CheeseFromLidl

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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
I’ve just read the wiki page on Magnetorquer but I couldn’t find what I was looking for: ballpark numbers. What kind of current are you driving those coils with (amps or dozens of amps?). What order of magnitude is the resulting force (a fe
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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
ok you have reduced my cringe.
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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
This is the reason I cringe every time I hear or read statements like “we went to the moon”, “we’ve split the atom”, “we developed antibiotics”, … No, we didn’t. A few who are not like us did.
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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches This actually describes my benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms. The only thing missing is the suicide-inducing tinnitus.
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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
I’ve occasionally found them, but only when their color contrasts with the background during walks. Can they be found year round? Do they have a preference for logs?
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by CheeseFromLidl 8mo ago
I’m going to go against the standard advice of this book or that course. Pick up (broken) equipment and start disassembling it to figure out how they turn A into B [1]. Go down the rabbit hole of hunting down the service manual of the thing
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by CheeseFromLidl 9mo ago
Thanks for submitting this. I’m currently working on the schematic of a VNA and having a ref design is a big help.
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by CheeseFromLidl 9mo ago
a process that can be used *on site* to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the *remediation of contaminated sites*
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by CheeseFromLidl 9mo ago
How does this work on a practical level? Do you scrape the soil to a depth of a foot and submit it to electrolysis or is the soil washed and the sludge then processed? How many grams of halogens does this recover per square acre of contamin
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This "mushroom" is not a fungus, it's a plant that breaks all the rules(sciencedaily.com)
7 points by CheeseFromLidl 9mo ago|1 comments
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by CheeseFromLidl 9mo ago
This plant gave up photosynthesis, shrank its genome, and learned to clone itself—and somehow survived for 100 million years.
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Same experience here. The more commonly known the stuff it regurgitates is, the fewer errors. But if you venture into RF electronics or embedded land, beware of it turning into a master of bs. Which makes sense for something that isn’t AI b
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
I opened the article expecting to read about its use in plant breeding: colchicine is renowned there for inducing polyploidy. Never knew it has a history in medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
I wonder what the influence of wind is on survival of flying insects. Over here - W. Eu. - we’ve seen storms on a monthly base now. I don’t think the energy balance of foraging adds up if there’s too much wind.
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Where can I find the picoIDE schematics & code? All I find is picoGus.
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
4) the whole system is rigged and the playbook is entering a new chapter
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Did anyone ever make a simulator for pennies hitting the floor like in the top video?
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
I’m in the process of cleaning out my “varia” parts bin. It’s a box of neat-looking chips with an id that looks easy to google for datasheets … but most are locked away as you state. There is a fixed barrier for hobbyists around the 100 to
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Very true. I’d like to add that it appears to be common on chinese sites to use micro-payment systems. You want the modified code / device driver / pinout / datasheet or rom dump? Please pay 3 cents. On the Russian fora I’m o
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Last year was my first participation and did everything in javascript in the browser. It’s high level enough to not lose your time in details, you have a graphical output if needed (canvas), text output, threading, parsing, …
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
The iot devices are hacked on the application layer. You have a controller running some linux distro and you work your way in over tty/telnet/eth. That’s an entirely different ballgame than repurposing 8-bit avr or 32-bit STM micr
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
Looking at that list, collapse OS seems to cater to 8-bit only. It’s also aimes at “ built from scavenged parts” boards. I’ve often come across Hitachi h8, Blackfin, PIC, avr, the occasional ARM and other controllers in the wild. But they
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
but as usual, the Internet Archive saved the day. So many times, when working on hardware of only 10 years ago do you hit this wall of “resource no longer available”. And often archive saves the day. Consider donating if they helped
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by CheeseFromLidl 10mo ago
From our 1 datapoint set I’m leaning towards the “earth is an aberration” theory. This was a dinosaur planet. There was a reset some time ago that cleared the path for mammals. It’s unlikely that this timing is common.
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
With terrahertz rectifiers you can use antennas and diodes to convert light to DC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
“ simply because its business model for profit is broken.” Remember the days when Google was looking for a business model? I do. It’s probably going to be ads. But you’ll still gets ads for toilet seats after you searched for a pla
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
As an aside - isn’t it remarkable that we’ve introduced uncertainty and doubt into the knowledge processing layer? We have decentralised networks that run on Bayesian symbols for server-client models, CPUs that crunch Markov chains and now
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
It would also explain why the movie was recommended to me yesterday in netflix.
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
A terrahertz rectifier would be a boon for solar energy.
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by CheeseFromLidl 11mo ago
There’s a solution to the Fermi paradox somewhere in this string of comments.

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