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by nippoo 6y ago
I honestly think (for me, at least) the implied causation is the wrong way round here. When I'm feeling sad, I tend to be unmotivated and liable to spend more time / all day on my phone. When I'm feeling great, I'm gener
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Finnish company makes food appear from thin air(bigthink.com)
16 points by nippoo 6y ago|5 comments
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MagSafe only charges at full speed with 20W charger(macrumors.com)
6 points by nippoo 6y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 6y ago
I'm a fan of the concept of a Web-distributed, powerful cross-platform, interpreted, sandboxed app with no App Store, etc. I'm not sure the existing, backwards-compatible, slightly kludged HTML5 / CSS / JS infrastructure
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by nippoo 6y ago
Think more about not building long offshoots that will give your opponent lots of places to "hook onto" (or forcing them to do the same). Cleverly building and stacking words close and parallel to others rather than perpendicular,
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by nippoo 6y ago
I was at the World Scrabble Championships in Prague a few years ago (with Nigel Richards). The amazing thing was how many of the highest-level Scrabble players were Thai and spoke barely any English. There are about 200,000 words in the Scr
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by nippoo 6y ago
This is such an odd article. Perhaps Paragon isn't being entirely altruistic with this move but TR are being quite scathing of someone's work submitting a kernel driver with no direct financial reward - and no real praise for, hop
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by nippoo 6y ago
I've been amazed at the effects of this every time I've visited India. With data so cheap, social media use is prolific - people share videos and stream all day long - and public WiFi is far less commonplace since essentially &#x2
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by nippoo 6y ago
Modern warfare is eventually just an economic game. How many missiles can you afford to launch, and how many missile defences can you afford to build? (/ how much can you afford to spend on military R&D?).
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by nippoo 6y ago
As an idea: crowdsourced bug bounties. If software companies aren't willing to offer sensible incentives, corporations (who often have far more money at stake) should fill in the gaps. If someone built a platform to allow e-commerce&#x
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by nippoo 6y ago
Related (but more general): the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, https://www.jasnh.com
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by nippoo 6y ago
I've seen a few apps get around this by packaging them in a standard .dmg and giving the user clear instructions ("just right-click") as the background image of the opened container, or as the name of the app, or on the downl
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by nippoo 6y ago
They're pretty inaccurate in light aircraft where you're often flying at an angle / slightly asymmetrically; in commercial airliners, under most flight conditions, they're generally within a couple percent. Aircraft will
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by nippoo 6y ago
The idea of making a battery a structural part of an aircraft wing has come up before, e.g. https://newatlas.com/axial-stack-battery-supersonic-electric... . I'm not sure if any progress has been made on this front rece
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by nippoo 6y ago
What, exactly, used to be so difficult about this? Do new satellites take time to train their orbits, or test systems, or otherwise commission when they're in the air? What technological changes have happened recently to make this feas
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by nippoo 6y ago
The (very real [1]) risk is that the Russians could disconnect the Baltic states from IPS/UPS, forcing them to operate autonomously, at a time of high demand and low local power generation. This could rapidly (within seconds) cause a g
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by nippoo 6y ago
Another interesting recent reminder of the interconnectedness of politics and electricity grids happened a couple of years ago, when all of Europe's frequency (and lots of grid-synced clocks) went out of spec because of a Kosovo/S
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by nippoo 6y ago
Where I live (in the UK) the power is reliable enough (one outage every 3-5 years) that I only tend to spec UPSs for devices with dual PSUs - one raw mains, one UPS-protected. I've had more UPS failures than mains failures in the past
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A brute-force approach to getting around macOS's security UI(tyler.io)
1 points by nippoo 6y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 6y ago
... how did that work out for you?! Did you get fired? Did that exchange actually happen?
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by nippoo 6y ago
The effect of noise on focus and productivity is super-interesting and one that I've only accidentally come to realise recently myself. I live in an averagely noisy part of the city and built myself a room-within-a-room sound-isolated
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Don't-care term(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nippoo 6y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 6y ago
That's a separate sensor - see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/347895/where-is-th...
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Intel announces Thunderbolt 4(m.hexus.net)
4 points by nippoo 6y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 6y ago
Another conclusion I disagree with is the author's insistence on only using integer scaling multipliers. The article talks about subpixel rendering and then mostly ignores that for the rest of the article, instead assuming pixels are a
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by nippoo 6y ago
Counter-argument: coming up with your own, carefully considered solutions to every technical challenge is absurdly time-consuming. The reason we can build such complicated applications in such a small amount of time is partly because we&#x2
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by nippoo 6y ago
"a good signal" // "once the (firing) mission has begun" // "no longer address each other by name, and instead simply use keywords as the recipient / originator are obvious" (ie it&#x27
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by nippoo 7y ago
The human "reward function" is likely more complex than current AI - and not always particularly logical (though vaguely correlated to survival of your own genes!) - but it's probably naïve to assume that we're anything
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by nippoo 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if something alone the lines of `split("20")` or `replace("20", ““)` was the culprit somewhere (to turn it into a 2-digit year). I've seen the most absurd date handling code...
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by nippoo 7y ago
While this is obviously a noteworthy report (in this day and age, it's amazing that flight clearances are still given over voice - FM radio - liable to mishearing and interference, and generally pretty terrible for pilot workload!) - t

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