y ago
There are different kinds of training - it sounds like you got a good one, but it's not fully simulating a blown-door situation. There's a difference between less oxygen @12,000ft and the actual low pressure of 33,000ft: The high
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I think it's a step in the direction of personal freedom, because addictive substances are kinda the opposite of free will.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
>Even my robovac can detect when something is chocking the suction intake and shut down I'm not sure I want my plane to just shut down if it ingests something.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Ah, cool, that makes sense! If you need more power, I'd suggest a module like this one: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ptn78000a.pdf Switched capacitors are great for low currents, but inductors work
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by morcheeba 5y ago
The theory on this is correct, but the ICL7660 is not designed to provide the kind of current you'd need to run a 12W audio amplifier. It maxes out around 50mA - see figure 7 of the datasheet[1]. 50mA*17v = only 0.85W. Because I can&#
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by morcheeba 5y ago
That's a reference to clean room design - you don't want to be accused of stealing a competitor's design, so anyone with knowledge of that design is considered "tainted" and not allowed to work on your core systems
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Mighty neighborly of you to share the link!
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Yeah! There is a lot of processing to do the disparity calculation... it's basically doing lots of correlations with a different amount of x shift and finding the delta-x that has the highest correlation. This delta-x disparity gets ca
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by morcheeba 5y ago
The sad thing is that Intel had a real advantage in RealSense... they had good processors in there (especially with the Movidius chips) that were well integrated (e.g. they didn't have to support a fancy SDK for all users - just the in
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by morcheeba 5y ago
PRN (Pseudorandom noise) in the context of GPS is just a coding standard - it's just CDMA (aka Spread Spectrum) and it allows all satellite to use the same frequency. A side benefit is that the signals can be below the noise floor, an
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by morcheeba 5y ago
Yep, that bring-your-own-tv is the model the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and the Atari 800 all used -- good to see that reuse is still alive.
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by morcheeba 5y ago
I had the opposite experience. My macbook air battery was dying, so I paid the $129 to replace it. When I got the computer back, it wouldn't charge. So, they replaced the motherboard. I got it back and it still wouldn't charge - s

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