robertfw

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   by robertfw 12y ago

   I found the Slingatron to be a particularly novel approach for launching small amounts of unmanned mass to LEO - I am curious to know what came of their concept. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391496725/the-s
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   I don't really see this, but perhaps it's because I've been spoiled by the light of tiling windows managers
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   Watching Adrianne dance brought tears to my eyes. I play wheelchair basketball and know many amputees who deal with fairly primitive prosthetics; I can only hope that further development and funding makes this technology available to everyo
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   This gave me a hell of a time the other day - I was perplexed as to what was happening and equally perplexed when it started to work again. This has definitely spurred me to take another look at my home networking, this kind of thing simply
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   Pretty much, the more magical (where magical=low weight + high capacity) the battery, the more flight time. At least on my fairly simple quad, the batteries are the most weighty item.
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   There was a blog post recently discussing what is left before a 1.0 release, and the timeline for it. I'm in the same boat as you and the blog post has been helpful because now I can at least feel comfortable learning some basics, whil
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   I'm also really disappointed with this announcement. I had been putting off learning Emacs because I told myself "don't bother, give ibdknox and friends some time to put some polish on LightTable, and you'll have a moder
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   I hadn't heard of Exit Enclaves before, when I looked it up in the docs [0] it appears that they are not going to be supported in versions > 0.2.3.x. [0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/d
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   by robertfw 12y ago

   I've looked at using Qtile before, but opted to go for I3 as it seemed to be a bit more mature. Would love to hear experiences/thoughts of anyone using this, I would love to switch to it and be able to leverage my existing python
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    Mission control is excellent background for playing Kerbal Space Program
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    Here is the game in question: http://www.revolution60.com/ The feedback in the article was spot on. The characters look decidedly anorexic.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    The need for more pervades everyone, it is not a matter of "I have spare cash, lets spend it!", our society revolves around the accumulation of crap. It is a broad cultural change that is needed, not a tax code tweak.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I find myself firehosing ideas all over the place. Knuckling down to execute on them is the tough bit.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    The article confirmed that the bones will be going back.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    Really nice interactive demo! Great work!
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    The article says that they are working on new hardware that will have a much larger fov and higher image quality. This current tech demo is using the existing hardware.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    This is absolutely true. But when money buys power, relative wealth becomes the important measure.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I can't recommend this video highly enough - it does a great job of showing the science fact instead of contemplating science fiction, illustrating how technology that we have in development NOW is going to impact our economy. I have a
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    Rising productivity has just put more money in precious few pockets. While I truly believe that this vision of the future is technically possible, I have little faith that it will be the future we end up with.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    This is something I've struggled with - I am always the cautious type. This is good advice I think for many projects , even those that are not quite moonshots.
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    It seems to be back up now. The cross check to make sure I didn't have enough money to actually buy something probably cleared to lift the block...
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    Site seems to be down?
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I wonder if something similar could be done with detecting specifically sized images?
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I agree - there is a big difference in process between maintaining < 10 and maintaining < 100 (i am at 10 right now and it feels full)
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I understand the optical fiber version, but the fractal version went flying right over my head. Can anyone give a simpler explanation?
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I highly recommend reading Chris Hadfield's book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth". He talks a lot about remaining calm under pressure, and how astronauts train to burn that mentality in. Beyond that, it's sim
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    FYI, Privacy badger is what caused my browser to whitescreen, as it was blocking the pass off to google docs
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    using super for the keyboard shortcuts is problematic, at least for me - super-enter for me opens a new terminal, and that appears to take precedence over the browser shortcut
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    I have been thinking a lot about what can be done in this space but have felt the need to find some smart people working on the field so I could get an entry point into existing work. This is exactly what I have been hoping for!
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    by robertfw 12y ago

    > Anyone with a working brain can realize for all the shit we are in now, barring a world shattering catastrophe we are better now than 50 or 100 or 500 or 2000 years ago. And same can be generally said of things 50,100,500 or 2000 years