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by crtified 2y ago
I can't edit the above post now (thus the folly of hastily commenting on HN, perhaps), but after actually looking into it by doing a DOSBox-X install, it seems that the Geoworks Ensemble 2.0 install size is only <10MB. I suspect tha
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by crtified 2y ago
A belated note, from a bubbled-up memory (all on an "IIRC" basis!) : Hard disk space was the killer, as much as anything. The average home PCs hard disk was 40-50MB in those days, and iirc a full Geoworks Ensemble install took alm
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by crtified 2y ago
If you have infinite monkeys, then (at least) one of the monkeys is Shakespeare.
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by crtified 2y ago
In the early 90s, Geoworks Ensemble filtered through my local teenager PC scene. The more curious among us tried it out. The experience was smooth and polished enough, and just different enough, that we went back a few times. Running Geowor
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by crtified 2y ago
I guess the old 80/20 Rule or Pareto Principle somewhat applies to the support distribution for many products. That is, 80% of the support resources are taken up by 20% of the clients. (incredibly-vaguely-speaking, naturally) The varia
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by crtified 2y ago
Would an accurate ELI5 of this be : * Mathematically align the photograph and the lidar point cloud. * For each photograph pixel, colour whichever aligned lidar point is closest to the camera. So you end up with one coloured lidar point per
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by crtified 2y ago
NZ elected a business-centric government last year. Since then, all government decisions involving individuals-vs-business have taken a distinct lean towards the business side.
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by crtified 2y ago
Funny how it's considered ethically ok to cause a great deal of angst and bother with the bugs and features of corporate releases, provided the problematic elements are entirely couched in 'professional' language and symbolog
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by crtified 2y ago
I cook versions of this on the regular. I say versions, because simply having The Official Recipe is only half the battle. The actual flavours and strengths of the individual herbs and spices can vary a lot by brand, and by country, and by
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by crtified 2y ago
Measurement by duplication is another fascinating sub-area of tools and techniques. Templates, pin guides, profilers, slotting jigs, tick sticks, ...
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by crtified 2y ago
Sure, if ones moral definition of the universe is that only things which can speak human language are of importance or validity.
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by crtified 2y ago
Which contains its own irony, as the trees providing the primary material the physical books are made from would probably have a thing or two to say about the notion of being stolen from.
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by crtified 2y ago
This reminds me of a situation which I'll label "satellite office syndrome" - which is where a company has a large/dominant Head Office, and smaller regional offices which are in a permanent state of playing second-fiddl
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by crtified 2y ago
Is that a per-year pay package? Or does it cover a number of years? Honest question. As that fairly basic parameter does not seem to be included in the main media articles linked. And I'm not-at-all familiar with corporate practices.
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by crtified 2y ago
That's interesting about the sculpture scanning. The notion of capturing 3D impressions of things you've seen, and taking them away with you. Do you get any sense of the Glasshole Factor, in public, with this device? (that is : a
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by crtified 2y ago
I don't know how the mechanics of it would work, but some kind of local accuracy index would be very useful in such broad maps. Because the elephant in the room with most global dataset compilations is that the accuracy varies greatly
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by crtified 2y ago
It's one of the interesting paradoxes of human life, I think - that the poorer have more incentive to have fun.
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by crtified 2y ago
Vaguely related anecdote with no punchline. Over a decade ago I developed, for our small (small enough to not have any IT dept or IT management) office a bespoke extension for Outlook (yes, bad idea, I know) which translated all incoming em
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by crtified 2y ago
Nice one! :) When I read that undeniably impressive anecdote, what really stands out is not the shares or the money - it's the incredible childhood you had, the smart and organised parents who raised you in a way that you'd even u
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by crtified 2y ago
It's always nice to see that RTK for-the-people is edging ever closer. DIY kits from the likes of (no endorsement or vouching-for implied!) SparkFun and Ardusimple prove that the actual cost of basic entry to the tech is already under
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by crtified 2y ago
Understandable. Still, nothing will detract from the visceral wonder that I could never forget after seeing, in person, an extremely high ranked karateka (i.e. second in the world, in his style) chop a seemingly solid block of ice over a fo
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by crtified 2y ago
What's the trick behind the practitioners who break large blocks of ice?
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by crtified 2y ago
What is the original source, and more importantly, methodology, of the data? It appears to reference [0], a 2017 publication, which itself references [1] a 2015 publication, which is a bit of a dead end from a layperson perspective. [0] ht
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by crtified 2y ago
Earl Boen, the late actor who voiced LeChuck in this game, would be recognised by many from his profilic career across the past several decades of television, movies and video games. He was in everything from The Wonder Years and Seinfeld t
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by crtified 2y ago
If you're new to the music of Django (and equally, violinist Stephane Grappelli and the other excellent musicians involved), here is a great song : Limehouse Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfP820uuReI It's
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by crtified 2y ago
I'm dismayed at your large-scale, arbitrary diagnosis of fraud. It is not at all the intent of my original comments, in which I only meant to imply that autism is currently a common term for a number of potentially separable conditions
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But everyone has mental health. If you have a mind, then it's in some form of health. An extremely broad, arguably meaningless, classification. All it does in this context is reinforce the public stigma towards the millions of perfectl
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by crtified 2y ago
Is there any condition with as broad a definition as autism? It can cover anywhere from a non-verbal 9 year old with an IQ of 70, to a popular attractive valedictorian genius with incredible masking skills. A slow developing 3 year old labe
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by crtified 2y ago
> But could you not plausibly define anyone who commits major crimes to be mentally ill? Mental illness could also be defined by a person's ability to function in their community and social constructs. A converse is the way public
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by crtified 3y ago
It's like the inverse of the saying 'The more things change, the more they stay the same' : The more you want things to remain the same, the more you have to keep altering them. :)

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