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by throwketchup 10y ago
But the whole front half of the airplane on most airlines (LCCs excepted) has power outlets. That includes premium economy and a bunch of regular economy.
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by throwketchup 11y ago
You don't need brand new gear though: A used Nikon D2x or D300 on a good lens will produce results as good as most pros would get with film back in the day. Those bodies even drive all the old (cheap) Nikkor AF lenses. Total cost for a
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by throwketchup 11y ago
Tractors are allowed. The magic phrase you need to type into google to get the relevant results is "farm implement."
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by throwketchup 11y ago
There's a lot more to a micro controller than the CPU. Intel's Micro controller offerings have traditionally had weak timer and ADC peripherals. Edit: Just glanced through the user guide [0]. The timers are pretty basic. The gene
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by throwketchup 11y ago
What good are bombs and cannons if you don't have fuel for the bombers or shells for the cannons?
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by throwketchup 11y ago
Just pay for precheck. It's $85 for 5 years, and realistically, yes, most of that money just goes to line the pockets of the politically connected. On the other hand, you can pretty consistently go from curb to club in 5 minutes, and y
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by throwketchup 11y ago
> There's a significant background check involved which, I suspect, does more to enhance security than some millimeter wave scanner in the security line. No, there isn't. I walked into the interview booth on a whim one day, whe
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by throwketchup 12y ago
That or you can just listen for tire noise. Even electic cars are quite loud above 25 mph, or so, so it only really becomes a problem at stop lights. Even then, the distinctive power supply whine will let youn that a hybrid or electric is
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by throwketchup 12y ago
If anything, you'd expect lower fuel consumption for a given amount of power due to the reduced pumping losses.
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by throwketchup 12y ago
On #1, it actually is a problem. Look at the range of the fuel cell cars that have been released or announced. None of them have even as much range as a Tesla Model S (and they cost more...). It also presents a problem for refueling. There
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by throwketchup 12y ago
HP was known for building generally good test equipment, including arbitrary waveform generators. Op is humorously referring to the fact that the test and measurement division was spun off first as Agilent, then Keysight (seriously?), and p
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by throwketchup 12y ago
What exactly do you consider odd? As others have replied, hydrazine has a long history for RCS systems in spacecraft, and kerosene + oxidizer mixtures have long been used for propulsion engines. The only technology here that isn't enti
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by throwketchup 12y ago
Which is too bad because it is the connector used on almost all sport GPSs, many bicycle head and tail lights, as well as many generations of Canon still cameras, not to mention most non-Apple MP3 players. For better or worse, mini B plugs
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by throwketchup 12y ago
That might be the reason that service dogs are typically of breeds that are least likely to cause allergic reactions.
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by throwketchup 12y ago
Is there any place I can find more detailed requirements for earthquake seismology stations? I feel like modern off-the-shelf parts could be used to build the signal conditioning and digitization stages for well under $20/channel, and
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by throwketchup 12y ago
Except for the "reasonable rate" bit, which (IMHO) also includes "reasonable latency." Real UARTs can be used for, e.g., pulse-per-second inputs from GPS or atomic clocks to discipline an NTP server. That doesn't
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by throwketchup 12y ago
Yea, and the previous treatment (which only managed the disease, not cured it) was around $300k per person over their expected lifetime.
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by throwketchup 12y ago
It's a valid question, not sure why you're being down voted. It nicely fills the use case of "I could totally run this project from an 80 cent microcontroller, except that it needs network connectivity, and the only practical
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by throwketchup 12y ago
It's definitely in the USB 1.1 spec, (with some verbiage that excessive current draw on one port is not allowed to affect other ports) though they may have relaxed it later. I have several old Belkin hubs that will terminate (with prej
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by throwketchup 12y ago
> How would the autonomous delivery trucks you are talking about actually deliver the packages? For the first iteration, I'd have a human take the boxes from the truck to the door. The truck would have one of those laser designators
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by throwketchup 12y ago
Research is typically a profit center for the university. The standard cut (known as "overhead" in the biz) is 30% of research grants. Capital equipment (typically defined as stuff costing more than X dollars) is taxed at a lower