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by joshvm 7y ago
Yep, I have the Sony WH-1000XM3s. They're fantastic headphones - really impressive given how awful the ANC was on a previous set of Sony headphones I had (MDR-ZX770BN). However, the touch interface is bad. Swiping up/down is often
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by joshvm 7y ago
One thing that really made a massive difference for me was making a proofing box. It's a large EPS container (similar to the ones that market sellers use) with a seedling heating mat inside. I control it with a cheap (like < $10) th
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by joshvm 7y ago
Don't worry. Instrumentation is a pain for publishing because often it creeps into engineering territory. I spent a year of my PhD trying to get something to work, it didn't and I ended up building an entirely new instrument in th
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Well if there's one thing I hate cleaning more than a French press it's a sieve! Or do you have a sieve specifically for the press? That seems like a good idea.
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I think it's more likely to satisfy copyright law otherwise you'd just be downloading books for free. You can use Adobe Digital Editions which handles the DRM, so you can read offline as well. Online works too. I've not used
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by joshvm 7y ago
Best I can make out you can only have a limited number of ebooks at a time, there is some sort of DRM I think. So if you want to borrow more than N, you need to "return" one. It's similar to Amazon's lending system.
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by joshvm 7y ago
Woodland is relatively cheap in the UK. Certainly for what you pay, you can get an unmanageably large amount of land. You can get a few acres for 10-20k, up to hundreds of acres for < 200k. Prices have gone up quite a lot recently. You p
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NHS Nightingale instruction manual [pdf](architectsjournal.co.uk)
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by joshvm 7y ago
Note that this isn't just a preview, you can borrow this book (and another million or so) if you have an account with archive, it's free. You can have ten books at a time, two weeks per book. What I like about permaculture is that
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Depends on who you speak to. My French colleagues look at Italian "fast" coffee in horror - they think it's tantamount to abuse of the grounds. > much less chance of mess French presses are much more annoying to clean afte
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Poetry is good, but you should be aware that people with legacy versions of pip (I think before 19, see PEP 517) won't be able to pip install from your repository directly. That means anyone using pip installed with their package manag
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The ones I've seen are a-z, not qwerty: https://www.simpits.org/articles/Boeing_simtour/simtour30.jp... And English because anything you'd need to enter, like waypoints or airport IDs use roman/lati
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by joshvm 7y ago
Well keyboards are an interesting one. Airliners have space to install hardware keyboards, light aircraft don't so they have touch displays. You could argue that an onscreen keyboard is significantly less mental load for the pilot than
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by joshvm 7y ago
Nowadays quotas give you some safety net. For example you usually have to request more than one GPU to avoid burning money that way, or more than say 32 instances. It should not be possible for a new account to spawn 1k VMs overnight. The p
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by joshvm 7y ago
You can make a Pi boot much faster than that. The main thing to disable is wait for network available. Other embedded boards I've used eg Rock960 are ssh-able within about 20 seconds or less. Edit - much much faster (4 secs), actually:
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by joshvm 7y ago
I think this is also naive. You don't need an acre, nor is it backbreaking labour. The biggest time sink for home gardeners in my experience is watering, which you can solve by timed drip irrigation. Some plants like beans and peas are
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by joshvm 7y ago
This is how conventional journal publishing works, so I don't see why this couldn't be implemented for books which provide a bibliography.
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by joshvm 7y ago
I meant about where this line comes from: mask = masks[0][0] Presumably 0 is the class ID? For someone new to ML or object detection, it might not be obvious why you take the first channel here. Also recent related reading: http
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by joshvm 7y ago
It would be nice if there was some more information about where the mask comes from. We want a segmentation map for people, so this technique basically takes the layer activation map for the "person" class - which is id 0 in COCO
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I did too, and it turns out a lot of the claims are either made up (the literature doesn't support the claims, or doesn't seem to exist at all!), potentially harmful or misleading (modified plots to suit the narrative). In hindsig
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by joshvm 7y ago
After the Why We Sleep fiasco I'd quite like a site which peer reviews all the references in a book (could be crowd sourced wiki-style) individually. And then the book, or each chapter, gets a rating for factual correctness.
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by joshvm 7y ago
In some places there's literally no space - Venice for example, land is expensive and it's such a historic city that you can't just build a skyscraper (nobody would give you permission). This is the point about them being at
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by joshvm 7y ago
If you ever get the chance to visit Venice - a city which is relatively well designed for tourists (you walk in a one way loop) - they're not struggling for customers. On a hot day even in spring it's absolutely heaving and full o
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by joshvm 7y ago
No, it's the opposite. Places which are already at capacity (like Venice, Mallorca, Santorini, etc) then receive multiple cruise ships a day which dump thousands more people into the system. There are cruises which are "just looki
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by joshvm 7y ago
Most commercial solutions solve this by using bright illumination from both sides to avoid shadows. In a pinch a couple of led under-cupboard light strips off would probably work. Something like: https://www.interactive-education
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by joshvm 7y ago
I use a combination of Ansible and Docker. I use it for deploying to embedded platforms where sometimes you just want to reflash the board, or you have to upload a new kernel image for some reason. Or of course when a new board turns up! Th
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by joshvm 7y ago
I have something similar set up for a site I run using Jeykll and Google Cloud Build. The site is hosted on a free tier VM and short builds (eg 2 minutes) are free unless you're doing hundreds a day. I use a docker container to generat
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by joshvm 7y ago
Interesting, we have the "cheap" Markforged printer - $15k hah - which seems to be stupidly reliable (never had a failed print). Their drybox isn't heated at all by the way, so it's not clear how much it makes a differen
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by joshvm 7y ago
At the moment, Flirpy - a library for controlling thermal imaging cameras: https://github.com/LJMUAstroecology/flirpy Works with most of FLIR's camera cores (eg Lepton, Boson and Tau). I'm also working on a s
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by joshvm 7y ago
The solution that Markforged uses for this is a modified Peli Case with a hole for the bowden tube. Seems to work pretty well.

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