Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
I'm in a similar place. I was definitely, emphatically an "owl" and absolutely convinced there was some genetic reason. I would always struggle to wake up but feel really productive in the late evening/early morning. If
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by Osmium 13y ago
I notice it's retina-ready on OS X. Definitely appreciated!
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by Osmium 13y ago
There's emotional distance and there's physical distance. I have been very close to people who are now very far from me. The fact that we don't get to speak often these days says nothing about the quality of the bond. Still v
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by Osmium 13y ago
> If you can afford to replace everything you own out of savings, good for you, but most people can't. Exactly this. The advice I was always given is that if you can afford to replace x (whatever x is) if something bad were to h
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by Osmium 13y ago
I'd actually be interested in some statistics for this; maybe an automated tool that scans my phone and tabulates how much I've paid for apps? In any case, I definitely have dozens of $0.99 apps. You're correct that they&#x27
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by Osmium 13y ago
I agree with the lack of trial apps but you're crazy if you think people will pay $20 for apps like Dark Sky. The problem with apps is that there are so many: I have > 100 on my phone, while the average user apparently had 41[1] and
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by Osmium 13y ago
Can't find a good holistic reference off-hand, but you're looking at focal series reconstruction (or, if you're using specialised equipment, holography) to recover phase information of your wave. That can then be used to reco
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Rolling your own random number generator should be considered the same as rolling your own crypto: by all means have a play in order to help understand the concepts, but unless you are an expert in the relevant mathematics+electronics
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by Osmium 13y ago
There are some really clever techniques out there for recovering the imaginary parts actually, at least in a similar domain (transmission electron microscopy), but they're still somewhat new.
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by Osmium 13y ago
> And if every kid has one, it could kinda work, but what can you do with only 5 per class room? I don't know. When I was in school at about age 10 we had a handful of palmtop computers[1] between a class of 20-30. I didn't get
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by Osmium 13y ago
What was battery like under that kind of work load?
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by Osmium 13y ago
I've previously had good experiences with ProVoc (and now iVocabulary, a fork of ProVoc) but stopped using it and instead use Duolingo now because I lacked a good flashcard resource. I didn't have the time to think up new flashcar
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by Osmium 13y ago
Flip-side on the IAP suggestion: I despise ads, but if I have an app with ads I can't bring myself to buy an in-app purchase to remove them for an app I probably won't use that often. Whereas if the app was just $.99 to start with
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by Osmium 13y ago
To any pilots reading this: I, for one, actually like hearing from you from time to time. It's reassuring to hear. Especially in light of this thread!
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by Osmium 13y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees that the raw data should be eventually made public, and preferably sooner rather than later. But initially it's all about the message: you need time to properly analyse the data and release the resul
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by Osmium 13y ago
Actually you can as of iOS 7.
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by Osmium 13y ago
That's absolutely crazy. I'm a paying Fastmail customer, and that really puts me off. I'm "trialing" them for 6 months at the moment with a personal domain before I decide whether I want to permanently switch to the
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by Osmium 13y ago
Very fun. I love how it's possible to accidentally discover something cool like this, only to realise (in retrospect) that the result is "obvious." Almost always learn something really useful from it.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Not quite a pokedex, but you can get a leaf-dex today! http://leafsnap.com You can take photos of leaves and it'll identify them for you :)
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by Osmium 13y ago
While true, I think that's besides the point. If you surveyed random people I bet you could get them to agree on whether an animal is a dog or a cat 99 times out of a 100.
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by Osmium 13y ago
The Landauer limit [1] is relevant here. Even if you could theoretically make a processor that does it, it would take about 30 gigawatts of power for 1 year [2] to just do 2^128 bit flips (this is obviously a lower bound since it disregards
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by Osmium 13y ago
Completely agreed – regardless of the amount of money at your disposal, I can't believe they managed it in 7 months. It really is crazy.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yep. Discovered this one today. Completely ridiculous. If anyone wants evidence that iOS 7 was rushed, all they need to do is see things like that (and the parent post). All this is fixable though, rather than something endemic in the desig
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by Osmium 13y ago
I think this is the technique used by Philips in their app too: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vital-signs-camera-philips/i... [iTunes link] What would be ideal is if the app also took your heart rate using
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by Osmium 13y ago
Edit: Actually, I've decided I'd rather not share random details about myself with someone I don't know on the internet, but needless to say about 50% of your assumptions are incorrect. And even if they weren't, I'm
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Heathrow is generally a pretty miserable flying experience Am I the only one who (so far!) hasn't had any issues with Heathrow? Every single time I've been it's gone smoothly and on time. Last time I went through there w
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by Osmium 13y ago
That calculator icon looks suspiciously like it could be a rip-off of the iOS 7 calculator icon. That said, looks like a wonderful project. I'm always struggling with the best way to access a headless Raspberry Pi. If something like th
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by Osmium 13y ago
On a similar but different note, there were stories of children getting upset at the new look of iOS 7. When I saw the headline I thought it odd, because I doubt the designers of iOS 7 ever thought they'd actually make someone cry wi
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by Osmium 13y ago
Does anyone know the people behind this? i.e. could someone make an educated guess as to whether they're likely to meet their Feb 2014 ship date?
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by Osmium 13y ago
But the point is that you don't need a picture of the key beside the lock for a locksmith to break into your house! And, indeed, if there was one it would probably be faster and easier for him to use a lock pick rather than taking th

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