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by sjtrny 12y ago
My quadcopter weighs 1.4kg fully loaded and is made from glass fibre arms and FR-4 (G10) centre plates. If I crash and land on an arm from 5m up then that arm will usually snap in half from the force of the impact. There's enough weigh
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by sjtrny 12y ago
That doesn't necessarily affect the definition of a farmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Places that are self aware enough to realise that no one really cares about your thesis anymore. It's all about your publication list.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
2. Is bullshit. Stapler thesis are totally acceptable. In fact many people think they are better than a traditional thesis since they are based on work that is of enough quality to already have been published in other venues.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I dislike the use of the word drone too. To me it means something that is autonomous. Most hobby quadcopters are not autonomous, although they could be with a sophisticated flight controller. So they can technically be autonomous but usuall
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by sjtrny 12y ago
This is for a very narrow definition of maths. Also it's rare that a paper is completely comprehensive. Some proofs are usually defered to other papers.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
You're probably not missing much in terms of publications related to your field of work. This mostly applies to active researches.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Because it can take over a year to go from submission to publication. Implementing this rule now would mean current articles under review would have to be withdrawn.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
> it is the game that I can drop my weekly hours into and gain happy, lasting reward. What reward do you get from WoW exactly? I used to play 8 years ago and quit because of the fact that the experience wasn't rewarding to me. My ti
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Why carry a keyboard? So you can touch type. You would have to be looking at the simulated keyboard to use it with this technology.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
This is an abstraction on top of CUDA. It takes care of writing the low-level code for operations that you would otherwise have to write yourself like matrix multiplication.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Yes but they are limited by the manufacturer as to how much of that RAM they can occupy and it also seems to be limited to only onboard GPUs.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I'm really excited for shared RAM between GPU and CPU. At the moment GPU acceleration is limited by the meagre amount of VRAM on most desktop cards. I would love to be able to do GPU programming with a 32+GB RAM pool.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Yep. Things like using dictionary learning for skinning models is overkill. Not to mention its not practical for realtime applications like games. Might be useful for animators though or devs writing animating tools.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
RC Planes are drones too.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Is it possible to get the components already soldered into your PCB at a reasonable cost? Doing surface mount components seems like a nightmare.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
The article only anecdotally makes the claim that there was a downturn in podcast quality and listenership. I doubt that this actually happened. Instead podcasting has slowly been bubbling away and has now really broken through to be a more
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Rubbish. you're experiecing selection bias. Popular questions get posted to HN. Popular questions also get locked. These questions are in the tiniest minority.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
In my experience this is something that I do subconsciously but it's often justified. People who write in word do so because they are unaware of LaTeX or because they don't know how. The first means they are usually not familiar e
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I think wolfram alpha has some support for tex notation.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Why are you convinced that gluten is bad for everyone?
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by sjtrny 12y ago
It's not any easier. You are just more used to Markdown and I'm assuming more practiced in it. I'm a lot faster in LaTeX than Markdown because I use LaTeX every day but only touch Markdown about once a month.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I think those values are optimistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.fast#Performance says that the speeds reported are actually shared between uplink and downlink. Furthermore this was in laboratory conditions. Most pe
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I am happy to be home at anytime if it means I get Fibre. As OP mentioned these technologies are only really suitable in specific cases such as in apartment buildings. In a suburban environment no one will ever see gigabit speeds.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I'm amazed they got a patent for a traction control system. Wait no I'm not the patent system is fucked.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
Hah no. I misread the parent comment. I thought they meant as in "we have handy slang such as mobile phone".
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I know it's only intended to refer to a particular subset of foods. It's just a personal pet peeve that people have this mindset and use this language and forget that the things that aren't "carbs" contain carbohydr
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I'm confused about why you would differentiate between vegetables and carbohydrates. That's like differentiating between a car and the engine within a car. Vegetables are mostly carbs and water.
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by sjtrny 12y ago
> The term has come into inflationary use by German-speaking media since 2010 to describe any clamour of outrage on the Internet, especially by posting and writing in social media. The first entry for shitstorm on urban dictionary is fro
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by sjtrny 12y ago
I see this system as a force that compels people to work longer hours than is neccesary. Public access to this data will make people name and shame particular individuals in the bureaucracy who might consistently clock in a little bit late,

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