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by iliis 8y ago
There's actually a quite nifty principle that makes it relatively easy to build your own multitouch table: Frustrated total internal reflection. The idea is based on internal reflection: Whenever lights hits the boundary between two ma
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by iliis 8y ago
What a fun question :) And there are some very cool answers! A few things that come to mind from my life, from back when I was still a kid/teenager: - Building a three-way marble-track switch. There are many marble tracks that have the
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by iliis 8y ago
So... Five stars then? ;) (But seriously, HN comments are actually great at recommending things.)
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by iliis 8y ago
About those sneakers: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:285404 ;) But yeah, I agree that there's much too much hype around a lot of stuff...
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by iliis 8y ago
Well, okay. Technically you're right ;) But what if you count any movements that are followed by another movement of the same face as a single step?
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by iliis 8y ago
That might very well be, but is it obviously so? What if there was a position that takes 19 moves to solve in the fastest way possible but the next-best solution takes 21 moves? Is there always a solution that takes an even number of steps?
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by iliis 8y ago
Did you try NewPipe? It works without the Google services and offers a few nifty features like background-play. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
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by iliis 8y ago
There was a similiar case in South Africa, where SIM cards were stolen from traffic lights and also racked up large bills: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12135841
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by iliis 8y ago
You could, but it would be thermally quite bad: The only way for parts to cool would be through radiation, which is way less effective than convection (be it forced by fans or passive, as in OP's design.)
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by iliis 8y ago
That's actually a good idea! It doesn't work for Google or Facebook tough, or other services I explicitely don't log right back in.
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by iliis 8y ago
If it is well integrated with your browser it's quite ok. Maybe not as convenient as using the same simple password everywhere but certainly a lot better than having to remember a lot of different passwords ;)
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by iliis 8y ago
Which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I don't want to be tracked so I try to limit the amount of fingerprinting possible.
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by iliis 8y ago
How about a password manager? Or even better: Some kind of hardware token and a good standard that goes with it?
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by iliis 8y ago
No, please don't. This is arduous for those of us who like a bit of privacy and regularly clear their cookies etc.
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Is there a way to set up proof-of-work systems so they would be more useful?(bitcoin.stackexchange.com)
1 points by iliis 8y ago|0 comments
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by iliis 9y ago
Well, in that case a non-textured or reflective clothing could have a similar effect.
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by iliis 9y ago
It seems that this is directly caused by the arctic temperature rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_stratospheric_warming Relevant quote: Following a sudden stratospheric warming, the high altitude winds reverse
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by iliis 9y ago
live view of Starman and his car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
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by iliis 9y ago
Live view of Starman in orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
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by iliis 9y ago
We mainly do SMT at our hackerspace, as it is really is fast and easy to do by hand using a hot-air gun (e.g. [1]). Use a syringe to deposit solder paste (we have one which uses compressed air, very convenient! Something like [2]) and a bin
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by iliis 9y ago
Another method is to use a high-powered pulsed laser to create little balls of plasma in mid-air: https://www.popsci.com/secret-interactive-holograms-plasma-a...
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by iliis 9y ago
Awesome achievement! This really looks like a viable way of true floating 3D-images. Can you levitate multiple particles at the same time? How fast are they moving? How sensitivie is it to disturbances in the air?
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by iliis 9y ago
More details in this german article: https://www.golem.de/news/kilopower-ein-kernreaktor-fuer-rau... I'll summarize some of the interesting points: - The nuclear core (75kg of enriched uranium/molybdenum [1])
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NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor(world-nuclear-news.org)
232 points by iliis 9y ago|114 comments
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by iliis 9y ago
Actually, the link is just wrongly formatted, the HSLuv project is online: http://www.hsluv.org/
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Gold and silver lost via effluents and sludge from wastewater treatment plants(eawag.ch)
27 points by iliis 9y ago|7 comments
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Stack Overflow IT-Recruiter Report 2017 [german](stackoverflowbusiness.com)
1 points by iliis 9y ago|0 comments
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by iliis 9y ago
Why the hack? I think you can switch to the old graphics in the remastered version. Or does that switch voices too?
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by iliis 9y ago
Not all that directly related, but if you like these old adventures and don't know it yet then check out ScummVM! It's an open source project allowing you to play all these games on more or less any modern device (including Linux,
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by iliis 9y ago
Ha, yes, definititely! Did you ever come into contact with RF design? Things like antennas are quite literally drawing-pentagrams-on-the-floor-style witchcraft ;) [1] You might also like [2], a story where magic is real and treated as just

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