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by mafm 1mo ago
I read the books, and enjoyed them in the early 2000s. I was quite amused to see the article on O'Brian in Yachting World in 2004 when I was halfway through the series. I don't have a link to the yachting world article, but the BB
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DIY AI-powered robot arm(youtube.com)
2 points by mafm 6mo ago|1 comments
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by mafm 6mo ago
Nikodem Bartnik video on building and training a cheap robot arm. At least to me, this looks significantly more interesting than using AI to generate text.
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by mafm 1y ago
Thanks - just tried gnovies and got a great recommendation. I'm surprised that something I'd never heard of appears to work that well.
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by mafm 1y ago
It's true that talent is almost entirely curiosity/enthusiasm/drive. But that curiosity/enthusiasm/drive has a large genetic component - like every pretty much every other individual characteristic that humans exhib
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America's nightmare: China is moving at lightning speed to control the future(smh.com.au)
13 points by mafm 1y ago|12 comments
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by mafm 2y ago
Onshape is wonderful. Free users complained a lot about the changes to the free license years ago when they changed the rules, but I have no issue with it. TBH, I'm grateful they make it available on the terms that they do. Solvespace
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by mafm 2y ago
Nice work! Cool that you made this available for other people to benefit from.
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by mafm 3y ago
This looks nice. Looking forward to going through it and the related earlier stuff carefully at leisure. I'm sure the author is well aware, but Lennart Augustsson wrote a really nice blog post responding to the original "Simply Ea
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PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial(peps.python.org)
3 points by mafm 4y ago|0 comments
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Fortescue starts work on infinity train(reneweconomy.com.au)
1 points by mafm 5y ago|0 comments
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by mafm 5y ago
I'm not bob, but I bought a ruixin pro 8 (~40AUD) and 3 diamond stones (~5AUD a piece) on aliexpress a couple of weeks ago. Watched a YouTube video and got half a dozen kitchen knives sharp enough to shave arm hair in about an hour. Th
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Stone Age hand axe site dating back 1.3M years discovered in Morocco(abc.net.au)
4 points by mafm 5y ago|0 comments
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by mafm 5y ago
You may already be aware of it, but jupytext solves most of the problems ipynb files cause.
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Dynamic Soaring: 545 mph RC planes have no motor(hackaday.com)
4 points by mafm 6y ago|0 comments
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by mafm 6y ago
Nice. I would not pay for this but might buy it as an app on my phone. I would be more likely to buy a subscription of you had a ton of decks on it like memrise does.
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by mafm 6y ago
I hope Turkey does what you're suggesting with lighting. There's also an ayasofya in trebizond that was converted back to a mosque in 2013. That building is still open for visitors but unfortunately the main dome and its mosaics a
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by mafm 6y ago
The parent comment is the most useful one in the thread so far for anyone who seriously wants to learn about quantitative trading. Sports betting is essentially the same thing as proprietary trading in financial markets. The paper gives a g
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by mafm 6y ago
Because being ordered to do something that might get you killed isn't reasonable .
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by mafm 6y ago
Acoording to ethics class during basic training in the Australian army, the key difference between soldiers and civilians is that military personnel are under a legal obligation to follow all lawful orders. The class highlighted that poli
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by mafm 6y ago
When Hong Kong went back to China in 1997, it was 30% of China's GDP. In 2019, HK was less than 2.5% of Chinese GDP. HK has grown since 1997, but China has gotten so much richer that HK is now basically economically irrelevant to the m
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by mafm 6y ago
Here's a chart that pretty clearly shows how well the US is doing in comparison to the rest of the world: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1256769252369072134 Live version of essentially the same chart
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by mafm 6y ago
If rms doesn't understand org-mode, that seems to be pretty indicative of what the real problems underlying emacs' lack of popularity are. I suspect that org-mode is responsible for more people using emacs than any other package b
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by mafm 6y ago
Can you add a link pointing at some examples?
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by mafm 6y ago
Lisp let's you modify its syntax. You're making the standard argument about why that might be a bad idea. At least for Lisp, historically it worked pretty well. As new ideas came along, a lot of the good ones got incorporated in L
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by mafm 6y ago
That's a really interesting document.
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by mafm 6y ago
I think technical education in the soviet union was a lot stronger than it was in the free world, at least in the 20th century. When I was 16, I was enrolled in the top high-school maths units in the early 1980s in Australia. Maths was abou
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by mafm 6y ago
Large files seem fine in emacs as long as the lines are not too long. A 100MB file is no problem if there are less than a couple of hundred characters per line. If the average line is 2K characters, emacs will be unusable.
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by mafm 6y ago
Jupytext ( https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext ) solves most of the problems with managing notebooks in git.
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by mafm 7y ago
Birds have fragile high performance lungs. Using teflon cookware around a pet parrot is a well-known way to kill the pet. Teflon frying pans are supposed to be safe if you never let them overheat, but in practice they're not safe if yo

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