dwyerm

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by dwyerm 7y ago
JWZ created a splitflap hack for xscreensaver. It includes broken flaps and missing flaps, and you can pipe text into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOL2jyDey0
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by dwyerm 7y ago
A Solari Split-Flap Display? I love that they're making new ones! Starbucks has been putting them in their Reserve Roasteries. I'm also sort of happy with the 'modern' ones that are actually LCD screens with speakers mak
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by dwyerm 7y ago
...or Amazon. I have problems with PayPal, but I still trust Amazon to transfer money to vendors. In any event, even if you do trust a company, they may not trust you. Bed Bath and Beyond had done everything right to capture my purchase: Th
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Facebook is looking into paying its employees in scrip, and now they should also be indebted to the company town? I get what you're saying, and I want to agree, but it smacks of the old Company Town that I grew up in, and the current F
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by dwyerm 7y ago
FWIW, Lime appears to be trying to answer my desire for tiny carshares with their 'LimePod' branded fleet of Fiat 500s in the Seattle. I haven't tried one, yet, so I don't know how well it works, or if you can wedge a bi
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Maybe, but at the other end are the bike- and scooter-share systems. I suspect the perceived cheapness of the products contributes to how many of them end up thrown off the ends of piers. Personally, I really miss Car2Go's old SMART ca
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by dwyerm 7y ago
I do. If nothing else, I look for a binding arbitration opt-out, so I can engage that before whatever time period expires.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
It is in Amazon's DNA to try not to brag. The US-WEST datacenters are pretty much all hydroelectric, but that says more about the incredibly low costs of hydro power in the area than the environmental benefits of it. The PR boost is ni
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Car-camping is the nice way of saying "permanent homeless camps". The idea is that, if we didn't allow homeless camps to grow and spread, then it would be much more difficult to live without a permanent home in Seattle, and t
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Yes, but the thing is that facial recognition IS just video compression. You take a video stream and compress it down into a timestamped stream of IDs. It's really lossy, but it's the same as OCR or Speech-to-Text -- it is a tool
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Perhaps the disbelief that your piece of hardware is now useless is stronger than the disbelief in the honesty of the internet? It is amusing to me that you mention Canon, since they're one of the worst offenders I've dealt with i
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Yeah, I and bet that TOS includes a mandatory binding arbitration and class-action waiver. When the lock fails who is going to be held responsible?
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Is it worth sending big lawyers who will get millions? You'll probably only get a coupon for a free ride. You're still not going to get your $25 back, but at least you'll get to sic big lawyers on the company. It isn't
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by dwyerm 7y ago
If you use a lot of it, it will get into the air and you will taste it. If you use it to clean a keyboard or mouse, the bitterant transfers to your fingers, and then on to your lunch. It's a kind of disgusting example of how diseases
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Will reverse-911 bother navigating your IVR? Will their automation leave a clear message? I can tell you that calls from 911 don't come from the phone number '911'.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
The annoying thing is that laws don't even have to be passed directly against you to still impact you. As far as I can tell, there's no law requiring "air duster" manufacturers to add bitterant to their products to preve
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I wish I could find it again, but I saw a project once that was a meter-long stick of white or blue LEDs hooked up to dozens of shift registers. An RNG would clock in ones or zeros at the end of the stick, and they would shift off to the ot
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Stay with me for a second; I'm going to go wildly afield... does intellectual property need an Adverse Possession law, too? [1] Your grandfather had a book, the rights of which should have been presumably passed down to you. My grandfa
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by dwyerm 8y ago
The heterochromia and slit pupils are really what sell me on the product...
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by dwyerm 8y ago
The hypersonic sound system was kind of productized years ago as the "Sound Lazer" among other things. The effect is really quite stunning! It is a truly strange effect. But, as the manufacturer themselves state, it involves point
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by dwyerm 8y ago
> "Campbell confirmed that the company will inform all affected customers" Even though they might be holding my data, I'm most likely not their customer. So, will I ever get informed if they leaked my data? The ownership o
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I greatly appreciate that. I'm disappointed that I probably can't incentivize other companies to follow your lead. There's little visibility or choice to the end-user as to which chat system they want to use, and I suspect mo
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Oh my god... I'm many years removed from childhood, but the last scene of the movie "Time Bandits" still chills me. Little Kevin yells, "Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" ...and the adults, thinking t
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by dwyerm 8y ago
It is interesting to hear that, what I had assumed was strictly an electronics issue, occurs in other industries as well. I recently read Andrew "bunnie" Huang's book "The Hardware Hacker", where he talks extensivel
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Not just inevitable, but it already happened. In 1992 the US Government banned people from receiving radio in certain 800MHz bands, because someone listened in on a politicians analog cell phone call. I'll let RadioReference say it: &q
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Look into "NEC Commercial Displays". They're intended for use as signage and things, but most of them are full TVs with ATSC tuners, remote controls, speakers, and everything. They generally do not have any smart functionali
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by dwyerm 8y ago
...or at least wrap up the Impex and Nimbus parts so I can get a little more mileage out of the font and clipart disks I'm still holding on to (but probably can't read anymore). I think I'd love to have GeoWrite and GeoDraw
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I'm pretty sure it actually is Motif. That's how I remember it, and there's certainly enough text in the source to support that.
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I knew a "Dick Rogers". I have a really difficult time calling anyone 'Dick', but I also didn't feel right calling him "Mister Rogers" because that just conjured up images of the American Public Television
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by dwyerm 8y ago
ECU ratings are based on an ancient x86 benchmark, and don't really compare well with each other anymore, let alone with totally different architectures. I think they've been trying to retire it for years. I'm disappointed th

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