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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