Yeah I looked at a few today. They seem to work by delivering one of four segments of a container every day with a rotating lid. So it only works for four days and I need mine to work for ~20 days.
Incidentally I have worked in South Korea and engineers there use a local linux distribution which, like this, looks like red hat with different icons and localization. I wouldn't be surprised if this distro is derived from the southern version.
a USB key can't fold or tear, and water won't normally damage it.
Last (southern) summer I had a bunch of SD cards in my wallet, then they went missing. So this summer I put on a pair of short pants and there were my cards, in a zip up pocket. They had been washed twice in hot water and still worked perfectly.
I have a solid timber table I built up to support a printer. The working area is under the table and the cat food goes in a bowl on the floor under the table. Attach two Jaycar robot arms under the top of the table so they can reach down. Attach a USB webcam to the underside of the table looking down with a light source. Put a linux box on top of the table with a power cable going off to a power point. The whole setup goes in the garage with a cat flap in the door.
Linux box has a wifi connection to my in house server which has a static IP address. I hack up a web interface on the server which sends commands through to the linux box, probably through ssh or similar. Linux box controls the robot arms through a simple parallel port interface and relays.
We have little packets of cat food which you tear off to open. I nail the packets around the inside top of the table so the robot arms can tear them off, invert them and drop food on to the cat food bowl.
If it fails, then, well the cat can actually feed itself if it needs too, but it won't be happy with us. Or I can phone somebody to check on it.
I will be out of the country for two and a half weeks soon and the cat needs to be fed. I have considered setting up a robot arm with a supply of cat food and a wifi link to my ADSL line. The idea would be to log in once a day from my laptop and feed the animal.
Its expensive to set up but not bad if I subtract $30 AUD per day to get the cat looked after.
Yes there is that. I wouldn't mind continuing my life as software on a small spacecraft roaming the solar system, running slow with plenty of time to take advantage of a solar sail.
I am more interested in what this type of thing will do for medicine. If a person has lung cancer can we make them a working set of lungs? Can we rebuild the nerves in a spinal column? If a persons bones become weak with ageing can we replace the bones?
I a 44 now. I expect to lose the use of my body inside the next 40 years. It would be nice if there were alternatives I could go for.
Yeah a woman I work with told me her 14 year old son has type 1 diabetes. Not nice in a kid so young, or anyone for that matter. But this seems to be more about rebuilding the physical structures while the pancreas is more of a biochemical converter which could have any shape. I suppose if you could build an insulin pump which can make insulin it could be implanted permanently.
Years ago when I was a young geek my dad was out in his boat and got chucked out when he hit a wave. The boat circled him for a while until he got a hand on the fuel hose and tugged it loose.
So the boat went back to the home workshop and acquired a reed switch and a magnet on a short length of rope. The idea is that the ignition won't work unless the magnet is attached to the body of the outboard motor. The magnet is attached to you.
So I think every power vehicle should have a convenient way fo switching it off. You should have to actively do something to keep it running and if you jump out or have a seizure it should just stop.
Most cars will creep forward on the torque converter when in gear with no throttle input. I think that is wrong too. The default should be for gentle braking.
Maybe the handbrake in every car should have installed below it a low tech kill switch which the driver and all passengers can reach.
Yeah it depends on where you are. If you have a farm in my state you are allowed to put a tank on the roof on your primary residence but runoff from your land definitely does not belong to you. I think if you owned a big shearing shed and collected the water from the roof you might be in trouble.
I assume that Colorado, like Queensland in.au is an upstream provider of water, while places like California and South Australia are downstream consumers where the laws should be different.
Yeah here in Melbourne, Australia we have been short of water for a long time but it was illegal to install a water tank to capture your own rain water. Then literally overnight tanks were not only made legal but encouraged with a subsidy.
The way I figure it, you can't be dumb enough to open up ports on your firewall without so much as calling the company to verify if it's legit AND have the technical skill to do the port forwarding at the same time.
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HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Best musical comedy ever.
You might have heard nothing but complaints about the color scheme because the theme is UNPOPULAR.
It is very easy to change and I have never used it.
Yeah I looked at a few today. They seem to work by delivering one of four segments of a container every day with a rotating lid. So it only works for four days and I need mine to work for ~20 days.
Ironic how super-strict North Korea uses Free Software, while South Korea is totally in thrall to Microsoft.
Well maybe. I have seen almost exactly the same distribution in active use in South Korea. Maybe the red star icon is different.
omg! we need more electricity in Australia.
Or a way to store sunlight for use at night.
Wow, they have really comprehensive dark sky ordinances.
It would be a great place for astronomy.
