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by armagon 7y ago
This sounds interesting, but I can't tell what it is -- there's too much terminology I'm not familiar with. The list of features is all tech-centric and doesn't step back and say what the thing does. I think it is a self
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by armagon 7y ago
Do you mean to say that you could interact with the virtual world and change things in the physical world? Like, drop an item in a virtual room to turn off a light in a real one?
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That's why I mentioned it as a caveat.
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by armagon 7y ago
With the caveats that I don't know more than the basics of investing and have a few years for funds to grow, I found the audiobook "The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life" by
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by armagon 7y ago
I frequently use a couple of services on the menu to diff two files (but most people don't have the diffing tool installed). "Open", "Open With", I use frequently. "Compress", "Rename" and "
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by armagon 7y ago
Hmm... I thought there were special pens you could use to draw your own circuits. Something like this, perhaps: https://shop.circuitscribe.com/ I think that'd be even cooler, as it would save a step and not involve etc
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by armagon 7y ago
The same could be said, in a domain more familiar to HNers, of bug reports. If you don't take bug reports as tweets, or in e-mails, but insist that 1) they go into a bug tracker, and 2) that they evidence some care (such as, instead of
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by armagon 7y ago
That'd be funny. I'm sure you could do it with https://www.amber-lang.net/ ;-)
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by armagon 7y ago
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson I did some work in Smalltalk (working on a mod of Scratch 1.4, which was written in Squeak Smalltalk from the turn of the century). Once you go
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by armagon 7y ago
Thank you.
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by armagon 7y ago
It isn't entirely clear to me what this is. Maybe I've got too much DynamicLand on the brain, but I was picturing using a projector (aimed down) to play games on a tabletop, and wondering how you were doing input, etc. "Scree
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by armagon 7y ago
The previous generation of smart home devices was called X10, and it used signals over power lines. I gather it was: - slow - might have required you to make a connection in your circuit breaker - and was designed in the 1970s, when home el
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by armagon 7y ago
I expect that MQTT is that standard. ( http://mqtt.org/ ) I have just been playing around with IoT devices and was just trying to set it up.
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by armagon 7y ago
Well said. I'm just starting to get some IoT devices -- mostly because that is the only way certain things I want come -- but I would really rather have localized control of these devices in my LAN than have them go out to the internet
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by armagon 7y ago
Hardly turn-key, I'm afraid, but I'd look into UcoSLAM ( http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/node/62 ). As I understand it, if you have a robot with a camera that can see special markers, it
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by armagon 7y ago
What are "comps"? (much less "state-connected comps")?
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by armagon 7y ago
This is great to see, for I've been wondering lately why being outdoors is more pleasant (in clement weather) than indoors. Is it the unpredictability? the humidity? the noises? the sunlight? In that same vein, I've wondered how t
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by armagon 7y ago
I think this is a regional thing. I'm from a rural community in Canada, and of course we answer the phone. Just floors me to visit my mother-in-law in Texas; when we visited eight years ago, she'd answer the phone; now she doesn&#
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by armagon 7y ago
This makes me feel better for thinking that the way we write (standard Western) music impedes understanding of the way modern chromatic music sounds. And for the same reasons, really. Putting together things like "Four Twenties" m
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by armagon 7y ago
Take a look at this article that hit HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
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by armagon 7y ago
Russia tried this 90 years ago. It was awful. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar#Five-day_weeks : "Eighty per cent of each factory's workforce was at work every day (except holidays) in an att
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by armagon 7y ago
I was really intrigued to see a tool designed to help people learn languages. I was thinking spoken languages, though, not coding languages.
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by armagon 7y ago
I would really like to use a proportional font that has coding ligatures (such as -> becomes an arrow). Is there such a thing? Is there a way I could combine two fonts, a normal proportional font, and the ligatures from something like Fi
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by armagon 7y ago
People are actually demanding 5G? (Or is that hype, trying to make people think that other people are demanding it?) I can only think of one conversation I've had in which 5G was even mentioned, but boy, I know people here in rural Can
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by armagon 7y ago
The book "Superfreakonomics" had a chapter on simple, cheap solutions to problems, and suggested one for global warming -- there was a 'year with no summer' in which a volcano introduced chemicals into the atmosphere (so
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by armagon 7y ago
I was going to say that I don't have a hobby at the moment, but I suppose that's not true. Outside of work, family, and church responsibilities, I am: - learning to type in Russian. After two weeks, I'm hitting about 25 wpm u
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by armagon 7y ago
Okay, here are a few thoughts in no partcular order: - finding a job is awful. Networking is key -- but read that as 'spending time with other people doing interesting things leads to opportunities'. Consider attending or hosting
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by armagon 7y ago
I've been contemplating this question. Fundamentally, there are never enough resources to do everything you want to do. When it comes to time management, an important part is accepting that you can not do everything you want to, and th
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Ask HN: Proportional Coding Font with Ligatures?
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by armagon 7y ago
I guess the answer must be yes, but, do people actually do this? Click on an ad and make a purchase right away?

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