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by wanderingjew 9y ago
Because the CoG should be about 1/3 to 1/2 of a chord from the leading edge of the wing. This is a bit harder to eyeball with swept wings, but yes, it really looks like this thing is going to have some trouble rotating. Is the bui
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RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core application processor(sifive.com)
255 points by wanderingjew 9y ago|77 comments
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
You should not use Fritzing. It is a bad tool. This isn't a vi vs. emacs argument, either: Fritzing is like using a crescent wrench to drive a nail. Yeah, you can do it, but it's the wrong tool for the job . Schematic capture in
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
Just so everyone is aware, the argument that blog post makes is extremely tenuous at best, and blatant disinformation at its worst. The argument is, basically, 'someone on reddit was doing stuff in China, then stopped a few years ago
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
> If you tailor your blog towards novices then no one will attack you... This is just wrong. You will be attacked. You will be called an idiot. That's what the Internet is -- a manic outrage of keyboard kommandos punctuated by pic
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
> it then increases exponentially with warp-10 being infinite velocity No, no, no. That was only in the Voyager episode Threshold . It is widely regarded as one of the worst Voyager episodes, and the entire plot of that episode doesn&#x
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
Doghunter labs received funding from the University of Messina in part because Musto claimed IBM, Olivetti, an MIT doctorate and an NYU masters on his resume. This is fraud under Italian law, and now Musto -- and by extension Doghunter labs
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
>The .org people (Federico Musto) are different than the Arduino.cc people This is false. The 'Arduinos' were effectively combined last September. [1] It's now "Arduino Holding", and the "Arduino Foundation&
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Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay(mikekohn.net)
3 points by wanderingjew 9y ago|0 comments
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
You can buy one from SiFive: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1 although it's going to be a while until a RISC-V chip will be packaged on a board with USB, Ethernet, SATA, and all peripherals that make an
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by wanderingjew 9y ago
There is a mention of Ehang in the article. However, I cannot put this more succinctly: The Ehang is an abortion of aviation. Instead of going into the idiocy of an autonomously piloted passenger aircraft (which will never be legal under an
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
No, he's right. I changed it after I saw his comment.
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
lol
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
I haven't read the article, but I would assume any mention of 'bags of water' would be a reference to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Specifically, the episode where the crew of the Enterprise encounters a silicon-b
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
Author of the original piece here. You need to watch Hackers.
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
Author of the Hackaday post. I would know if this were taken with permission. The artist (joe kim) can be found here: http://theartofjoekim.tumblr.com/ In case anyone's wondering, we (hackaday) probably would have allo
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
You can't assume gratis usage of anything . The free software movement, creative commons, and anything surrounding copyleft is predicated on the fact that everything is copyrighted at its creation. Copyleft is a 'hack' of so
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
Oh, this is hilarious. The art for this blog post was taken from here: http://hackaday.com/2016/01/13/stallmans-one-mistake/ This art was taken without crediting the artist, and without permission from e
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
This gets the current state of 3D printers half right. I wrote the same thing seven months ago http://hackaday.com/2016/04/28/the-makerbot-obituary/ , and yes, the downfall of Makerbot was due to going cl
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
The receivers/Earth stations will be phased array antennas; basically an antenna 'grid'. They won't fit in your pocket, but they will fit on top of your car. Keep in mind, this system is designed to give the Internet to
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Avnet Acquires Hackster Inc(businesswire.com)
1 points by wanderingjew 10y ago|0 comments
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BASIC Interpreter Hidden in ESP32 Silicon(hackaday.com)
38 points by wanderingjew 10y ago|0 comments
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
Disregarding any issues surrounding the author of this piece, Theil himself, and a cornucopia of issues surrounding the RNC keynote, I must ask one question: Why is political speech only an issue when that speech comes from the political ri
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
There's more to CNC than a hip startup like glowforge. (In the interests of disclosure, it should be noted that Series A investors for Glowforge include Bre Pettis and Jenny Lawton. Given their business decisions with Makerbot, I'
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
That's not entirely true. The shuttle could do things no other ship could, including what's on the drawing board. The shuttle could down mass a lot of stuff. Look at the long duration exposure facility, a bus-sized satellite fille
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
The value of YC isn't the money, it's the publicity. Just look at the front page of Hacker News - I've seen 8/10 of the top stories related to YC companies. Demo days give you immediate access to the press.
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Wazer: The Waterjet For Your Garage(hackaday.com)
3 points by wanderingjew 10y ago|1 comments
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
An education's main goal is not to make you employable. A school, on the other hand, charges tuition, and therefore any transaction between the student and the school must be viewed under the lens of a financial transaction.
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by wanderingjew 10y ago
The article does not confirm Mr. Rossmann is facing legal action by Apple, and despite the word 'alludes' in the headline, the article itself is extremely disingenuous: "Apple isn't happy about it." "[I]t'
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Google is building a 100kW radio transmitter at a spaceport and no one knows why(hackaday.com)
10 points by wanderingjew 11y ago|4 comments

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