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by planteen 10y ago
Doesn't look like it, Wikipedia says a W87 is 440-600 lbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87
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by planteen 10y ago
Tracking is not difficult for groups of amateurs with telescopes. Considering that you are up against large foreign states with extensive radar and optical detection facilities, it is mostly a lost cause. Satellites have enormous solar pane
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by planteen 10y ago
SpaceX rockets like CRS-10 are carrying upper stages and the Dragon capsule full of cargo
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by planteen 10y ago
20 hours of work? Are you kidding me? You are going to need to spin the PCB, re-validate signal integrity, deal with the situation of purchasing over 100k of the part, re-tool your manufacturing setup, make whatever software changes are req
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by planteen 10y ago
> Nintendo's hardware had never failed to be slightly disappointing to anybody expecting something anywhere near the cutting edge. I'd argue the N64 was cutting edge when it was released.
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by planteen 10y ago
My advice would be to make sure you have more than 1 card. There will be a fraudulent purchase at some point leading to a card re-issue. You don't want to be dead in the water for a few days while that happens!
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by planteen 10y ago
My first CS class in college taught was in Scheme. I have a feeling this would be a very useful instructional tool.
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by planteen 10y ago
I completely agree you shouldn't invest from "liking" something. But it's an interesting proposition to buy their products to support them when they lose money on every car sold.
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by planteen 10y ago
I used CORDIC on a FPGA a few years ago to compute atan2.
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by planteen 10y ago
I guess I took your statement, "because there's no kerning (each character takes up equal space)" to mean "no kerning means each character takes up equal space". Maybe that's not what you meant with those paren
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by planteen 10y ago
I've also seen CPLDs used to recover from board layout mistakes.
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by planteen 10y ago
Yes, it's true that there are issues. It seems like most Microsoft apps handle multi-DPI well. By comparison, on Fedora 25 (the latest release), the only program I have found that handles multi-DPI is Terminal. Firefox doesn't do
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by planteen 10y ago
Widows 10 handles different scaling (zoom) between monitors far better than any Linux distro I have used. A window keeps the zoom of where it came from until it is entirely on the new monitor. Works pretty well.
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by planteen 10y ago
Past 3 companies?!? What? How do you handle diodes, LEDs, batteries, and electrolytic caps? Those are also two terminal devices with polarity. Heck how did you even build cables correctly? I've worked with voltage regulators from Linea
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by planteen 10y ago
I've had the pleasure of working with some great a Linux sysadmins. I had a great relationship with them as a developer. Another developer hated them and treated them poorly. Do you think they would help him out after hours if they wer
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by planteen 10y ago
Missile squadrons also have creepy patches. Like this: http://m.ebay.com/itm/221802923522?_mwBanner=1
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by planteen 10y ago
Just as another data point, CenturyLink in Denver offers gigabit to your home with fiber. Considering most people don't have 10g NICs at home, I think it is a pretty good offering.
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by planteen 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation and glad to hear that space is slowly moving towards metric.
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by planteen 10y ago
What makes you say that? I've worked for two spacecraft companies in the US who supply parts (and whole spacecraft) to NASA. Both of them did drawings for small parts in mils (thous) for both electrical and mechanical parts. It seems l
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by planteen 10y ago
Bison are raised in the US too. There are more bison in the US than Canada. As another said, most bison on ranches are cross bred with cattle. I have heard that bison are more aggressive than cattle. http://canadianbison.ca/
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by planteen 10y ago
It's very likely that the mechanical drawings were in inches for the machinists, even for NASA. The scientists are using metric units.
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by planteen 10y ago
5 minutes would be fine. But sometimes it was more like 45 minutes to an hour. You wonder if a cab is ever going to show up. That's why I started using the apps - you know the driver can get in touch with you and you can see where the
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by planteen 10y ago
Way more than that. The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine produces over 200,000 ounces of gold per year. Not to mention countless closed mines that are probably yet to be played out.
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah, and which of those go through rain? The atmosphere blocks lots of wavelengths outside of visible light. Rain fade is huge above 11 GHz. Good luck imaging a person from orbit at a low RF frequency. http://www.geo.mtu.edu&#x2
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by planteen 10y ago
What if he hid it on a cloudy/rainy/snowy/foggy day?
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by planteen 10y ago
Do you know of a large C (or C++) open source project that follows the rule of no headers included in headers? I'd like to take a peek at its source.
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah I agree splitting functionality into separate headers is a good idea. But I feel like the rule "don't include headers in headers" is good advice in lots of situations. Redis is often thrown around as an example of an exc
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by planteen 10y ago
>>Simple rule: include files should never include include files. > Yes, please! Let's say I have a C++ class defined in a header that uses std::string. So I require that anyone who uses my header already has <string> inc
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by planteen 10y ago
Posts like this are what keep me coming back to HN.
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by planteen 10y ago
Huh? Ecuador uses the US dollar and issues their own coins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_centavo_coins Americans were able to trade fine in the past when a penny had far more purchasing power. Other count

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