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by tmuir 12y ago
I have a solidoodle 3 at home and a makerbot replicator 2x at work. I used the SD daily for a couple of months, but then ran out of ideas. Just like every other tool, without a problem to solve, its not very useful. Ive done a few upgrad
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by tmuir 13y ago
Comparing a $200,000 luxury sports car to a desk is preposterous. First of all, there are actual features to differentiate an Aston Martin from a Ford. This is a piece of wood with some metal suspending it off of the ground. There's
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by tmuir 13y ago
"Handcrafted" has become a red flag for me, in the same way "vintage" and "cozy" are for apartment listings. Almost anything that isnt produced on a large scale is handmade. Its an empty marketing phrase that
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by tmuir 13y ago
WinAVR is the windows suite. Compiler, Debugger, and Programmer compatible with the bootloader already on the Arduino.
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by tmuir 13y ago
I'd be interested in seeing statistics on how well Arduinos that aren't compatible with shields sell. In my opinion, Arduino's biggest contribution to making it easier to get started in embedded development has been shields
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by tmuir 13y ago
This exposes a big flaw in the entire premise of AirBnB. AirBnB's core market is people renting out their homes when they aren't there. This problem is inherent to providing unsupervised hospitality. If no one is there to verify
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by tmuir 13y ago
>I want the post-WWII days back where we didn't bother anyone that didn't bother us first. Perhaps you meant the word "days" literally. The CIA, created in 1947, solely exists to butt into other countries affairs. h
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by tmuir 13y ago
This was public relations, plain and simple. Paint Snowden like a weirdo, ask softball question after softball question, give vague hints about the scary threats that deem this all necessary, and blindly trust the answers of the guy in cha
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by tmuir 13y ago
The problem is mission creep. The Patriot Act was enacted to fight terrorism. But the powers granted by the act have been utilized in over 100 times as many drug related cases as terrorism related cases [1]. To think that these surveillan
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by tmuir 13y ago
"Either way, one of the best feelings in engineering for me is go draw a 3D rendering for a class and watch it show up as something I can hold in my hand 2 weeks later. No amount of deploying/pushing/launching in software can
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by tmuir 13y ago
If the southern US has not historically been more hostile to blacks than other regions of the US, then why did almost every major event of the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s take place in southern states? Why were most of the juri
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by tmuir 13y ago
I'm always amused when I read the statements from newly acquired companies. They refuse to call it what it is, a purchase, and instead frame it as an alignment, a partnership, anything that allows them to distract from the fact that th
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by tmuir 13y ago
I'll have to try one that the next time I disagree with anyone about anything. And to think, I've been relying on logic and reason this whole time!
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by tmuir 13y ago
From Wikipedia: "Anecdotal evidence is an informal account of evidence in the form of an anecdote. The term is often used in contrast to scientific evidence, as evidence that cannot be investigated using the scientific method." I
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by tmuir 13y ago
"Do you have any proof for this, or is it just baseless conjecture?" You mean, besides empirical evidence? Nope. I see it almost every day on my commute, which is riddled with construction. On the days that everyone merges well
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by tmuir 13y ago
Merging at the last possible moment _increases_ congestion. If there is a lane elimination, after the the lane has been eliminated, traffic speeds up, because there is no remaining merging to complete. Thus, the earlier merging is complete
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by tmuir 13y ago
Just like glenn beck huh? Im just asking questions.
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by tmuir 13y ago
You seem to imply that a fingerprint scanner is the main selling point of the Iphone 5S, and that Apple's superior execution of the fingerprint scanner, and not its app store, marketing prowess, or the fact that there are almost two or
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by tmuir 13y ago
I think live sports is the last bit of programming that prevents a lot people from getting rid of cable completely. On the other hand, sports, football in particular, are one of the biggest selling points of HDTV and the high resolution pic
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by tmuir 13y ago
It seems a lot of posters in this thread share that same positive meaning, which lends creedence to the definition. There are several posts that interpret this sound as the optimal sound for its associated task, as if it would have been le
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by tmuir 13y ago
Iconic? Thats equivalent to saying the Beatles were iconic by coming up with a catchy band name. These things become part of collective consciousness because they are widely disseminated, repeated, an generally unoffensive. There is no s
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by tmuir 13y ago
The "discovery" of distortion is an example of the idea that inventors are sometimes the first person to tell someone else about something, instead of the first person to discover the thing. The electric guitar was invented in 193
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by tmuir 13y ago
The problem with every explanation from any intelligence agency ever is that they are extremely motivated to keep everyone else uninformed. To that end, they have demonstrated their willingness to disinform everyone, including congress. O
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by tmuir 13y ago
I've thought about this before, but on a large scale. As in, millions of square miles of solar panels. Could you effectively regulate the temperature of the earth by modulating the amount of sunlight that is converted to heat by turn
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by tmuir 13y ago
There are people of all sorts of political leanings that realize that the state's case was extremely weak because of the lack of hard evidence. Maybe that's because it isn't a political issue. I mean, how would you frame th
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by tmuir 13y ago
"The whole distinction between one element of a set and a whole set seems to be incomprehensible to modern liberals." Because obviously, one person with a certain ideological bent speaks for every person with that same ideology. B
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by tmuir 13y ago
Isn't this equivalent to Edward Snowden's asylum dilemma? The offer of asylum is pretty worthless if he can't get to that country. Heck, last week it was proven that he would need favorable countries to form solid continuou
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by tmuir 13y ago
Same here. I was expecting the whole "a call may only be recorded if two parties are aware, the recorder and the NSA"
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by tmuir 13y ago
A mid range oscilloscope can easily cost $5000. If you look at the whole range of oscilloscopes, $5000 is on the very low end. If you want bespoke, as in custom tailored to your exact specifications, that's easily another order of ma
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by tmuir 13y ago
European governments certainly have not known for very long about their diplomats being spied upon. That story, in my opinion, could really have some legs.

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