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Re:In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90° on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:11PM (#29445175)
A similar thing happened in Zurich, Switzerland:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-18168278

Re:When it comes to Git history, less is more on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:08PM (#27644853)
Agreed! The author makes exactly this point towards the end of the post.
Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:17PM (#26256854)
I also see an alternative in 2021, even with both parents working. Just as a baby might be trained to sleep through the night, an adult can be trained to not sleep in one big chunk of 6-8 hours, but sleep in several chunks of a few hours. A little nap here and there, and some getting used to using your brain (=working) when tired is a viable alternative for me at least. While sleep is very important for ones health, having a child got me to realize that I can function with less sleep as well. This would be more in the spirit of „parents adapt to their new life as a young family“ in contrast to „the baby adapts to the parents pre-family lifestyle“. I am ready to sacrifice sleep for going out and working late, and so am I to comfort a crying brand-new descendant of mine. (Maybe I‘ll change my mind once the second baby is here ;) )
Re:Dev Fonts on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:40AM (#25160808)
My favorite monospaced font is Recursive Mono.

https://www.recursive.design/

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive

I am not sure whether this is a actually feature of this font. Some ligatures, like => are only active in comments. It works both in Sublime Text and QtCreator: https://imgur.com/nWsZieo

Re:Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:52PM (#21208555)
The servos are certainly where you can spend most money when building a robot for research. I tried building small research robots with small servos ($25 each), see results at the end of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8jgu-EtCFc

The total cost for one robot was well below 1k. The servos are $25 each (Turnigy 306G if remember correctly), all connecting parts are 3d printed, the electronics and batteries are about $50, and you could add a raspberry pi for $50. So in total <$500, depending on number of DOFs.

Of course, these servos don't have the same torque as Dynamixles, for example. But they are lighter!

I would love that, too.
Re:Why I hate the weekends (2017) on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:05AM (#19183272)
Sure, worker rights shouldn't be limited to tge most vulnerable. This post however wasn't about work ethics, but about having too little time for yourself if you are working 40hrs/week. It's actually not even about work/life balance, but rather work/chores/hobbies balance. In my opinion you can't blame the 40hours of work.
Re:Savedroid was here, is here, and will be here [video] on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:27AM (#16874250)
If you click on "Learn more", you are redirected to http://anditsg.one/. Or directly to the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5_bwFf_byo