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by nategri 7y ago
This is a great project but it's not clear to me how the HN title ("2M FPS with $5 Raspberry Pi Cameras") is related.
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by nategri 7y ago
I find this argument exhausting. You can always define the system in such a way that there is some deleterious effect somewhere.
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by nategri 7y ago
Looks like its currently experience the hug. Unless a search for 'cat' returning no results is expected behavior.
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by nategri 7y ago
Reminds me of the difference between the Apple II and the very Jobs-ian Macintosh. One you could get into and upgrade without even a screwdriver. The other took two special tools and would happily zap you to death if you touched the wrong p
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by nategri 8y ago
This is often paired with Feynman's "Nobody understands quantum mechanics."
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by nategri 8y ago
Looks like we're in store for more random casting about for optimizations from those at the helm. I expect this continue until the service is an unrecognizable, unusable mush of content with zero signal to noise for what matters.
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by nategri 8y ago
Same! I've been wanting to work through the catalog of Miyazaki films but the stuff is streaming unobtainium. Quite a wait at the library too. This seems like the only way to go haha.
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by nategri 8y ago
For my language choices I'm constrained to reading Anna Karenina as my material, haha, but I still consider this pretty good! Thanks for the tip.
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by nategri 8y ago
Anyone know of a "reader" app for books that does something similar? (Totally getting this though---I might not be sold on the Netflix stuff but in general this plugin seems invaluable to me at this point in my Russian skills).
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by nategri 8y ago
Who was it that said no one in America is poor, they're just "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"? This comment is a pretty good representation of that sentiment.
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by nategri 8y ago
* doesn't have anything to do with Mars * * stops reading * * Edit: By way of apology I will make an addendum more in line with the HN aesthetic. Calling your software startup Red Planet Labs is a bit like calling your architecture fir
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by nategri 8y ago
Really thought this was gonna be human-neural-activity-to-speech and I feel like a doofus.
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by nategri 8y ago
Can't recommend Night in the Woods enough. I played it on the Switch while visiting home for Christmas, which made for a surreal overlap of fiction and reality. Shows just how pitch-perfect the writing is.
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by nategri 8y ago
I always like to think that the initial waves of human interstellar colonization will be a historical rhyme with the Polynesian expansion---a loose federation of populations separated by distances barely-surmountable by technology, inexorab
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by nategri 8y ago
Picked up KiCad over the summer and I'm really glad I did. Bums me out so much when I see OSH projects using Eagle :(
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by nategri 8y ago
> School's primary purpose is to prepare people to be functioning members of society. read: "productive economic units."
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by nategri 8y ago
> That observation results in what we call the whirly-dirly corollary (named after an episode of the cartoon Rick and Morty) Hoo, boy Also: If your wonderful new metric gives every planet the SAME closest neighbor, then maybe its not a
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by nategri 8y ago
It has been a long journey but I think I'm finally becoming a self-driving skeptic. And those cars driving around out in Arizona right now might as well be driving around in the Matrix---nowhere near a general purpose solution.
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by nategri 8y ago
Yes and the 64:1 interleave pattern on the display is also another "fun" feature to code around.
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by nategri 8y ago
The Apple II's somewhat exotic "hires" mode didn't even HAVE an indexed palette. Instead you just wrote 1s and 0s for pixels directly to the display memory, and their arrangement on the screen determined their color. T
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by nategri 8y ago
Your phrasing "loving care" brought to mind a relevant poem: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weeke...
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by nategri 8y ago
Extremely pleased to find I'm not the only person to think so.
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by nategri 8y ago
Was hoping to see some sed tricks, and would have settled for some vim, but I guess I need to stop being such a gatekeeping grump about stuff. Hell, maybe I'd like SublimeText if I tried it.
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by nategri 8y ago
I think there's a lot of "chat app fatigue." I've personally had 5 or 6 on my phone in the past year and you'd have to drag me kicking and screaming into installing even one more of the damned things.
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by nategri 8y ago
Could some kind soul with enough genuine interest slog through this monster and post a few-sentence summary?
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by nategri 8y ago
Darn near 100% of attempts to describe quantum mechanics with English sentences end up far from their target. To paraphrase the protagonist of A Serious Man : "No one understands the cat. The math... the math is what's important.
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Show HN: A simple WebAssembly game employing the C. elegans neural network(nematode.farm)
3 points by nategri 8y ago|1 comments
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by nategri 8y ago
I took several years of Russian in college and am now trying to pick up a little German. Word of mouth had taught me to fear the German case system but... after Russian? Hard to see what all the fuss is about.
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by nategri 8y ago
> It’s in our nature to want to keep things “just in case”, but we live in a world where we can get anything with a few clicks. So why? Um, money?
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by nategri 8y ago
I hail from the hard sciences and used give a all the psy* disciplines a considerable amount of flack. But then, what do you know, I found myself in need of their help, and now I live a much happier life thanks to a doctor who knew their wa

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