Ohtrahddis

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by Ohtrahddis 9y ago
Because this would likely require a large change in city infrastructure. Who will be building this? Who will pay for it? If it is the city how will you convince the city's taxpayers to pay for it? If it is a profit-seeking corporation,
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by Ohtrahddis 10y ago
Not sure if that's the case, [Spoliers!] ########### It's been a while since I've read the book, but if I recall correctly nukes are used against Venezuela when they disagree with launching supplies to the Ark project. There
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by Ohtrahddis 11y ago
I'm really not an authority on this, but to answer the question of "do I need a PhD", my view is that it depends on which 'part' of HCI you want to do. Do you want to work on Project Soli at ATAP? Which part, the ac
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by Ohtrahddis 11y ago
Those who are interested in some discussion about games may find extra credits youtube channel interesting. This particular episode mentions the previous study on violent video games, and talks about how maybe video games actually help make
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Raytracing a Black Hole(rantonels.github.io)
368 points by Ohtrahddis 12y ago|38 comments
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
A phone's native location capabilities (as they are currently) are limited to GPS pretty much - which is often insufficient for figuring out if a customer is inside the JC Penny or Macy's in a large shopping mall Even better (for
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
On the note of self-driving cars, check out http://www.getcruise.com/ I just heard of them from a friend who will be joining and I was skeptical at first. Their model seems to be to attach/install peripherals to a non-
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
Hmm don't think that's true either - here are some breakout boards with the Module: https://electricimp.com/docs/gettingstarted/devkits/
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
Just wanted to also add that Imp has gerber files for many of their reference designs and dev boards here: https://electricimp.com/docs/hardware/resources/reference-de...
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
Me too, but I think we'll have to keep waiting. I was one of these people who "thought I had the balls" to use piezo using this chip: http://www.linear.com/solutions/1506 Not only did this not sustain en
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
Interesting idea, but I suspect there would be a lot of retailers who would vehemently oppose this e.g. Apple opposing anything that might make their customers aware of where the labor and materials to make their iPhone come from. Your conc
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
I must say the writing in this is pretty great. The moment when he described viscerally a perhaps mundane action - laughing - I paused and realized that I had never read such a description of laughter ever. It was as if he was dying, I was
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
Wifi has always been a tricky problem for small devices. However, I think there are some good tricks that people have been using involving playing around with sleep times, skipping beacon intervals, etc. - tricks that the electric imp, the
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by Ohtrahddis 12y ago
For more info about the technology that saves battery life, check out gbatteries (makes of BatteryOS) http://www.gbatteries.com/technology/