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by logtempo 3y ago
Have been using linux since 6-8 years now. It's not perfect but it's really friendly for the major distributions (ubuntu,mint, mainly), more than when I started. Today most of the people do two things: browser and mails/chat.
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by logtempo 3y ago
Did my thesis during these years. COVID (and remote) really messed everything in my effort to be organized, eventually I fell into procrastination, mild depression, rabbithole of organization methods, and went to a psychologist (too late I
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by logtempo 3y ago
there is good works done in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5 https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/brain-computer-interfa...
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by logtempo 3y ago
Kind of related to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735665 > The solution to these problems came from Khuri-Yakub’s lab at Stanford University. In experiments in the early 2000s, the researchers found t
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by logtempo 3y ago
I had the same feeling doing a phd two years ago. I think there is an unpopular opinion in science about the limits of what we can look at and what is required to achieve that. My conclusion was that the requirements are an economy of infin
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by logtempo 3y ago
ho I see. It's kind of a programming interface, a "higher level" language, a plug-in. for exemple, GdScript in Godot game engine would fall into the "embedded dynamic language" ?
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noob question from a hardware guy : what is a small embeddable dynamic language? What would be a user-case for example?
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by logtempo 3y ago
and LoRa technology was bought only 60 millions by samtec. Sounds really cheap.
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by logtempo 3y ago
in other term, putting back the social word in the old term "socio-economy"
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by logtempo 3y ago
I agree with your second paragraph. I think the bait of "lowtech" name is thinking that the main goal is doing AI with stick and mud. It's one of the goal (ofc not literally ), but the most important one is showing alternativ
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by logtempo 3y ago
sure, the question"If I can, should I?" it suppose that you have a choice. If you have no choice, there is no questions :D that said, a good counter-exemple is wood stove efficiency. There are simple design that are more effici
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by logtempo 3y ago
computers are complex indeed. That said, I don't think lowtech philsophy is about browsing HN with a Macintosh II. It does have this "get things done simple" branch, but also the ecology side of it, the reflexion about the re
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Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
249 points by logtempo 3y ago|79 comments
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by logtempo 3y ago
Inspired by recent post about how bloated is the www today.
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thing is, boss is not a dev. He is a business man.
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by logtempo 3y ago
it's how "rocket stove" works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove Since you burn the wood really fast, you need to delay that heat release. That's where sand comes in as a cheap and good eno
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by logtempo 3y ago
your number is good, as it's the heavier from all oil. Don't work for all type of oil though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_gravity Light crude oil has an API gravity higher than 31.1° (i.e., less t
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by logtempo 3y ago
There's also a strategy, having an open position might attract some people you'll be happy to put in your database, and duplicate where X companies (contractor?head hunter company? consulting? Idk how to name it) post a job that i
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by logtempo 3y ago
It's kind of already there. When I search for "hardware computer without secureboot", the first two pages is "how to install w11 without TPM". We're not even talking about linux.
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by logtempo 3y ago
Make sense...still impressive to have x10 more objects floating around in less than half a century.
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by logtempo 3y ago
I find the most crazy thing is not the reentry, but the number of objects (satellites) visible at the beginning of the video. And maybe the most worrying part is that there is more and more unidentified objects: https://sdup.esoc
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by logtempo 3y ago
or US see a business while Europe see a cost. it's how business work: if you produce and consume your product, you at best earn nothing. I also think US are a single entity while EU is multiple, US have traditionally a bigger defense i
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by logtempo 3y ago
thing is, you can't beat oil energy density. And its logistic. going 100% electric is really something big, maybe too big. A good exemple is synthetic fuel: in Germany, they have really hard issues on biomass collect which is needed fo
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by logtempo 3y ago
offering services, such as expertise, hosting, pushing features on-demand that the company want(and pay), doing plug-in on-demand, API limited access, promotion of a company on the website(as opensource is good PR).
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by logtempo 3y ago
for a moment, I've read porn stars as physically stars (which transmit information if you do research)...though there was idk an ai that link stars to do porn-astrology? Or that detect gas clouds that have a porn-compatible shape? some
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by logtempo 3y ago
would've been fun to see if putting the 15min restriction with a hidden option in the code or similar to remove it would've lead to the same result. I'm sure many people would've paid because the free version was not adv
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by logtempo 3y ago
In general it does. doing bad work is better, because you deliver poor quality. but if you deliver something and then break it on purpose, it's like breaking something that belong to the company(not you). Remember that everything you d
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by logtempo 3y ago
for when a company want the opensource label but is too selfish to share.
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by logtempo 3y ago
filters(template?) buttons are the first things I used. You should keep them. It makes engagement. First thing I want to do on a,new thing is to test it and filters allow this quickly
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by logtempo 3y ago
It does exist with some tricks using two-way mirror. Maybe using a transparent screen can give better illusion? Idk. Smart mirrors are a super DIY gadget to do at home. I never done one because I would not use it, but it's a good way t

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