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by nom 6y ago
Only until they undock it from the rover, then it will have to survive on it's solar panel! It's also probably the 'coolest' linux ever as temps can go down to -100°C on Mars at night and they are only heating the batter
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by nom 6y ago
Here [0] is the paper describing the hardware of Ingenuity in more detail Things that stand out to me: It uses mostly off-the-shelf electronic components that are only automotive/industrial grade! - 2.26 GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 801 -
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by nom 6y ago
easy, you just display both prices with a fat title 'Hurry up! Price will be 25% higher in 12 minutes" If this doesn't exist already, it will soon.
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by nom 6y ago
Can't wait for artificial rectums to produce cube shaped pellets of stuff for me! No but in all seriousness, it's truly fascinating how nature created it and what we might be able to learn from it. Wombat poop always makes for an
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by nom 6y ago
First of all, thank you so much for your amazing software! Second, are my files bitrotting or has the quality of some decoding plugins degraded over time? I mostly observe issues with WMV and MKV files that I don't see in other players
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by nom 6y ago
IIRC the drinking age on private property in the UK is 5 years. So there is a limit :P
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by nom 6y ago
All the vintage mainframe stuff is pretty mind blowing. There is an awesome hidden gem on YouTube: CPU Galaxy. He has a huge collection of vintage CPUs. IBM 9121 Mainframe CPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7lVfOi7su4 Dav
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by nom 6y ago
Cool, but why go through all this trouble? A simple website would do the same job. I really don't understand where this constant urge for things like crazy animations comes from. Just built a simple website that provides the content us
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by nom 6y ago
I never understood why people hate IKEA. Yes it's cheap. Yes it doesn't last a lifetime. Yes it needs a lot of wood. Yes it's highly optimized. But guess what, IKEA is a business responding to the needs of people. The negativ
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by nom 6y ago
It's always so sad to see when someone can't express their thoughts in a way that others can comprehend it :(
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by nom 6y ago
For the bulges you have to consider that most people use phone cases, which gives the designers a bit more room. On laptops you can either create a bump on the backside of the lid, which looks weird as the use of it is not obvious, or you c
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by nom 6y ago
I think it's more than just stuff being cheap and available. It was also a very special time, the internet was new and not everyone had access to it or knew how to use it. Showing off your modded case was a huge accomplishment - not on
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by nom 6y ago
I ran moddingpower.de. Man, this brings back memories... I remember talking to someone from casemodder.de on ICQ trying to partner with them but we got into some silly argument so it never happened. Do you remember case-gallery, pc-max and
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by nom 6y ago
Anyone here who was into case modding back in the 2000s? I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago. We put windows in our boring grey computer cases and bought blue LEDs for 2 EUR a piece to light up the intern
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by nom 6y ago
... and thousands of pages and even more legacy redirects to manage, several new landing pages for campaigns and SEO every week written by non-technical people, localized content in 15 languages integrated with a translation backend, integr
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by nom 6y ago
Oh man, I wanted this to contain much more details :( Whats the hardware? How much electric energy goes into rendering a frame or a whole movie? How do they provision it (as they keep #cores fixed)? They only talk about cores, do they even
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by nom 6y ago
For the same reason we call the PDP-8 a minicomputer and the C64 a microcomputer. It's smaller than what came before it. Then we realized it will continue to get smaller and after nano it will sound stupid so we stopped
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by nom 6y ago
Having met several people taking calls on similar numbers (in European countries though) and also called a few times myself, I can tell you: They help more than you can imagine. Most callers are not suicidal, they just need someone empathet
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by nom 6y ago
If your regulator valves close completely when target temp is reached, this should work: - Set target temp for each room. - Implement 2-step control using min(current_temps[]) and max(current_temps[]) So basically: - if any room is below se
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by nom 6y ago
I wonder if it ever had a positive impact on sales. It seemed so overkill, even back then, and today even more so. The idea was nice but imagine the additional costs for hardware development and also for software. Seems so silly nowadays.
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by nom 6y ago
We have a microwave at work, I used it once and it took me 5 minutes do actually make it do something. It is like someone just slapped some buttons and dials and a display on there without thought and created some twisted logic just to anno
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by nom 6y ago
If you would've lead in with your background I might have been more careful ;) Just rubbed me the wrong way the way you wrote it, so i wrote my response in a similar manner. Good software is equally intricate and complex as many other
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by nom 6y ago
>I love that there are so few limits in "software world." I'd love to visit that world you live in. Software development is nothing but a huge heap of trade-offs based on limitation of all kinds. Money, time, quality, re u
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by nom 6y ago
You watch quadmovr [0] and google all the weird words in the video titles :D 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wsa7StHaY
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by nom 6y ago
I'm imagining James Randi finding himself in an afterlife. He is more than surprised and investigates it deeply, very happy to finally get an answer to many questions. One day, he hears a distorted voice, coming out of nothing - it&#x2
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by nom 6y ago
Yeah that was worded badly, I didn't want to imply that it will outlive those languages. The thought was more about "it's a dead and obsolete language" uttered by developers that jump from one language/framework to
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by nom 6y ago
Whenever COBOL or Fortran is mentioned, it is met with so much criticism. Such an archaic ugly language. OMG why didn't they replace it with C#/JAVA/whatever yet. Who would learn an obsolete language? It's a dead end as
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by nom 6y ago
So it was easier to add an instruction in silicon to cater for an ill-designed programming language, than to change the language itself? I mean, if float-to-integer performance is so critical, why was this not fixed a long time ago in the
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by nom 6y ago
It's not only Tesla, there are of course several big players lobbying against it. In the most disgusting way. There are ads running in Massachusetts that tell you if Question 1 passes, everyone can access your data and you will get sta
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by nom 6y ago
We work harder? Seriously? Most of the time in human history people were struggling to even stay alive. You had to work until you got enough food to feed your family, or you'd die. Live was not great, it was very stressful and ineffici

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