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by lhl 11y ago
Here's an example of Faceshift, which is completely markerless (Apple acquired them last year): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLfAmNDNgHk And here's a good example of the relatively high fidelity (marker-based)
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by lhl 11y ago
Not just audio, but an autoplaying 219MB video file no less.
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by lhl 11y ago
2PP (the guys that made the Broken Age doc) have also made a "making of" featurette for the DOTT remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjF4eMrYfG0 It's pretty great - showing everything from how all the a
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by lhl 11y ago
I think the text of the linked summary refutes the consensus (at least from the reports of the Roundtable participants' show of hands). Jihan Wu (CEO of Ant Miner, Antpool, formerly #1 and currently #2 mining pool [1]) has been pretty
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by lhl 11y ago
For those unfamiliar with how crazy the shenanigans at r/bitcoin (and bitcointalk.org), the historical primary online discussion forums for Bitcoin (both run by the same individual [1]), the subreddit uses a 70+KB custom stylesheet [2]
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by lhl 11y ago
While that may be a valid point on some glasses-bridge-pushing technical level (certainly Linus has strong opinions on HFS), but so what? In practice, this hasn't been an issue (I spent about 15 years running OSX desktop workstations a
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by lhl 11y ago
Yeah, I couldn't believe how bad it was, especially since Sydney has been fine for years. Apparently the root of this was their transit agency's longtime refusal to open up their data: http://m.smh.com.au/technolog
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by lhl 11y ago
ThinkPad screens have been getting better. I'm actually pretty happy with contrast/brightness of the FHD IPS on my X250 (color gamut definitely could be better, but at least it doesn't do dynamic contrast like recent Dells),
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by lhl 11y ago
Yeah, I've had occasional mdworker issues, which was much more of an issue on battery-life than anything else. I had a bunch of launchctl shortcuts to disable a number of things when in battery mode (especially since Yosemite seemed l
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by lhl 11y ago
Western messaging apps are a joke compared to their international counterparts. If you want to see some fierce competition and cutting edge features, you need to look towards LINE and WeChat. (For US messenger apps, I actually like FB Messe
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by lhl 11y ago
Sorry, locate is not even comparable to what Spotlight does. Do a search for mdfind(1) to get an idea of what is does. Recoll is the only thing I found on Linux being actively developed that comes close, but it's definitely not as poli
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by lhl 11y ago
I've found recent versions of Firefox to be surprisingly much zippier than Chrome and w much lower memory usage as well (especially w uBlock Origin).
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by lhl 11y ago
I visited a dozen+ countries in 4 continents last year - GMaps did a pretty decent (often great) job with public transit. In the cases where there was no/bad data, it usually had more to do with the transit authorities being jackasses
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by lhl 11y ago
Unity is a terrible solution for things like photo spheres and media tours: * you can't load it without a long unity splash screen without paying $3K for a pro license * it renders photospheres poorly - no dynamic eye buffer resolution
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by lhl 11y ago
Well, since you asked, I was merely noting the ways in which digital delivery of news has more depth, breadth, relevancy, timeliness, and searchability, but yes, those factors don't matter to some people.
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by lhl 11y ago
As a VR dev/enthusiast, I agree that the Gear VR is surprisingly not bad (I have an S6 Gear VR IE) - the fact that it's mobile makes it really easy to share, and it's a huge leap over the cardboard (most people can wear it wi
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by lhl 11y ago
Really? Did you realize that the newspaper published only news from the day before at the latest, once a day? (Crazy I know.) Just a few people called "editors" decide what you read. And it doesn't ever get updated, even if i
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by lhl 11y ago
While it's natural to be skeptical, I'd withhold judgement until after you've tried either the Vive or consumer Rift. One of VR's challenges is that it need to be experienced to really understand it. Until you feel prese
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by lhl 11y ago
If you're happy with your IEMs I might just skip the rest - it can be an expensive hobby. If you are looking for an upgrade I'd recommend heading to an event like CanJam, try out a bunch, and trust your ears. There's no point
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by lhl 11y ago
Most over-ear IEMs usually have better microphonics (the ER4's microphonics are notoriously bad). Shures and Westones both have good isolation and low microphonics (and start at reasonable prices). If you are considering customs (CIEMs
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by lhl 11y ago
I didn't spend enough time to see if it's just loading random sites or if each site is specific to a domain (that'd be cool) but I encountered a whole bunch. Not bad as far as marketing goes. Note: one of the sites I loaded
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by lhl 11y ago
I don't know if there's a how you'd tell what's a good summary vs alarmist rhetoric so the best way to tell what's in the bill is probably to read it. The full text is only about 30 pages, and can be found here: ht
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by lhl 11y ago
The predilection for cash is more cultural than technological I think - they've had NFC payments w Suica cards for decades. I don't think their PCs are particularly backwards either - they have some ultrabooks that never make thei
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by lhl 11y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a look next time I get the itch. :)
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by lhl 11y ago
Earlier this year I was looking for a good way to sensibly manage my dotfiles across multiple machines (with different setups). The closest project I could find that supported something like this was https://github.com/EvanP
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by lhl 11y ago
Just to follow up, since I was curious to do a bit of searching: * Wikipedia's article [1] mentions two other startups working on sodium-ion batteries. Faradion apparently has a 150 Wh/kg sodium-ion battery [2]. According to the W
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by lhl 11y ago
90 Wh/kg is actually a pretty decent energy density (LiPo batteries are now approaching 200 Wh/kg, but less combustible LiFe chemistries are around 100 Wh/kg). Does anyone know if there's any information on how the stabi
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by lhl 11y ago
Somewhat related, AMD's slides are claiming over a 100% performance improvement on a wide range of games w/ their latest Crimson drivers (I think these are the latest version of their Catalyst drivers, so not sure where that puts
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by lhl 11y ago
As others have mentioned, that's actually not what it means. Here's a version that's closer to the gist of it: "When you are trying to give away money, the people asking for it can often use special or hard words and ide
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by lhl 11y ago
One other thing to consider is that of trauma/PTSD. Things that we find exhilarating in more traditional media may in fact be too stressful/terrifying in VR. Horror experiences in particular seem to be proving this out, but I coul

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