clueless123

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by clueless123 3y ago
Maybe I was super lucky or somehow immune.. but as a Kid I got zapped by flyback transformers quite a bit of times.. (5 or 6 times?) It hurts,and it leaves a burn point where it touched.. but did not killed me. Eventually I learned to groun
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by clueless123 4y ago
To me, Unit Tests are live documentation for your code. You definitely do not need 100% coverage, but if you can exercise a good percentage of your code, you are making your future "you" live easier. Just consider that in many cas
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by clueless123 5y ago
In my experience, At large companies that hire a lot of contractors, it is not that hard to pull this off. I've seen where the contractors A team do all the interviewing, then you get a C or C- team assigned to work in your project. By
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by clueless123 5y ago
Our minds are wired to wonder, recall previous similar situations , associate and predict what is coming.. some minds are more active at this than others. If you want to get some control over this, try practicing meditation. It will strengt
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by clueless123 5y ago
I recently found out that "unfinished" structures in Peruvian emerging towns is by design, as you don't start paying property taxes on a building until is "finished" , leaving it on an eternal state of construction,
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by clueless123 5y ago
"His buildings are nicknamed cholets, a portmaneau of chalet (a Swiss mountain house) and cholo (derogatory slang for indigenous person)." Just a small comment on the above paragraph from the article: While in mexico the word &quo
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by clueless123 5y ago
1. This in Peru, far away from FAA's reach ;) 2. No,It must be a camera sync issue.. I was giving it just enough power to keep altitude 3. This was done just for fun.. To prove it could be done, if you wish. The engine (cheap chinees
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by clueless123 5y ago
And one more niche area.. Electric engines do not care about low oxygen, going up and down from coastal areas to high altitude Andes is economically achievable. Going from a place like Lima to Jauja in Peru can take 12 hours on a road, but
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by clueless123 5y ago
Agree with the big benefits for training, specially if you can swap batteries like you do with industrial drones. Other niche area where there would be a great benefit: Remote regions like the amazon jungle where a regular trip between vill
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by clueless123 5y ago
Been using mindmaps to keep "knowledge" for years (freemind) best thing ever. The older I get, the more useful they become.
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by clueless123 5y ago
In this case, ships will be heavily loaded on the way down (carrying heavy produce) and lightly loaded on the way up (carrying lighter products like medicine or high value manufactured goods)
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by clueless123 5y ago
How high can this ships go? How Fast? All along the Andes in South America there is a dire need to efficiently move products from high altitude to the coast (where major cities are) In Peru for example, there are hundreds of small farming t
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by clueless123 5y ago
How high can this ships go? How Fast? All along the Andes in south america there is a dire need to efficiently move products from high altitude to the coast (where major cities are) In Peru for example, there are hundreds of small farming t
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by clueless123 5y ago
This brings nice old memories to me.. Some forty some years ago, as a kid, I wrote a morse-to-text decoder program in Basic that took it's input from the audio in port that Tandy's Model 1 had to load code from audio cassetes. B
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by clueless123 6y ago
Agreed and point taken.. A good MBA's would realize the short sightedness of the actions they are taking (like they should have done in Boeing's case) and good engineers should have the integrity to say "you want me to do wha
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by clueless123 6y ago
I might be biased (I am an engineer) but I call this behaviour " MBA mentality VS Engineer mentality". Is this malady that slowly has infected top engineering firms (Read HP, Boeing, IBM) and converted them into "sales organi
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by clueless123 6y ago
Over here in S.A. there is a common saying: Behind every fortune there is a crime. I guess it is pretty international after all.
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by clueless123 6y ago
So sad, such a genius.
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by clueless123 6y ago
In my experience this is not 100% true. Many times you get involved on OSS to "scratch your own itch" be it a personal project from scratch or collaborating on somebody else OSS project by fixing/adding something that irks&#x
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by clueless123 6y ago
Wow! Looks exactly like the desert of Paracas in Peru. Amazing!
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by clueless123 6y ago
VR Apps (Alt Space and others) can solve most of this issues right now. The soon coming generation of VR googles actually read your face expressions and replicates them online. IMHO, At the current pace of development, in less than a year,
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by clueless123 6y ago
Some fun facts.. Andean Condors in Peru glide from 14'000 ft up in the andes of Pampa Galeras all way the down to sea level at the Guano islands in the coast of Paracas. All to get stuffed eating crushed sea lions babies carcases.. Aft
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by clueless123 6y ago
FWIW, the estimated glide ratio of a South American Andean Condor is ~ 12:1 or about what a competition Paraglider does. (Or an old hang glider)
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by clueless123 6y ago
You can point your telescope to any reflection or light (even fluorescent ones) on a room, and the induce vibration will be enough to create a signal to listen.. I accidentally figured that out when I was 13 or so, and tried to build a led
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by clueless123 6y ago
Fantastic Skydiving vehicle.. If you can get 9 people (+ gear) 12'000ft on a 30 minutes flight, then you can glide all the way down for the next load. at $6 worth of fuel it would be a game changer.
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by clueless123 6y ago
You can even ground tow to altitude then go flying.. Glider have been doing that for ages..
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by clueless123 6y ago
On the glider world, that is called a sustainer engine.. :) And here is my first attempt at an electric one.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAwpi7VPQTk
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by clueless123 7y ago
Motor: http://www.freerchobby.cc/ 202/80 27 brushless motor with hall sensor Controller: https://kellyev.com/shop/khb/ KHB - High Power Opto-Isolated Brushless Motor Controller With
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by clueless123 7y ago
Doing my part to solve the issue :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTZG1qkH5s
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by clueless123 7y ago
Exactly the same for Peru where I live.

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