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The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain (2009)(frontiersin.org)
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It was as easy to use as an official streaming service is, with integrated subtitles downloads in the background (from open subtitles), links to trailers and critics sites (it also pulled a lot of metadata from different sources). Popular m
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Hi! I'm creating the microdesktop collection as a visual history of the Macintosh user interface, using 51x34px, 1-bit pixel art drawings. They showcase key parts of Macintosh interface design choices, in just 1734 pixels (10 times sma
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Show HN: Microdesktop, a visual history of Macintosh UI (51x34, 1-bit pixel art)(hicetnunc.xyz)
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From nuclear fallout shelter to data center (Paris)(blog.scaleway.com)
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About the size: the blades are really huge "in person" (in VR :-) I added both the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity to our VR puzzle game Peco Peco[0], and I was totally surprised both times by how bigger than I thought they were.
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Could you explain a bit more? Or point to a ressource / story? (Failed to find something relevant by searching!)
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As a teenager, I had the opportunity to play and experience the monumental installation Genetic Images by Karl Sims installed at Pompidou Center in 1993. It was using a Connection Machine to render images in realtime: http://www.
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by juliendorra 5y ago
The paper manual of the original Macintosh in 1984 explained carefully and in details how to use the mouse (starting at page 13). https://archive.org/details/1984macintoshmanual/page/n14/mod...
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On the page you mention selling worldwide. But the simplicity of the paylink break down when you sell worldwide, as you have to both collect and remit taxes for each country (as in find a way to to fill the paperwork and pay taxes in separa
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Hi everybody! Lab Surprise is a game bundle micro-store built with just 2 Google Cloud Functions and Paddle API. Get a surprise bundle of 3 VR apps from 19 games (the more you reveal, the lower your discount). 19 choose 3: that’s 969 differ
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Show HN: Lab Surprise – A game bundle store built with just 2 cloud functions(labsurprise.me)
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I have found Twitter videos to have improved in quality recently, but there’s a disconcerting effect where when you upload your own video you see first a very low quality version, and the much better version replace it. So you are lead to b
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Show HN: NASA Mars 2021 as full-scale VR puzzles
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1657 flap drawing to convince of funding Palazzo Pubblico tower restoration(twitter.com)
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by juliendorra 6y ago
Live coding is great for beginners to discover and enjoy that programming is writing that makes things happen. I have had consistent success with design and communication students using LiveCodeLab [0] as the first step in our creative pro
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And probably only a small part of the real reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034351
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It’s also most probably a small part of the story about the second port. We know from this interview with Schiller [0] that there was a clear price target for the first iPad, set early on at under $500, and that cutting everything superfluo
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by juliendorra 6y ago
It’s an open secret in France that many, maybe most (?) calls for new teaching/research positions in university labs are designed to be won by someone already attached to the lab (like a doctoral student for example, or someone with a
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by juliendorra 6y ago
You would be surprised, as I was, how much raw documents and primary sources much much older than 2000/1995 (to take your 20/25 year reference) are available, thanks to various digitization efforts. Check my notes for some nice so
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I won’t try to give a list of examples of how historical knowledge is useful for a developer, but just compare this statement with different fields: An architect will learn about the history of hundreds of buildings at school. A product des
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that’s probably where the methodology used by trained historians is useful. I created a History of Tech Design class [0] of 6 different tracks for design students. I’m not an historian, but I have some training in finding original sources,
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Rendering a Sphere on a Quad(bgolus.medium.com)
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Anecdotally it (psychologically) helps some of my beginners students in Processing (young designers), because they feel less overwhelmed by their code when it has started to grow over their comfort threshold. As beginners their brain isn’t
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by juliendorra 6y ago
About why language gave us an evolutionary advantage, there’s another hypothesis than the informational/hunting one (and it has much more explaining and predicting power in my opinion), the Dunbar’s one: Dunbar's suggestion],&quot
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by juliendorra 6y ago
One major issue with HAL is that they accepted (under political/hierarchical pressure) to host only references without the actual paper PDF. So now its archive is filled with bibliographic references without any article archived paper.
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Mario Kart Home Circuit: Switch Racer with RC Cars(theverge.com)
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Sweden political narrative a few months ago was: "we are doing much better than other European countries by doing different." Then they had to shut down secondary schools and universities, ban assemblies over 50 people, extend pa
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complete anesthesia is indeed a very disturbing experience, similar to a cut to a new scene in a movie: you were there and then and you are here and now, without anything in between. You cannot really tell if you are the same conscience tha
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I don’t understand how Sweden could be a good example to follow: they now are at 573 deaths per million, close to Italy 585. (France is 466, Germany 110, Norway 48, all flat. US 585 and rising fast) If you look at Belgium 859 deaths per mil

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