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by Osmium 12y ago
Apparently, Ive helps design lightsabres now too: > And Ive once sat next to J. J. Abrams at a boozy dinner party in New York, and made what Abrams recalled as “very specific” suggestions about the design of lightsabres. Abrams told me t
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by Osmium 12y ago
The point is that it shouldn't be. Removing personal protective equipment? The amount of people I know who've had very narrow escapes for completely unnecessary reasons... and yet people are still cavalier about it. I just don&#
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by Osmium 12y ago
Really happy to see this, was worried we'd have to wait for WWDC for further improvements. For me personally, it's nice to see Swift support for GLKMatrix and GLKVector now, which was an issue I just ran into just a few weeks ago.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Nothing bad to say about the science, but the (casual? blasé?) wording of this really bothered me: > Jungwirth’s colleague Philip Mason was determined to find out what was really going on — despite the hazards. In one run, he removed his
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by Osmium 12y ago
Via the live stream: There's an instantaneous launch window they have to meet which only happens once per day. This is necessary for the satellite to reach its destination at the L1 point[1]. They could try again this time tomorrow, th
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's interesting to consider how different technologies alter the evolution of each other: e.g., if hypothetically display technology had stalled and we were limited to 512x342 black and white pixel screens, I can easily imagine that w
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The best intro book, in my opinion, is William B Irvine's "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Some previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716631
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by Osmium 12y ago
They don't seem to be doing too badly in China. (Armchair opinion but: I think devaluing their brand in China would be the worst thing they could do.) "74.5 million iPhones, 46% growth over last year. Unit sales up 44% in US, up 9
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by Osmium 12y ago
> As someone who (very happily) uses both Backblaze and Squarespace Just wanted to second your comment and add that Everpix too was also a really good product before they closed down (I still haven't found an alternative that works
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Their not understating ;) I wouldn't usually point it out, but since we're discussing writing workshops... Clarion always sounded fantastic. I wonder how much of it is simply that it gives you the opportunity to live-and-brea
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The largest quantum object so far—a vibrating silicon springboard —contained around 1 trillion atoms (10^12), significantly less than Avogadro’s number. Does anyone have a reference for this? The closest I could find was http:/&#
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by Osmium 12y ago
> We both basically came to the conclusion that the only e-books that work are prose-oriented, not learning-oriented. Completely agreed. E-books are great for linear text, but the moment you have any kind of cross-referencing it falls ap
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by Osmium 12y ago
Compare this to 'Paper', Facebook's other iOS app which has 4 stars: https://www.facebook.com/paper https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-stories-from-facebook/... Not only i
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by Osmium 12y ago
15'' is 2880×1800. Most NASA images are high resolution enough that they should be available. Related, but if you like the Mars HiRISE images I can highly recommend this book: http://aperture.org/shop/books&#x
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by Osmium 12y ago
I've never formally studied CS, but I can definitely see the benefit. I can divide my own (amateur) programming experience into pre-Haskell and post-Haskell. Before I started learning Haskell, I thought I knew how to use a good half a
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by Osmium 12y ago
> In this case, the alligators and their eggs behave so differently from anything familiar (egg hatching to whatever the parent ate?!) that I find the cognitive burden increases to the point of giving up. I imagine, in this case, it&#x27
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by Osmium 12y ago
Not a UEFI problem perhaps, but I also had a dual-boot misery experience early last year. I kept on trying to make a Ubuntu and Windows 8 dual-boot set-up on the same hard drive, and it would be fine until Windows Update would destroy my ab
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Latin gave me the ability to ... be able to dissect the English language and multiple other languages quite mathematically and systematically A formal study of linguistics will do a much better job of this than a study of Latin (of cou
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by Osmium 12y ago
Since that's been written, CocoaPods has added Swift support. As of a few weeks ago it's currently available in beta (gem install cocoapods --pre). To the OP, CocoaPods is probably the most widely-used package manager, but there&#
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by Osmium 12y ago
I've recently been re-writing an old pet project from Objective-C to Swift. I've found the Swift error messages incredibly unhelpful in Xcode compared to Objective-C, but the resulting code to be a lot more readable and concise (a
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by Osmium 12y ago
I agree with you except for: > multi-page tables You won't be able to persuade me that's easier in LaTeX than Word! I say that as an otherwise very proficient LaTeX user who finds himself much more productive with LaTeX than Wo
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I recommend TechCrunch's excellent piece on SF housing issues by the same author I think we should start paying a lot more attention to authors than to the domain names they write on. Not reading the byline is something I've
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by Osmium 12y ago
> ... that in another few decades the individual granularity of those particles will become so small and so numerous that we'll basically be modeling liquids and solids at the molecular level? Also not a graphics programmer, but I a
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by Osmium 12y ago
SuperGenPass[1] seems to be a much better alternative to this, since it actually hashes your codeword with the website domain. Though it too has its issues (uses fast hash functions, running it as a bookmarklet is problematic too–better to
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by Osmium 12y ago
> An engineer is defined as a practitioner of engineering, not a person with an engineering degree. It goes further than that actually. The term 'engineer' is often legally-protected, and often a degree is a pre-requisite, bu
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's good to know. The ones I've looked at (physics-y) were about $32k, but maybe they were especially bad. This was at a public institution (one of the UCs), if that makes any difference.
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's certainly a bit grim. To offer a personal perspective... > * age 30-35: working as a post-doc for $30,000 to $35,000 per year You can earn more than that (and younger) if you're prepared to travel outside the US, though it
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's not quite this bad where I am, but it's definitely heading in that direction. We've just had a new expenses system implemented, and it's obviously a nightmare compared to the old one, which was just a form you sta
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by Osmium 12y ago
In my department, typically each student has a finite amount allocated for conference travel. After that, you either apply for travel grants, or (commonly) your supervisor will probably have access to extra funding, but it's still a fi
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by Osmium 12y ago
On the other hand, a book can't go bankrupt/get shut down/go out of service after you've bought it and invested time into. In that sense, it's a safer purchase.

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