skykooler

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by skykooler 2y ago
He just put out a video today of making a wooden CNC machine.
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by skykooler 2y ago
Given the predicted time, could we calculate which hemisphere is most likely for it to impact?
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by skykooler 2y ago
This would move the Earth by less than the width of an atom: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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by skykooler 2y ago
Surely 256 GPUs along with custom FPGA boards aren't cheap either? But I guess it's a relative cost thing.
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by skykooler 2y ago
They can do split-screen 3d, albeit at a lower refresh rate. When you put them into that mode they appear to the computer as one screen of double width.
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by skykooler 2y ago
You can basically hover by combining elytra with a Slow Falling potion.
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by skykooler 2y ago
The big difference IMO between modding Factorio and KSP is that Factorio has achievements (and modding the game disables them).
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by skykooler 2y ago
Item sorters are great for storage, but don't help with the mess of items that end up in your inventory if you're exploring, or building. And while shulker boxes help a little, a) they're an end-game item and b) they are a pa
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by skykooler 2y ago
It doesn't physically, but it does financially. Power generation is not free after all, so any power station, be it renewable or non-renewable, will only be producing as long as people are buying electricity from it.
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by skykooler 2y ago
It won't affect them, assuming that they already have an EV charger - this would apply to new installations.
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by skykooler 2y ago
This was a fun read. But some of the things attributed to a glitchy AI are just normal Minecraft stuff. For example: "One time I was swimming across a lake and noticed that the reflections at the water's edge were looking weirdly
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by skykooler 2y ago
I spent a while debugging a library with a chunk_time_ms parameter where it turned out "ms" stood for "microseconds".
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by skykooler 2y ago
I suspect this needs some moving parts to function - without a turbine's suction, you need some sort of a fan to pump air into the thing, and also a fuel pump. Most things with internal combustion require some kind of active cooling as
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by skykooler 2y ago
Wow, I wish I had seen this literally yesterday!
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by skykooler 2y ago
It works in Firefox on Manjaro.
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by skykooler 2y ago
I was wondering that too - I don't think that's a ligature I've ever seen before.
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by skykooler 2y ago
A car's brakes are required to be able to overpower the engine at full throttle.
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by skykooler 2y ago
I usually get about 6 hours, though of course it depends on workload.
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by skykooler 2y ago
I have one, still my main laptop and I don't see a reason to change that. Battery life is better than any other laptop I've had, though that may say more about my other laptops than the Framework. Biggest gripe: no touchscreen and
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by skykooler 2y ago
Does this work under Wayland? I remember that being an issue for Guake.
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by skykooler 2y ago
They return approximations which can be very slow to iterate over depending on how far off of the actual value they are.
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by skykooler 2y ago
Is there a reason to avoid using javascript for canvas layout considering you need javascript to draw on the canvas in the first place?
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by skykooler 2y ago
The moon was created far before life formed - the best estimates put its formation about 4.5 billion years ago, while life didn't form until 3.7 billion years ago. So any complex molecules from that process would not be present on aste
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by skykooler 2y ago
Having stats on the outcome of coin tosses in sports wouldn't help, because it's unlikely that the state of the coin before flipping was recorded.
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by skykooler 2y ago
I used to play it all the time on CTF mode in Sauerbraten. I remember it being very difficult to score since you could be sniped from basically anywhere on the map.
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by skykooler 2y ago
CAD is great when you want to make a nice parametric model that you can edit as requirements change. But for a simple one-off part, I can often whip one up in Blender in a third the time it would take me to dimension everything in a CAD ske
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by skykooler 2y ago
"Hacker News failure caused by two units 12 orders of magnitude apart sharing 2-letter code"
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by skykooler 2y ago
The neat thing about a how an Einstein ring works is that you don't need to stop, because rather than there being a focal point, there is a focal line, moving directly outward from the Sun. This means a probe could spend potentially de
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by skykooler 2y ago
Yeah, you basically need to launch a new one for every target you want to image.
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by skykooler 2y ago
Location: Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++, Python/Django/Flask, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, Go, SQL, Rust, embedded, CAM/CNC Résumé: https://skyler.i

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