bradleysmith

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by bradleysmith 3y ago
fantastic stuff. I'm fiddling with screenshots from your [4] link video to try to pull 3D model from multi-image 3d model build tools. I too would very much like a print of their playable reconstruction on my desk. Please update if you
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by bradleysmith 4y ago
Switched to a browser to comment exactly this. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we started our work week on Saturday, with Wednesday being the last day of the work (school for me) week. It took me a long time to transition over to think about Sa
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by bradleysmith 4y ago
There’s this and no austin in this thread! Id love to hear what startup folks in the panhandle are working on.
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by bradleysmith 4y ago
> if I sell you a BMW 328i as a 340i but I also swap the engine and sell it with the additional power that comes with that change, have I misled you? Amongst car people, I think you have. Motor swaps come with all sorts of other risks. H
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by bradleysmith 5y ago
that has not been my experience. I get feedback from LI on views and resume downloads, and I get emails for next steps AND rejections. Granted, I'm sure I have some no-replies from there, but it's so easy to apply to more I hardly
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by bradleysmith 5y ago
Not a book, but this paper “big ball of mud” has resonated with me in describing troubles I’ve faced before, and has me coming back to it as I run into new architectural problems where I’m not confident in my/our approach. http:/
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by bradleysmith 5y ago
I've also heard 'smoke testing' refer to sending power to a device or component to see if any magic smoke comes out. But... I've also seen smoke testing used in automotive and engine diagnostics which could predate or pa
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by bradleysmith 5y ago
I share this dream. light fitness tracking in a forever battery w simple subtle design would win me. Something like the MQ24-7B2 mechanical with similar features would be the bees knees.
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by bradleysmith 7y ago
I was born in Dhahran in 1986, left in 2002. My dad worked in Aramco’s drilling department and was not insignificantly involved in introducing PCs to the organization. From his telling it was mostly for selfish motivations to improve invent
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by bradleysmith 7y ago
(This is a bit off-topic from the subject of the article about particular methodology of rendering data as opposed to usage of these kind of wind maps) I worked on X’s project loon in operations for a spell. We were interacting with balloon
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by bradleysmith 8y ago
Google established 155mbps connection at about 100km from two free floating balloons in 2016. I was on project and site for this launch, it was very clear morning/day, and atmospheric clarity will certainly affects transmission. These
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by bradleysmith 8y ago
At least at loon, the balloon has a ballonet that takes on atmosphere as ballast for descending.
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by bradleysmith 8y ago
a spot on this from a blog that covers Egypt archeological finds: http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/09/5000-year-old... Egypt Ministry of Antiquities facebook post on the announcement: https:/&#x2F
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by bradleysmith 9y ago
I spent several months in Puerto Rico working on operations with Google's Project Loon, launching balloons out of Cieba. Seeing the island during September 2016 power outage was eye-opening. It was admittedly a pretty bad event that sp
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by bradleysmith 9y ago
new features: 15 Minute Updates. Access the world’s breaking events and reaction in near-realtime as both the GDELT Event and Global Knowledge Graph now update every 15 minutes. Realtime Translation of 65 Languages. GDELT 2.0 brings with
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GDELT 2.0: new release of open Global Event Database updated every 15 min(blog.gdeltproject.org)
1 points by bradleysmith 9y ago|1 comments
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
>I'm not necessarily against holding someone accountable for the results of their speech (conversations about personal responsibility aside) but then it's not the speech that's illegal. aptly explained, and food for though
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
Do you support a citizen's right to yell "fire!" in a crowded building or theater?
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
He'd be prosecuted under the espionage act[0] per the charges against him. The espionage act limits speech. [0]- http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden...
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
Where did you see any plans of his to publish g-code in hard-copy?
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
pgRouting[0] is an extension for PostGIS that provides some routing functions. looks like they had a further extension solving a very similar problem (Dial-a-ride-problem, DARP[1]) in their 1.x versions. I can't find it in their curren
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
I sold high-end yo-yos to kids at my school growing up in Saudi Arabia. I would research the badass ones on the internet (only available from company office at the time, I'd go into my dad's), print out a Word-doc 'order form
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
The "notification" problem boils down to this: many want your attention; you only want to give attention to what is relevant to you, at a particular time. What is signal some times is noise others. It's not just NOISE Versus
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by bradleysmith 11y ago
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and cle
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
this was a very good overview, I appreciate the link. May be watching through much more of this class.
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Barrett Brown Requests Dismissal of $815k Restitution Owed to Stratfor [pdf](cryptome.org)
1 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This post has put in to words much of my own, un-reputable experience with SO and stack-exchange forums. The technical corrections and constant closing of questions by mods discouraged my asking of questions ages ago. There is a feeling tha
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This is also the delineator between humans and animals presented in Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", and I had a knee-jerk reaction against it. It is NOT obvious to me at all. I've seen my cats play '
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Fantastic write-up and application. I gave y'all my money a two or three months ago, and I've been very happy with your product. I had been flirting with a few other mostly-online solution for over a year (looking through book-mar
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
I am reminded of Slavoj Zizek's story about Niels Bohr having a horseshoe above his door: "surprised at seeing a horseshoe above the door of Bohr's country house, the fellow scientist visiting him exclaimed that he did not sh

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