dominicdoty

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by dominicdoty 2y ago
Whoa this is weird timing - just this weekend I did a little exploration of using Svelte to create documents and eventually PDFs. Its really just a proof of concept at this point, but it might be of interest to you (and others). Code: http
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by dominicdoty 2y ago
Shameless plug for my own project with a similar bent - write your own lunar lander autopilot in browser lunar.unnecessarymodification.com
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by dominicdoty 2y ago
I think the counter to this would be that if you focused on the "listen to a song I want right away" problem - you would have invented Spotify. From a business perspective inventing Spotify is probably better than inventing bittor
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
Because the steering ratio is variable, the movement shown in the video is about the equivalent of two full turns of a normal steering wheel. I tend to agree with the parent, it'd be hard for a human to equal this performance.
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone else suggest it- the Comma Body might be an interesting platform for this. No manipulator unfortunately but a decent place to start. https://www.comma.ai/shop/body
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
The "95% reduction in the last 100 years" feels like a misguided argument since our improved abilities to handle weather events will not hold if the weather patterns we've gotten so good at handling, change. If you exceed des
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
Couldn't cloudflare show a page to the next handful of http requests from an IP informing the user that "something on your network is participating in DDoS attacks". All the big providers could do this, just inject a little t
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
If they're interested in software and hardware, robotics is a fun place to start. Line following, object avoidance, maze solving, all sorts of cool options. A relatively cheap option would be the micro:bit [1] and a chassis [2]. The mi
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
This is very cool, I like the increasing complexity levels. I actually made a similar thing based on writing your own autopilot for a Lunar Lander [1]. It's hard to make the difficulty increase linearly though. I like the use of differ
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by dominicdoty 3y ago
From an engineering perspective life is an incredibly sensitive rube goldberg machine. We have yet to find another world that has the right combination of googly eyes and string and tape to sustain relatively stable complex life. We struggl
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Show HN: Build your own lunar lander autopilot(lunar.unnecessarymodification.com)
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Tailors' Shears (2018)(meyerandmortimer.com)
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by dominicdoty 4y ago
While I broadly agree with this, you have to be careful you don't slide too far into this mindset. Vacations become hard to justify if you view them as both the price of the vacation+lost income opportunity. It's easy to find your
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by dominicdoty 5y ago
A fair point, but even then 150 is probably on the high end. I commute 60 miles a day and made it through the first ~2 months using only a level 1 home charger (standard wall outlet). My total charge trended down through the week, and then
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by dominicdoty 5y ago
This is taken out of context a bit. What's said is that range doesn't matter if you're not doing long hauls (which he defines as 150+ miles). I tend to agree with him, as the majority of drivers are rarely driving over 150 mi
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by dominicdoty 5y ago
I've always liked ultrasonic bolt length measurement as the ultra high reliability way of measuring preload. It can also be used for confirming the correct preload is still present, with the downside of having to track the original len