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by swimfar 3y ago
Can anyone comment on why this was downvoted? Is it not true? Even though sharing secrets with the Soviets would have been different from sharing them with Israel, if it was unsanctioned it still seems like this is a big deal.
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by swimfar 3y ago
In Salt Lake City, Utah the trams are free in the downtown area. You only have to pay if you ride it outside of there. That seems like a nice way to do it. People who wouldn't normally ride it use it because it's free. And the
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by swimfar 3y ago
Even completely prerecorded scripts can keep them on the phone for over 10 minutes. There's a funny series on YouTube, "Lenny", where they just play a recording of an old man who keeps asking questions and going off track:
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by swimfar 3y ago
For the US the parent said it was 200k migrants in one month. That's 2.4 million/year, or 0.7% of the population.
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by swimfar 3y ago
Unshortened link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078ZM3F8G
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by swimfar 3y ago
I immediately did some searches to see if I could find prints, or even high-quality images of some of the pieces. Alternatively, I think it could be fun to try to recreate the works of art myself.
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by swimfar 3y ago
Somewhat related, there's a series of German videos made for kids that show how a car is manufactured. It's mostly the bodywork and assembly, not engine stuff, but it's still a good overview. If you're interested in th
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by swimfar 3y ago
$200k is about $1200/month for the mortgage, taxes, and insurance.
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by swimfar 3y ago
Wouldn't you assume that closed-source products would generally have a competitive advantage against open-source products? Especially for products where most of the contributions to the project are from the company selling it. With c
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by swimfar 3y ago
Are you sure those are the same bulbs? The ultra efficient versions sold on Amazon have reviews going back to 2017. Supposedly the Dubai-style bulbs were only available in Dubai even a few years ago.
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by swimfar 3y ago
But that Arduino tooling and all the libraries, tutorials, etc. wouldn't exist if nobody had bought Arduinos. If I'm just buying a few boards for personal projects I like to support companies that provide more than just hardware
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by swimfar 4y ago
Uniscuit would be bread. Biscuit translates to "twice cooked" in French. This is similar to biscotti which translates to the same thing in Italian. Fun fact that many French and Italians don't even realize.
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by swimfar 4y ago
I've heard stories from relatives about a funhouse like that on Coney Island. Supposedly there was a dark maze section with clowns that would walk around and shock you. As I got older I assumed some of it had to be made up. But at l
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by swimfar 4y ago
It doesn't look like they are building risk into the playgrounds, as much as they are building the feeling of risk. which isn't necessarily a bad thing. This seems like a compromise that should be seen as better, or at least acc
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by swimfar 4y ago
Given that companies in China are blatantly selling forgeries of US gold coins[1], it appears that they aren't too worried about the consequences. Though maybe it would start to attract more attention if they began counterfeiting larg
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Tiny Tapeout 3: Create and fab your own chip design(tinytapeout.com)
5 points by swimfar 4y ago|1 comments
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by swimfar 4y ago
Tiny Tapeout 3 submissions are now active. Design your own chip and it will be added to a large chip containing everyone's submission. Physical chips will be created of the final combined design with access to all of the individual d
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by swimfar 4y ago
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqsgxLyl5E
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by swimfar 4y ago
Even an ESP32 is probably more powerful than every single one of those computers, with the exception of the GameCube. You can emulate NES games on that micro-controller.
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by swimfar 4y ago
Do you mean they just pronounce the "eur" part like in French? Or do they actually say day-rye-eur? It would sound really weird to pronounce the word like in French.
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by swimfar 4y ago
And here's a list of countries ranked by median income based on data from the World Bank. The US is "only" 5th by this measure. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
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by swimfar 4y ago
Were the duration of the phases shortened? The quote makes it sound like the duration was kept the same, just that the following phase started before the end of the previous phase.
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by swimfar 4y ago
That's not at all what he meant. He was saying that in both cases the stunt man is getting injured, but in the case of digital it doesn't look better than CGI, so at that point why not just do CGI and eliminate the injuries.
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by swimfar 4y ago
Captured by Robots also did this, but his look like humanoid robots and have conversations with the singer which are part of the act. The type of music isn't for everybody (or most people). But if you're musically open I'd
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by swimfar 4y ago
I love nomographs. My favorite is this Van-der-Pol nomograph that calculates asphalt stiffness for different temperatures, penetration amplitudes, and loading rates. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasan-Al-Mosawe
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by swimfar 4y ago
Also note that it should be "300 meter resolution". You don't use a plural when using it as an adjective. I only point this out to help people because this is a common grammar mistake for non-native speakers.
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by swimfar 4y ago
Also, you don't need to run continuously. It's perfectly fine to run for a couple minutes and then walk a bit. I think people's definitions of exercise are often too strict, or constrained. Another way to get into running i
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by swimfar 4y ago
If you think that's crazy, read about the old Tour de France races. The stages were significantly longer than they are now (300 km to 480 km), and for a while the bikes only had two speeds. To change which gear you were in you had to
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by swimfar 4y ago
Was the blender part one of these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4415363 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3969534 https://www.printables.com/model/172705-bosch-blender-coupli... Y
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by swimfar 4y ago
A more descriptive title would be, "TI-83 LCD ribbon repair". I have my old TI-86 which seems to have the same problem so I'll have to try the same technique. The TI calculators were amazing environments for learning assembly

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