ozmbie

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by ozmbie 8y ago
That sequence of shots of Saturn’s moons and the music....gets me every time.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
To play Devil’s advocate: that’s 2 months a customer went without being able to use that feature. What could you or the company have learned if you shipped an earlier version and measured how people used it? Was your feeling of control and
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Don’t forget about his road trip. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-har...
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Apart from IMAX/70mm film sources...it is satisfying to watch a movie on a 4K HDR TV and know that you’re getting almost all (if not all) the visual information the director captured on the medium. Assuming the transfer was handled wel
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by ozmbie 8y ago
I watched 2001 in 4K UHD Bluray the other day, and the special effects hold up very nicely.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Reminds me of the hallway fight scene from Inception. The fact that they build an entire rotating set instead of relying on CG is what (I think) makes the scene so much more convincing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhiSS
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by ozmbie 8y ago
"Hey, oven, make your interior 425F so I can bake a pizza” Oven: “Sorry mike. I can only go to 400F unless you upgrade your ovenware plan to $2.99 a month. Or use an ovenware family brand pizza! For every 3 ovenware brand pizzas you co
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by ozmbie 8y ago
I’ve worked as a level designer on FPS games. Dynamic generation might suit certain types of games (or something like an event mode), but a huge amount of design work and iteration goes into the layout of multiplayer game levels to make the
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by ozmbie 8y ago
It doesn't matter if Apple's goal here is to get "desktop class" A-series CPUs manufactured and shipped at scale...as a precursor to an A-series Macbook.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
I’m starting to think that iPhone SoC performance gains are just a side effect of them investing heavily into their controlled hardware ecosystem. But the real payoff is in their wearable SoC. The watch is seeing huge performance gains. And
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by ozmbie 8y ago
The combination of democracy and term limits means that iterative change should be the norm. But something isn’t working right.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Who knows what future physics holds (I’d love to know!) but our best theory of gravity (Einstein’s general relativity) is shown to be amazingly accurate in every experiment ever conducted for it. Some form of only-detectable-via-gravity mat
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Dark matter’s interaction with “regular” matter via gravity is covered in the article. It also interacts with light via gravity. Measuring the interactions between galaxies, and things like gravitational lensing are providing evidence of da
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by ozmbie 8y ago
We can do horrifying things, too.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
I think the larger concern people have with stories like this, is that it’s one part of all human culture becoming homogenized. And we feel something is lost when that happens. As Terence McKenna put it: “All culture is being destroyed, all
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by ozmbie 8y ago
I recently replaced the battery in my 6S (it was free under a replacement program). Combined with iOS12, I have no reason to upgrade to a new phone for another year or two. Performance is great. The camera is really the only feature that I
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by ozmbie 8y ago
The most successful “transformations” or running of agile projects I’ve seen have been because key people understand the value in iteration. And they organise the entire operation around being able to iterate on the product. I’ve seen organ
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Modding my xbox to run XBMC and play DivX rips is what got me into Home Theatre in the first place. I now use an AppleTV 4K to stream UHD movies from a NAS. But the concept is the same.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Have you tried meditation? Nothing fancy, just taking 15 minutes to focus on breathing exercises. Whenever I find my mind racing at night, it's because I haven't taken any "down time" during the day. Laying in bed at nig
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by ozmbie 8y ago
People mine bitcoin because there are millions of dollars per day of bitcoin rewards available. I would guess that collectively, millions of dollars are being spent each day on cancer research around the world. These mining farms were built
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by ozmbie 8y ago
You’re correct, and that’s the bigger point. The entire industry business model is tilted in that direction.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
It mentiones why this is useful: > it will give scientists a much more accurate method of dating prehistorical events — the dates of fossils, for example. > “The dream is have a framework independent of the fossils that you can plug
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by ozmbie 8y ago
1) Figure out how to reliably and predictably get people into your app. Know where to advertise, how much it costs and how to optimise your ads and storefront. Don’t have a “build it and they will come” attitude. Solving this problem at sca
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by ozmbie 8y ago
It’s a pretty well understood psychological system of variable rewards. It’s the same reason people open up Facebook or Reddit or Hacker News every day: you don’t know what interesting content you’ll see and that keeps you coming back. Exce
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Haha. Well that's why the amounts of money people are putting in the network right now are very small. It's certainly not something anyone recommends using for large payments, at least yet. I think many people envision it somethin
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by ozmbie 8y ago
Lightning network payments can be routed through other users/nodes. So you only need one "on chain" transaction to then be able to send those funds back and forth to any other user in the network. eg: Alice opens a channel wi
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by ozmbie 8y ago
>1. It cannot meet demand, so folks are recreating existing point to point financial networks and then using the chain in the event of reconciliation. These define a new topology as surely as credit card companies redefined the topology
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by ozmbie 8y ago
This looks really interesting. Thanks!
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by ozmbie 8y ago
This is different to “LED TVs” at home. It’s closer to an OLED TV since each pixel in this cinema screen is individually lit.
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by ozmbie 8y ago
If you can invent a reliable alternative to proof-of-work distributed consensus there is a multi-billion dollar opportunity there. It’s inefficient, but before bitcoin came along there was no way to even do it. An inefficient way is better

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