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by mafuyu 9y ago
Waaay back in 2011, when I was getting started with electronics, I combined a Raspberry Pi 2 with a battery pack and a head mounted display for an iPod Video to make a HUD. It was horribly hacky, but I did manage to get it to show the time
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by mafuyu 9y ago
Sounds like they've found a great enterprise usecase, and I hope they can keep improving the device to bring it to consumers once again. I was able to snag a Glass for a good price when they killed support (before selling it off again
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by mafuyu 9y ago
I use WSL a bunch on my Surface at home, but I've found GCC build times to be very lacking, with a huge perf hit compared to native Linux. You take a 2x hit when accessing /mnt/c/, and even when building within Linux fil
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by mafuyu 9y ago
I took this course with O'Hallaron and it's fantastic. I highly recommend doing the labs that come with it- they're fun and give you lots of working experience with the material.
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Holographic Near-Eye Displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality(microsoft.com)
38 points by mafuyu 9y ago|3 comments
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Arduino Cinque – The RISC-V, ESP32, WiFi, Bluetooth Arduino(hackaday.com)
4 points by mafuyu 9y ago|0 comments
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by mafuyu 9y ago
I think it's a neat idea, but computing is cheap nowadays. When you have a nice screen, battery, and enclosure, throwing in some compute isn't a huge deal. As you mentioned, I think this makes it redundant with the cloud when you
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by mafuyu 9y ago
I have the same misgivings with crowdfunding hardware, but I ended up backing this project. The same group has shipped two other similar portables in the past, and have some working prototypes. Seems like they know what they're doing.
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by mafuyu 9y ago
Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
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Oculus Research Reveals “Groundbreaking” Focal Surface Display(roadtovr.com)
17 points by mafuyu 9y ago|0 comments
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by mafuyu 9y ago
Yeah, I've been taking UberPool for my work commute in Boston recently. It's still around 3x more expensive than the monthly bus pass, but at 2.75 per ride, it's plenty reasonable.
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by mafuyu 10y ago
Yeah, reading through the Wikipedia, it looks like this reduces the total error of the combined estimator, but the error compared to an estimator of any one single parameter could be worse. So you can combine whatever crazy parameters you w
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by mafuyu 10y ago
I think that's the entire point. There's no inherent value attributed to labor except as a piece of the value produced. For the paintbrush example, you just want your room painted and a price you're willing to pay. When the b
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by mafuyu 10y ago
The article isn't loading for me, but SemiAccurate isn't a totally unknown site. They're a bit like The Register for hardware, with an overblown writing style, but their analysis is decent.
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by mafuyu 10y ago
Give Fitbit another shot some time! We've focused on significantly improving the hardware quality with the latest generation of products, and they're much less likely to break. They also all have interchangeable bands for the case
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by mafuyu 10y ago
It's still mainly the core developer, with PRs and issues coming in from other contributors. Development seems to be pretty active and responsive, though. I think it's in a very usable form at this point.
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by mafuyu 10y ago
I used to use Firefox for Tree Style Tabs and Pentadactyl, but I recently switched over to Qutebrowser[0] and I'm loving it. It has Pentadactyl-inspired keybinds, vertical tabs (no tree-style just yet, though), and it's _way_ snap
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by mafuyu 10y ago
This link seems to explain it in some detail: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea/Negative_Differen... A typical transistor doesn't have the red part of the curve where resistance goes up with increase
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Qutebrowser(qutebrowser.org)
2 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments
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by mafuyu 10y ago
Shame, too, as it was the Dropbox feature I used the most. I hate having to link people to the clunky, slow-to-load viewer interface that Dropbox presents when you make a share link. I also don't want comments! (which always takes up a
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Alan Yates: Why Valve's Lighthouse Can't Work(hackaday.com)
2 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments
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by mafuyu 10y ago
It's great for certain interactions. I use it to turn off the lights and set alarms before I go to bed, get the weather every morning, make grocery lists, etc. Nothing huge, but the reduced friction is great. Also, for the $100 price i
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by mafuyu 10y ago
OneNote files are stored in the OneDrive file sync service by default (and I assume has the same data hiarangees), but you can save them locally if you'd like.
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by mafuyu 10y ago
Yeah, it's been a bit vague on whether Fitbit is going to keep the servers alive, although the article hints towards it. People on /r/Pebble have been working on an open source community store to keep the ecosystem alive. I t
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by mafuyu 10y ago
Yeah, Windows 10 is a huge improvement but there are still some hairy parts. I've run into the search issue as well, and resolved it by tweaking some options in "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows". I believe it
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Expert discusses NASA's study of paradoxical EM propulsion drive(phys.org)
3 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments
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The Demise of Pebble as a Platform(hackaday.com)
2 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments
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by mafuyu 10y ago
As a Fitbit employee and a huge Pebble fan, I feel conflicted... I hope the fantastic engineering put into the Pebble OS and hardware will be put to good use.
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Former HP and Tektronix Engineering Executive, Larry Pendergrass, Joins UBeam(medium.com)
3 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments
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Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement(medium.com)
2 points by mafuyu 10y ago|0 comments

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