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by asteli 8y ago
It took a while for the suburban model to take hold of the United States, clearly it would take a while to re-densify metropolitan areas. I think you go too far by saying it is impossible. To use an Americentric, and worse, SV-centric examp
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by asteli 8y ago
Link for reference: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-log... Including this gem: >A spokesman for OGC said: “It is true that it caused a few titters among some staff when viewed on its si
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by asteli 8y ago
A metal strip laid along the intended path would be a more elegant, scalable method. We already have the means for producing bulk steel extrusion, and it would be a simple enough matter to have a vehicle follow a strip like that. Simply low
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by asteli 8y ago
It's a contentious issue. There's (sort of) precedent in the form of court rulings on police search of garbage cans. Apparently, in 1998, the 7th circuit court of appeals ruled 8-5 holding that the individual cannot reasonably exp
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by asteli 8y ago
+1. Well worth the ~$70 annual fee. Granted, you can't do everything there (e.g. replacement photo ID), but for vehicle registration tasks it's super fast. There are, uhh, some times of day where you can get through the DMV in und
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by asteli 8y ago
Here's the low-level controller for Comma AI's self-driving software. Lateral and longitudinal control, as well as actuator command are contained within. Their low level control is done in Python, on top of Android, on a smartphon
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by asteli 8y ago
They haven't been around for long enough for users to develop culture/etiquette around parking them. Automobiles had the same problem when they were introduced, I believe.
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by asteli 8y ago
Not used for wristwatches, but still in use powering pacemakers! How many people are there still walking around with bits of Plutonium in them, I wonder?
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by asteli 8y ago
there's an infographic halfway down the article that explains. yes, you have to click the link in order to see it, i'm very sorry.
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by asteli 8y ago
My favorite is the Spanish city of Girona (couple of hours north of Barcelona by train). You can walk clear across the city in a half hour, but the buildings are typically 3-7 stories tall.
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by asteli 8y ago
This is pretty amazing, worked well out-of-the-box between my laptop and phone. Makes me think of all the weird ways that one could exfiltrate data (to use a different example I've seen, convincing a device to puke its firmware out via
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by asteli 8y ago
I learned Blender almost a decade ago. Instrumental in my learning the application was competing in informal speed-modeling contests. They were conducted from an IRC channel, and ranged from 5 minutes to a couple hours, with random-ish topi
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by asteli 8y ago
Blender is actually my favorite example of a beautifully made, professional-level OSS tool. The way the interface renders, the way the interface is thought out -- it's truly a pleasure to use. Given the Python backend interface and gra
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by asteli 8y ago
True in a lot of urban centers during the 'white flight,' but as always, the story is sometimes more complicated. West Oakland, for example, wasn't wealthy, but was nevertheless a thriving black neighborhood. People, money, m
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by asteli 8y ago
The wealth-ification of a neighborhood isn't per se bad. It would be fantastic if people living in a neighborhood became wealthier through some set of circumstances (economic recovery etc). What you typically see is long-time neighbo
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by asteli 8y ago
I had a project on my living room ceiling for a good while. If you stuff the LED strips into PEX tubing (common white plastic plumbing) you get a decently diffuse LED "stick". I took 8 of these modules, about a meter long each, an
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by asteli 8y ago
The wiki page you linked specifically mentions deep space applications as a design goal. I'm not sure about the sodium heat pipes but the alcohol vapor heat pipes you see in electronics typically use an internal wick to return the work
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by asteli 8y ago
I like the idea! Aaaand I'd love to try it on my Pixel, because I know and love its hardware. Is there a functionality reason that restricts the OS to the Blloc hardware, or might we see OS builds for certain hardware targets available
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by asteli 8y ago
That explains a lot about my impressions of Snow Crash specifically. I felt that Stephenson wasn't being serious with his writing (contrast to, say, William Gibson's original treatment of cyberpunk). A bit toward the Terry Pratche
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by asteli 8y ago
It surprises me, to be honest. You'd think that companies would work harder to offer a private channel for grievance, as opposed to a public forum like twitter.
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by asteli 8y ago
The recipes used account for this, increasing spicing. The low humidity is also a factor I think. The larger struggle is logistical, not culinary. You're eating what amounts to a recently-frozen TV dinner, designed for the least-spice-
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by asteli 9y ago
There are a lot of reasons to dislike Facebook, but I don't think their (public) research on the effect of social media on their users is one. You're exposed to psychological experiments on every large website you use, although ty
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by asteli 9y ago
For those missing Weird Stuff, who haven't been to Halted Electronics, I highly recommend paying their warehouse in Santa Clara a visit. Big warehouse chock full of surplus goods. Take your kids there if you have 'em, and while th
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by asteli 9y ago
Build stuff. Modify things. Be stubborn when they don't work. Take things apart and figure out why they do work. Here are some fun project ideas, drawn from stuff I actually did when I was growing up/learning electronics. For re
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by asteli 9y ago
100% this. Any laser scanner you'd put on a vehicle is going to be ToF, as far as I know. While this is useful for indoor sensing, you'd completely wash out the laser illumination once you have to compete with sunlight. This would
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by asteli 9y ago
you'd have issues during instrument conditions (stars not visible regardless of daylight), but this could be interesting, especially combined with, say, SLAM fed by terrain-scanning radar.
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by asteli 9y ago
LIDAR in question on this vehicle is an HDL-64, a commercial unit from Velodyne. Lawsuit is entirely unrelated.
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by asteli 9y ago
That was part of Snapchat's charm, I think. No pressure to perform, just do silly things with your friends. Then Snap needed to make money, so they got into the content and the advertising and added Stories and 'influencers,'
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by asteli 9y ago
Why do we need a social network with so many people on it? What is the unique utility of Facebook? The ability to monitor and feel a vague sense of presence from the periphery of your social sphere? It's definitely not about social f
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by asteli 9y ago
I'm not a loner, but I did find that it wasn't that hard to adjust to not having FB. One imagines all the things you'll miss out on by not having it, but honestly, you don't need to see what the deepest crevices of your

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