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Ask HN: Cheap, Hackable Drones (For Photogrammetry)?
5 points by peatmoss 4y ago|1 comments
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Trade embargoes happen somewhat regularly. It would be absurd to suggest that refusing to sell materials to a geopolitical adversary is remotely comparable to an invasion that kills over a couple thousand people. Also, US relations with Jap
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Comparing use of nuclear weapons in Japan to allowing russia to, uncontested, wage a war of invasion against Ukraine is silly. Japan started a war of aggression with the United States. We, as people with the benefit of hindsight, probably a
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Yes, easily. But I prefer carbon steel for this.
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I found an old cast iron pan at a second hand store that was antique (i.e. ground smooth). After cooking on the old one, I went out and bought some flap disks to stick on a drill and polish my modern lodge. It does work better. But not as g
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I have just started a business recycling peoples' cast iron. Please ship me your offcasts, and I'll sure that they are re-seasoned and re-released into the wild. Jokes aside, you can buy some flax oil, wipe it on thin, and let the
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Side benefit, you get an ergonomic pan. I was gifted a couple a couple of carbon steel egg pans when a friend of a friend closed a restaurant, and I was like, "ah these are pans that need to be comfortable through a shift, not look shi
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Ask HN: Did Firefox with Snap on Ubuntu recently improve startup times?
2 points by peatmoss 4y ago|1 comments
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I believe the engine vega-lite can create an svg, which is pretty easily converted to eps/pdf etc.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Impressive release. I love the pragmatic approach of targeting Vega-Lite to get powerful plotting out of the gates.
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I gather that kefir grains are like big balls of mud, picking up lots of varieties of microbes. Over time, however, I’d guess that the number of strains might deteriorate due to more homogeneous growing medium and controlled kitchen environ
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> I’m 3 days into the tablet and will soon start experimenting with culturing for yoghurt. I’ve heard tell of people “training” kefir grains to uptake other strains of bacteria through repeated exposure during the culturing process. I wo
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'd love to see a US presidential debate where each side represented their opponent's position, and the US electorate were somehow willing to make a quality understanding of the other sides' positions a key judgement criteria
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I’m already spectacularly in the marketing cohort for all things woodworking. It’s possible Chris is buying SEO and marketing, but given his self-described anti-corporate anarchism, I sort of doubt it.
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Strange that this came up on HN. I do hand tool woodworking and respect Chris Schwarz a lot (have a few of his books). I had not seen this gizmo before. I’m curious to try it now. Looks like it’s still sold at Lee Valley.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I was just thinking to myself, that if my commute looked like this, I would probably not commute.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I still find myself reflexively mistrustful of Wayland because there's no real multi-OS implementation. Apart from some Steam games, there's nothing tying me to Linux as opposed to e.g. OpenBSD.
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I have a 16GB M1 laptop and my colleague has an 8GB M1 laptop of the same model. Guess which one of us has to be selective about number of browser tabs and other apps that can be open. I don’t mean to be glib here, but I honestly don’t know
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'm not sure I read the same thing. I think this misses the late point, that if empiricism can have weakness, what is its alternative?
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Integrated graphics is a big deal. I was talking to a friend just this morning who has been waiting to buy a Framework until there is a gaming capable option. Intel integrated graphics isn't viable, but AMD integrated graphics meet a c
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This has me thinking of how stovepiped Javascript + HTML + CSS apps are. Sure, you can do anything, but there are some things that are just easy. The current web feels like a progression of a few people figuring out a new trick, and then ev
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Love that you implemented Fafi in Racket. Seems like a perfect use!
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Creative BT-W3: I have one and it works exactly as it says on the tin. The only slightly annoying thing is that, once a headset is paired to the dongle, it is like The Highlander. There can be only one. It will snatch the connection to your
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Arguably, Guido was in a great position to be thinking about concurrency in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
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I wonder if ingestion of relatively large amounts of robust probiotics would have helped. I've tended kefir grains off and on for the last 20 years or so, and have read that the curd that forms from kefir remains intact a bit deeper in
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Well let's flip this around: do you think you could write a performant minimal Python in a weekend? Scheme is a very simple and elegant idea. Its power derives from the fact that smart people went to considerable pains to distill compu
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Compared to most Scheme implementations?
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That's fair, but also the fact that we're comparing hobby scheme implementations to two mainstream extremely popular implementations of Python and setting up conditions that forces (hobby) Scheme to play to Python's relative
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If it's an exaggeration, it's not much of one. Two parts to your argument: - Writing a Scheme implementation quickly: Google "Write a Scheme in 48 hours" and "Scheme from scratch." 48 hours to a functioning Sch
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Spending a weekend or two writing a Scheme that beats Python in performance has been a pastime for computer science students for at least a couple decades now. I'm not sure that I believe that a performant Scheme implementation has mor

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