Isamu

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by Isamu 2y ago
Is it true that nickel plating is less expensive than chrome plating, but chrome is more durable? Is that the trade off?
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by Isamu 2y ago
So that means some of them were issued cell phones as part of their deployment? Huh.
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by Isamu 2y ago
Yeah competition improved the beer landscape. But that was accomplished not by smashing big beer. I think we can do a lot better without a heavy hand.
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by Isamu 2y ago
On the shift from hydraulic to electric: for years Marc Raibert and others at Boston Dynamics expressed doubts that a non-hydraulic humanoid could be made to perform as well in that package. Because of actuator density- a humanoid has a hig
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by Isamu 2y ago
Interesting 3 finger hand, one finger pivots from inline with the other two to become a thumb in opposition.
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by Isamu 2y ago
>Gamers can enjoy incredibly smooth gameplay, with up to 2x higher frame rates5 than on iMac with M1. Serious question, is gaming relevant on iMac outside of Steam? My subjective view is that it’s all concentrated there.
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by Isamu 2y ago
I believe these are impurities. This is talking about copper mines, producing the copper for the bronze casting. So they are looking for the signature lead impurities in that copper. They use isotope analysis to find the lead impurities in
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by Isamu 2y ago
The original article translated from Italian puts it this way: >the results indicate that the colossal statue is most likely an elaborate reassembly of what was initially a zhènmùshòu (镇墓兽 "keeper of tombs") fused in the Tang p
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by Isamu 2y ago
Using OSF storage as a proxy. The title is a bit clickbait, that alone gives you an idea of the incentives that cause people to publish when they don’t have something. Not to take away from the premise, but people already know there are som
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by Isamu 2y ago
>Americans tend to see high crime rates A small rise in crime is reported as a crime wave, because that grabs the attention of the older people that still consume news. Or political hacks complain about high crime when it is down. Refu
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by Isamu 2y ago
I wrote code on a DECSYSTEM-20, the C compiler was not officially supported. It had a 36-bit word and a 7-bit byte. Yep, when you packed bytes into a word there were bits left over. And I was tasked with reading a tape with binary data in 8
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by Isamu 2y ago
I imagine that they will be their own first customer - putting Starlink satellites into orbit while they are gaining confidence in the reliability of the system for external customers. They have to prove out the landing of the second stage,
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by Isamu 2y ago
That would be spectacular! Please alert HN when you have a fart seen from space, I am sure we will all clamor to be the first post to comment!
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by Isamu 2y ago
The comment was about naive tracing. When Disney used rotoscoping they had animators draw conforming to a character model on top of the live action pose. The experienced animator and inbetweeners knew how to produce smooth line motion, and
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by Isamu 2y ago
Opposite reaction from me. Every print seemed lackluster when I finally saw the original. Which is surprisingly smaller than expected. And the intricacies are incredibly tiny. Something about the work is more vibrant in person. I found the
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by Isamu 2y ago
Not knowing K, am I correct in assuming this is a backtracking brute force solver?
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by Isamu 2y ago
So this shows a rapid climb and rapid fall. I understand that articles don’t just climb due to the magnitude of upvotes, but also the velocity or upvote rate. All kinds of articles don’t stick to the top, to me the more likely explanation i
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by Isamu 2y ago
A bit of truth in both your statements. Productivity increases are usually due to investments in equipment and training, and employers are keen to recoup this cost. So the employees have to demand a share in increased wages. This may not ha
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by Isamu 2y ago
Yeah, you deal with order when marshaling stuff on the wire, I haven’t dealt with it much for years, but doing embedded software that used to be in my face a lot.
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by Isamu 2y ago
>"Today is a big win for European citizens and for tax justice." She said Ireland granted Apple "unlawful state aid which Ireland now has to recover. And this judgement is final." She also described the ruling as a &q
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by Isamu 2y ago
Literally Modernist. There’s some details that might be Art Deco inspired but overall just clean lines, metal tube furniture, uncluttered. It fits with the need to keep weight down. The Modern architect Le Corbusier took inspiration from th
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by Isamu 2y ago
Except that the literature from Three Rivers Computing describes the “native instruction set is the P-code byte sequences that a compiler generates for an “ideal” PASCAL (or other structured language) machine.” So I think we are quibbling,
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by Isamu 2y ago
This is an interesting discussion, first it’s true that they implemented a p-code variant called q-code. Second I’m just making a distinction about what people refer to as emulation. Although you could change the microcode, that typically m
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by Isamu 2y ago
I think we have a mild disagreement over what is meant by “emulation”. Typically this means the native instruction set is something other than what is being emulated. There is microcode inside cpu chips today too, they are used to implement
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by Isamu 2y ago
Was she short, petite? That was preferable so the pushers could climb the hill!
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A nit with TFA: the cpu board didn’t “emulate” P-Code, that was the native machine language. It was a “PASCAL machine” like the way we think of the Lisp Machine. So the cpu board was all logic chips implementing the P-Code machine language,
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by Isamu 2y ago
The PERQs were on display at CMU around 1980, I remember seeing them in Science Hall (later Wean). Fun fact, the cpu board ran Pascal P-Code as a machine language. The cpu wasn’t a chip, they designed a board to execute P-Code directly.
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by Isamu 2y ago
I agree, although maybe Eisner was a bit of a hybrid, and was able to be a bridge between the founder model that Disney relied on for years and the current structure.
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Walt Disney worked in founder mode. That was partly enabled by his brother running the purely “business” end that would have taken up much of his time. So Walt was able to get involved all the way down to the smallest details. The downside
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by Isamu 2y ago
I had to look it up: “Be careful not to confuse tortuous with torturous. These two words are relatives—both ultimately come from the Latin verb torquere, which means "to twist," "to wind," or "to wrench"—but to

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