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by shabble 13y ago
> By the way, it's a really crappy air force that can't do an air strike with sleeping-gas bombs. I daresay that would be a lot less effective than you might expect. See the Moscow theater hostage situation[1][2] for what happe
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by shabble 13y ago
Based on pending discharge for "adjustment disorder" in lie of "gender identity disorder." it could be interpreted as a feeling that there is an incompatibility/conflict between the physical gender of the "mo
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by shabble 13y ago
Is it simple like a urine pregnancy/drug screen test that gives quantitative recommendations? Or is it more like arrange with your doctor to draw some blood, have it tested, then get an expert appraisal of the results which recommends
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by shabble 13y ago
One thing that stands out on the buy-back scheme is that Telsa might be in a good position to recycle/recondition the battery units for far cheaper than it costs to manufacture them initially. I'm not all that well-versed on the c
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by shabble 13y ago
one problem of the 'alias yourcmd to yourcmd | colorize' is dealing with preserving the return code from the actual command, rather than the last in the pipeline. It can be done with things liek $PIPESTATUS, but some sort of wrapper/functio
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by shabble 13y ago
Freedom from "raw" milk, or freedom from your neighbour deciding to start a pig farm or drain your shared aquifer for irrigation?
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by shabble 13y ago
I've seen one or two pedestrian crossings which included fast-reacting automatic bollards, similar to ones in [1]. They took maybe 4-5s to raise and lower, and afaik were highly effective at protecting the users. The initial capital costs,
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by shabble 13y ago
Given the extent to which large multinationals can and do fiddle the accounting to end up recording profits in the most advantageous tax jurisdictions, it strikes me as somewhat significant that they don't do the same over privacy issues. W
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by shabble 13y ago
The caption for #32 includes "He spent two years guiding his two nephews to build him prostheses from scrap metal, plastic and rubber." That noted, there are some pretty incredible achievements by people missing both hands/arms. One that
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by shabble 13y ago
ObNukeRef: Project Pluto[1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto [2] http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
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by shabble 13y ago
He estimates that if one person visits a GPS location each day with a metal detector, the game will be unearthed sometime within the next million days — a little over 2,700 years. [T]he sheets of GPS coordinates were collected by GDC vol
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by shabble 13y ago
Assuming it hasn't been opened and screwed with (which should hopefully be apparent from tamper-evident case construction), it should have a fairly comprehensive self-test built in. There's a pretty in-depth tear-down of one on youtube[1] t
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by shabble 13y ago
You can just use a slip ring[1] at one or both ends (along with a whole bunch of axial thrust bearings, I imagine). There are some neat (and very non-RoHS) slip ring implementations that use a series of liquid mercury filled channels to sid
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by shabble 13y ago
You could maybe beg/steal/borrow a GPS simulator[1] and test your candidate receivers with it. Best do it in a Faraday cage though, unless you want to upset some Very Serious Important Things[2], and (likely government) owners thereof. Prob
555.
by shabble 13y ago
What are you, Etsy? :P He didn't fab his own silicon, package his own dies, or even machine his own connectors! The hard (and interesting) parts are the design and testing/debugging phases. Building your own PCB to handle various RF signals
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by shabble 13y ago
Did she (or anyone else) realise the magnitude of the danger at the time though? I'd imagine she would have taken more precautions if so. Even now, her papers require protective clothing and cautious handling due to their contamination.
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by shabble 13y ago
Even if it is already entirely broken by them, there's the question of whether they'll risk revealing that fact by going after you (publicly) c.f. Ultra [1] level intelligence from breaking Enigma. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_
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by shabble 13y ago
FPV[1] flight controls have been around a lot longer than Google Glass. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_View
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by shabble 13y ago
And, that the package(s) you're trojaning aren't signed[1] (I'm not immediately sure if new releases are automagically signed/digested when uploaded via PAUSE, or what fraction of currect packages are signed) [1] http://search.cpan.org/~da
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by shabble 13y ago
and if by 'defect' you mean 'thing flagged by coverity analysis tools'.
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by shabble 13y ago
> [Can't we just] make democratic decisions about how to allocate healthcare funds? And then, the rare conditions are starved of funding because everyone votes to throw more money at cancer/something well publicised because they spend a
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by shabble 13y ago
> But with economies of scale each individual unit should cost less than the one before it. Not really. At pretty much every step of the mass-production pyramid (higher volume, lower per-unit cost), there are significant capital costs
563.
by shabble 13y ago
coming next, Responsive Seating! per-flight configurable seat modules, for exactly the number of people on board, and can be quickly loaded/unloaded to minimise excess weight. Installed seats adjust their clearance automatically based on av
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by shabble 13y ago
I daresay you could engineer a drainage grate or something beneath the sign jets to minimise the problem.
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by shabble 13y ago
There are plenty of undesirable side-effects: can induce mild withdrawal symptoms in patients dependent on opioids; also diarrhoea, abdominal pain, anorexia, dyspepsia; vasodilatation; dyspnoea; paraesthesia, asthenia, fati- gue, agitation
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by shabble 13y ago
It seems odd that the designers of such a potentially life-critical device would choose a method with such potential for accidental triggering for such a function. I guess it's a tradeoff between likelihood of accidental triggering vs not h
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by shabble 13y ago
I wonder if those quack 'magnetic wrist {pain reliever,travel/seasickness preventer} bracelet' things are strong enough to affect it?
568.
by shabble 13y ago
maybe it should give them little reminder shocks periodically while the magnet is emplaced? If it's exclusively for disabling it in emergency situations, then a tingle every couple of minutes would be the least of the patient's worries. I w
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by shabble 13y ago
Yep. There's one that bit me recently, where Esc key was previously able to stop GIF animations, and was very handy. Apparently, this behaviour was considered a bug, if a very long-lived one. So a recent update 'fixed' that behaviour, alth
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by shabble 13y ago
If you want to beat yourself out of using them (or / gasp /, arrow keys) instead of more appropriate commands, (and can afford the productivity hit and fits of rage when starting off), try using medium-mode[1] (or, if you're really silly, h

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