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Whoa this is weird timing - just this weekend I did a little exploration of using Svelte to create documents and eventually PDFs. Its really just a proof of concept at this point, …

Shameless plug for my own project with a similar bent - write your own lunar lander autopilot in browser lunar.unnecessarymodification.com

I think the counter to this would be that if you focused on the "listen to a song I want right away" problem - you would have invented Spotify. From a business perspective inventin…

Because the steering ratio is variable, the movement shown in the video is about the equivalent of two full turns of a normal steering wheel. I tend to agree with the parent, it'd …

I don't think I've seen anyone else suggest it- the Comma Body might be an interesting platform for this. No manipulator unfortunately but a decent place to start. https://www.comm…

The "95% reduction in the last 100 years" feels like a misguided argument since our improved abilities to handle weather events will not hold if the weather patterns we've gotten s…

Couldn't cloudflare show a page to the next handful of http requests from an IP informing the user that "something on your network is participating in DDoS attacks". All the big pr…

If they're interested in software and hardware, robotics is a fun place to start. Line following, object avoidance, maze solving, all sorts of cool options. A relatively cheap opti…

This is very cool, I like the increasing complexity levels. I actually made a similar thing based on writing your own autopilot for a Lunar Lander [1]. It's hard to make the diffic…

From an engineering perspective life is an incredibly sensitive rube goldberg machine. We have yet to find another world that has the right combination of googly eyes and string an…

Inspired by a previous post of a lunar lander game [1] and a subsequent autopilot for that same game [2], I made another lunar lander game where the user writes their own autopilot…

While I broadly agree with this, you have to be careful you don't slide too far into this mindset. Vacations become hard to justify if you view them as both the price of the vacati…

A fair point, but even then 150 is probably on the high end. I commute 60 miles a day and made it through the first ~2 months using only a level 1 home charger (standard wall outle…

This is taken out of context a bit. What's said is that range doesn't matter if you're not doing long hauls (which he defines as 150+ miles). I tend to agree with him, as the major…

I've always liked ultrasonic bolt length measurement as the ultra high reliability way of measuring preload. It can also be used for confirming the correct preload is still present…