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by bacon_waffle 1mo ago
Chocolate is a good medium for holograms :)
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
Thanks for the link - PCBWay recently offered me sponsorship, and this video has provided some good inspiration to make use of it :)
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
The additional battery weight would be something under 250kg (having handled a few Leaf battery packs), and wikipedia says the Niro EV is about 1700kg
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
I regularly notice bugs when using iOS Mail; one that springs to mind would display one email's body with the header info from another email, it seems to have recently been fixed but was easily reproducible for weeks if not months.
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
Location: South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, electronics, insulation Résumé/CV: https://ianrees.nz/tech/about.html Email: code atsign ianrees dot en ze(
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
Fun historical twist: New Zealand rotary phones used a reversed mapping between digit and pulse count - here the number of pulses was 10-digit.
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by bacon_waffle 1y ago
There are techniques for "stack"ing transistors so that the individual swtiching devices see potentials that are within spec and much lower than the voltage switched by the overall circuit.
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
"The 8th blade sends an electronic pulse to the center of the brain, which destroys the part of the brain responsible for hair growth and 4 other nonessential functions" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAZnGeBcgg
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
Usually the HAL is between the main firmware and the PAC, so whether the PAC methods are marked as unsafe could almost be considered an implementation detail. But yes, there has been a lot of discussion around how to handle DMA peripherals
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
Whoops, yes you're correct. Serves me right for looking at some SEO spam link! Main point was that bronze is much more common in marine applications than brass - I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's been an error upstrea
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
I believe bronze (copper + zinc) is a lot more common in marine applications than brass (copper + tin)
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
It was a stupid riff on the title. But, the Arkansas River does start in Colorado, and so some amount of Colorado's snowpack does wind up in Arkansas' river.
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
Because it's in the Arkansas River drainage?
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
Ah, that helps, thanks. It's a bit academic, but set theory doesn't really apply to such fuzzy human things as knowledge and experience. Repairing and designing are different pursuits which might have a lot of similarities, but I
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by bacon_waffle 2y ago
I've rebuilt several motors, transmissions, various other mechanical contrivances. Sometimes with decent documentation, sometimes not so much. Also done a bit of amateur machining, and worked as an engineer on physical products. Unde
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
The 300 club might be of interest :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Directly, the temperature isn't as big an issue for operating tapes/drives/computers, since they are inside temperature-controlled buildings. There are indirect problems though; the incredibly low relative humidity that resu
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
If by "station wagon" you mean LC-130 ;) IceCube switched from tapes to hard drives I think in 2015 or 16. In 2014 we spent a lot of time fiddling with tapes and drives... At that point, all the data was recorded to tape and flow
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Yukimarimo are a thing: https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/yukimarimo...
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Cool! Just in case you haven't come across this, we've got a (rather quiet lately) chat that might be useful. https://matrix.to/#/#usb-rs:matrix.org
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Natural Intelligences, it was an attempt at humor.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
At times in my life, I'd have paid good money to disable that feature of some NIs.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Imagine an elevator that moves up and down its shaft with a sinusoidal elevation over time. Riding in that elevator, one could detect frequencies with quite long wavelengths compared to the size of a person. A less abstract example is a bo
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I think that's shifting the goalposts a bit - one can buy weird proprietary stuff from a company or product line that disappears, or build stuff that uses standard interfaces.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> It it goes wrong, you cannot buy a new one or hire repairperson at a sane price. If it has a software side, it will probably need maintainence. It's not clear to me that the alternative provides these either. Just thinking about
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
This sort of approach seems common in the Rust community, it's so much more professional/humane/sustainable/performant than any other corner of the industry that I've come across.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
That is an interesting idea! The space of possible next characters expands polynomially, so as you say, the display might be better used with a polar grid compared to cartesian.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Yes, it is a small world after all! I'll email soon. Sorry, my memory is pretty fuzzy, but here's a contemporary photo in case yours works better: https://icecube.wisc.edu/gallery/winterovers/#modulagall
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Wow that was quick, thanks! Have imagined a music theory/improvisation practice program that looks something like Dasher + Guitar Hero.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Yep, thanks!

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