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Well I'm not sure when the common usage of "science" changed, but it's possible that when "computer science" was coined in the 1950s [1], the older usage was still at least widely understood. Perhaps given the
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It's true that for some time now "science" has been used almost exclusively for disciplines that make use of experimental methodologies, but in earlier usage it just meant roughly "the process of creating knowledge.&quot
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That converts the digital signal to analog and back again, which isn't ideal.
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Sony's headphones do digital signal processing of the incoming signal. For instance, there's a user adjustable equalizer. This happens in the headphones themselves, rather than on the device they're connected to. This stuff d
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It's not common for researchers to find that no journal at all will accept their paper, so it's not like there's a bunch of bad science being done that we just never see. The result of getting rid of the reputation system of
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I don't know if that's the reason they haven't sold the paintings. I suspect the rights to the Bob Ross brand are worth a lot more than the paintings themselves. All the paintings in their possession probably aren't wort
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If you want to make vegan cheese that actually tastes like cheese, the best approach is going to be to use something like Perfect Day's milk, which synthesizes milk proteins using some sort of genetic engineering or other. This could,
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A note for anyone coming across this: soy milk is nutritionally comparable to cow's milk, but other milk alternative are not. Children who receive much of their nutrition from milk should not transition directly to almond or oat milk w
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With my particular workflow, tiling functionality without window-manager-level tabs is not enough of an improvement over the window snapping I can get with BetterTouchTool to justify another tool, but I am quite pleased with the availabilit
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Ah, but if you open a new window, then users will have too many windows open and get confused or frustrated! You would need some kind of innovation in window management beyond the 1990s for that to be feasible. But desktop OS vendors seem t
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Better window management paradigms aren't quite what I was referring to, but would also be great for mainstream software vendors to not have given up on. I use the Sway compositor on my personal machines to get some sort of reasonabl
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More precise would be to say "graphical IPC control" or "graphical IPC initiation." I'm trying to point to the ability for users in a graphical environment to coordinate intricate communication between processes. Co
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Multiple tools doesn't mean that they can't interoperate. It's just that Apple (and everyone else) has given up on graphical IPC.
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No. I looked into this pretty extensively a few years ago. Ideally you could use semi-passive RFID, which only broadcasts a signal when its identifying signal is detected. But these still need a power source, and batteries are not cheap, on
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by adrusi 5y ago
$100/4 isn't going to be a burden for most apple customers if they're just putting them on their keys, wallets, handbags, etc. But the endgame for these sorts of devices is longer lifetimes and slapping them on everything you
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by adrusi 6y ago
GIFs use run length encoding, which usually makes them quite good for pixelly art, but not when you apply a bunch of vfx.
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by adrusi 6y ago
Eh, at the point you're tuning the growth factor, you might consider just not using a dynamically sized array
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My trick: get the audiobook version, and listen while doing something else, which prevents my mind from wandering too far from the text. Ideally not something I was going to do anyway, but something that I'm only doing to occupy myself
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I think different people mean different things by "see the pixels." I can't imagine being able to see individual pixels on a 15" 4k display at laptop distances, but I can imagine being able to notice minor distortions in
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There's a place for idempotency tokens. They're relatively easy to retrofit onto old systems, and occasionally they are the best way to go about making changes idempotent, but they should be a red flag – an indication that you sho
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by adrusi 6y ago
Death is dead. Death remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of the murderer of all murderers?
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by adrusi 6y ago
But then it doesn't sound like you think death is inevitable so much as that it's good . It looks like you're making two different claims: 1. If you lived forever, there wouldn't be any reason to do anything. 2. Livin
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by adrusi 6y ago
Obviously it's not great to feel the fear of death constantly following you, wherever you go. But it's possible to not have that experience while also not (falsely) accepting death as inevitable. I know because I am neither consta
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That's not quite right. If you can't be afraid of actually being dead because you won't be experiencing anything, then you in fact won't be afraid in the moments before, so there would be no reason to be afraid of the mo
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A decent chunk of the svalbard population is researchers who moved there for the sake of their research.
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Firefox, despite the impression that HN might give, is still very configurable. The existence of about:config means Mozilla can add options without cluttering the more accessible preferences menu. I'm perfectly happy with the default b
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Hopefully they give you a discount on the royalties if you improve their engine for them!
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Screen capture yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000812 Automation no https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000740 Though I would say that standardization of screen capture is far more important t
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I'm not familiar with the internals enough to know if you're right about tearing being the compositor's fault, though I'd be quite surprised if disabling the compositor resulted in less tearing. But I do know that I
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Screen capture is a recently solved problem on wayland. Yes, existing screen capture software that doesn't implement a new backend is broken, because the X model of screen capture was fundamentally broken, and one of main goals of Wayl

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