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by scrumper 6y ago
I remember Mathematica being a bit weak with units actually. Natively there's no support, you have to rely on add-on packages and I didn't have much success with the popular one. But my experience is from version 8 (a while ago) s
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by scrumper 6y ago
Glad to be part of that annoying sense of guilt at the back of your mind :) For me it's less about modeling the tube and more about checking the rest of the circuit around the tube if that makes sense. Does the tone control do what I w
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by scrumper 6y ago
Can't wait to buy the original iCircuit, just need it to support vacuum tubes... Any plans to do that or are you really focusing on the Arduino/digital hobby? This might have use for layout prototyping, thinking about it. But unti
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by scrumper 6y ago
It's pretty limited. Avgas doesn't mean jet fuel, as used by commercial aviation, it means the stuff you pump into piston engine light aircraft. Plus, at the risk of being obvious, the exhaust is either emitted way up in the air o
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by scrumper 6y ago
Gosh that is very pretty, and very smooth. I'd like an audio volume option rather than on/off - it's cool, but loud as hell.
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by scrumper 6y ago
C round startup, ~150ppl, globally $350 in office equipment of your choice (with reasonable justification), or $250 cash equivalent if you had a nice setup and just wanted to stock your bar. I already had a decent space so I spent mine on v
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by scrumper 6y ago
Ha! Well that was a pure treat - instantly grabby title leading to a concise, witty, well-constructed article, containing good advice. Loved it for all those reasons.
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by scrumper 6y ago
I've been experimenting with it too, with my funk band. Very quickly we realized that any latency was too high for us to have a hope of getting in the pocket, but it worked quite well for sloppier rock jams. Since you're here, I&#
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by scrumper 6y ago
Disappointing that the two most intriguing links (the spud cannon and the aluminum foil/draino video) are both dead. Otherwise - fascinating!
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by scrumper 6y ago
Mostly older FPS multiplayer games against friends. Garry's Mod, the Source version of Counterstrike. Haven't seen any issues at all, really feels like it's on local desktop (other than the quite obvious graphical degradation
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by scrumper 6y ago
I had similar thoughts. Regardless of whether or not it's "good writing" in itself, it is definitely in need of a good edit.
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by scrumper 6y ago
On the off chance you see this, I'm pleased to report that the answer is, no! It works brilliantly as long as you use the free "Parsec" service's client to access the desktop and your games. Browser access to the Papersp
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by scrumper 6y ago
Signing up right now for this - glad to hear it worked well. I have a Mac at home (not ideal for games) and at most a couple hours a week to do any gaming (so it's not worth buying a PC). For the absolute best machine they have, my out
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by scrumper 6y ago
Wait, no "night shift" or something else? The 8 had that...
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by scrumper 7y ago
Or your local pub toilet. EDIT: snarky joke, I actually rather like the wall thing that Max Braun created.
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by scrumper 7y ago
This is well put. But of course it will end, and us privileged few will go back to our regular routines and our babysitters will return to work and take care of our kids after school and we'll adjust and the kids will be fine. The long
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by scrumper 7y ago
I went fairly far with this, creating a simulation of creatures I called worms using an unholy marriage of neural networks, cellular automata, and classifier systems (a pattern matching approach based on genetic algorithms). I wanted to see
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by scrumper 7y ago
Worked for me too. 2.5 weeks lead for a C930e ordered middle of March. Razer Kiyo as well, direct from Razer.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Flagged for - generic news article, misleading title. There is no request here for HN.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Agh, mildly infuriating (enfrustrating?) article. A little tease about the result and then several paragraphs about how science is serendipitous and face to face interactions are better than email and video conferencing.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Oh yeah that's way harder. I'd be OK arguing that we could fling something at Alpha Centauri and have it stop using tech with a very low-risk path from today's state of the art, but even just the 3D printing needed for self-r
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by scrumper 7y ago
Is this program dead? I had a look through the website and couldn't see much to suggest otherwise other than their writing prize in July last year. The list of partners too was a bit weird, all branding consultants and design agencies.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Thing that's interesting to me is that we have a number of proposals for how we might reach another star with essentially present-day technology. So even us dumb humans think we could get a robot probe out there. A self-replicating one
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by scrumper 7y ago
You're referring to the George Clooney, er, teleplay (correct word?) right? It was filmed and broadcast live, if I remember correctly. It was excellent - and I say that as a big fan of the 1964 original.
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by scrumper 7y ago
Happy to help. I'll keep an eye on Circuitlab too - thanks for the reminder of that.
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by scrumper 7y ago
I didn't grow up with it, so coming at it from a perspective of someone who's gotten used to modern software, it's remarkably hard to learn. The interface is weird. Placement of components isn't so bad but when you want
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by scrumper 7y ago
Is this good for analog stuff, at least as effective as LTSpice? I've been using the latter on a Mac for simulating vacuum tube (UK: valve) circuits with some success and a very large amount of frustration. I would love something a lit
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by scrumper 7y ago
Which could result in a manslaughter verdict (had HAL survived the enstellaration at the end of 2010 and been bought back to Earth for trial.) Interesting stuff here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_responsibil
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by scrumper 7y ago
ah thanks, had missed that.
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by scrumper 7y ago
How does sitting on a gas lift chair generate an EMI spike (per the article)? The metal piston sliding an inch or two inside the cylinder collar is enough? Or is the hydraulic fluid itself metallic?

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