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bradleysmith

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    fantastic stuff. I'm fiddling with screenshots from your [4] link video to try to pull 3D model from multi-image 3d model build tools. I too would very much like a print of their p…

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    Comment #32978497

    Switched to a browser to comment exactly this. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we started our work week on Saturday, with Wednesday being the last day of the work (school for me) week.…

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    Comment #32906232

    There’s this and no austin in this thread! Id love to hear what startup folks in the panhandle are working on.

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    Comment #32242762

    > if I sell you a BMW 328i as a 340i but I also swap the engine and sell it with the additional power that comes with that change, have I misled you? Amongst car people, I think yo…

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    that has not been my experience. I get feedback from LI on views and resume downloads, and I get emails for next steps AND rejections. Granted, I'm sure I have some no-replies from…

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    Comment #30240451

    Not a book, but this paper “big ball of mud” has resonated with me in describing troubles I’ve faced before, and has me coming back to it as I run into new architectural problems w…

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    Comment #28710208

    I've also heard 'smoke testing' refer to sending power to a device or component to see if any magic smoke comes out. But... I've also seen smoke testing used in automotive and engi…

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    Comment #28607365

    I share this dream. light fitness tracking in a forever battery w simple subtle design would win me. Something like the MQ24-7B2 mechanical with similar features would be the bees …

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    Comment #22235639

    I was born in Dhahran in 1986, left in 2002. My dad worked in Aramco’s drilling department and was not insignificantly involved in introducing PCs to the organization. From his tel…

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    Comment #21098422

    (This is a bit off-topic from the subject of the article about particular methodology of rendering data as opposed to usage of these kind of wind maps) I worked on X’s project loon…

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    Comment #18689030

    Google established 155mbps connection at about 100km from two free floating balloons in 2016. I was on project and site for this launch, it was very clear morning/day, and atmosphe…

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    Comment #18468643

    At least at loon, the balloon has a ballonet that takes on atmosphere as ballast for descending.

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    Comment #17902871

    a spot on this from a blog that covers Egypt archeological finds: http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/09/5000-year-old... Egypt Ministry of Antiquities facebook post on the…

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    Comment #14260123

    I spent several months in Puerto Rico working on operations with Google's Project Loon, launching balloons out of Cieba. Seeing the island during September 2016 power outage was ey…

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    Comment #14213513

    new features: 15 Minute Updates. Access the world’s breaking events and reaction in near-realtime as both the GDELT Event and Global Knowledge Graph now update every 15 minutes. Re…

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    Comment #9508856

    >I'm not necessarily against holding someone accountable for the results of their speech (conversations about personal responsibility aside) but then it's not the speech that's ill…

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    Comment #9507616

    Do you support a citizen's right to yell "fire!" in a crowded building or theater?

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    Comment #9507611

    He'd be prosecuted under the espionage act[0] per the charges against him. The espionage act limits speech. [0]- http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden...

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    Comment #9507232

    Where did you see any plans of his to publish g-code in hard-copy?

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    Comment #9409279

    pgRouting[0] is an extension for PostGIS that provides some routing functions. looks like they had a further extension solving a very similar problem (Dial-a-ride-problem, DARP[1])…

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    Comment #9357032

    I sold high-end yo-yos to kids at my school growing up in Saudi Arabia. I would research the badass ones on the internet (only available from company office at the time, I'd go int…

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    Comment #9355899

    The "notification" problem boils down to this: many want your attention; you only want to give attention to what is relevant to you, at a particular time. What is signal some times…