madvoid

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by madvoid 2y ago
What's more alarming is this site is pretty high up on google when you search for "Staub cast iron".
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by madvoid 3y ago
Imagine you're a 16th century Italian mathematician who is trying to solve cubic equations. You notice that when you try to solve some equations, you end up with a sqrt(-1) in your work. If you're Cardano, you call those terms &qu
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by madvoid 4y ago
For small scale circuits, I like Scherz's "Practical Electronics for Inventors". For a good high level overview of the grid, along with other civil engineering topics, Grady Hillhouse's "Engineering in Plain Sight&q
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by madvoid 4y ago
I love that the whitepaper doesn't actually have any white pages...
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by madvoid 4y ago
Everything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS explanation.
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by madvoid 4y ago
Amen. Due to reliability and lack of updates I don't use it anymore but Nintype was by far the best mobile typing experience I've had.
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by madvoid 5y ago
Recently switched from a Kindle to a Kobo and here are my findings so far: Kobo Pros: * Natively handle .epub files * Overdrive integration for library books * Dropbox integration so it's quick to transfer files from my laptop * Pocket
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by madvoid 5y ago
Burning man being NIMBY about geothermal energy ( https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2022/01/10/b... ) probably has more negative impacts towards the climate than their fires.
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by madvoid 5y ago
I linked to the Reddit page because the creator of the site seems to be active there.
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Import Yeti: Visualize US Company's International Supply Chains(old.reddit.com)
4 points by madvoid 5y ago|1 comments
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by madvoid 5y ago
Home automation or LEDs are always a good start in my opinion. Home automation because it's something that will affect your life and you'll notice, LEDs because they're pretty (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by madvoid 5y ago
Thank you for the link. My mayor is on here which I'm very unhappy about.
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by madvoid 5y ago
I got a pair of AfterShokz ( https://aftershokz.com/us/ ) for swimming and in some ways it’s more convenient than an iPod shuffle because the headphones are integrated. I really like the bone conduction tech too.
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Functgraph: Using a 3D printer to assemble printed parts with printed tools(youtube.com)
2 points by madvoid 5y ago|0 comments
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by madvoid 6y ago
I actually think what you eat is the dominating factor in food CO2 production: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/02/Environmental-imp... Transport and processing are fairly minor components overall fo
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by madvoid 6y ago
I'm planning on buying a printer soon elevation maps are one of the things I was hoping to print - thank you for the awesome tool! Assuming the users are okay with it I think it would be cool to show some of the pics people send you fo
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by madvoid 6y ago
Thank you for the reply!
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by madvoid 6y ago
Hi Matt, what kind of work do data scientists do at USDS?
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by madvoid 6y ago
"Generally" could mean what you mentioned, or it could mean straight slavery - as the article said there is not good stats. Forced labor is prevalent in many industries, using the US definition of slavery: https://www.d
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by madvoid 6y ago
Coffee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-hidden... Sugar: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/09/brazil.slav... I do not believe your implie
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by madvoid 6y ago
+1 for maps.me, it's my goto app when traveling
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by madvoid 6y ago
The word for this general phenomena for those that are curious is Goodhart's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by madvoid 6y ago
Clinton has been called "The first black president" before: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/clinton/morrison.html
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Radio JJY Time Pulse Emulator(jrcomputing.com.au)
2 points by madvoid 8y ago|0 comments
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by madvoid 8y ago
Opening Arguments. It's a law podcast that's packed full of information about current events and is very accessible.
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by madvoid 9y ago
I just tried this. On iOS 11 on my iPad, putting the wrong finger three times in a row prompts for a passcode, but, you can hit cancel and then use a correct finger and it will still unlock. So I don’t know if that helps you because it does
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True Random Number Generation Using a Smoke Detector(etoan.com)
2 points by madvoid 10y ago|0 comments
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by madvoid 10y ago
This is excellent, thank you! I think one thing that would make it better is a reset button for each visualization. It's always nice to go back to the default without having to reload.
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by madvoid 10y ago
You should watch some of engineerguy's videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo/videos . He goes over some of these small details in products and why they are there. It's quite int
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by madvoid 10y ago
Why not link to Shazam's page for a song? It seems pretty static to me and includes other semi-useful information, including links to online music stores and youtube. Example: http://www.shazam.com/track/52242019&#

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