Osmium

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by Osmium 11y ago
> Especially on phones. When you click or touch something, something should happen right now, even if more will happen later. Interestingly, Apple are really pushing this now. They've just demonstrated new predictive tech to get res
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by Osmium 11y ago
I am not a doctor. That said, my understanding is that IUDs are one of the best contraceptive methods out there. They have a bad reputation because they had issues when they were initially introduced, and they haven't quite overcome th
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by Osmium 11y ago
Around 2004/2005 I think. I'd always been interested in computing, and wanted to learn some programming. I'd seen these posters up with BASIC code on them and naively assumed that's the kind of thing we'd do, only t
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by Osmium 11y ago
Looks really nice. I'm a big fan of Soulver[1] too, which is basically a more featureful and less minimalist version of this. I've also tried Calca[2], which seems really good but ultimately didn't replace Soulver for me. On
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by Osmium 11y ago
Speak for yourself. I found the GCSE IT syllabus absolutely atrocious (this was 10ish years ago). I do remember this though, so that's something, but broadly speaking it was awful . And I mean truly, truly awful. I find it difficult t
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by Osmium 11y ago
All I can say is that I've never regretted spending too much time looking for more information, on the web or otherwise, but I've frequently regretted not spending enough time after re-implementing someone else's mistakes f
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by Osmium 11y ago
Tangent, but I really like the animated 3D plot. If you have to use a 3D plot, it really helps. Is there an easy way to make these?
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by Osmium 11y ago
I think being able to walk away from a project like this is actually quite commendable, in a way. Not that it's always the right call, but to be able to avoid the 'sunk cost fallacy'[1] on this scale is something that large g
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by Osmium 11y ago
So I tried this yesterday, and I think the article's a bit over the top. I'm not surprised the transition may take a little while. 24 hours does not seem like too long to wait(!) First reactions: * Really cool to have your streami
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by Osmium 11y ago
Curious, but how much of an effect would temperature have on a planet's ability to retain an atmosphere? A colder planet of equal size will presumably be capable of maintaining a thicker atmosphere, but I'm not sure if that'd
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Every time I hear about quantum entanglement I so desperately want instant communication to be in our near future. Sadly, that's not how that works... In fairness, it's not like New Horizons will be doing much in that time. I
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I enjoy using the tool part of my brain when computing. It feels "quieter" and contemplative. I totally get that. Personally though, I see conversational UI as an additional parallel mode of interaction, that you can use simu
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by Osmium 11y ago
I'm a big fan of the coming anthropomorphisation of computers. It seems so clear (to me) that the future is heading that way. Apple have already hired writers for Siri; how many more years before its personality starts to change to mat
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by Osmium 11y ago
Sorry, I wasn't very clear–it is in the Dragon, but it's not in the pressurised 'nose' part (which I believe is the part that's jettisoned in an emergency, but I'm not actually sure about that? perhaps I'm
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I imagine with proper simulation this should have been catchable. We don't know in this specific instance, but generally this is just fundamentally not true. You're way over-estimating the abilities of computers and way under
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by Osmium 11y ago
> we could've hypothetically saved the payload. As I understand it, the primary payload (the new international docking adaptor for the ISS) wasn't in the Dragon capsule itself, so it wouldn't have been saved even if the Dr
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by Osmium 11y ago
You could always find someone you like and give it to them ;) http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2569 In seriousness, GiveWell ranks charities by their effectiveness. You could give to one of their top charities: http:/&#
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by Osmium 11y ago
Looks like Southwest Research Institute's meteor shower camera will have been lost again. They're not having much luck :( > The device aboard [today's launch] was actually a backup of the original meteor camera that blew u
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by Osmium 11y ago
I think that article might be a bit disingenuous. Elon Musk didn't say that in response to the Antares explosion, he said it several years earlier , and the part that's quoted is pretty accurate to be fair. When a failure does ha
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by Osmium 11y ago
> deconvolution to the extent they're doing Do you have a link to share for more info on what exactly they're doing? (or even some raw images next to some deconvolved ones?) Regarding SNR, I believe these images are being sent
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by Osmium 11y ago
I think that's somewhat unfair to philosophers. Besides the fact that science grew out of philosophy, even today philosophers are very good at defining problems and finding logical inconsistencies. As a scientist, that seems very use
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by Osmium 11y ago
> In practice sites get hacked, fail to enforce HTTPS, databases get leaked, etc. Exactly. The threat here is that a single SuperGenPass-generated site-specific is leaked somehow (if you use it for a lot of sites, one of them is bound to
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by Osmium 11y ago
Honestly, this is a serious issue for my field. There are so many obscure academic binaries hosted on SF... I hope someone manages to mirror them. [The fact that a lot of the scientific community is so backwards in adopting modern coding st
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Regarding "quick hash" or "slow bcrypt" - it doesn't matter here. Bcrypt complexity is to prevent obtaining real password from it's hash. Here we're dealing with real passwords but not hashes. It does
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by Osmium 11y ago
Yeah, SuperGenPass has great integration too. You can run it almost anywhere, though you have to have some faith (there were proof of concepts against the earlier bookmarklet version, though I believe they've been mitigated by using an
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a go. I've just downloaded it and a few small details give me pause (non-native UI, inconsistent high DPI resources, okay but not great localisation), but it also looks legitimately usef
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by Osmium 11y ago
Do you use Simple yourself, would you recommend them? I just read that they've seen some significant teething problems: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/10/months-after-its-upgrade-si... (I might need to op
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by Osmium 11y ago
I'd be really keen to try this. I'd love some Mint-style automatic money management (see what I've spent where etc. without too much hassle), but there's no safe way of using a Mint-style website in the UK that I know of
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by Osmium 11y ago
A counter anecdote, I've used Tesseract for a largish project and it's worked wonderfully. Typically, on a full page of text, there'd be one or two minor errors, easily 99% accuracy. Irritatingly for me, but also impressively
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by Osmium 11y ago
I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I appreciate the irony of a post on internationalisation that hard-codes "first" and "last" names. Not that I have any better ideas! (Note for any iOS devs, iOS 9 introduces a

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