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Comment #18964020
"MSH-P/HC/NC/5/V/P/0 - 3% Volume Ethylene = 0.4V - 2.4V" We built that into a custom SS body with a Delrin mounting insert, and ran the serial connections to a custom board that in…
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Comment #18962797
I have developed custom Ethylene sensors in the past for customers, and Dynament (UK) is a manufacturer that I can definitely recommend if anyone wants to do this and go down the D…
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Comment #18851227
On the other end of the spectrum (not testing specifications, but just simply "does it network?"), I have successfully ran a 100BASE-TX connection between industrial equipment usin…
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Comment #18850380
Increased efficiency AND higher power density. https://www.mouser.com/applications/advancing-power-GaN/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuiGN3lNaA
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Comment #18716447
I use path tracing for scientific/engineering studies of light propagation; in particular, I attempt to simulate monochromatic light sources and reflective/transmissive/absorptive …
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Comment #18659605
see Hawaiian "Puka Dog"s.
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Comment #18651311
Prions are like gamma-induced bit flips, Viroids are like small code patches, and Viruses are self-deploying code patches.
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Comment #18016163
Displays with relatively simple off-board processing are common, too; you can often run a big display pretty reasonably with a 16MHz Arduino: buydisplay.com
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Comment #17872438
I started reading it, and I thought "this style seems very familiar". When I got to the first schematic, it clicked and I checked the header for the author's name; sure enough, For…
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Comment #17559320
That precedent was already established with Credit companies.
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Comment #17307238
>they can't help themselves once they get a whiff of some new power Semantics, but I don't think it is necessarily the "power", so much as it is a new vector to get the evidence th…
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Comment #17293971
Whatever happened to good-old two-part JB Weld? Is that just a regional product? I thought everyone knew about it.
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Comment #17206190
Yeah, I was on 4chan as a 16yo-20yo regular lurker starting back in 2004; never an active poster, just commenting randomly and joining in conversations on various boards. It was a …
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Comment #17145925
...or during production (relatively speaking).
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Comment #16967094
And given that it was in an old dusty bottle packed away deep, it may have concentrated over time due to evaporation.
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Comment #16744709
I honestly wonder why. I developed a portable small-quantity project a few years ago and designed in a 20AH LiFePO4 battery pack; it seemed like the only sane choice. The cost was …
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Comment #16586911
That analogy does not hold up when the CD you are observing from is in the same plane as all the others.
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Comment #16552371
Obligatory reference to ice-nine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine We're almost there! EDIT: Oh wait, it does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_IX
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Comment #15844339
Ballistic missiles move very fast. Repost: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
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Comment #15084450
You are aware of the current U.S. President and the current EPA Administrator, right?
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Comment #14785119
Worst place to ask this, I know, but... If I wanted to upgrade my old machine that currently has an HD 4770 (PCI Express 2.0 x16), where exactly could I find a worthwhile upgrade f…
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Comment #14139947
I used the Melexis MLX90260/MLX90261 back in December 2014 for some sensors research at work, and they were not very helpful and the documentation was appallingly ambiguous for imp…
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Comment #14090139
Isn't this why FTP had separate Binary and Text transfer modes?