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by monitron 5y ago
I really like this. It took me a minute to figure out that having GitHub in dark mode was making the embedded math images effectively invisible. Just in case this trips anyone else up, switching to light mode will make this doc make a lot m
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by monitron 5y ago
Whoa. I had no idea. Thanks for informing me! That's so weird. I had always assumed that the curved front surface of the eye was the lens.
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by monitron 5y ago
That's neat. I wonder if the pupil is actually changing size, or if it's the changing shape of the lens that is making it appear so. If you look into a camera lens as the focus is changed, the inner parts of the camera do appear t
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by monitron 5y ago
If it takes time and is not wholly reliable, it sounds like you might be using one of the "indirect methods" they mentioned in the article.
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by monitron 5y ago
On behalf of patients, we're sorry! The first time I had an MRI, my tech told me over the speaker that I was moving around too much. I was really surprised as I'd thought I was staying completely still! I had another one more rece
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by monitron 5y ago
We're currently in the process of designing a house that we hope to build early next year. One thing that I dream of doing is lighting the entire house with LEDs wired in a low voltage DC "network." Even better if they'r
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by monitron 5y ago
Seeing the whole process from sketch to completed icon was extremely helpful. It can be extremely daunting to look at the polished works of art that are completed designs; I get the feeling that they sprang fully formed into the world. I&#x
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by monitron 7y ago
Hi :) Thanks for the awesome write-up. I understand...I have a few devices in my house that resist all attempts at integration. I have considered doing something totally ridiculous like setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and machine vi
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by monitron 7y ago
This is cool. But it seems to me that this person's setup could benefit from a way for the computers to be notified that battery power would run out soon so that they could shut down cleanly. I have that going at home through a USB con
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by monitron 7y ago
I like Workflowy but the core feature of this app (infinite progress rollups) is not present in Workflowy. I find that Workflowy barely works as a task progress tracker because it doesn't have any real native support for that workflow
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by monitron 7y ago
Sorry, no, that's not the argument I was trying to make. I was trying to show this by starting the sentence with "Coincidentally." It was just a separate observation about the same topic. I am frustrated by plenty of things t
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by monitron 7y ago
I would compare this to a supermarket allocating shelf space to maximize its profits, either by placing its own brands front and center or by featuring brands that have made a deal for prime shelf placement. I don't see this as scandal
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by monitron 8y ago
It seems like a lot of people have had problems, but just to provide a dissenting view, I have one and I really like mine. It has performed flawlessly and fits my needs well.
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by monitron 8y ago
My grandfather, born with no middle name, was urged by his colleagues to fabricate one because he needed a middle initial for appearance's sake in his field. Everyone used their middle initial in communications. And besides, you couldn
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by monitron 9y ago
I feel the same way. There's a scene in the book Old Man's War by John Scalzi which drives this point home in a way that has really stuck with me.
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by monitron 9y ago
That TED talk took an unexpected left turn in the last third which made an interesting subject ten times as fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing it.
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by monitron 9y ago
Tesla's cars have a charge limit you can set, after which the car simply stops. I believe they come by default at 90%. You're supposed to override it if you want to go on a long road trip. Would be cool if there was a similar feat
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by monitron 9y ago
Check out the Mini or Prius. Both have the primary driver display (like speed) centered away from the driver: http://imgur.com/a/Z2Z5p
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by monitron 10y ago
Hi, I'm sorry to hear that. I was trying to go for mass appeal and attempting not to overwhelm visitors with a dense list. Can you suggest an alternate or additional mode of operation that would be better? Thanks for commenting!
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Show HN: WhatNow.io – Serving up ways to help and stay sane in Trump's America(whatnow.io)
2 points by monitron 10y ago|2 comments
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by monitron 10y ago
Of course if this makes flooring more compressible (how else would it work?) we're just stealing bits of energy from the people walking on it. Then again, many of us (myself included) eat too much and could use a little more energy exp
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by monitron 10y ago
Maybe software updates? Remote monitoring/control? Something really off the wall like sweet potato classification by cloud-based neural network computer vision?!
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by monitron 11y ago
What is the web app language you use at work? I assume you're talking about something that runs on the client -- a web browser -- so it probably compiles down to JavaScript, right? JS literally has no numeric type that isn't a flo
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by monitron 11y ago
"No Wi-Fi, no heating" -- this makes no sense to me. I had a Nest and when the wireless network went away, it did the sensible thing and maintained its current schedule. The only thing it lost was remote control/monitoring an
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by monitron 11y ago
There was a nice episode of The Allusionist about Toki Pona, where you can hear people trying to learn and speak it: https://soundcloud.com/allusionistshow/tokipona?in=allusioni...
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by monitron 11y ago
Alas they said they're not going to relaunch that one. They're only studying it to identify issues and improve reusability on future launches.
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by monitron 11y ago
I'm not the greatest photographer, but my impression is that they mostly have very high contrast; the photographer let a lot of dark areas fall into shadow. To some degree you can accomplish this in editing, but one shortcut to interes
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by monitron 11y ago
Well, to start with, it targets a long-dead platform. It also skips multiple steps, allowing a system that was always programmed in an extremely low level language (assembler) to be programmed in one of the highest-level languages in common
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by monitron 11y ago
A related thought is what an unfathomable amount of information is being created all the time. For instance just on YouTube 300 hours of video are now uploaded every minute. Even if all you did was consume 24/7, you can never catch up
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by monitron 11y ago
Well. Even a single person can work on more than one task in a day. But much like a single person, the Android team has limited time and energy to allocate. In my perfect world, the whole Android team spends the next three months doing a bu

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