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by Torkel 6y ago
Ikea for the most part... The dimmable ones where $18 Osram ones though, and they died first of all. edit: more specifically, a lot of this one: https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/ledare-led-ljuskaella-gu10-600-...
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by Torkel 6y ago
The reliability of LED lights is, from my experience, crazy bad. We installed all-LED lighting in the office. Over the past two years way over 50% of the LED lamps have died. Yesterday I ordered yet another batch of 25 new LED lamps. The of
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by Torkel 6y ago
This is not correct. Before covid only people who felt like thay might have a cold or similar wore face masks, to reduce risk of infecting others. (This is my understanding after living there for one year and then travelling for a month eve
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by Torkel 6y ago
Fast forward a few years. Look at the time it takes to design chips. Look at where the market and tech is going (M1 and AMD especially). Compare with RIM and Nokia. There is a "roadrunner" effect where a colossal company will cont
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by Torkel 6y ago
Interesting article, I didn’t know all common colds were once deadly epidemics but it seems logical thinking about it. I wonder if the rna vaccines brought out for covid will be applied to more and more viruses. Seems like a path towards er
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by Torkel 6y ago
”Unscheduled”, I think
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by Torkel 6y ago
How do you handle hevc/h265 and resolutions above 4K? It’s not in the rtmp spec, so not supported by either ffmpeg or gstreamer. But chinese companies ship cameras that hack it and run rtmp for it anyway, leading users to peskering me
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by Torkel 6y ago
Modern C++ isn’t all that portable either.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Donut county... so mixed feelings about that one. I really enjoyed it, up until the final fight against the big flying robot cat thingie. I felt super betrayed about a game without stress suddenly flipping on all its principles. Suddenly it
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by Torkel 6y ago
The amount of publicity this generated for youtube-dl is astounding... I would love for this to be a ”the plan to get rid of youtube-dl backfired badly for RIAA” ending. But I guess RIAA is reviled enough already so nothing they do really m
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by Torkel 6y ago
ROIC: return on invested capital WACC: weighted average cost of capital
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by Torkel 6y ago
Yes, for sure there is some overhead in this. I checked in Tracy now and with a lot of gui open, using many custom labels etc, it takes on the order of 150-200 us to do that part of the gui. Issuing the GL draw list commands takes some time
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by Torkel 6y ago
I use a ”ten-key-less” keyboard (without numerical part but with arrow and delete-block keys) for this reason.
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by Torkel 6y ago
Well - it just looks right to me... As a non-native English speaker I’m probably wrong about it, but compare these: - guis - gui’s - gui:s Top looks like French. Middle looks like like the gui is owning something. Third is clearly the right
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by Torkel 6y ago
I use ImGui for gui in a user-facing app that is "large-ish" (~500k LOC maybe). When removing items from lists etc I used to keep drawing non-removed items in the list so the user would not see a "glitch". But I realized
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by Torkel 6y ago
Well, maybe. We use it user-facing for suite of niche vr/tele-op applications and it works wonderfully. We have support for Korean, Japanese, Hebrew (serious issues with right-to-left in our implementation though). The thing about ImGu
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by Torkel 6y ago
Nice :) Will you use it for user-facing gui:s, looking forward?
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by Torkel 6y ago
Happy to see ImGui trend here on HN! It is an amazing tool that is used in a lot of game engines for making internal/dev gui:s. The principle of drawing gui "as you go", interleaved with control flow makes it easier+faster to
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by Torkel 6y ago
The writing here from Brian Eno is remarkably clear and well formulated. I admire someone who can formulate himself so well on a subject even when writing something in what I assume, from the minor spelling errors, is a quickly typed random
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by Torkel 6y ago
Get the deals in writing, with explicit liabilities if contract is broken. There, I fixed it.
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by Torkel 6y ago
The japanese one has dual props in each position, so it can loose one propeller/motor and still fly (unless they are idiots).
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by Torkel 6y ago
4. This is one person (or a small group) at Intel who considers it the right thing to do. Maybe?
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by Torkel 6y ago
The risk here is that a terror attack on grid infra knocks out so much of society. No electricity => so much trouble. My point is that with solar+storage you get a more resilient system that can continue to provide power even if central
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by Torkel 6y ago
This is true, but also not true. Helicopters are stuck as a concept: large main rotor and tailrotor and also expensive parts and traditional aerospace practices. There are other physical paths, e.g. Osprey, Cheyenne. But the big thing now i
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by Torkel 6y ago
To me this whole thread reads like an ad for solar + local storage. There should be tremendous resilience advantages compared to grid power. I’m surprised security/defence authorities aren’t pushing for that?
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by Torkel 6y ago
This is a good question, I see three main reasons but I may miss something: 1. Hop count is not one on the ground to go same distance. 2. Speed of light is significantly faster in vacuum. 3. The path is potentially straighter for longer dis
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by Torkel 6y ago
Preconceptions. Satellite internet have traditionally been slow+laggy. Starlink is not. Yay first principles :)
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by Torkel 6y ago
Here's one: Teleoperation / autonomy in remote areas. Forestry. Mining. Not sure how big this, objectively speaking money-wise, but for teleop/autonomy it sure does enable new things when there is true 100% coverage everywher
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by Torkel 6y ago
Same stock is listed in more than one place, and also e.g. stock movements in NY affect stocks in London. There are undersea cables built for this purpose: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure&#x2F
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by Torkel 6y ago
If I understood it correctly Starlink doesn't send between satellites yet, only sat<->ground. Sat<->sat is a big point of starlink and when they roll that out the latency should go down, especially for starlink<->star

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