- Not present and ultimately-cursed - using LEDs not only as bridge rectifier but also as the voltage drop for power conditioning before going into a processing IC.
I'm not called the LED Punisher without reason!
- Final Scratch IIRC runs linux as its core
- Nothing new, Applied Diamond has made this stuff for several years and it is incredible. Imagine putting a 15w LED on a typical 20mm star board made of diamond - you do not need a heat sink. Just minor air flow over the package is enough.
A little unlike IEEE to be nearly half a decade out of the loop.
- The entirety of human history.
- Some of those climbs are dangerous though. The Chambless Skarn has a vertical wall of solid epidote you have to scale to reach a massive pocket of world-class hedenbergite, at the top of the mountain. That wall is a few stories tall, and your only grip is the side walls of the rock around you.
- "Amazing hematite crystals mixed with copper with strong assay signs of gold underneath."
Did you actually assay out anomalous gold concentrations or are you seeing the sulfides and oxides that are associated with gold? If the former, what sort of concentration are you getting?
- "It's not a Ponzi scheme because it's not multi-level and no one's left holding the bag."
Not multi-level YET. I've seen many companies undergo multiple LBOs, which only inflate things and leave someone holding an empty bag at the end. It can become one very, very quickly.
- A model I have trained on ASTER and LANDSAT data has major difficulties identifying spots for agate hunting. Even after I've given it extra instruction such as looking only in volcanic terrain (with USGS map provided,) or focusing on mixed signals of hydrous silica and iron, checking near known fault zones in said volcanic areas, it still gave me results everywhere, and almost none matching my criteria.
Plants are a way different and more difficult ballgame (they like to mess up my satellite data) so as I read I am not surprised to see that this didn't really give proper results.
- Standalone but bulky, about as thick as a dry erase marker.
- Stolen? I have mining claims. What's stolen? To boot, these are in areas nobody hikes because it's too dangerous for hikers. These are in actual mining districts.
- Pain equals gain.
Most ultralight hikers optimize for low weight, I optimize for low weight and maximum leftover space to haul a ton of weight back.
Cuz trust me, you don't wanna leave that behind when you find it.
- "The innovation here is making ultrasonic hardware compact enough to fit in the knife handle."
I was using ultrasonic scalpels back in 2002. They were smaller than this knife.
- "It's a significant engineering achievement that took them years to figure out."
More likely waited for patent to expire, as the ultrasonic scalpel has been around since at least 2002.
- Phosphoric acid detergents will pit your blade. If the knife is not a stainless steel, the wash and dry cycle will cause accelerated rusting. In wooden-handled knives with a rat tail tang construction, you can start destroying the handle from the inside out due to gaps in the construction allowing water seepage and degradation. In non-stainless knives, that same construction becomes the point where rust tends to build up.
Then you also have the action of the dishwasher water jets bouncing the knife around, dulling and destroying the edge.
Only the shittiest cheapest plastic-handled knives I own touch the dishwasher. Everything else gets cleaned and wiped by hand and put straight to the knife block or its respective scabbard.
- You're supposed to keep a glass of water with a bit of chlorine bleach (to obtain roughly 300 ppm) handy for wiping your tools and surfaces down as you work. Not that anyone teaches Home Economics at school any longer.
- "nobody uses a chef's knife to cut."
Hi, originally-trained Oriental cook here. Yes, we do use chefs knives to cut cheese. Also cleavers. Also wires.
- "votes for Democrats dropped significantly between 2020 and 2024."
For, or from? this is an important distinction to make.
- I would love to see ancient tech fabbed out on modern processes.
What's the smallest SOC you could design to run DOOM? What power envelope would that consume (exclusing display/speakers/etc.) At that size and (optimized) transistor count, what speeds could we realistically achieve?
What would a massively-multicore (gpu-style with multi-hundreds or more of cores) one of these run like?
Every time I see a project like this, these thoughts run through my head.
- "Silksong as a game should not exist. It is so brutally difficult that it stretches the very definition of the word "game"."
Someone get that article writer a copy of Battletoads.
We should figure out a way to hold YC accountable for their helping these companies screw our rights and privacy.