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by timpattinson 5y ago
you can tell a lot about a racecar (estimate power, friction coefficient, aero coefficients) by just observing speed vs. time on a known racetrack, and that data is certainly publicly available. Although as others have said the F1 series
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by timpattinson 5y ago
"output will happily still pull its regulated voltage" you mean power, right?
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by timpattinson 5y ago
I don't know of any PC fan which draws more than 0.2A, apart from server fans.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
My XPS 9560 has woken up from sleep randomly more times than I can count. It's sometimes happened in my backpack and always gets stupid hot. There is a definite issue here.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
If you're gonna have the cynical take on group projects, take the one that makes sense. They require a fraction of the resources to assess.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
It's possible to have a security exploit which can compromise a running device, but is not able to make itself permanent across restarts (e.g. changes programs in RAM but not in flash) That's my best guess.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
is nowhere safe?
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by timpattinson 5y ago
cat /dev/urandom > NFT.bmp Profit
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by timpattinson 5y ago
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
and Delta, the power supply company
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by timpattinson 5y ago
In my experience licensing of engineers is almost exclusive to civil engineering and some other subfields. The vast majority of mechanical, electrical and software engineers will never need to be licensed. It's also possible for unlice
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by timpattinson 5y ago
Very cool, but yeah anyone with the competency and computing power to do actually decent F1 CFD wouldn't be posting it on the internet. The teams themselves have a hard enough time getting a model to match their actual car.
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by timpattinson 5y ago
I use KeePass + dropbox. Works on windows and android. I'm pretty sure you don't need to trust the syncing software, so anything should work. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong
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Facebook restricts the sharing of news in Australia(nytimes.com)
2 points by timpattinson 6y ago|2 comments
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by timpattinson 6y ago
To be fair the difference in bitrate between 1080/4k is probably (in my opinion) a bigger difference than the pixel count, uncompressed 1080 looks pretty damn good. but yeah the "the eye can't see >20fps" or a certai
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by timpattinson 6y ago
because the aforementioned website is known almost exclusively for porn. Some, maybe most, people would be fine with it, nothing wrong with it really. But if you're trying to earn a living why cut yourself off from the 50% of people th
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by timpattinson 6y ago
malicious 3rd party apps can probably steal the login creds pretty easily to launch whatever type of spam attack
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Ask HN: Book recommendation for embedded software development
2 points by timpattinson 6y ago|1 comments
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by timpattinson 6y ago
it seems like the usual occurrence of tech people reinventing established fields and calling it novel.
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by timpattinson 6y ago
5. Forget about the rockets, just buy and sell energy
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by timpattinson 6y ago
if the system was designed to prevent a popular but unfit candiate from becoming president, it's been broken since 2016.
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by timpattinson 6y ago
Maybe Geekbench is kinda useless as a benchmark suite then? I only see it used by Mac fans.
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by timpattinson 6y ago
The best printer in my household is still my dad's hp Laserjet 5MP. It's outlived every one of the multifunction inkjet plastic pieces of crap.
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by timpattinson 6y ago
using a non-compete agreement [1] in the employment contract or as a condition for a severance package, etc. May or may not be enforceable depending on a million different factors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-
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by timpattinson 6y ago
OSS /= no backdoors.
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by timpattinson 6y ago
Better article: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-autopilot-phantom-... Original research: https://www.nassiben.com/phantoms
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by timpattinson 6y ago
Welcome to the era of the fully automated youtube channel. Reddit scraper -> voice synthesizer -> Programmatic video editing tool -> youtube API For extra credit add some kind of ML tool to identify "stories" in comments
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by timpattinson 7y ago
It's been done: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228909002_Automated...
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by timpattinson 8y ago
Just do an insulation test at say 250V using a commonly available 'megger' device
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[video] Redundant Perception and State Estimation for Reliable Autonomous Racing(youtube.com)
1 points by timpattinson 8y ago|0 comments

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