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zro

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About zro

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    Comment #43186960

    There's a whole bunch of these over at https://old.reddit.com/r/wigglegrams/ if you want more

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    Comment #41630060

    Washing dishes with the machine actually tends to save quite a lot of water, as long as you actually fill the machine.

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    Comment #41323638

    The clear Nalgenes are polycarbonate, but the opaque ones (sold as "Ultralite Bottle" on their website) are made of HDPE

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    Comment #39622773

    In my experience (admittedly limited) you include the assembly in the compile step. Your linker hopefully puts everything together so you can talk to yourself

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    Comment #38932784

    Tall with large head here, works pretty consistently for me

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    Comment #37907182

    This is a super interesting concept and I'd never heard of it. Thanks for linking!

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    Comment #32344171

    Blindsight is one of my all time favorite books. Looks like it's still available for free from the author's website [0] [0] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

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    Comment #32336533

    As an outlier more towards the other end, my weight tends to fall if I go below about 2500 kcal/day

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    Comment #28933789

    > NaN is unordered: it is not equal to, greater than, or less than anything, including itself. x == x is false if the value of x is NaN [0] My read of this is that comparisons invo…

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    Comment #27121616

    I believe that was SCP-055

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    Comment #25191937

    As an embedded C developer, I'm interested. What do you recommend looking into as other "low level, non garbage collected" options?

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    Comment #23628571

    NPR article about the same, if you prefer to read instead of listen: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it... I'll be watching this case with great interest

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    Comment #23155066

    Blindsight has been one of my favorite books from my first picking it up. Watts is such a compelling author! It looks like Blindsight is also still available for free on the author…

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    Comment #22936555

    On the amateur radio side you see both types mixing in pretty amusing ways. On the one hand there's contesters and dx-ers that are all about confirming contacts as fast as they can…

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    Comment #22703359

    Do you have any good sources for places to start learining powershell? I'm pretty comfortable in bash, but powershell scares me.

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    Comment #22632502

    I only have two tech-realted books on paper: - Microwave Transistor Amplifiers by Guillermo Gonzalez, which is a fantastic introduction and reference about high frequency circuit d…

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    Comment #22632415

    Is SICP worth reading? I keep hearing about it, but it seems like it's mostly a resource for learning lisp. Is that not the case?

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    Comment #22562878

    Also after it's observed

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    Comment #22477958

    It can be a bit of a gotcha when trying to share your work with others. They'll have to clone with --recursive or the submodules will come up as empty folders for them.

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    Comment #22185152

    > I was reprimanded the other day, by management because I said in a presentation "I don't know" Maybe it's because I'm still in the junior / recent-grad mindset, but my experience…

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    Comment #22164414

    I'm not sure about doing that with physical robots, but I've seen a couple interesting iterations using simulated robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4nRCC9TwQ

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    Comment #22164372

    Looks like the legs are just for show [1], but I bet you could kitbash something [1] http://inmoov.fr/legs-non-motorized/

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    Comment #22048637

    I've only ever seen female B connectors on peripherals. Do they make motherboards that have them?

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    Comment #22045823

    There's also at least one repo [1] of DBC files that have already been reverse-engineered by the community [1] https://github.com/commaai/opendbc