XaspR8d

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by XaspR8d 9y ago
I think this is exactly what the media is trying to get at when they refer to Pokemon Go as an "AR" game, and I'm surprised most folks in this thread are missing the mark. Seeing as plenty of companies are wanting to cash in
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Yeah when I saw the title, my brain immediately went to Sierra Madre Games (particularly BIOS: Genesis and High Frontier ), which are incredibly-designed simulation machines under the guise of tabletop games.
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Yeah, automating that next step is making the failure mode much worse.
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
I still can't get the GIMP resynthesis plugins to run on most of my machines...
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
1) The satellite system system broadcasts to everyone (apparently poorly/not encrypted) in the area, so it isn't necessary to take over any upstream routing in order to get a hold of the incoming packets. They just arrive at your
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
The joke, for passers-by: Terraforming Mars was huge hit boardgame last year, and is now in the running for the Spiele des Jahres, the German game-of-the-year which is often considered one of the foremost awards in tabletop gaming. In par
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
There are many many games that embody small parts of economic theory, but few that bother with a "full" simulation. I'd suspect it's a little too fragile to guarantee a fun gameplay (as in, many logical economic outcomes
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
> such as how the pyramids of Giza, Egypt are shown in pictures I was totally on the same wavelength with Karl Pilkington in An Idiot Abroad when he discovered they were right next to the city. It's such a weird censoring -- would
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Wow, very literal meaning of liquidating government assets...
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
I felt a few of the homages in And Another Thing were a little too fanservice-y. Sometimes it seemed like the editor said "we could do with another Adams-style rant in this chapter" but it didn't come as naturally as Adams&
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
You can't imagine a worse execution? It was the fastest mobile game ever to reach $600 million and has made well over $1 billion at this point. I understand the design complaints--the gameplay won't resonate with anyone wanting a
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
They understand when a car or a microwave or a fridge is useful, and why you wouldn't want to use one in place of another.
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Or perhaps it doesn't matter to them? The orientation of the colors bears no effect on the play of the game. It might be confusing to people very used to the "traditional" rotation, but maybe breaking free of it is a good men
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Regardless of how you perceive making it, the representation is still (nearly always) a color underneath an alpha channel. If you inspect the image in a full-featured editor like Photoshop or GIMP, you can inspect the channels individuall
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Total hypothesis, but don't they not need it since all of the ingredients are already FDA approved?
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Yeah definitely. The classifications of transactions is generally poor. Even with Simple, which is very generous in allowing you to (re)assign arbitrary tags on the fly and provide nice data metrics, I'd still like to generate differen
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
> People in the US tend to prefer fish that's already bland to begin with (cod, haddock, tilapia, and sometimes tuna or salmon) To be fair, in the Midwest this is often because there used to be a diet of much more flavorful freshwat
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Well there's a notorious adage, "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy". I think academics shy away from attempting to make the distinction except when extremely obvious, and instead talk directly about quantitative
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
FYI this is the "Who wants to be hired?" thread, not the "Who's Hiring?" thread.
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Unfortunately many banks seem to put up arbitrary hurdles to performing ACH transfers, or obscure the fact that they are available. Certainly I've had this issue with Wells Fargo, US Bank, and BoA. I assume this is because a number of
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
There's a few things missing in this comparison, most notably the bike manufacturer isn't claiming the bike is already secure ("auto-locking" bikes) or making additional security challenging (bikes that locks are very ha
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
I guess it comes down to whether you think you can (immediately) process the "red delta", "blue delta", and "green delta" independently. I wasn't stating my assumption that I thought it would be nontrivial
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
As long as you're using 2 filters, you're only adding one dimension to the distinction, so it would remain tetrachromatic. You would be able to distinguish more metamers than the configuration in the article (hence having more u
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Here's filter #1. [1] Filter #2 was custom-made. Not sure if that's orderable in small quantities outside of academia. But you could try to find a filter that fit their "naive approach", which would be simple bandstop (a
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
These filters were already optimized so the sum of their stimuli would match the tristimulus. (So you still perceive the same baseline as normal trichromats but with another asymmetry on top.) By removing a frequency range, you're just
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
I'm not in the field, but I think the cool thing about this is that it's accomplishable with passive components created with straightforward tech (one filter was off-the-shelf). Most hyperspectral/extraspectral visualizatio
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
Well it's an extremely challenging edge case to address. As noted, mixed alphabet domains have decomposed to their punycodes for a while, but the single alphabet case is harder to separate malicious from legitimate. This isn't a f
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by XaspR8d 9y ago
It strikes me that, in a world where "photos" are generated from non-optical data, there would likely be a counter-movement of artists who deliberately seek or build scenes that could not be generated at the time. (In some ways th
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yes I suppose I'm targetting the protocol a little too much when I should think about what features clients can implement. I'm certainly happy with the "gossip" approach; I just see it as challenging for some people to a
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Basic question: since the entries form a chain and reference the previous, is there no way to edit or delete your old entries? (I see it "prevents tampering" and there's something of a philosophical question here about wheth

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