dmitrybrant

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by dmitrybrant 6y ago
I have to laugh for two reasons: - This sounds like an absolute nightmare scenario for me and most people I know. - The year 2030 is virtually tomorrow in terms of societal progress. Nothing of the sort will happen by 2030. This is like s
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This is excellent, with the very minor detail of the fonts, which look a little off, and perhaps a little too anti-aliased? This seems to be the main issue with all web-based retro simulations of Windows 9x and XP. I'm guessing this
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by dmitrybrant 6y ago
Yes, I'm often puzzled by developers who award themselves a medal for squeezing a bit more performance out of an enormous bloated web app, when a native app would be orders of magnitude lighter and faster.
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Or this 40 year old with baby teeth! https://imgur.com/a/v8rEMaj
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Take this example that the site just gave me: https://imgur.com/a/dbpZx2r It's pretty convincing, until you look in between the lips where the teeth are supposed to show through. You see some very clear "AI s
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by dmitrybrant 6y ago
It's pretty impressive stuff to be sure, but the fakeness actually becomes very obvious once you understand what to look for. Something about the contour of the nose, the shape of the hair line, the way the teeth are aligned, etc. In s
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by dmitrybrant 6y ago
I really struggle to not be an Electron hater, but... why, oh why??? Basilisk II is already a thoroughly cross-platform piece of software that runs beautifully as a native Windows/Mac/Linux app. What can possibly be the appeal to
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I'm not sure where people are getting this terminology of "unlimited" energy from fusion. Nothing in the universe is unlimited. The earth's supply of deuterium and/or tritium is not unlimited. It's also not i
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All of that may be true, but there's also the uncomfortable fact that the pickings of major discoveries are much fewer than they were in previous generations. Not to say that the great scientists (or their assistants) weren't gen
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I'm sure they're doing good work, but the names of those companies look like randomly generated parodies.
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I think they mean that this is the first time individual atoms have been imaged using this specific type of electron microscope. Individual atoms have of course been imaged as early as the 1980s using scanning tunneling microscopy. [1] [1]
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I don't mean to hate on any particular groups of people, I'm simply a proponent of using the right tools for the job. I can only speak from my own experience, but I have never dealt with an Electron app that wasn't noticeably
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I specialize in data recovery / digital forensics tools, which require very low-level disk access to be able to read physical media at the block level. I doubt there will ever be an HTML5 standard for low-level disk access. But aside f
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It really is nowhere near as simple as that. Each neuron is made of 100 trillion atoms. For all we know, each one of those atoms is responsible, in its own subtle way, for contributing to the total "change in voltage" of the n
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by dmitrybrant 7y ago
Super interesting concept! Enjoyed it from start to finish. One minor nitpick: it needs some spell-checking and copy editing throughout. I'd be happy to help if the code is somewhere accessible.
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Asteroid Bennu imaged in unprecedented detail by OSIRIS-REx spacecraft(nasa.gov)
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ffmpeg says, "hold my beer"! https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
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Remember that these "lenses" are very irregularly shaped, not at all like the smooth lens of a camera. A good real-world analogy is to look through a wine glass, for example: https://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/_sama
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by dmitrybrant 7y ago
I grew up in Russia, and like in many other Slavic cultures, mushroom foraging was a time-honored family affair. Some of my fondest memories are of picking mushrooms with my grandmother, who taught me all I know about identifying them. I s
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This is actually extremely poignant, because it's a neat encapsulation of the entire political climate in the US. While the far left are busy arguing and cannibalizing themselves over pronouns, the Republicans are busy getting electe
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Nope, it's not the Wikipedia app, but a different side project. Although there's also no shortage of sketchy third-party "wiki reader" apps that are basically ad delivery systems.
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I'm the developer of a relatively popular app (50M+ on the Play Store) and have had very disappointing experiences with the Play Store, but in a rather opposite way from the OP: Once an app reaches a certain level of popularity, you be
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by dmitrybrant 7y ago
How about running a background service to synchronize a local folder of content with a remote server? Making sure the background service is launched correctly upon startup? Integrating with the OS's native sharing features with other a
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by dmitrybrant 7y ago
You're thinking of Kelvin. Celsius does indeed require the degree symbol.
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In principle I agree that "it is up to the child to choose his or her destiny. It is never up to the parent." However, the following thought comes to mind: The best musicians in the world, as well as the best figure skaters, the
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It's not difficult to derive why the gravitational potential energy must be negative.[0] For the cosmological implications of this fact, there's Lawrence Krauss's book "A Universe from Nothing", also "The Infla
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According to modern physics, the total energy of our universe is in fact zero, with matter and radiation contributing to "positive" energy, and gravity and other quantum effects contributing to "negative" energy. This i
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Good for you for being mindful of other people's desire to live without noise. There should definitely be more of this mindset in apartment buildings and other communal spaces. And to clarify, I like to play music too, sometimes very
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I think the point here is "to each their own", and there shouldn't be such a thing as "the" American dream, or rather that the American dream is for every person to live their life exactly as they want. My wife and
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1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers(astrospace-page.blogspot.com)
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