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taylorportman
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Comment #47655609
This guy (sunshine) designed a 3d-printed mocha pot that boils in half the time over a flame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZiqLb70tM
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Comment #47595867
Good question I think. Norman Borlaug was known for transforming places with food importers into food exporters. And to ask the question again occasionally makes sense. In recent h…
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Comment #46853375
Often these dongles were just a single resistor 'circuit'
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Comment #44324046
The mirror coating timelapse video is pretty awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg9UPS7ndRA
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Comment #43742103
He did 'do it', and saved us all the 10-15minutes it took.
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Comment #43580899
Technical debt, so hot right now.
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Comment #43075293
If you need a 100 meter antenna - could one be approximated using multiple drones in a coordinated 100 meter parabolic trajectory?
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Comment #40293143
Your ambivalence contributes little to the conversation.
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Comment #40062705
I was wondering too, if maybe under the right conditions, humidity sensors could trigger polarization of the glass surface followed by opposite polarization could potentially rid t…
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Comment #38421483
I wonder if there is a common substance that could be scanned for historical interactions - like some salt flats.. that might preserve, like film, a history of energetic anomalies.…
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Comment #38063232
Menuet & Kolibri are still actively maintained though.
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Comment #37919371
Eventually medical science is going to arrive at methods that have potential to cure/create disease, novel organisms, synthetic organisms, etc. I don't think we want these methods …
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Comment #37630160
Throw in some baobab genes to help redistribute the growth/weight.
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Comment #37424788
It doesn't have a linux version, so unless you're a gamer it's not worth the effort to get it running unless something has changed... Last time I found it easier to just download t…
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Comment #36822544
What becomes of the satellite powder, do they seed clouds, reflect sunlight, etc. Especially to consider the question of maximum capacity.
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Comment #36545099
yes but have you considered httpd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53urw0rd5
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Comment #36151167
I'm still reading this recent bulletin article about tDCS - turning that journalist into a sharpshooter and after seeing this: "She said those people have this overactive angry cor…
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Comment #36112851
There was a trimmer potentiometer one could adjust until errors would occur and then turn back just a little that would result in a speed increase. It may have been the motor speed…
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Comment #35663028
A plasma jet powered by fusion?
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Comment #35571603
Not to be a GNU/Linux instigator but I remember when I first read the GPL how strange it was to have a legal document to give something away it seemed like a impish prank - will so…
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Comment #35320436
There is an IRL series. I just got some IRL540N's https://learnarduinonow.com/2017/06/02/logic-level-mosfets-i... But I got arduinos to go with them because I doubt they will work …
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Comment #35113101
I know this is overly tangential, sorry.. there are xr mechanisms with varying degrees of linearity, molecular 'handednesses', and recently I wanted to try these eye drops to repla…
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Comment #34449665
or honeypot