Aeolos

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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   This is actually an amazing idea on so many levels. Everyone wins in this model: improved quality of life for the elderly, better housing for young people than they could afford on their own, improved density for city planners, increased
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   The demand for apartments would not lessen, given that almost everyone would prefer to live in a real apartment rather than a Nerd Storage Facility.
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   > The Linux kernel undoubtedly many features that the Hurd system lacks, but that is due to the severe lack of manpower of the latter system and the billions of Dollars being poured into the former. That's why GNU Hurd is essentiall
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gneuralnetwork/gneuralnet... Am I mistaken, or is the source repository for this project just tarballs checked into CVS?
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   > It's truly sad No, actually it's one of the few truly hopeful and uplifting things. Why would that be sad?
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   Indeed, I hate trackpad buttons with a passion. Waste of space, when you could have fit a larger trackpad in the same area.
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   But does it play Crysis?
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   Not if the result of the trial is predetermined with a sentence to death or life in prison.
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   by Aeolos 11y ago

   Hillary is just as bad regarding this topic.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Beautifully written.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    > However the requirement to sell twenty percent at below market value is simply going to pass that cost on to everyone else who cannot qualify for the lower priced housing. As in, everyone else pays more. You say this as if it's a
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    I can't be the only one who finds "INT_VALUE" both superfluous and unnecessarily ugly?
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    I hate software that uses ctrl-y instead of ctrl-shift-z. I guess it really depends on what you were exposed to first.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Same here (Arch), but I just wanted to point out that Ubuntu has PPAs for almost every piece of software out there. Including new versions of Mono, Monodevelop and F#.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    > You can't build an interstellar spaceship without an industrial base Starship Troopers.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    That's why smart programmers use 2x monitors in portrait mode. Try it once. You'll never go back.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    TBH, Opera was a much better browser than either Firefox or Chrome until version 11 or so. Unfortunately, technical prowess is not enough to gain traction. Being closed-source and costing money (until version 8) was a much bigger factor f
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    When the iGPU is not in use, the CPU is able to stay in its thermal budget and sustain turbo speed for longer.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Ah, thanks, I'm familiar with those papers and the spinoff. Great job! :) I just find it mindblowing how efficient GPUs are at processing this kind of data. I've written implementations for a 6-core DSP (40K ascans/s), modern
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Thanks for the advice. We already have experience with the CE process, it's painful but doable. The manufacturing company has been cleared for FDA before, so for now I remain optimistic. (Famous last words...)
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Awesome, high-speed OCT is amazing. The hardware is still super-expensive, but that is bound to change over the next 5-10 years. Do you have a publication on your system? Right now I'm working with 70K ascans/s (we've also bu
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    We will be going through the long and arduous FDA and CE approval process. This is a big part of the cost.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    I can't go into too much detail (publications pending), but the initial prototype cost roughly $6K in components. The basic idea is find the optimal balance between hardware-vs-software and speed-vs-cost-vs-quality. The device attaches
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Fancy that, my current project is to create a low-cost, high-quality optical coherency tomograph for private practitioners. I am planning to open-source the software and, depending on how things turn out over the next few months, possibly a
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    > No, it's not based on superstitions. It's based on climatology's inability to deliver any explaination [...] You have already established that you don't believe humans are (or even could be) causing global warming.
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    > First, we seem to call different things an experiment. The guy didn't made any experiment, he just charted some data. He didn't change CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, keeping everything else equal, to check if it would a
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    "Runaway greenhouse effect" is what could happen if the methane deposits in the Arctic Siberian tundra are released to the atmosphere. See [1] for more information. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_met
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/ 1. RTFM 2. Use high-school level math 3. Post your results to hackernews for discussion Up to the challenge?
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    > You know what makes modern physics true? Falsifiability and verifiability. You build a theory, make predictions, develop an experiment, and then conduct the experiment, multiple times. Climatology stops after the first two. This is, ob
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    by Aeolos 11y ago

    Some people have convinced themselves that climate change is not a problem. That's not based on scientific facts, but on superstitious beliefs ("it's a conspiracy", "we didn't do it", "there's no