Osmium

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by Osmium 11y ago
This is really nice. Seems super easy to use, unlike other CAD/3D modelling software I've tried before. I think a lot of software could benefit from this 'timeless' graph/node based approach, rather than most UI&#x2
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by Osmium 11y ago
> then that's probably a sign you need to find more down to earth friends. No faster way to get people to agree with you than to insult their friends ;) I use Facebook, and I consider myself very privacy conscious. How do I reconcil
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by Osmium 11y ago
> save it all, wholesale Is this even feasible now? When so much of the web depends on backend logic? Or transient, proprietary technologies?
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by Osmium 11y ago
Regardless of what you think of this specific project, I'm encouraged that people are still 'Thinking Big'. Making the future happen is up to us!
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by Osmium 11y ago
I don't think it's behind a paywall; it's CC licensed. I can access it and I'm not connected to an academic network at the moment. On a broader note, there's a big push for open access at the moment (as there should
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by Osmium 11y ago
Personally, I find it's better to write it as '2.i' or 'II.i' instead just to remove potential ambiguity. (Aside, I'm also a big fan of the graphical design! What was used to make this? Any inspiration?)
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by Osmium 11y ago
Perhaps. Though I would say that we've become very used to things becoming "small and wireless" over the last several decades, so that it almost seems inevitable now, but I'm not sure that's always been the case.
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by Osmium 11y ago
There's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anything special, but it is remarkably prescient. Here's a particular
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by Osmium 11y ago
Not disagreeing about your post at all, which sounds entirely reasonable to me (I'm not a doctor), but I think this is worth emphasising: > Most tests do have some degree of false positives, I think many people don't appreciate
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by Osmium 11y ago
I think you read more into my statement than I intended. I have no problem with big watches, and I'm happy for people who can enjoy them! It's only a shame because I have small wrists, so it's not suitable for me :)
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I assumed it was big to allow easy tactile reading. Braille is quite small though? Perhaps it's just a stylistic choice, or the mechanism/durability constraints demand a larger size.
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by Osmium 11y ago
I'm a big fan of 'accessibility first' design. Beyond the obvious benefits to those who need them, it also creates affordances for people without disabilities too. An aside, but the Bradley watch[1] mentioned looks great. Sha
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by Osmium 11y ago
Is there a canonical statistics textbook to recommend to the professional scientist?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> and one other device from a different manufacturer running different software but with the same information, for redundancy purposes This sounds like a great idea in theory, but as far as I know in practice isn't ideal. Problems i
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by Osmium 12y ago
Could someone comment on ReactiveCocoa vs Bond[1] or other solutions. I know very little about functional reactive programming, but I see a lot of people talking about it. It seems useful, but I'm not sure which project I should be spe
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Also, it's objectivley a bad logo. Always has been. Always will be. An objectively bad logo would be one that isn't readable, doesn't work at small sizes, doesn't work in black and white, etc. None of these things a
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by Osmium 12y ago
Do you know if this is available on the new Excel for Mac too?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> where he was Senior Wrangler For those unfamiliar with the term, this is a huge achievement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Wrangler_(University_of_...
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by Osmium 12y ago
Sure, completely agreed. I didn't mean 'wrong' in terms of being ethically wrong. I think the article itself contains a more insightful question: "Is genetic diversity linked to linguistic diversity?"
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by Osmium 12y ago
A glib answer would be "because it's a huge continent"? In fairness, I think this is actually a pretty decent article about a complex topic, but I can't help but think it's the wrong question to ask.
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by Osmium 12y ago
I'm not an expert, but here's my understanding: > What happens once it lands successfully? It becomes a lot easier to get permission to attempt a landing on dry land. But, as I understand it, they will always need to land some
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by Osmium 12y ago
BSD license, more info here: http://researchkit.github.io/blog.html Nice to see Apple using GitHub: to me, at least, it sends a message that they're serious about engaging with the community and ResearchKit genuinely b
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ResearchKit Framework(github.com)
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together. [...] To do this, we designed the largest open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people. Almost reads like an Onion art
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Having a dedicated space for studying, open 24/7, within 20m of my room was absolutely liberating and fundamental to the experience. My sentiments exactly. I chose my undergrad college (not at Oxford) for the sole reason that it m
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by Osmium 12y ago
It concerns me that, for this reason, my degree might be worth 'less' a few years/decades down the line than it is now. In the UK, a lot of job positions ask for a 2.i minimum. I have a 2.i from a a very good university, and
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by Osmium 12y ago
You can still do it, it just presents an extra hurdle, e.g. see this project on integrating OpenCV into a Swift project: https://github.com/foundry/OpenCVSwiftStitch So it is possible.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Interesting justification of their choice of Objective-C++ here: http://componentkit.org/docs/why-cpp.html Anyone else have an opinion on this? Seems unusual for a iOS framework, especially going forward, but the reaso
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by Osmium 12y ago
I believe the Pantheon dome was, not sure about the Parthenon though. But it's definitely very old. A lot older than some people realise I think. But yes, not disagreeing that it can be beautiful. I've seen many beautiful concre
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Concrete is very interesting material, its history is fascinating and the materials science behind it as well. It's one of those deceptively 'unsexy' materials too from an outsider's perspective: think of steel and

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