Osmium

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by Osmium 9y ago
LiFX let you set the color right? So by definition they're going to be RGB (have three colored LEDs inside). Generally, LEDs that are single color are more likely to be phosphor (blue LED inside with a phosphor that converts to yellow)
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by Osmium 9y ago
This is really useful, thank you! As much as I love Keynote it'd be sooo useful to have native equation support, and native code syntax highlighting (can't they port this from XCode?)
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by Osmium 9y ago
Not trying to sell Hue here, but their bulbs have gone through several iterations by now. They were one of the first big names to push consumer LED bulbs, I wouldn't be surprised if their earlier versions had flaws just by being new. B
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by Osmium 9y ago
Yeah, I think my Ikea ones are phosphor, the Philips Hue are RGB though and still fine.
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by Osmium 9y ago
Weird, I've never had issues with LED bulbs, but I routinely have headaches from fluorescent. Maybe I've just lucked out with my specific bulbs being higher quality (Ikea, Philips Hue). I imagine color spectrum is a large part too
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by Osmium 9y ago
though not Keynote (yet?) Mac's in-built but largely unknown Grapher app has the best equation editor I've used. Super easier to use, automatic sub/superscripting, and you can right-click to copy as LaTeX. Makes me sad that G
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Kind of the opposite, sci-hub isn't really curated at all. Its goal is to have a PDF for everything that has a DOI, more or less. Side-stepping the politics and legality for a moment, I find it interesting how this is a very natur
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by Osmium 9y ago
One of my 'someday' projects is a virtual electron microscope ... so much with TEM becomes easier with hands-on experimentation, but that often isn't practical (or even safe for the instrument without someone present to guide
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by Osmium 9y ago
Congratulations Panic :) One of my favorite Mac app companies (along with The Omni Group and, more recently, Affinity). I always know I'll be paying for quality, polished software with Panic, and I've been looking forward to this
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by Osmium 9y ago
Perhaps this should be a 'poll' post so people can vote for their results? (9/15)
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by Osmium 9y ago
> fwiw, I learned to compute square roots in school in the 80s FWIW, I did too in the 90s/00s, though I confess I don't remember the method now. I think it was Newton-Rhaphson.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> While p5 sounds like the answer. We've been stripping away imperative programming on the web for the best part of it's history. Modern web development is more and more declarative every day... I just can't help shake the
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by Osmium 9y ago
> like someone with Borderline Personality Disorder A small note that borderline personality disorder, like many mental disorders, is a complex condition. Specifically, a person must meet 5 of 9 diagnostic criteria in the DSM to be diagn
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by Osmium 9y ago
I've seen a few comments mention RethinkDB ... what are the advantages over MongoDB? I can read their feature page but as someone who isn't an expert, I'm not sure what's marketing hype and what's genuine advantage.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> I've never been outside of walking distance of a small shop for food shopping I'd be interested to know whether a typical person's idea of what "walking distance" is has decreased or not over recent years.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> I walk to the store and buy groceries and then walk home. Right, exactly. Some of these replies are incredible! Absolutely if you live somewhere more remote you'll need a car, but for people in urban areas...? I've lived in s
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by Osmium 9y ago
> The pros vastly outweigh the cons: [...] This is not true, and sounds like it's written from the perspective of someone who hasn't had to go through this. I don't have personal experience with this, but for many people,
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Unlike many other languages, it allows developers to create another language inside it. Is this true? e.g. Swift has extensions on generic types too, doesn't it, and could also be used to write DSLs? (Sincere question, asking beca
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by Osmium 9y ago
> It took almost 6 months of badgering for that to finally happen though, despite an extensive and widely signed (by experts) op-ed pointing out how wrong and dangerous it was barely a week after the original article was published, and c
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by Osmium 9y ago
> and music control is on second tab, requiring a second swipe This is fixed in iOS 11, everything is now on the first tab (and it's customizable).
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by Osmium 9y ago
> within 4 hours It's usually quoted as hours, but in practice is often 'instant.' More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service US is archaic in many ways too: the necessity for pa
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by Osmium 9y ago
Thank you kindly for your reply! I was impressed by the article, and it made a lot of sense to me -- but I've also found that, given sufficiently persuasive writing, I'm easily persuaded that something incorrect is correct in QM,
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by Osmium 9y ago
Any idea what the scientific background of the author of [2] is?
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by Osmium 9y ago
See also San Sebastián/Donostia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebastián#Gastronomy
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by Osmium 9y ago
On a technical point, I was impressed by their CoreML model format. The specification is open, optimized for maximum transferability, it can convert models from Keras (with TensorFlow), scikit-learn and others, and their Python model conver
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by Osmium 9y ago
> You can’t consume a screen saver in an instant. You can’t fast-forward or rewind one. +1 for this. This is exactly the experience that Apple TV's screensavers gets right. They're just gorgeous, but they're random, slow,
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by Osmium 9y ago
Small point of interest, this app was involved in some other controversy in the past too: https://twitter.com/wakaba_en/status/322751026211983360 https://dribbble.com/shots/1046492-Dash-app-re
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by Osmium 9y ago
Yeah, completely agreed -- that's the thing about the pricing, it almost seems too cheap for designers who could use it every day and create huge amounts of value, but also too expensive for casual users like myself, who aren't
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by Osmium 9y ago
Likewise. Seems like a really great price if you're a designer, but too steep if you only use it occasionally. I use Noun Project semi-regularly with the CC licensing, but only for not-for-profit purposes, so $40 is too much. I'd
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by Osmium 9y ago
I definitely get that motivation. Doesn't change the fact that people who might want to use Keybase are more likely to be privacy-minded, and therefore less likely to have public Facebook, Twitter accounts (like myself). I'd perso

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