jakecopp

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by jakecopp 9y ago
I wonder how the health trade off between breathing emissions while cycling vs. lack of exercise while driving and obesity risk works.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Could you elaborate on this, I'm interested? It is Google's AMP spec or their own version?
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by jakecopp 9y ago
This also happens in Australia.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I imagine this correlation could be explained by engineers having a high average salary, and I think high salaries (on average) correlate with being conservative. I don't have references though.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I'm astounded how good your sense of smell is. I feel like I used to have a good sense but now it's very dull and I have try really hard to notice things.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I'm sure it starts from before university and careers. I was lucky enough to take a Mechatronics class (software + electronics) in high school a couple of years ago (Australia, year 11). One (very talented) female chose to take the cla
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by jakecopp 9y ago
May I ask what your niche is?
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Does this just boil down to faster BSB/account number transfers between banks? I feel they're a little to late to the party for PayPal-like payments to a email or number.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I believe this has been possible for some time on macOS.
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Show HN: Batch RAW to JPEG Converter That Preserves Adobe RAW Edits(github.com)
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by jakecopp 9y ago
This! It's like everyone has already implemented email based login (password resets) but chooses more complexity by adding a password. I wish every site did this. Especially for non technical users, passwords are such a mental barrier.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
- Riding without a bicycle helmet: $319 - Riding furiously, recklessly or negligently (whatever that means): $425 - Cycling on footpath and over 12 years of age: $106 And people wonder why Australians break laws, these are fines in NSW (whi
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Like these ridiculous laws in Sydney: - Riding without a bicycle helmet: $319 - Riding furiously, recklessly or negligently (whatever that means): $425 - Cycling on footpath and over 12 years of age: $106 I wonder if the laws are because Au
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I just read up on this, it's absolutely terrifying. So far the news stories seem to have shown unsecured x ray machines, farm equipment, cctv, maybe oil wells, bank computers, cashflow software, waste treatment plants, parking lot syst
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Or in my case, I had the luck of finding the IKEA desk I was looking for - three blocks away from me, second hand, already assembled, on Gumtree. This is why I love cities. (Sydney isn't even that dense)
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by jakecopp 9y ago
http://www.lightpollutionmap.info has much higher resolution data, down to tens of metres. You can also choose the dataset by year - choose the "VIIRS 2017 March" dataset for the best detail. Data comes from the Visibl
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by jakecopp 9y ago
To save battery life I'm trying to switch to Safari (from Chrome -> Firefox) but container tabs in Firefox are amazing - the ability to automatically open a domain in a container is perfect. Is it possible to whitelist cookies per d
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Most ad blockers will let you select an ad to block, and depending on how specific the selector is it might block other occurrences. What you are thinking of exists: AdNauseam. It clicks on every single ad you see to disrupt the metrics. h
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I agree with you, but I'm sure they will never remove those metrics. You might like the extension Facebook Demetricator: http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/ Personally I block the entire new
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Odesza's other albums are great too! The vocal sample from "Intro" on Odesza's album "Summer's Gone" is from a 1957 BBC Radiophonics workshop [1] - it's a remarkably simple explanation, but must have
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I feel that it is intentionally bad so people don't realize how much Google knows about them.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I believe the only car sensor for SCATS is an inductive loop so it doesn't know the amount of backed up traffic, and it was developed in the 1970s and rolled out across Australia in the 80s - it's better than a timer but I don&#x2
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I grew up in Canberra, known as the roundabout capital of Australia [1] as well as being the actual capital of Australia. It has a population of ~350,000, 406 roundabouts and 276 traffic lights. In my experience they keep traffic moving rea
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I believe the induction loops only sense if the first car is present. This is helpful, but can't detect the number of cars which I think is the next most important metric.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
You are right. I'm trying to say I think the problem is development bound and not insurmountable (secure, reliable, good fallback to timer) rather than "moving, storing, and processing data" bound as per the parent comment.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
Even OpenCV running on a Raspberry Pi can pick out cars in a moving image - a bad offline solution (with a sensible fallback) would be better than a timer. On a large remote setup I think you are right though.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
What I don't understand is why every traffic light doesn't have cameras and some image recognition/machine learning (whether local or remote) to improve the timing - it would be such a cheap and easy fix compared to putting a
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I view maximizing car throughput as beneficial because it means less roads need to be built (more money for mass transit).
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by jakecopp 9y ago
The scrolling and links seem buggy with NoScript & Firefox Quantum for me.
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by jakecopp 9y ago
I couldn't help but think of the wonderful essay "I, Pencil" [1], and how no one person knows how to make a pencil. [1]: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

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