coldsmoke

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by coldsmoke 6mo ago
Since I didn't get the name reference either, here is a link for those who want a hint: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico
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by coldsmoke 1y ago
I think it's this: https://bamx.epfl.ch/ Looks very cool indeed
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by coldsmoke 2y ago
We've experimented with that at SVT (Sweden's public service broadcaster). Or rather, the video team has, I'm just a web dev, so I don't know the details other than what's in this blog post: From the eyes of the vie
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by coldsmoke 3y ago
Not only that, but a lot of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts are also on the left side.
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by coldsmoke 5y ago
That's the thing - when the plant is outside it will get sun from multiple directions as the sun moves, but when it inside the light will only be coming from the window. And even outside the sun is shining more from one direction (sout
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by coldsmoke 6y ago
It feels like they're also prime candidates for making a tour with them as actual robots (or holograms), so they wouldn't even need to tour themselves.
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by coldsmoke 6y ago
I recently found this video of Billy Gibbons performing in the street in Helsinki without anyone noticing. I like that he becomes less recognizable when not wearing sunglasses. https://youtu.be/YHUQNxggT_k
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by coldsmoke 6y ago
It's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was supposed to come back last year, but you know...
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by coldsmoke 6y ago
There is a Swedish podcast (Snedtänkt) that has a lovely email address for contacting the show (I've translated from Swedish) - preferablyonlypositiveresponse@[email provider]. Not sure if it actually works, but I think it might prime
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by coldsmoke 6y ago
Reminds me of The pattern on the stone by W Daniel Hillis where he builds a tic-tac-toe computer out of mechanical components. It's a great book for explaining how computers actually work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by coldsmoke 7y ago
You beat me to it while I was looking for references. =) "The stars and gas in the Milky Way rotate about its center differentially, meaning that the rotation period varies with location. As is typical for spiral galaxies, the orbital
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by coldsmoke 7y ago
Do you mean 10 minutes? He lines it up with Polaris, so it only needs one axis of rotation. But I guess the alignment isn't that good since it is just eyeballed, but it should work for exposure times much longer than 10 seconds. He is
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by coldsmoke 7y ago
Addy Osmani has a "one-line debugger" that gives each element on the page a random colored outline. [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll("*"),function(a){a.style.outline="1px solid #"+(~~(Math.random
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First detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light(m.phys.org)
9 points by coldsmoke 8y ago|0 comments
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
Actually, come to think of it, every image is created to trick the brain's image processing. When viewing real scenery the eyes get hit by photons of all sorts of colors, but since there are only three different color receptors (with o
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
This optical illusion [1] is the closest thing I've come across. It relies on the fact that there are apparently separate parts of the visual processing in the brain for fine details and for more coarse features. This illusion consists
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
Hehe, I was just about to build something similar. I like the extra touch of it not even being served over https.
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
Interesting - "correct horse battery staple"[0] is flagged as not being in the data set. I was sure someone should have used that by now. [0] https://xkcd.com/936/
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
They're not, actually. Almost no one is average if you look at multiple features at once. I would guess that most people have something they wouldn't be too happy with everyone knowing about. "In his research measuring thousa
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by coldsmoke 9y ago
I guess they've named it that because the lyrebird is an amazing impersonator. The end of this BBC clip blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y But you may have a point, and the ethics sectio
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by coldsmoke 10y ago
Not only that, but people also _want_ to buy new appliances, since they actually become better. More silent, less power drain, more features, etc. So if everyone buys new stuff every ten years or so anyway, why bother building stuff that la
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by coldsmoke 10y ago
According to one polling institute, yes. But in the others they are the third largest party at around 17 % which in it self is alarmingly high.[1] And Nyheter Idag is basically the Breitbart of Sweden. [1] https://sv.wikipedia.or
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by coldsmoke 10y ago
You should check out imgix as well. They have a really nice crop feature along with automatic quality adjustment and serving different formats (webp/jpg) where available. https://docs.imgix.com/apis/url/size&
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by coldsmoke 10y ago
Actually, it already is a problem. According to this article, around 2,500 people have been assigned a personal number which differs from their birthdate. [1] The last digit is just a checksum digit, so we're left with 3 digits per day
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Several major Swedish news sites crashed(translate.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by coldsmoke 11y ago|0 comments
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by coldsmoke 11y ago
Ah, yes of course. And as cyanoacry noted in another comment, the satellite isn't actually in the Lagrange point - it is orbiting it. Thanks for clearing that up.
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by coldsmoke 11y ago
But the satellite is at the L1 Lagrange point which is between the earth and the sun. So if you see the moon pass in front of the earth from L1 shouldn't the moon then also be directly between the earth and the sun? And as someone in
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by coldsmoke 11y ago
Volvo is doing a similar service as well, which seems to precede this. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/business/volvo-roam-klas-b...
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by coldsmoke 13y ago
I tried out his demo back then and unfortunately it isn't as impressive in real life as it is on video. The problem is that at the distance you usually have your television the most important depth cue is the stereo separation of image
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by coldsmoke 13y ago
Nice! There is a bug though that confused me a bit. The input has the value 1, but the hardcoded call of the draw function uses 7 on page load. I.e. line 66 draw(7);

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