Osmium

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by Osmium 8y ago
In particular, recommendations for consumer routers would be welcome. Last time this came up, the line seemed to be "consumer routers are trash, if you want security you have to use an enterprise router." There might be some tru
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by Osmium 8y ago
> it's also one of the reasons why I "enjoy" drinking chamomile tea: It tastes so bad, it gotta be healthy Each to their own, I really enjoy the taste of chamomile tea :) Agreed that it's a good thing for medicine no
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by Osmium 8y ago
> Secondary payloads — especially multi-smallsat rideshare — are notoriously hard to coordinate. Can’t wait for a Lyft Line for space ;) “Your rocket will depart in 3 months.”
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by Osmium 8y ago
> The people it doesn't help are the people who put no effort into the process. I’ve heard this repeated a lot. I have no doubt this is true for some people (maybe even the majority of people for which therapy doesn’t work, I don’t
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by Osmium 8y ago
Your own comment would have been a lot better without its first sentence and that "idiot" clause :) I didn't find the parent's comment rude or trollish. It seems clear that therapy can help people. It also seems clear it
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by Osmium 8y ago
Interestingly, I made the same error. I think because that first comma is misplaced (vs, say, a colon), making me expect a second comma later.
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by Osmium 8y ago
> or to know what the mapping is Agreed! This is important. Scale bars would be nice too, as well as info on other pre-/post-processing. Usually all this is in an associated publication (which is hopefully freely available), since i
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by Osmium 8y ago
I see this question a lot. I used to have an obsession with 'true color'; images felt fake otherwise. Artificial. I'm a working scientist now, and my view has changed. I realize how limited our senses are. How much of the wor
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by Osmium 8y ago
That sounds pretty awful. Luckily I haven’t personally had any keyboard troubles (I’ve had it since release and travel with it frequently), but if I had I’d probably be a lot less positive about it (:
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by Osmium 8y ago
> I'd go further and say that Apple isn't basing their hardware strategy on the needs of any real person. Real person here! I love the USB-C only approach. I love being able to charge from either side of my laptop, and I love h
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by Osmium 8y ago
I love the keyboard, and I code all day. It's actually my favorite keyboard of any I've used with the exception of the current-gen external Apple keyboards. I enjoy the light-touch and low key travel required to type. I find the t
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by Osmium 8y ago
It seems to me that it's a computer analog to bike-shedding[1]. A problem 'easy' enough that people feel comfortable explaining it. Same reason there are lots of articles on linear algebra, FFTs, etc. or even why there are so
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by Osmium 8y ago
I finally read some Greg Egan recently and was not disappointed (started with 'Axiomatic' which is a collection of short stories, I'm not sure if this is the best place to start but I found it to be a good introduction...have
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by Osmium 8y ago
Yes, that's almost certainly wrong (or, at least, should no longer be called a nanowire). A length of 0.25 nm is of the order of the interatomic distance between a single pair of Si atoms.
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by Osmium 8y ago
> but the ideology and technology of the Culture -- there's the entire value of the series. > fascinatingly, banks captures the essence of the Culture in a way that few other writers can do with any concept of such complexity. Ye
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by Osmium 8y ago
> Consider Phlebas I had read and enjoyed, but it seemed flat, uninspired and uninteresting on second reading. For what it's worth, Consider Phlebas was my introduction to Banks: I found it ok. Something like an above-average sc
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by Osmium 8y ago
They do provide a public dashboard for tracking progress to ABI stability: https://swift.org/abi-stability/ Whether it turns out there are things missing from that list, who knows, but they're definitely getting c
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by Osmium 8y ago
Note that you can disable this feature, however in most cases it's probably best not to -- the new hasher functionality is actually really cool and a good improvement on the old behavior. If you want to disable it, I think it's a
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by Osmium 8y ago
Unions (usually) put a floor on your salary, not a ceiling. I'm a member of a union, and my salary is a good 20-30% above the union minimum. I've never had to contact my union (though I've benefited from it indirectly), but m
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by Osmium 8y ago
If I have an asset (e.g. Collada .dae), are there tools available to create a USDZ? Or can USDZ be created programmatically via SceneKit?
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by Osmium 8y ago
Note this is from 2016.
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by Osmium 8y ago
Very nice! Request: art gallery-like legends next to the artwork, with title/artist/date (I imagine this would only work with a curated source of art, but if I ever used something like this, I'd like to learn something too).
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by Osmium 8y ago
You can imagine a feedback loop though: Some people use Gmail auto-replies more > Other people therefore receive emails in the style of these auto-replies > These other people then start manually sending emails according to this style
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by Osmium 8y ago
Original thread for when Apple acquired FoundationDB for those curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986
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by Osmium 8y ago
Link to the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0557/
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by Osmium 9y ago
> a_list: List[T] = []
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by Osmium 9y ago
P(your data compromised) = 1 - P(storage provider never hacked)^(number of storage providers) All else equal, using more storage providers increases your risk of exposure, not decreases it. And for most classes of sensitive data, the loss
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by Osmium 9y ago
Sincere question, can someone explain how this[1] is an octahedron? Does the author mean polyhedron? (Very cool article though!) [1] https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-22455410/image...
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by Osmium 9y ago
> You may already know this but you can just tap and hold on one of the brightness or volume buttons and just slide the way you want and the button morphs into a slider. Yes, this is actually one of the few things I actively like about t
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by Osmium 9y ago
I would be interested to know if there was a 'gold standard'/'bible' of finance books for someone who knows very little, but doesn't mind a technical read.

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