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by dTal 3y ago
Holography is magical indeed! But some of the popular tropes people repeat about it are misleading, which adds to the air of mystery. Here is my feeble attempt at demystification: A proper full parallax, full color hologram is probably not
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Or just poor listening conditions. Everyone always talks about needing super high end setups to hear the difference, but it's actually the low end setups with wonky frequency responses that totally mess up the assumptions behind psyc
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>any ThinkPad past x220 not even the Thinkpad T25 Anniversary Edition?
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Chunks of society, including basic services like gym, laundry, and transport are now locked* behind "apps" on proprietary app stores, and you need an officially sanctioned (Google/Apple has root) smartphone to even download t
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Gender isn't the only aspect of someone's 'type'. What if she has an inflexible sexual preference for men over 6ft? Is she then allowed short male friends?
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>I don't think there's a comfortable way to use a keyboard and mouse while lying down. If a genie appeared and gave me one wish right now, I would wish for everyone in the world to get a free GPD Micro PC. Plus a spare one.
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I wrote programs on my calculator in high school, an ostensibly narrowly focused device with computing power generously estimated at well under 1% that of your phone, made by a company that didn't really give two shits about their devi
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The implication is clear from the wording. Desktop is "back", mobile is "forward".
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They mean people taking it the way that they do, not in any kind of research setting.
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But they could still offer individual photos via google drive?
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You can buy quad core x86 "laptops" - real computers - the size of a phone. How much more "on the go" do you need?
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Although they used the 'Pocket' brand for the Pocket 3, it is really a GPD MicroPC 2. The original MicroPC was 6 inches and is an even better candidate for "phone sized laptop". The crazy thing is that it's perfectl
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by dTal 3y ago
- Take laptop, remove the keyboard, nerf the OS, call it "mobile" - Wait for someone to point out that text editing is no longer practical - "I am not anti-mobile. My goal is not to return back to the desktop, but to move mob
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by dTal 3y ago
If you like this, you might also enjoy this extremely psychedelic video that is practically a homage to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaCOvylhxks (Leafcutter John - Yes Come Parade With Us)
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Amusingly, this is also true for modern laptops.
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Right, but the point is that the hardware is still "meeting you halfway" to present the appearance of something which isn't actually happening. Those pointers in C aren't really "memory addresses" at all, the
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Maybe this was once true, but the hardware that C was designed for specifying the behavior of was a PDP-11. Nowadays you are programming an abstract C-ish virtual machine that provides certain semantic guarantees that don't necessarily
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I cannot wrap my head around how far awry society has gone, that "eliminating tedious labor that no one really wants to do" gets reframed as "destroying jobs". Obviously in reality the benefits do not immediately flow to
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A neuron which rarely fires may be responding to a rare feature, no?
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This is badass. There is definitely room in my life for a modern reboot of an old-school PDA with better responsiveness, reliability, battery life, and interface design than a smartphone.
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>toxicity for aquatic animals is extremely different from toxicity in mammals. Soap, for example, is very toxic to fish I dunno about that. Soap is toxic to fish because they're effectively inhaling it. Inhaled soap is toxic to huma
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But the tread wears faster. A small tire contacts the road proportionally more often as it rotates. The amount of rubber that gets shed is a function of a bunch of factors including the contact area with the road, the weight of the vehicle,
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The risks seem to come from tire dust, which obviously is only generated when a tire rolls along the ground. So it's probably not all that bad for playgrounds.
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>I live in Barcelona and phones are being pickpocketed every day here. Not being able to wipe or unlock or else is a mayor deterrent for the pickpockets Doesn't sound like it.
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The "deltas" are calculated by the error in how well the current state of the network predicts the output, backpropagated. Sequential runs are not commutative because the state changes . Consider the trivial example of training
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Well I hope the community decides not to press the issue for a good while, lulling companies into a false sense of security that they can release large high-quality models with "licenses" attached, before the seminal court case
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Which in itself is fairly antidemocratic.
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> ignoring cloud coverage (which has 3-20x the magnitude of effects of carbon) This is like complaining that tidal models are useless because they ignore waves, which have a larger effect on water height than tides. (The same analogy app
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Oh good, you finally agree that there are, in principle , physical limits to infinite exponential growth. I was worried we'd never get there. Now we can start haggling over what those limits are. > When the pair of people in the ar
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People wondering why this is on Hacker News - probably the fascinating part is how a relatively complex 7 word phrase in English translates idiomatically into a 2 word phrase in Latin.

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