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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
Ultimately the issue here is budget and time. With aircraft there are TONS of variables: temperature, pressure, humidity, vibration environment, dust. Even once you THINK you know all the variables, reproducing the problem in the lab might
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
This is relatively old "news" and the problem has since been resolved. It had to do with the coating used on one of the coils interfering with the software--as the article mentions, there is no redundancy for this system. The part
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
This right here is the reason. It's fulfilling to get to the end of an RSS feed, but currently all solutions are just lists of articles. None of the technologies really do any significant filtering for you with the exception of possibl
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
The problem with this model is that the mental transaction (do I care enough to pay for this) is more expensive than the couple of cents it costs for access. A similar problem exists when trying to decide to pay for an article from a journa
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
For anyone interested in the history of the concept and how it's manifested in theology, philosophy, and pop-culture, I highly recommend A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen [1]. Although the translation isn't GREAT, the conte
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
Check out Emacs Org-mode. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it allows you to create task hierarchies, dependencies, Gantt charts, check in to tasks, create reports, schedule, etc. It's all in plan text, open source, and has a live
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
I remember stumbling on this site a while ago and the format [1] was completely different. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20150214165654/http://www.structu...
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
I have a 2014 MBP and it seems all I ever do is reboot the damn thing for updates. It would be nice if the "re-open my windows" actually respected workspaces...
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
I used to be a really large fan of RSS because it fulfilled the dream of bringing hand-picked content to the user, in one place. Why go to all the separate websites? Why have an app for EACH new agency. I can search, sort, see when articles
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by sk8ingdom 11y ago
This is sadly the cost of using non open source technology. Once it sells to a larger company, the fate is uncertain and your data is locked in.
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
William Rowan Hamilton, credited as the inventor of quaternions, died of a severe gout precipitated by excessive drinking and overeating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
I completely agree that this is beneficial for both government and business leaders / innovators, but it's hard to justify for entry level employment, which most people are seeking post-undergraduate / graduate school. You ru
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Ultimately isn't this what RSS and email were / are? Open methodologies that work across a wide array of technologies and are not owned by specific corporations? I don't like my technologies (especially the ones I invest heav
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
And one of the crowd-sourcing examples, Wikipedia, has this built in functionality. Certain Wikipedia pages are under constant attack and diligent contributors do what they can to keep them accurate.
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
My understanding is that it's being officially released this upcoming Monday. Builds of it, however, are available for testing and bug reporting.
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Anything that is low input and high output. What I mean is that most apps / wearable tech seem to require lots of manual data input (in my case, MyFitnessPal, Runkeeper, etc.)--although some of this has gotten better with say, tracking
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
The alternative to confirmation bias bubbles is, especially for social media, showing people stuff they might not like or agree with--the problem is that this isn't great for business, and generally get's people up in arms. A grea
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Org-mode with a WebDAV server. Sync using git.
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
I unofficially studied ideas pretty similar to this in college. For a brief stint (~2/3 years), I was very interested in the intersection of communication, technology, activism, and public policy. I've heard this argument referred
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/224/
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Can confirm, did this in college and it worked great.
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
Although the trend of more work today than ever is obviously troubling, as an engineer, I can't help but think that the reason we don't yet have what the past promised because "the robots" really are not that great yet--
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by sk8ingdom 12y ago
> In fact I am quite fierce and get huge amounts of good work done, when I believe that what I am doing is important. It turns out that, for me, to capture this feeling of importance, I had to work on my own projects (and even then it to