0xfaded

46 ms·

481.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
Hey IceDane, I've lived in Odense for a year now and don't know many of the HN types. If you'd be interested it could be fun to meet up. carlchatfield at the mail domain operated by google.
482.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
I use 12x6 bitmap font with double width CJK characters. Many kanji are simply balls of pixels with fuzzy edges. I remember when I was learning I did something to cause these characters to appear on screen in front of a Japanese friend (may
483.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
The reliance on facebook where I live now in Denmark is disgusting. I lived in SV for 4 years, and basically any information of importance reached me by word-of-mouth or mailing list. Craigslist is also used and awesome. Worst is that infor
484.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
Reminds me of my favorite freeciv strategy, irrigate the deserts, effect global warming, attack.
485.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
My experience is that jet centers like Signature Flight Services (from the article) employ concierge people with superpowers. Once as a private pilot of a 4-seater derping above Colorado I needed to divert to Colorado Springs due to a devel
486.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
https://inivation.com/buy/ ($3000-$6600 usd) Unfortunately not quite at "buy to play around with" prices, but for the right application within the realm of affordable. I work on underwater computer vision and
487.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
A standardized QR code printed on cones to say "construction ahead do this" seems relatively simple compared to correctly interpreting the construction site. Would also produce automatically labeled training data
488.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
Such a beautiful warbird, and such a shame they were all cut to pieces just to cut Iran off from black market parts.
489.
by 0xfaded 7y ago
"ensure that the key competences for high-end chip design remain in Europe" This is the money quote. Australia messed this up so badly when they stopped supporting local car manufacturing. The point isn't the jobs, the point
490.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I've been reading through the Vulkan spec, which is in way similar in that OpenGL has been extended since its introduction in 1992 with more and more features to support new graphics capabilities as they evolved. I've seen Vulkan
491.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
China tried it and it's not really working https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_P... . Also looks like a similar project in Africa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gr
492.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
My second ever solo my airspeed indicator froze :)
493.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
The irony is that the web version of google news on mobile is horrendously slow. Hackernews seems to have good performance though, maybe they can take some design cues.
494.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I'm currently updating myself with Vulkan (which is mostly based on modern OpenGL). The Vulkan clip range is 0.0 to 1.0.
495.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
New cities would also require the friction of moving cities to be as low as possible.
496.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I begrudgingly bought an ebook from google once. I knew there was DRM, but the store page said I could read it in my browser. google-chrome != browser grrrrr
497.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
U+1F644 is the codepoint for "Face with eyes looking up to sky watching cascading space debris mark the beginning of WW3", in case anyone was wondering. https://codepoints.net/U+1F644
498.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I'm also quite dismissive of AI overuse. My preferred substitution is s/Machine Learning/Machine Guessing. However, these are 3 people who overcame a lot of nay-sayers to prove some something could actually work. I remember b
499.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
The best you can do for an ARM latency table is ddging "aXX optimization guide" a57: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Co... a72: http://infocenter.arm.com/he
500.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
1978 Grumman Tiger
501.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
In my opinion you have used a convenient generalization for prison populations which helps justify their treatment by dehumanising them. An alternative view. Universities: 18 year olds moving out of home for the first time. Prison Populatio
502.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I'm actually hoping that 3rd party carrier boards standardize on the weird 6 csi connector thing, and was a little saddened to see that nvidia's devkit for the nano doesn't use it :(. I bought a tx2 carrier from connecttech,
503.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I'm currently doing a robotics/computer vision startup, minus the highly parameterised models fit using gradient decent because we don't need it just yet. It's developments like this that give me confidence that I'l
504.
FCC to auction off wireless spectrum, could interfere with vital weather data(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by 0xfaded 8y ago|0 comments
505.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I've been surprised to learn that several of my non-technical friends forget their passwords and rely on cookies, and then reset the password using their phone number whenever the cookies are lost.
506.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
Don't really know much about Israel other than what I see in the news. What is an example of someone who would move there who isn't already entitled via religious connections?
507.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
Theoretically 5 months (3 months to is the business panel, 2 months to apply for the visa). Took me 10 months because I didn't quite get everything perfect the first time. If you've worked in SF or NY I'd say you're almo
508.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
I have a Danish startup visa and happy to answer questions. One thing re funding I wish I understood before I moved here: Europe has no favoured state laws which prevent governments from unilaterally propping up local companies, startups ar
509.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
There was a weird time in the 80s when lawyers figured out they could sue light aircraft manufacturers after a plane crash, and almost killed general aviation.
510.
by 0xfaded 8y ago
Biggest deal in my opinion is 2 dedicated USB2 _hosts_, in addition to a USB3 host. The raspberry pi multiplexes (i.e. uses a 4 way USB hub) it's ports. If I remember correctly the Ethernet is also multiplexed on the same bus. This mak

More ›