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Pretty sure 10,000db is "destroy the observable universe" power levels so.....somehow worse than nukes? That's a 10^1000 multiplier. It doesn't even matter what unit you use really…

This guy is really amazing. He did an awesome youtube video series on writing a render engine from scratch. I used his tutorials extensively for learning vulkan. https://www.youtub…

I think it depends on context. There are a lot of sim games where the environment is very controlled and forums are littered with people who can't tell whether the occasional pictu…

Yea, this one goes from 0 to 100 real quick. The first half is a valid-ish argument, then the second is just an exponentially growing web of conspiracy theories...

JFC we really need to turn this societal acceptance of "you don't own the hardware" around. It's always been legal to sell parts off your car. Do not buy anything that attempts to …

Colorado has vote my mail as the default option and it works fine. If you want to vote, you register, get a ballot in the mail and return it. You can verify that it's counted by fo…

For an owner operator, an R22 and maybe an R44 would be able to do SF to Lake Tahoe for well under $250. For a charter service you could probably get a commercial operator to do it…

You can throw around statistics but the reality is aircraft receive far more scrutiny. Nobody wants to sit helplessly as one of these things flies them into the side of a skyscrape…

If they're operating in the US (given all the pictures of US cities) then they will absolutely be flying part 121 or 135.

I absolutely guarantee this will be anything but less expensive. You can get an R44 with better range and payload for a couple hundred thousand. This will be an electronic nightmar…

This isn't going to be certified and allowed for part 135 operations inside at least a decade. Boeing can't keep their jets from crashing due to simple trim control software, what …

Not if they have no funding for those things...

Really they spawned a huge industry of balance-operated electric scooter...things... The branding was much more accurate than I think even they hoped as they were a segue to more c…

What positions do you feel are both populist and bad?

These are all moonshot projects. If someone can come up with a creative and simple ventilator that relies entirely on 3d printed and massively available electronic parts they can s…

Honestly I feel like D3D12's days are numbered. Tons of engines and devs are moving to Vulkan and while Vulkan has tons of tutorials and documentation, D12 has NOTHING. If you want…

They do it with software licensing for sure. There are almost certainly satellites and weapons systems out there with GPL code in them but good luck proving it.

Haven't heard that definition of canard in a while... As with most things, I'm fairly sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle and it varies industry to industry. Yea, a lot of …

Sure, however this case in particular is a bit of a counter point because covid-19 isn't causing anyone to become a child predator, nor has there otherwise been a recent tidal wave…

What's the interval they've been flying at? Has any been keeping track of how often they're spotted?

I bet by changing up the sensor pixels this would be a pretty cost effective way of making a low res FLIR camera, or really any imaging band. Using a different pin hole you might e…

If it's going into a secure facility it doesn't matter if it's a phone, an iwatch or a garmin, if it has a radio and/or nonvolatile memory, it's not going in.

Check the allowable voltage input ranges for each and if they have overlap just buy a big power brick (like a laptop charger), cut the ends off of each of the supplied wall warts a…

This kind of illustrates an important point that I think a lot of people don't realize. Strength isn't just muscle mass but also neurological conditioning. You're not just stimulat…

A perfect example, though it seems some here are somewhat butthurt :)