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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> store small amounts of data ... as graphical designs ... on pieces of ordinary printer paper? You mean, printing out a picture? ... Joking aside, if you tolerate lossy "compression", it'd be interesting to see what the c
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Wait... was the https://dotsies.org creator aware of punch card reading?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etu-cH-nkIA&t=79s
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> IBM 029 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnnGbcM-H8c&list=PL-_93BVApb... 1968 instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fVRGQT1CoM&t=21s
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Here's one from 2011- no mirrors in their method, but they cite a range of other relevant studies Visual experiences during paralysis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232712 (What was that &quot
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Technical minutia, but I found that I felt a lot more confident once I understood this: The reason f-number is written like so is because it's not a measure of actual aperture diameter but is instead the ratio of aperture diameter to f
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Would you be interested in a true 3248 mm f/8? https://www.telescope.com/Astrophotography/Astrophotography-... Telescopes do tend to prefer specifying girth rather than length, though.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading But my favourite one of these when your vision of something doesn't go away--viewing these test images for a few minutes can alter your visual perception involunt
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> move my focus without my eyeballs moving This is a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_spatial_attention I discovered this when I accidentally performed an experiment that showed how paying attention to a
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Apparently many of the channel's uploads are from the 'ABC News Archives',[0] so they might not be entirely lost. Maybe prod IA to see if its tv news project can ingest it officially, or already have. BTW a quick scrape (raw
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Matthias Wandel might interest you, woodworking with the hacker spirit (including making his own tools...out of wood) https://woodgears.ca
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
A few years ago, Bing had a bunch of tools for developers: base64/HTML/URL codec, ASCII table, QR code generator, color picker, formatters, even the ability to run code in the browser on the servers of an online judge ( https:&#x2
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
APAs and letterzines?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Wow, essentially an extraordinarily large view camera built around a repurposed lens, then converted into a depth-of-field adapter[0] in lieu of a digital back. There's actually a known technique for taking wide angle photographs with
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
With the 13.1 release last month came a substantial HN discussion centred around how cool, yet proprietary Mathematica is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928608 That kind of also describes every other Wolfram-relate
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
A pity that so much language-agnostic material we'll never see because search engines and algorithms are so effective at this segregation. Translation is good enough for browsing in completely unknown languages for internet exploration
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
That cause is that of https://rutgers.nl ( https://rutgers.international/themes/sexuality-education-and... ) I just find it funny when prudish initiatives are promoted under pretence of the same.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
When you're the creator of the animation, you can directly simulate motion blur instead of using temporal downsampling. The smoothness of video depends on the angular distance objects move in your field of view between frames. You can
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Observe the Netherlands' attitude towards sex education and compare, for example, a quantifiable outcome such as teenage birth rates. There is a solid case that the US morality is harmful to children. To girls in particular, even, bu
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Regardless of the specifics of the culture, this diversity is lacking in the corporations of the Western internet.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
GP used 'higher-order' to mean higher in some ontology of abstraction, similar to 'meta', à la 'higher-order function'. In this case, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-ethics Speaking
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I think of better accessibility as being better usability, and thus 'accessibility measures' as 'good ideas' per se for any infrastructure that cares about its users -- of course, the problem is that many organizatio
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
(3 days later): Necroing with a link to this serendipitous related submission about building a NAS for professional video editing from 40 TB of SSDs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32235158 Yea, on second thought, lon
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Been going on for a while. r/DataHoarder (of course) post for this news last week - commenters list minute changes they've noticed like reruns being cut for advertisements and copyright: https://old.reddit.com/r&#x
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
"We're trying to avoid that here." https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by%3Adang%20%22that%20here%22&...
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
LESS(1) [...] --mouse Enables mouse input: scrolling the mouse wheel down moves forward in the file, scrolling the mouse wheel up moves backwards in the file, and clicking the mouse
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
You can even use the scroll wheel (so can vim, accursedly)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> asking the general public ... when we all know it's a one-way ticket ... a rhetoric dictators have been using. Note the absence of the option to "do nothing" regrettably reminiscent of the Wikimedia Foundation
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Toys with similar functionality to the Strange Change exist today, only they're made from polymers that expand upon absorbing water. Some are packaged in literal capsules - the pharmaceutical kind. https://www.google.com&#x2
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> information camouflage Ooh, a term for a relatable problem, apparently coined yesterday by this blog post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241020 "when piece of information A has a name similar to another,

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