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by nacnud 9y ago
Riding one of those, galloping along at 70mph, would be quite something. (I guess it's the legged-equivalent of a motorbike?) You'd have to have a lot of trust..
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by nacnud 10y ago
Now you just need a little robot to fetch the things from your basement and put them into a vacuum-tube delivery system.. :)
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by nacnud 10y ago
Please write this up in a few months to share your experiences.
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by nacnud 10y ago
I do the same. A few years ago, I heard a small plane and looked out our skylight. There was a big black storm cloud behind the plane and I remember thinking the pilot was lucky to be outrunning it. I flicked on the cheap aviation radio
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by nacnud 10y ago
Your description sounds like a very intelligent cache/proxy. When my AI can talk directly to your AI, we can transfer mail etc without cloud services. If it knows our social network, perhaps it can remotely store encrypted backups of
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by nacnud 10y ago
True, but it still would be a step in the right direction for home users.
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by nacnud 10y ago
As system administrator of my home network, it worries me that a device on my network might be involved in an attack like this, and I would never know. Maybe the target of such an attack could gather a list of IP addresses used in the attac
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by nacnud 10y ago
Ok, but one step at a time! :)
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by nacnud 10y ago
Could this be combined with Theo Jansen's Strandbeest idea, to make a machine that (very) slowly melts a glass road through the desert, powered only by the sun and the wind? [1] http://www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest&
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by nacnud 10y ago
Thanks! The target area is approximately 250 miles equidistant from Iceland & Norway, so it's feasible that one of these boats could cover the entire area (under ideal conditions).
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by nacnud 10y ago
Maybe the disappearance of the transponder signal could trigger another method of investigation, e.g. visual tracking via Planet Labs network of satellites.
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by nacnud 10y ago
Given that the antennae are at surface level and the aircraft are probably between 25,000ft and 40,000ft, I wonder what the ideal maximum range of the receivers would be?
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by nacnud 10y ago
Great work! When (roughly) do you expect it to be launched, and will we be able to receive signals with a Raspberry Pi + Tv Tuner SDR stick? :)
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by nacnud 10y ago
China has Tiangong-1 [1], which is their first step towards a space station. You can spot it with the naked eye [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1 [2] http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37820
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by nacnud 10y ago
Yep, Juno's orbit will take it much closer than this, so we should expect more interesting photos in about a month's time.
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by nacnud 10y ago
Juno is in a highly elliptical orbit, which will take it within 5000km of Jupiter's cloud tops. This photo was taken from much further away than that. In short, check back in about a month. :)
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by nacnud 10y ago
Not everywhere in the world.
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by nacnud 10y ago
A fair few raspberry-pi tutorials seem to prefer Nano, for users new to Linux.
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by nacnud 10y ago
TANSTAAFL
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by nacnud 11y ago
Amongst other languages, it runs microPython. Documentation here: http://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index....
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by nacnud 11y ago
Seems to say "Loading.." indefinitely. (Probably because I'm behind a corp firewall/proxy)
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by nacnud 11y ago
Fascinating reading. This is probably of interest to the wider HN crowd.
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by nacnud 11y ago
My favourite filename trick on Windows is to create a file called "1", then rename it using Windows Explorer using Alt-255 to create a blank character (not a space, but looks like a space).
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by nacnud 11y ago
Crash helmets? (a layer inside, not the whole thing, obviously..)
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by nacnud 11y ago
Interesting - what software are you using to do the recognition (if I may ask)?
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by nacnud 11y ago
Not necessarily American; fresh drinking water is becoming scarcer across the world [1] and therefore even more valuable. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727435/
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by nacnud 11y ago
> Private photography by individuals that can't realistically pool their recordings is something entirely different. Thought experiment: what if we could?
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by nacnud 11y ago
I guess I was thinking more about smaller GA aircraft, but thanks for the detailed reply.
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by nacnud 11y ago
Surely the landing gear, wing spar attachments, and brakes all have to be able to cope with an unexpected turnback and landing with most of the original weight? (not to mention heavy landings in adverse weather conditions)
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by nacnud 11y ago
Was that because it worked, or because you couldn't? :)

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