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by planteen 9y ago
I've seen one total and one annular. Though an annular eclipse is not nearly as dramatic, I imagine a person outdoors a few thousand years ago would have noticed it. It looks as if it is sunset (golden hour type colors) and shadows loo
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by planteen 9y ago
80-10-10 loans are quite popular right now from talking with friends.
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by planteen 9y ago
So it sounds like you are proposing a way of doing audiograms at home. I don't think this is the most significant cost of hearing aids. What is the average cost of an audiogram, maybe $100? You can already buy hearing aids online if yo
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by planteen 9y ago
That's an interesting idea. You are missing the part where an audiologist inspects your ear to see if there is a ton of earwax, infection, or other foreign body. There is also more test equipment than that often goes with a hearing tes
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by planteen 9y ago
That isn't how it works at all. It is far more than an audiologist "fiddling with a GUI". The audiologist first does a hearing test, which is gives an audiogram which is a gain versus frequency plot that takes into account eq
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by planteen 9y ago
Or you know, actually sleeping in a tent or in the open instead of a car.
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by planteen 9y ago
That sounds more like glamping than camping. I go camping and backpacking to get away from technology. I can get a far better view of the stars by sleeping in the open in the desert in summer.
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by planteen 9y ago
There's tons of oil under the ocean. See deep sea drilling and oil platforms.
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by planteen 9y ago
GW = gravitational wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_obs...
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by planteen 9y ago
The picture of his machine shows it on tile. Maybe they were referring to his office adjacent to the lab?
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by planteen 9y ago
Most 8-bit systems perform poorly with C compilers so you are looking at writing in ASM. Additionally, there are all kinds of messy things like "mappers" on NES and GB to handle bank switching of the severely limited address space
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by planteen 9y ago
It doesn't seem like you really did anything wrong in that case.
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by planteen 9y ago
Did you have different credentials you were supposed to be using?
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by planteen 9y ago
I completely agree - most often the spec is wrong. For example, it doesn't matter if you have a completely correct implementation of Euler angles for a control system. If gimbal lock wasn't considered in the spec, you are going to
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by planteen 9y ago
That's a theory called Modified Newton Dynamics (MOND). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
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by planteen 9y ago
The alternative is optical which is superior to radio waves at planetary distances and further from the perspective of NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/techn...
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by planteen 9y ago
The general word for these laws are blue laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law I live in Colorado and bizarrely buying cars on Sunday is prohibited. One "nice" thing about this law is you can go walk a
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by planteen 9y ago
There is also a sensor stack for different wavelengths that is actually realized, not a pipe dream like the article makes it seem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor
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by planteen 9y ago
What makes you think commercial fruits & vegetables are any different? Nearly every farm has tons of feral cats around.
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by planteen 9y ago
Yeah last time I used Vivado a couple years ago, version control on the project was a nightmare. Reproducible builds seem to be a problem with stock FPGA synthesis tools in general.
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by planteen 9y ago
We've had FPGA with CPU for 5 years or so on Xilinx Zynq. :)
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by planteen 9y ago
To be fair, you couldn't get a solar roof delivered in the next month like you could a traditional one. From their site "Initial trial installations are complete and undergoing evaluation, customer installations are about to start
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by planteen 9y ago
I can't quickly find a source, but back of the envelope is there have been 134 Soyuz manned missions. The number of people varies 1-3, most often 3 but occasionally 2. There were 135 Shuttle manned missions. Number there varied between
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by planteen 9y ago
So say we boost things to 1,000 passengers, cost of full fare is $5000 so people are willing to pay $10,000. Assume passengers and luggage average out to 200 lbs/passenger. You are looking at a revenue per launch of $50/lb. Sure,
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by planteen 9y ago
Are you looking at failures per mission or fatalities per person-trip? I thought the shuttle and Soyuz were very close on the fatalities per person-trip metric.
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by planteen 9y ago
Latest claim: "elonmusk Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that." https://www.instagram.c
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by planteen 9y ago
If Android is on a camera, I want some sort of a hypervisor situation where it does not interfere with real-time operations. My Canon T4i will very responsively snap a picture once I have locked the focus, aperture, and shutter speed. I do
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by planteen 9y ago
What's not convincing about their argument about Vulkan not being supported on mobile? In my experience with embedded systems, that is true. They even discuss working with OGLES2 where OGLES3 is unavailable. Even within OGLES3, I have
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by planteen 9y ago
Presumably Russia would not be pleased if NK launched a missile over it. NK is aiming for the Pacific over Japan in the latest tests. So what do you mean "direct" over the Pacific? Direct to the continental US? NK can't hit t
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by planteen 9y ago
I think they follow great circle routes. LGM-30 deployments all cross Russia & China to NK: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=fnj-cys/mot/gtf

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