Incidentally I have worked in South Korea and engineers there use a local linux distribution which, like this, looks like red hat with different icons and localization. I wouldn't be surprised if this distro is derived from the southern version.
a USB key can't fold or tear, and water won't normally damage it.
Last (southern) summer I had a bunch of SD cards in my wallet, then they went missing. So this summer I put on a pair of short pants and there were my cards, in a zip up pocket. They had been washed twice in hot water and still worked perfectly.
Yeah but doc brown was a better mechanical engineer than me. I am looking for a software heavy solution.
I have a solid timber table I built up to support a printer. The working area is under the table and the cat food goes in a bowl on the floor under the table. Attach two Jaycar robot arms under the top of the table so they can reach down. Attach a USB webcam to the underside of the table looking down with a light source. Put a linux box on top of the table with a power cable going off to a power point. The whole setup goes in the garage with a cat flap in the door.
Linux box has a wifi connection to my in house server which has a static IP address. I hack up a web interface on the server which sends commands through to the linux box, probably through ssh or similar. Linux box controls the robot arms through a simple parallel port interface and relays.
We have little packets of cat food which you tear off to open. I nail the packets around the inside top of the table so the robot arms can tear them off, invert them and drop food on to the cat food bowl.
If it fails, then, well the cat can actually feed itself if it needs too, but it won't be happy with us. Or I can phone somebody to check on it.
Buy your daughter a stronger bed.
I will be out of the country for two and a half weeks soon and the cat needs to be fed. I have considered setting up a robot arm with a supply of cat food and a wifi link to my ADSL line. The idea would be to log in once a day from my laptop and feed the animal.
Its expensive to set up but not bad if I subtract $30 AUD per day to get the cat looked after.
Yes there is that. I wouldn't mind continuing my life as software on a small spacecraft roaming the solar system, running slow with plenty of time to take advantage of a solar sail.
I found this one:
Twenty years ago it was illegal to install a rainwater tank in Sydney. Every kilolitre a household collected from their roof represented a loss to the water authority.
And I am pretty sure the situation was the same in Melbourne.
But what do you do with the brain? If you can't copy it you are going to be in trouble because the brain is as vulnerable as everything else.
I am more interested in what this type of thing will do for medicine. If a person has lung cancer can we make them a working set of lungs? Can we rebuild the nerves in a spinal column? If a persons bones become weak with ageing can we replace the bones?
I a 44 now. I expect to lose the use of my body inside the next 40 years. It would be nice if there were alternatives I could go for.
Yeah a woman I work with told me her 14 year old son has type 1 diabetes. Not nice in a kid so young, or anyone for that matter. But this seems to be more about rebuilding the physical structures while the pancreas is more of a biochemical converter which could have any shape. I suppose if you could build an insulin pump which can make insulin it could be implanted permanently.
But if you try to keep it at 70 mph even though the engine tries to accelerate, you destroy the brakes in a short time.
Well, they will heat up and fade pretty quickly. Its a bit like switchmode power supplies. There is less energy wasted if the cut the power totally.
Years ago when I was a young geek my dad was out in his boat and got chucked out when he hit a wave. The boat circled him for a while until he got a hand on the fuel hose and tugged it loose.
So the boat went back to the home workshop and acquired a reed switch and a magnet on a short length of rope. The idea is that the ignition won't work unless the magnet is attached to the body of the outboard motor. The magnet is attached to you.
So I think every power vehicle should have a convenient way fo switching it off. You should have to actively do something to keep it running and if you jump out or have a seizure it should just stop.
Most cars will creep forward on the torque converter when in gear with no throttle input. I think that is wrong too. The default should be for gentle braking.
Maybe the handbrake in every car should have installed below it a low tech kill switch which the driver and all passengers can reach.
An implanted chip is very hard to steal.
An implanted chip is very easy to find with the appropriate equipment. As for getting your hand on it well it depends on how squeamish you are.
Yeah it depends on where you are. If you have a farm in my state you are allowed to put a tank on the roof on your primary residence but runoff from your land definitely does not belong to you. I think if you owned a big shearing shed and collected the water from the roof you might be in trouble.
I assume that Colorado, like Queensland in .au is an upstream provider of water, while places like California and South Australia are downstream consumers where the laws should be different.
Yeah here in Melbourne, Australia we have been short of water for a long time but it was illegal to install a water tank to capture your own rain water. Then literally overnight tanks were not only made legal but encouraged with a subsidy.
So why not keep that single chip in your watch band, clothing or a ring on your finger? What is so attractive about embedding it in your body?
The way I figure it, you can't be dumb enough to open up ports on your firewall without so much as calling the company to verify if it's legit AND have the technical skill to do the port forwarding at the same time.
Clicky clicky...
Whoa! You were literally born a sysadmin!
He was born with the music of cooling fans in his ears.