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by samplatt 7y ago
Recent revisions means that Bluetooth isn't as thirsty as it used to be. I have a smartwatch and spend ~90min a day on bluetooth headphones and there's no real difference than when I'm not using them. Of course maybe the fact
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by samplatt 7y ago
>A big red light on the master-warning panel in the rear cockpit had illuminated just as we rotated, stating, “Pilot Ejected.” Fortunately, the cause was a misadjusted microswitch, not my departure. "Misadjusted switch". The ej
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by samplatt 7y ago
It's much more statistically likely to happen closer to the center of the galaxy, where there is a much higher density of both star systems and black holes. Charles Stross' book Incandescence is about (amongst other things) a ra
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by samplatt 7y ago
>mary-celeste servers That is a wonderful term for it, and a delicious mental image.
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by samplatt 7y ago
>If you compare Mavic 2 Pro to Phantom 4 Pro, then the only arguable advantage the latter has is the mechanical shutter. Quite false. Although the resolution isn't different, the camera sensor in the phantom is twice the size and
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by samplatt 7y ago
Switzerland is much smaller than the US, and absolutely jam-packed with gorgeous areas that would work with with drone photography.
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by samplatt 7y ago
The vitamins in multivitamins have to come from somewhere. It's much cheaper & easier to engineer an organism to provide these vitamins all in one go, rather than having a whole suite of plants and animals that produce these differ
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by samplatt 7y ago
His name is Patsy, as stated by Graham Chapman with "[...] and this is my trusty servant, Patsy." noun: patsy; plural noun: patsies a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. So
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by samplatt 7y ago
>The WWW that was created to share scientific papers? Most of the citizens of the western world (even those with a degree) definitely pidgeon-hole expensive university projects as "toys", because they don't have one and
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by samplatt 7y ago
Just because the universe is expanding at c doesn't mean everything inside it is getting bigger at c . Due to the way mass curves spacetime, mass stays more or less the same size (in comparison to the rest of the empty universe, any
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by samplatt 7y ago
Birds (especially large birds) inherited a long line of large, fast-moving, bipedal predator ancestors. We don't really have that; primates evolved ~55Mya, and before that we were mostly rodent-ish animals which depended on being small
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by samplatt 7y ago
Rural WA'ian here. There's plenty of rumours of a "panther" around Nannup; no US Airmen story, it was just a really big black feral cat the size of a panther. From what I've seen personally, feral gets can get BIG.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Re-read these comments; there's lots of links to better sources/images.
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by samplatt 7y ago
I like to think it's especially applicable to the modern age. The industrial age spelled doom of the environment and climate, and the (dis)information age executed it through the power of greed. We pieced together all the disassociated
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by samplatt 7y ago
If we're posting relevant quotes, Lovecraft is a favourite: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black
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by samplatt 7y ago
I've made some (C#) code that applies an ambisonic convoluted reverberation impulse response to an audio stream, but I'm hitting performance walls with Unity & C#. I want to go C++ & Unreal, but every time I try to learn C
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by samplatt 7y ago
We experience blue screens dropping a bottle of milk. There's ways to freeze a brain or trap it into a kernal panic that require zero technology whatsoever.
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by samplatt 7y ago
They WON'T have regulations or treaties though - not any that mean a damn, anyway. Putting aside the obvious issues of doing this against someone's will, let's have a quick look at some extremes that could be done with someon
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by samplatt 7y ago
Work's firewall is coming up saying this site is malware :S
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by samplatt 7y ago
I assume they felt it was a bit too on the nose? Anyone familiar with Magritte will be familiar with the painting; any attempts to shoehorn the quote in there would have felt forced, I think. Maybe if they had a website to go with it... but
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by samplatt 7y ago
By the looks of it, no; Drew McConville is not George Ouzounian. Guess Drew's just a fan.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Not if two thirds of the length of the page is taken up by comments.
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by samplatt 7y ago
$5k? Try $150. jb hifi in Australia sells a Casio that does this for AU$200. https://www.jbhifi.com.au/casio/casio-lk135/900135/
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by samplatt 7y ago
I'm a salaried software/database guy for the last 10 years. I ceased programming for personal pleasure before github was invented and haven't done anything more complex than a minor tool on my own time in years. My personal w
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by samplatt 7y ago
I'm curious about the too-rough-to-wear bit. Would an extra (leather/plastic) layer below the glass be impossible?
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by samplatt 7y ago
I've got no practical experience with 3D printing, but surely dremel + grinding/sanding bits = no more layer lines?
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by samplatt 7y ago
Muphry's Law is a harsh mistress.
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by samplatt 7y ago
An answer, then, is to plant some longer-term grass (or something that can hold the topsoil), and give the panels a short spray of water every morning to remove dust. Increases efficiency, prevents undesired pollinators taking control of ne
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by samplatt 7y ago
One of my happiest purchases of the last few years was a smartwatch. It has a different vibration pattern for every type of notification, meaning I can set my phone to silent permanently and still know what's going on. It's kind o
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by samplatt 7y ago
>one day hope to have a camera that can manage more than pinpoints/streaks/black noise You can build an arduino-powered "barn-door tracker" for ~$40 that will significantly help with this. https://www.you

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