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by doctorhandshake 5y ago
There is a notion of ‘reference’ in audio and visual information. You can get reference speakers, headphones, and monitors - their role is to reproduce the information without ‘color’. They present ‘faithfully’. This is what is often meant
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by doctorhandshake 5y ago
It wasn’t documented! :/ one of the things I learned only after my prolific college years is that despite what Cage says, if you don’t document, it didn’t happen. If it’s at all interesting I’d add that the instrument was multichannel
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by doctorhandshake 5y ago
In school I studied computer music, and I participated in a grad seminar for which the final project was a group concert. Alvin Lucier, one of the progenitors of electronic music, led the seminar as guest faculty. For the performance I buil
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by doctorhandshake 5y ago
What are the manual / human-guided techniques you speak of?
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
Couldn’t decide whether to upvote or downvote. Taking the high ground with this comment.
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
This makes me wonder if there could be a version of this that attempts to extrapolate the ISP network topology, at least to the node level, and to arm users with information at the level of ‘your issue is shared with at least 5 others in yo
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
That’s what the internet is for!
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
I’m surprised there’s no mention here of heat recovery ventilators (HRV) or energy recovery ventilators (ERV) here. New buildings are increasingly designed to provide regular air exchange (fresh air replacing indoor air) while retaining the
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
Vincent Houzé is an artist who works with 3D fluid sims quite a bit. These run in real-time and are interactive. He’s a wizard. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Z2ZUYndxL/?igshid=15jc8xisc171...
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
All these synonyms! Sure they provide color and delight and history - I mean, granted, language is the very basis of culture, but let’s get rid of it, right? Wouldn’t it be so very drab and samey and clear if we only had one word for things
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
FTA: It’s contactless.
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
There was a comment here yesterday[1] about DDC/CI writes being finite on some hardware — is that a concern with this approach? [1] top comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24344045
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
Wait are you behind f.lux? If so - THANKS!!
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
I was just pricing a UPS for home office use this week as we have frequent outages where I am but became a little stuck when I realized that to get a UPS that won't barf when my generators come online moments after an outage, I'd
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
A company should operate ethically. It's not that complicated.
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
This logic does not hold up. Let's say you sell hammers, and a person walks into your store and says 'I'd like one hammer please — I'm going to go bash my friend's skull in'. Would you sell it to them?
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
Autodesk (as an entity) and every other thing on this planet that relies on the ecosystem to remain more or less as it is has a responsibility to do their part to oppose climate change. It's that simple. There should be a site like thi
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by doctorhandshake 6y ago
I was a fan of Tokyo (and Kyoto and Osaka’s) “Old man bars” after stumbling into a few on my first few visits there. Having discovered Tokyo Jazz Joints on Instagram before my last visit, I used some of their writeups for inspiration on whe
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by doctorhandshake 7y ago
Upvoted as one of the most HN comments I’ve ever seen.
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by doctorhandshake 7y ago
I think about this a lot. I’m not a web developer but the accessibility of the tools for web development (an RPi, a keyboard/mouse, and wifi), the democratization of learning materials for web development, and the commodification of de
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by doctorhandshake 7y ago
My favorite nonprofit, GreenWave, is focused on growing mussels for these reasons as part of a vertical aquaculture system including scallops, seaweed, oysters, and clams. Their system provides protection to vulnerable shorelines, cleans th
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by doctorhandshake 8y ago
From what I was told at the dealer, the software range limit was only on the Model S produced during a certain span of time and now all long-range Teslas have larger batteries than their stock counterparts.
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The Map and the Territory: On the Balkanization and Semiotics of AR(medium.com)
2 points by doctorhandshake 8y ago|0 comments
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by doctorhandshake 8y ago
This is the big question, and one Kelly glosses in this piece, perhaps even obfuscates by banging on the 1:1 mapping thing while ignoring that a 1:1 mapping implies consensus on the map. I think this notion, one I identify as an issue of se