Osmium

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by Osmium 9y ago
Counter-anecdote, I just had the pleasure of meeting a 90-year-old man who was still very mobile, very compus mentis (we had a nice chat that I could have had with someone of any age), and who was surrounded by a loving, social family. Who
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by Osmium 9y ago
That's marching cubes though, which is different from the parametric/Bézier approach in the article?
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by Osmium 9y ago
Could this extend to 3D?
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by Osmium 9y ago
My only experience so far is Google Cardboard with an iPhone ... would you expect an Oculus Go to be any better than this? (I know iPhone screens aren't high-DPI enough for VR, but I doubt a screen in a $200 product would be much bette
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by Osmium 9y ago
Can someone explain to me how they can make a device worth buying for $200? That seems incredibly cheap since the cost of decent VR systems are ~$500+ and that's without a machine to provide processing/GPU.
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by Osmium 9y ago
Fantastic idea, upvote for visibility. Reminds me of the old ctrl+alt+delete but much more friendly for the user.
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by Osmium 9y ago
Didn't downvote you for the record. If a comment's worth responding to, it doesn't make much sense to me to downvote it (:
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by Osmium 9y ago
> "Too aggressive" relative to what? Other humans (Homo not Sapiens). Sadly, we'll probably never know for sure, because it looks like we were responsible for wiping most of them out 10,000s years ago. > Mother Teresa U
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by Osmium 9y ago
For the record, I’m also a white guy from a poorer family with no college connections. And we don’t bear the sins of our forefathers. That doesn’t mean we don’t benefit from them. I worked hard, I got lucky, but I can’t pretend my priviledg
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by Osmium 9y ago
> I wanted MLK's idea of a colorblind world where no one is judged based on your skin I still believe this is possible, I just think we're one or two generations behind. I'm encouraged that the coming generation seems to u
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by Osmium 9y ago
> So what is fair? Isn't that the toughest question? I don't know what the answer is. I don't know where I stand on affirmative action: in any given instant, it seems unfair, but in a historical context it seems necessary
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by Osmium 9y ago
> pales in comparison It's not a competition... To acknowledge one problem does not mean ignoring others. There is very real discrimination against people of Asian heritage in the US college system, with very similar parallels to di
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by Osmium 9y ago
Yeah, I can see how a rewrite makes sense. It's not rewriting diskutil itself, it's adding a new UI, that presumably uses newer APIs that will be easier to maintain in the future. The problem really is that the new Disk Utility is
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by Osmium 9y ago
There have been a few cases like this. Presumably the original was created/maintained by just one person, they move on, and then when the next person comes along they decide it's easier to re-write than modify the old code. But th
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by Osmium 9y ago
Sorry, I was barely around for the 80s ;) I am old enough to have had a knock-off portable CD player though... > makes it thinner or anything else? I think it's volume inside the device more than thinness, but I agree I don't t
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by Osmium 9y ago
Give it 10 years and anyone walking around with cables running from their head is going to look plenty silly. If ever there was a look that defined the 2010s... I think there’s an elegance to basically keeping the existing design and just c
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by Osmium 9y ago
> (I thought I might lose one but it was really a non issue if they fit properly in the first place) Exactly. If they don't fit you'll have issues, or will need silicone covers or something, but if they do fit it's great
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by Osmium 9y ago
This looks fantastic. Love my Airpods, but the 'tap for Siri' feature so rarely works for me, let alone language translation. Language translation is clearly an area Google is really pioneering too. Shame about the cable though. T
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by Osmium 9y ago
> You guys should be taking my money, is what I'm saying. Completely agreed. The reason I don't use Keybase more than I do is because I half expect them to be acquired/something else to happen. Would gladly give them my
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by Osmium 9y ago
> and Netflix is no great shakes either And this is mostly because Netflix wants to hide the true extent of their library. Hulu just had a recent, awful re-design too. They cover in-active thumbnails with gradients, you can barely see an
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Amazon’s weaknesses are in the first case high-end design Just design generally, including their website ... anecdotally, so many people I know don't really know that Amazon Prime Video exists, or if it does exist how to find it.
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by Osmium 9y ago
The window manager now runs on Metal 2, which should give a nice jump in responsiveness, but it is likely responsible for the graphics glitches people have been reporting, especially with older machines. As a counter-anecdote, I have a rMBP
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by Osmium 9y ago
True, I was being slightly facetious. That's why the wording of the question is so very important, e.g. in the case of Scotland there was no "third option", which would have been further devolution of powers.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Does it want to be an associate state, or a completely independent state (that would also need to enter the Europena Union by its own)? This is something it is still not clear for me, Hmm, maybe if you want to know what the people of C
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by Osmium 9y ago
It's a big world out there, and we're all just trying to get along. I'm not in the least bit offended by swearing and swear liberally amongst friends, but curse words (taboo words) do exist, and some people are bothered by
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by Osmium 9y ago
If you think putting it a little out to sea would kill NIMBY objections .... still, we can but dream. I'm not entirely sure how serious SpaceX are about their E2E idea anyway, I took it as more of a "hey, isn't this neat? tot
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by Osmium 9y ago
> His presentation style usually seems to be pretty raw, in a good way. Completely agreed that it's raw in a good way -- you can tell he really has technical detail down too, I noticed one of the times when a slide left too early he
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by Osmium 9y ago
Ironically, I think SpaceX will have a lot more trouble with any E2E ambitions than they would with missions to Mars. So much red tape, no one's going to want a space-port in their backyard, different/difficult economics, safety c
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by Osmium 9y ago
Honestly, Elon's presentations are some of the most impressive, inspiring I've ever seen. And the way he just stumbles out words and sentences that are completely revolutionary... casually dropping these absurd, incredible stateme
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by Osmium 9y ago
I haven't read the book the parent mentioned, I'm not sure what the book contains. But I agree with the parent's "TL;DR: no, language doesn't determine how you see the world." There is a lot of literature on

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