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by pogden 3y ago
Unfortunately not who gets the most, though.
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by pogden 5y ago
This tanker is 35kg, so it is the smaller barge.
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by pogden 7y ago
The Bay Area is absolutely worth visiting. The Computer History Museum alone is a must see if you're into that sort of thing. The wealth inequality and housing crises don't make it a bad place to visit any more than New York, Lond
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by pogden 8y ago
Deep Reactive Ion Etching should turn up more results. For watchmaking the application would be bulk micromachining.
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by pogden 8y ago
Do you have a source for that number? UNHCR lists 44,400 displacements per day worldwide in 2017 [0]. [0] http://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2017/
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by pogden 9y ago
Perhaps if it’s released before another key is pressed, the mode stays changed. If another key is pressed first, it changes back on release.
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by pogden 9y ago
Somewhere in the instructions it says that your solution should run in less than a minute on ordinary computer hardware. Sometimes it's just as interesting to make your brute force solution more performant as it is to find 'the tr
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by pogden 9y ago
The common thread is that robots look like people or animals. No one would call a CNC machine a 'robotic machinist' but an industrial robotic arm is still a robot because it is visually similar to a human arm.
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by pogden 11y ago
It was safer than additional surgeries to replace batteries.
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by pogden 11y ago
Because Algebraic Data Types. It's bizarre that I have to give up that power when going from VHDL to C.
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by pogden 11y ago
Iridium works anywhere on earth, it's just expensive.
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by pogden 11y ago
What's more common outside PHP is that functions throw errors or exceptions when given invalid input, rather that trucking along and producing output that is clearly not what was intended.
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by pogden 11y ago
At least in PHP. Unfortunately in my experience the PHP documentation is not frequently read by PHP developers or even PHP internals developers. It seems to exist mainly for PHP hatebloggers, for whom it's a gold mine. This illustrates
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by pogden 11y ago
The crazy part is that, instead of throwing an error when given input that doesn't make sense, it just silently produces garbage output.
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by pogden 11y ago
True, but it takes a lot fewer resources to thoroughly catalog and monitor all large NEOs and divert the potentially hazardous ones. Estimates I've seen put 5km impacts at an average frequency of one every 10-100 million years range, a
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by pogden 11y ago
To be fair, it's Hardware Description Language, not Hardware Synthesis Language. HDLs are mostly tools to support V&V, it's just that synthesis is the most convenient way to ensure that an implementation is consistent with the
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by pogden 11y ago
I see. This is similar to my experience. Most software is made for people to use at work, usually semi-custom. Most software also doesn't depend on low latency or high graphics throughout, so most applications, especially new ones, are
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by pogden 11y ago
I'm curious, what communities and places do you know most of these developers from? And what sort of platforms do they work with?
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by pogden 11y ago
I think the grandparent is referring to 'free as in beer.' It doesn't cost anything to tinker with programming because almost everyone already has a computer they use for other things. Not so with FPGAs.
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by pogden 12y ago
All true. The first used F9 payloads will likely be Geosynchronous communications satellites, where the smaller payload is mostly fuel for apogee kick and station keeping, and the rest is mostly off the shelf hardware. Alternately, operator
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by pogden 12y ago
Milling is great, but not very mass-efficient. Resisting the cutting forces involved in milling anything harder than light foam, requires a lot more structure than simply moving a deposition print head. Machinists use mass as a shorthand to
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by pogden 12y ago
I agree, the refocusing is somewhat gimmicky, but how would you like a 30-250mm f/2 lens that never misses focus. To me, this is where the Lytro shines. It enables you to use a lens that would be unusable with a normal sensor.
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by pogden 13y ago
The difference is that I can actually use Squirt.io, today. I like Spritz, but it's useless to me if I can't use it on anything but their site or the email app of the next Samsung phone.
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by pogden 13y ago
Consumers were not mentioned in the comment. The last sentence talks about "people" which in context means members of the tech press.
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by pogden 13y ago
Really? of all my bills, T-mobile is the only one I could get set up automatically. It's beautiful. They never call me, I never call them, my phone just has internet.
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by pogden 13y ago
Hardware keylogger.
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by pogden 13y ago
We can't really measure how important something is in absolute terms, only the decisions people make. There's usually a trade-off between rent and the catch-all 'amenities', and most would agree that young people are muc
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by pogden 13y ago
That's the point. Like riding, directly operating a motor vehicle can be an enjoyable an rewarding experience without being a good way to get around town. Someday, I hope, driving will be reserved for purpose specific tracks, cars that
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by pogden 13y ago
if they're illegal, they pertinent aren't counted in the BLS statistics.
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by pogden 13y ago
You could supplement Soylent with maltodextrin, rice protein and olive oil. That or cheeseburgers. Meal frequency adjustments can be accomplished with a measuring cup.

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