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by nippoo 7y ago
I spent a day at the Huaqiangbei market and honestly there's very little like it in the world. I didn't go in looking for anything in particular, but left with all sorts of tools and parts that I didn't even know I needed. A
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by nippoo 7y ago
The interesting thing with this example in particular is that the audio output from the radio is already very well-gated thanks to an RF squelch (ie muted until a high enough RF level or pilot tone is detected - otherwise it would sound lik
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TextSynth – GPT-2 1.5B online synthesiser(textsynth.org)
2 points by nippoo 7y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 7y ago
One of the big hurdles with full legalisation / taxation which you're suggesting (as opposed to decriminalisation) is how to deal with the approval processes for future substances. Do you just grandfather in a certain number of ex
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by nippoo 7y ago
Trains are about 15 gCO2/(km*pax), cars are around 100, planes are around 280, and ships are around 250. [1] So ships (with their much greater friction) definitely aren't the answer! [1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/m
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by nippoo 7y ago
I was at the World Scrabble Championships in Prague a few years ago (with Nigel Richards). The amazing thing was how many of the highest-level Scrabble players were Thai and spoke barely any English. There are about 200,000 words in the Scr
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by nippoo 7y ago
This might be mildly annoying for car navigation systems. But nothing compared to the potential danger for aviation: several published instrument approaches are now GPS-only! Reminds me of how NASA wouldn't fly the Shuttle over New Yea
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by nippoo 7y ago
An obvious marketable application for this is location tracking. Advertisers could embed more detailed positional information into audio / video advertising and use apps to get more granular information on who’s listening to it. A logi
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by nippoo 7y ago
Sadly the premise that it operates on a thermal principle has been pretty much debunked - it operates on electromagnetism, due to the induced EMF when the ball bearing rotates through a magnetic field caused by the current through it. Here’
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by nippoo 7y ago
Sadly the premise that it operates on a thermal principle has been pretty much debunked - it operates instead on electromagnetism, due to the induced EMF when the ball bearing rotates through a magnetic field caused by the current through i
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NwAvGuy: The Audio Genius Who Vanished (2014)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by nippoo 7y ago
As a fair comparison, has anyone tried spoofing a car GPS with a human driver? If my satnav tried to tell me to exit off the highway (falsely) in 0.2 miles, you’d probably see me “signalling unnecessarily” and changing lanes at incorrect lo
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by nippoo 7y ago
As it happens - neither is a day, or even an hour. The exceptions are rarer, which only makes bugs even more insidious when they do happen (like dealing with leap-seconds, for example. Some hours have 3601 seconds!). ie: https://
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ThinkGeek closes website, moves in with GameStop(gamesindustry.biz)
19 points by nippoo 7y ago|6 comments
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by nippoo 7y ago
Yes; improvisation should be taught more, but learning and deconstructing pieces by other people is an excellent way of doing it, in the same way that learning a language is often best done by listening and deconstructing what native spea
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by nippoo 7y ago
> Well, when did left wing anybody engage in violence against right wing anything? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_...
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by nippoo 7y ago
As a side-note: 95th percentile latency statistics are pretty meaningless at this scale. With a million requests per second, a 95th percentile latency of 10ms still means that 50,000 requests per second are slower than that.
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by nippoo 7y ago
The big advantage of the digital “glass cockpits” was the ability to reduce needed flight crew from 3 to 2. Before the -400, all 747 flights would have a captain, first officer and a flight engineer (sitting behind the two pilots, monitorin
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by nippoo 8y ago
The maths behind this kind of fusion of different data sources is also pretty beautiful. Kalman filters ( https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture... ) are similar to the sensor fusion community what
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by nippoo 8y ago
The Blackberry KEY2 sounds like exactly what you’re looking for!
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by nippoo 8y ago
This is increasingly untrue. RNAV/PNAV approaches are increasingly being flown - which are exclusively satellite-based navigation, and, at smaller airports, “traditional” approaches based on ground instrumentation are being phased out
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by nippoo 9y ago
You're assuming that the water cools instantly and you're always wasting the run from the boiler to the fixtures. This isn't the case: the big advantage of the zoned approach is that the trunk will remain warm if you're
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Ask HN: Best distraction-free phone platform?
2 points by nippoo 9y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 9y ago
Except all Linux distros rely on the Linux kernel and repackage a vast number of GNU utilities which are maintained by... hundreds and hundreds of engineers. If GNU/Linux were to die, so would all the distros, because it’s far too much
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by nippoo 9y ago
The most odd bit about that UCL password policy is that it said "your password change has been submitted and may take up to 24 hours to take effect." To this day I'm not sure if they were just displayed in cleartext and someo
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by nippoo 9y ago
(That's what throwaways are for!)
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by nippoo 10y ago
The solution to this - for PINs and passwords at least - is to scramble the keyboard layout. It's slow, but if you're typing in a 6-digit PIN it doesn't take that long.
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by nippoo 10y ago
In an emergency the helicopter can just drop the load: the pilot can release the hook and fly away. Unlike carrying a casualty, this is unlikely to be anywhere near as dangerous. If the tower is somewhat bolted on, it'll probably stick
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by nippoo 10y ago
Rate limiting APIs?
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by nippoo 10y ago
Has anyone found a reliable way of blocking websites / apps (ideally on a time-restricted basis) on iPhone? Short of routing all your traffic through a remote SOCKS proxy. I'm tempted to move to Android just to customise my /

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