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by blacksmythe 2y ago
Sounds like one solution would be to apply a sealant that looks like bare concrete.
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by blacksmythe 2y ago
Caltech - where your best just isn't good enough. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieza/79223350
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by blacksmythe 3y ago
It is amazing how much less time it takes to pay off a 30 year mortgage if you increase the payments 10%. The first good many years are paying mostly just the interest.
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by blacksmythe 4y ago
I have a very cheap plastic one with a dial, which works amazing well for the cost (<$10). I don't remember where I bought it, but it looks like this one: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-900003
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by blacksmythe 5y ago
Kinetic energy is a good measure for a baseball, because essentially all of the kinetic energy is being transferred from the small object to you. Kinetic energy is not a good measure for a car or B-52, as after the collision the large obje
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by blacksmythe 5y ago
>> Taking the FFT, modifying frequency amplitudes Modifying amplitude and phase. In the time domain you can't modify frequency amplitude without modifying the phase. If you modify just the FFT amplitude, you can end up wit
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by blacksmythe 6y ago
AMA95 is one of the few Caltech classes that I still think about, mostly because it was not useful. Almost all of my other classes have been useful over the years. I wish that the math sequence for non-math majors had included linear algebr
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions for curtailing Covid-19(sciencedirect.com)
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Covid cases by state vs. days since masks were first required(twitter.com)
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NASA-Developed Ventilator Authorized for Emergency Use(caltech.edu)
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
>> makes sure to walk the trainees through the confusing states you can get into, >> then we explain what happened, why, and how to correctly get out of them Is this something you could share?
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
You have to convert the wood to charcoal to burn hot enough for a blacksmith forge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal I highly recommend a visit to Plimouth Plantation to anyone interested in 1700's era tec
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
I don't travel with an extra keyboard, but I do take a mouse. An external mouse is so much better, and hardly takes up any space.
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Packt Books: Free Weekend (Sep 19th-22nd)(subscription.packtpub.com)
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Kerbal Space Program 2 - delay until after Mars 2020(xkcd.com)
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Verilog for all proposed RISC-V bitmanip instructions(github.com)
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
The talk that you link to: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tdd-original/ Ian Cooper reminds what was Kent's original proposition on TDD, what misunderstandings occurred along the way, and suggests
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Top apps freelancers need to run a successful business(helkeymedia.com)
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
"Table saws in use in the United States: Estimates range between 6 million and 10 million... in any particular year, about one table saw in 229 will be in an accident that sends someone to the emergency room." https://w
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
>> bet it's considerably higher than per hour of cruising around on a motorbike.. I would imagine so as well. "Haaf was described as an experienced skydiver with over 1,200 jumps and was a frequent visitor to Skydive
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Oslo, Paris, Vienna, Helsinki, Bremen, Bogotá, Ljubljana, Berlin, Tokyo, Taipei, Vancouver, Montreal, Hamburg
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Most Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet(wired.com)
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
Fun for foreigners (both in Tokyo area): Itabashi Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itabashi_Station Iidabashi_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iidabashi_Station (the major difference yo
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Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them(theatlantic.com)
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
>> last few times I tried to play chess, my mind would just drift off designing a program to do it so I wouldn't have to bother. That describes exactly how I feel about Sudoku. I do find a good game of chess to be enjoya
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by blacksmythe 7y ago
>> without `go fmt` "fixing" it Great point. And this line should be indented relative to the 'happy path' lines!
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All Packt EBooks and Videos $10(packtpub.com)
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Free Courses to Learn Git and GitHub in Depth(dev.to)
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Don’t Forget Step Zero – Successful People Remember(hackernoon.com)
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Key Kubernetes Concepts(towardsdatascience.com)
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