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by sean-duffy 11y ago
On my home machine I have a vimrc of about 30 lines, but I could do without most of it, I could probably reduce it to about 5 lines if I had to. So whenever I use vim on a computer at university or on a new machine in the workplace, as long
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
This isn't redesigning piano sheet music, this is just creating a piano tablature. That's great and all, but this has existed for a long time, it's similar to how Synthesia[1] represents piano notes. The fact that the timing
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
It isn't shocking at all in this context - GitHub is for hosting code (and other code-like things), it isn't a content delivery network.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
A pretty good treatment of the whole idea of 'EHS' in a fictional context can be seen in the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Caul Saul, where the main character has to care to his brother, who claims to have EHS.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
If you disable Javascript you're left with a blank page with just the blinking eye in the middle.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
For multirotors it's just very difficult and impractical to power them with gasoline engines. If you were to build a gas powered multirotor, you'd have to have a central engine connected to each motor by means of some complicated
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Wow, this comes as a shock! Last year I saw the A400M appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo and was very impressed, as were many others. Hopefully they'll find the problem and this won't be too much of a blot on the develop
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Agreed, the minimal design does have its place but I don't think the web as a whole would be any better for it. Pretty much all the webpages for the modules I study on my CS degree are of a similar kind to Stallman's, because that
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Or there is the third option to think long and hard, largely agree with Stallman, but still continue to mostly use the tools you do out of habit and practicality. I'd say I fall into that category. He raises a lot of very important iss
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
You mean like... a package manager?
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
I have to say, I wasn't expecting incestuous erotic fiction!
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Of course not, where did you get that idea? I don't think drones should ever be operated in close vicinity to people, especially if those people are bystanders uninvolved in the operation of said drone. Well yes, but the slight elevati
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Notice I said "drones of this size". While the propellers could still cause some damage, these kind of things aren't going to kill anybody, so let's not be overdramatic. As for potential dangers to other people, the solu
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Safer maybe, but nowhere near as swift and agile as a multirotor, and much more susceptible to wind.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Drones of this size are cheap enough that the extra weight and cost of engineering of safety devices generally isn't worth it. It's easier to fix or replace parts.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Mom and dad probably aren't into extreme sports or spending $500 on toys either, though. Which is why I think in a lot of these new drone ideas are disconnected from their target audience.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
There are plenty of gory images on forums of people who foolishly think this is the case and are proven otherwise!
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Primarily? I'd highly doubt that. Small multirotors and model aircraft like these are far more ubiquitous than the machines weighing upwards of 2,000 kgs which are used by the military.
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
The video looks cool and everything, but I don't really understand the mentality around these kind of hands-off 'follow me' drones. If you want high-quality aerial cinematography, you need a lot more than just an autonomous d
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
I came here to say this, a device for tracking heartbeats was described quite extensively in Rainbow Six. I got the impression it was more of him extending his fiction creative license than drawing any inspiration from a real product, thoug
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Surely laptop technology has advanced beyond the point of us having to manually manage battery health? The only reason I can imagine for people assuming this isn't dealt with for us by some control chip is a conspiracy that laptop manu
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by sean-duffy 11y ago
Agreed, if indeed he is using "internship" to mean "unpaid internship". Far too much importance is placed on unpaid work these days, particularly in tech, and it just isn't needed. He clearly has enough experience t
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
Yeah at first the separation of Messenger was something I was irritated and confused by, but I soon realised it was actually a very smart idea, as it moves to replace WhatsApp, SMS, and any other messaging service in a way that was never po
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
You've answered your own question. Cars are dumb machines because we don't yet have the technology to judge what is "crazy fast" and make decision about where it should be allowed. Other than the obvious reasons of racin
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
> Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have long crossed over from just being used in the military and specialist commercial sphere. That's an interesting perspective, because I'd say if anything they've passed from t
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
Not much at all, and an interesting consequence of this is that manufacturers of high-precision CNC machines have to be very selective about which countries they're willing to sell to, and many of these machines carry GPS trackers and
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
Does an average citizen in a car have an obligation to stop and render aid? What makes it any different for someone driving a Street View car?
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
If you look at some of the other releases on the artist's website you can find some of the images with their locations included, e.g. http://googlestreetviews.com/16GoogleStreetViews.pdf .
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
Some very powerful images, as well as some humorous ones and some that are just interesting! These are pretty impressive finds, I wonder how many people it took to find them and/or how long it took? Some of them I wish they'd incl
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by sean-duffy 12y ago
Good luck hovering in place when the sudden loss of control is due to something like a propeller detaching.

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