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by sidpatil 5y ago
I could have sworn I've seen something like this before on YouTube already. Someone demonstrated a similar effect, and attached different-sized weights to test the adhesion. For the life of me, I can't find it.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Griffith was ashamed to discover that he was consuming 18,000 watts of energy a year Watts are a unit of power, not energy. Do they mean watt-hours?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Not to mention the easily-available caffeine, which is conducive to discussion.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Second, everything is planned even though there are so many variables involved because implicitly by the sum total of our actions, we knowingly or unknowingly fill those variables with known values and so what we think as a serendipito
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by sidpatil 5y ago
From the title, I thought it would be about these generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(computer_programmin...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Perhaps the worst example would be King Théoden in the Two Towers. It's an extreme closeup, which holds for a while, of Théoden eating in the most gross manner possible. You mean Denethor II, the Steward of Gondor.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I remember ADRIANE being included in the Knoppix ISOs back in the day. You might find it interesting: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html
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by sidpatil 5y ago
The article shows examples of this technology being used to print components , such as temperature and humidity sensors, and antennas. That's more than a breadboard can do, which is designed for building circuits .
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I use Snapdrop ( https://snapdrop.net/ ) to transfer files between my iPhone and my Linux laptop. It offers a self-hosting option, and there are apps for Android and iOS available (though I've only used the Web interface
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I never even knew they existed until now. So much for so-called discoverability...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Not only that, but video uses far more data than text, which is terrible for mobile data users.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=lord%20zipacna%20el...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Taking notes is useless without a place to put them when you’re done. This isn't always true. I'd often take notes knowing I'd throw them away later. In those cases, the note-taking process itself served as the purpose,
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by sidpatil 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/874/
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I did a couple searches of my own too: The first results of a Google search for "C" are the programming language. Not the letter. The first results of a Google search for "Python" are the programming language. Not the sn
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> You could also avoid the need to deal with large batteries by having the truck draw power from an overhead wire. https://www.engineerine.com/2021/04/germany-opens-its-first-...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Everything that's old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Julia lets you use all sorts of Unicode characters as variable names and even as operators. It works quite well in the REPL, since it supports a TeX-like input method for Unicode characters. It's probably my favorite feature in the lan
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Outside of software and data science, is there any industry where the software landscape is dominated by the OSS players? Academic publishing, maybe. Many of them rely on LaTeX, especially the mathematics journals, but even this is cha
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Sure, in the fields of computer science, data science, etc. However, this is not the case in more traditional engineering fields (electrical, mechanical, etc.) which tend to teach MATLAB throughout undergraduate education and subsequently r
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by sidpatil 5y ago
It could also be because they're looking for easy ways to filter out candidates if the applicant pool is particularly large. Think of it as dimensionality reduction—many people claim to be detail-oriented, but mistakes on a resume ar
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Julia has the Unitful package [1], which does a decent job. It's quite ergonomic, and Julia's design helps with making existing code/libraries play nicely with Unitful-encoded units/values. [1] https://github.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
That's not true, in my experience. This tool reminds me of MathCAD, which is both moderately popular and proprietary. The most popular numerical computing environment for engineering is MATLAB, which is proprietary.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> All to arrive at a blob that looks like a fat person with a red shirt and blue pants separating from each other at the waistline So what you're saying is that their new logo was really just their old mascot [1] who had let themsel
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Not at the moment, but the design elements are similar enough to the ones I'd see on my satellite receiver OSD menus from back in the early 2000s. I could tell that those were 3D as well at the time, and my TV at the time was a fuzzy 3
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Most users probably don't care about HTML versus plaintext emails. The ones that do care would be the ones willing to pay $0.10 extra per month to enforce plaintext receipt, or willing to dig through a few levels of configuration to en
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by sidpatil 5y ago
A good example of this is Volkswagen's "Think Small" advertisement from the 1960s [1]. Plenty of magazine ads ripped off this style afterwards. [1] https://pages.uncc.edu/visualrhetoric/projects/indi
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Check out its flat "10-foot UI" from 1999 That doesn't look flat whatsoever. There are plenty of three-dimensional layout elements in that UI.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
This is the same reason that motivates me. My day job involves some really tedious manual procedures, of which I've been able to automate a few of through software. I've never been more motivated to learn relevant knowledge and wo

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