fubarx
@fubarx@lemmy.world
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 2 days ago:
I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.
Beyond that, more power to you.
- Comment on Good question tbh 3 days ago:
I had a roommate once who played this song every morning to wake us both up so we could get to work.
Not once did we get tired of it.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 4 days ago:
We got DESTROYED in pinewood derby one year when someone’s engineer dad carved the body into a smooth, irregularly shaped U, with contoured weights. He said he used CAD software, did wind-tunnel tests, and used a special CNC machine to shape it.
Most kids were happy the wheels stayed on.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 4 days ago:
My son’s science fair project was to measure how much water got used by taking showers vs baths, low-flow vs regular toilets, hand-washing vs dishwashers, etc. We had a pretty nasty drought in our state that year. He had plotted charts, calculated cost savings, learned how to use graphic software and printed color banners. Did it all himself.
The next aisle over, a couple of kids had counted the number of colors in a bag of jellybeans. They had hand-drawn a bar chart on a board with a sharpie. However, they also had a bowl full of jellybeans and you could take a handful if you stopped by. They made sure the bowl was kept full. There was a line out the door.
An important science lesson was learned that year.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 week ago:
“Say hello to my little friend!”
- Comment on Triggers 2 weeks ago:
What if you end up with a child who likes maths AND crying?
- Comment on Fetish 2026 goals 3 weeks ago:
Super-Intelligence has been achieved.
- Comment on I GOT THAT VIRUS 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the Fascinating Aida link. Spent the afternoon discovering their great back catalog.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 5 weeks ago:
Where’s the Baclava? Or if truly culturally insensitive, the Balaclava?
- Comment on Iconic Baseball moment in time. Who is the player in the picture? Name the ballpark? Name the location? 5 weeks ago:
The Catch: youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0
- Comment on new haircut, felt cute, might delete later idk 5 weeks ago:
“It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground.”
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 1 month ago:
It’s to boost the volume during Power Ballads.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 month ago:
That I slept through the Rapture.
Again.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 1 month ago:
I looked into CubeSats in a previous job. Basically, there are four parts:
- What’s the purpose?
- How to design and build one?
- How to launch it?
- How to collect the data?
Part 1: this is the back of the napkin sketch. What are you trying to do? Weather, water, fire, or air data? Imaging? Has anyone already done this? What’s the plan?
Part 2: you can DIY the whole thing, starting with the CalPoly CubeSat workshops: www.cubesat.org. They’re the folks that started the whole thing.
There are also kits and services out there. One example is Pumpkin: www.pumpkinspace.com, but there are a lot of others like it out there. You want to figure out what sensors you need, mechanisms to orient the sensors, radios, power management, etc. Also, what’s the lifespan before it descends into the atmosphere and burns out.
Part 3: The big problem is launch. You need to eventually get it up into space. There are commercial services, but you’re looking at $50K and up to get into the queue. Another option is to go through NASA’s Launch Intitiative: www.nasa.gov/…/cubesat-launch-initiative/ or ESA’s Fly Your Satellite program: www.esa.int/…/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite
These require being part of a non-profit or educational institution. And the waiting list is long. Like, years.
Part 4: OK, now that you got it up in space, what do you do with the data? It’s circling the globe and there’s a narrow window where the radio can connect to an earth station, send the data, and maybe receive instructions like where to point the sensors. Forget about OTA. You won’t have a large enough connection window or bandwidth to do that.
You can roll your own comms, or you can see about using an existing service, like AWS Ground Station: aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Microsoft had a similar service called Azure Orbital, but they retired it last year.
After all is said and done, you now have some cool data. You’ll want to process it and use it for something. This goes back to step 1. Figure out what’s the purpose, what you want to get out of it, and work backward. You can use the AWS service, pipe it into an S3 bucket or store it in a database, then run analytics and visualizations on it. If you want realtime, it’ll cost extra.
It won’t be cheap, but it will likely be a lot of fun. I proposed several projects in a past life. We got pretty far, but the launch window was years away and by then I was heading out. All this is an infodump of what I learned back then. Hope this helps.
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 1 month ago:
I smell an AI lurking somewhere in the shadows.
- Comment on Engineering 4.0: The Bionic Revolution is Here | Ziroth [9:30] 1 month ago:
Watched it. Basically, Complex Fluid Dynamics + Reinforcement Learning + Human-guided Design. All very sensible. Nothing to do with chatbots.
Points off for showing stock footage of HTML web source, and unsubtle promo for SaaS platform. Double points off for ‘owl-inspired’ cooling fan bullshit, and skirting the line on becoming a Mahle infomercial.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 2 months ago:
Judging by Costco displays, this happened in August.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
- Comment on Slapping A 360 SPINNING GUITAR Sounds CRAZY | CharlesBerthoud [2:25] 2 months ago:
TIL. Mind blown.
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 2 months ago:
… to have and to hold, … in sickness and in health …
- Comment on Save us!!! 2 months ago:
Always been amazed this song doesn’t get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It’s a systemic failure.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 2 months ago:
Hasbro headquarters.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 months ago:
Watched a video years ago of someone doing this before re-seasoning and baking the pan in the oven.
The end result was actually pretty fabulous.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 2 months ago:
I was told by a food research lab you could scoop off the top layer (oxygenated) and consume the rest of jams and sauces.
I’m not sure I believe them. They were growing large quantities of insects in a smelly, dank room for protein.
- Comment on unexpected 2 months ago:
Totally expected it to spring back to life… until the drill showed up.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 months ago:
No we’re not.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 months ago:
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Way back when, MSFT would set up developer meetups and give everyone who showed up a free Windows phone for development. I still have a couple in a box somewhere. People would take them, but nobody wanted to make apps. Everybody was busy enough with iOS and Android.
MSFT even tried to pay companies to port their popular apps to Windows. A few took the money and did the port, but nobody wanted to support it.
Samsung was also trying to get people to write apps for their watches. Same issue. It’s really hard to break in if you’re entering an already crowded market.
- Comment on Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs 2 months ago:
MPs: You wanna bet?
