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by bicubic 10y ago
You're not alone, I think there's a slowly growing awareness amongst the general public after the Snowden events. I have totally non-techy friends asking how they can get their TV to stop listening to them, etc. On the other hand,
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by bicubic 10y ago
That's a pretty apt analogy, really. If you just want to be a line cook at a no name franchise, then by all means, blindly follow recipes. If you want to understand what you're actually doing and have the ability to create new stu
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by bicubic 10y ago
Just using running water and a comb is enough. If you have short hair and don't work in particulate rich environments, there's no reason to use shampoo.
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by bicubic 10y ago
There's one major shortcoming that the answer doesn't seem to touch on: pilot wave theory doesn't explain relativity whatsoever, while quantum field theory does. We've experimentally confirmed relativity, so at best, pil
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by bicubic 10y ago
By that analogy, an appendix is even worse; requiring a jump and a complete cache flush for the reader :p
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by bicubic 10y ago
A lot of the time the verbosity isn't so much to sound more clever as it is to be very specific and explicit about what the author is trying to convey. There's a lot of changing assumed knowledge and jargon in various fields and o
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by bicubic 10y ago
Thanks for the references, looking. By the way, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PVAcLlYUpg
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by bicubic 10y ago
Do you know where I could source some sample data? I'm developing a VR data visualization system but not in this particular context, could certainly look into it.
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by bicubic 10y ago
My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. I come to HN to escape the drivel that reddit's tech/programming subreddits have become due to comments like
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by bicubic 10y ago
In windows 8/10 can you still use the 'glass' blur in overlays? I wrote a similar thing on top of XNA a few years ago and remember there existing a flags/clear color combination which made the background of the frameless
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by bicubic 10y ago
Bingo. It started with my laptop running incredibly slow. A bit of digging showed dropbox saturating an entire cpu core despite no recent changes being made to my dropbox folder. What was happening at the time is a lot of disk activity on a
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by bicubic 10y ago
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but the deep packet inspection systems I've seen to date are passive. They take a copy of the bitstream on the wire and don't impede that stream in the slightest.
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by bicubic 10y ago
I dream of a world where device manufacturers are required to hand the firmware signing keys over to the public X years after product going to market. I have a growing collection of no longer supported but perfectly capable electronics whic
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by bicubic 10y ago
Just as an aside, there's a much better way of doing metaballs in 2D but that can't be expanded to 3D: http://nullcandy.com/2d-metaballs-in-xna/ The basic idea is you draw a gaussian falloff sprite for each b
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by bicubic 10y ago
My experience is in line with yours, debugging loops and functions is a big pain point. However, I think there's a much better solution to be had here, which is to add more powerful debugging capabilities to Notebook. I think Notebook
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by bicubic 10y ago
> JupyterLab adapts easily to multiple workflow needs, letting you move from a Notebook/narrative focus to a script/console one. I'm not sure I like where that design is going. It's starting to look an awful lot like
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by bicubic 10y ago
> This strikes me as a bad idea, because data-frames are better thought of as a collection of columns The dataframe is a collection of records then len operator tells you how big the dataset you're dealing with. You also have len(
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by bicubic 10y ago
I'm on mobile and don't have any links handy, but it's fairly well known that you can ostensibly track every. single. handset. in the world if you can gain access to any one carrier's infrastructure. You can bet every sp
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by bicubic 10y ago
Web browsing at 4K is a surprisingly expensive task in itself. I own a Surface Book and one of my biggest gripes (aside from the broken firmware) is that the integrated GPU is too weak to drive browser rendering fast enough to keep up with
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by bicubic 10y ago
I would pay serious cash for a 7"+ e-ink display that can be hooked up to a raspberry pi or laptop. Even looked at getting the chinese modules and building a driver board for them, but it was beyond my skills. This thread shows that th
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by bicubic 10y ago
I like the work they're doing, but their 'as a service' model makes it a nonstarter for pretty much every project I've done; both at home and at work.
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by bicubic 11y ago
>the ultimate responsibility of that vehicle and what it does lies on who is sitting behind the wheel While the law may still hold that position, reality is starting to disagree. When you have a car laden with 'assistive' techn
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by bicubic 12y ago
Non-visible lasers pose a much bigger hazard than visible. Intense visible light triggers an involuntary defence called the blink reflex whereby we blink before the retina absorbs enough energy to get damaged. Lasers outside the visible ran
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by bicubic 12y ago
I'm so happy to hear that! I graduated from Monash Clayton a few years ago when the Java train was in full effect and the focus on Java was a big source of frustration for me. I distinctly remember an algorithms & data structures a
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by bicubic 12y ago
It depends on how you're flying but drag is generally ignored for hobby use at this stage. Increased drag will affect top speed and range, but endurance won't suffer much because the vast majority of energy is used for altitude co
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by bicubic 12y ago
I don't know about wire shields, but circular guards acting as ducts should theoretically increase efficiency for quads due to the relatively slow propeller speeds. The downside is they add mass and I've yet to see a compact foldi
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by bicubic 12y ago
I've spent the past year working on a similar concept using the same flight controller, but didn't think that its safe enough for everyday consumer use, not at least for another couple of years until radar or optical obstacle avoi
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by bicubic 12y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time I think some widely metric for a nonprofit's efficiency must exist. Overheads is not a suitable metric, but neither is the 'size of their dreams' which is basically what he&#x2
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by bicubic 12y ago
I don't think it's better, but the signs are that the typical consumer does. If Uber wasn't perceived as better by consumers, it wouldn't be experiencing the tremendous growth it is and it wouldn't be a threat to th
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by bicubic 12y ago
Where I live (Australia/Melbourne), something like 95% of the taxi driver demographic are fresh immigrants from India with typically very poor language skills. I won't say they're unbearable, but I would definitely opt for so

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