nacnud

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by nacnud 1mo ago
It's so that you don't lose your dark adaptation. See: https://www.nps.gov/articles/dark-adaptation-of-the-human-ey...
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by nacnud 2mo ago
Obligatory reference to "Remain Indoors" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
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by nacnud 9mo ago
I am hoping for a fossilized X-wing.
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by nacnud 1y ago
"Death Valley" is a recent gentle comedic crime detective series on the BBC (iPlayer), set in Wales and the characters frequently break into Welsh (with English subtitles). It's lovely to hear!
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by nacnud 1y ago
According to the ejection seat manufacturer [1] there is no minimum height or speed at which the ejection seat can be used, so as long as the aircraft is roughly level then the ejection should be survivable. [1] https://martin-ba
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by nacnud 1y ago
Does the phone make a different kind of noise, so you'd potentially associate that with "get off the ladder quick"!?
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by nacnud 1y ago
True - but if you erode that trust then your users may go elsewhere. If you keep the ads visually separated, there's a respected boundary & users may accept it.
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by nacnud 1y ago
Fan noise might be another consideration, given that some projects have to share a home with a family. Anyone know whether the N150 makes much noise?
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by nacnud 1y ago
The map seems to be based on monitoring stations in the different locations, so yes - it's also possible that a station is offline for other reasons (maintenance, etc).
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by nacnud 1y ago
Reported here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791#43820127
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by nacnud 1y ago
There's a map of realtime load flow here: https://gridradar.net/en/wide-area-monitoring-system (currently shows Spain and Portugal as 'offline')
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by nacnud 1y ago
Ah, the retro equivalent of "curl -L <script-url> | bash" ... :)
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by nacnud 2y ago
A friend recommends SayHi, which does near-realtime speech-to-speech translation ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sayhi.app&... ). Unfortunately it's not offline though.
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by nacnud 2y ago
A valid question, perhaps I should have linked to the Polaris Dawn website: https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/ Apologies!
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by nacnud 2y ago
As a British person, I find all the current OpenAI voices have overly strong (American) accents, which are way too perky/enthusiastic for my ears. It would be great if they could offer a more neutral accent, or even one British accent
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by nacnud 4y ago
Sussex? We used it in COGS and I think it was one of very few places teaching with it at the time.
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by nacnud 4y ago
IIRC, The Angelic (pub in Islington, London) used to play comedy shows from BBC Radio 4 on a loop. Makes customers smile, covers up noises - everybody's happy.
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by nacnud 5y ago
You might enjoy DI FM [1] which I've found has an excellent range of faster and slower tempo music for programming. [1] https://www.di.fm
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by nacnud 6y ago
Good question, does this mean my family's holy grail of performant Minecraft on a Pi is coming closer?
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by nacnud 7y ago
Would this work over larger distances - e.g. remote sensing from space?
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by nacnud 8y ago
What are we going to do with all those dormant pipes? Could some clever startup use them to route physical packets of stuff? :)
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by nacnud 8y ago
Given that any previous water in the atmosphere has mostly escaped over time, the dome seems like a better bet.
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by nacnud 8y ago
"use", not "usage". </joke>
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by nacnud 8y ago
What about embedding into the walls themselves?
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by nacnud 8y ago
Only a guess, but at that time wasn't the GPS signal intentionally degraded for non-US-military use, with reduced accuracy? Perhaps they're talking about the more precise signal, which the US didn't let them use.
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by nacnud 9y ago
Microservices is a back-end service pattern. MVC (Model View Controller) is a front-end pattern to enforce separation between data, UI and interaction logic.
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by nacnud 9y ago
I built a spaceship for my kids: http://www.duncanjauncey.com/blog/archives/377 (please excuse the tabloid headline of the article)
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by nacnud 9y ago
Riding one of those, galloping along at 70mph, would be quite something. (I guess it's the legged-equivalent of a motorbike?) You'd have to have a lot of trust..
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by nacnud 10y ago
Now you just need a little robot to fetch the things from your basement and put them into a vacuum-tube delivery system.. :)
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by nacnud 10y ago
Please write this up in a few months to share your experiences.

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