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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
fwiw, Google kills a small part of me every time their captcha asks me to identify the motorcycle but shows me scooters and/or mopeds.
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Thanks to the massive GPU/APU wave we’re starting to see some very fun demos using realtime computational fluid dynamic simulations instead of blade element models [1]. This would let you accurately sim helicopter prop wash on landing
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The Long Road to Multitouch (2022)(hiddenheroes.netguru.com)
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tldr Jobs put two teams to work on the iPhone development- the iPod team led by Fadell and the iPad team lead by Forstall (Apple began work on the iPad before the iPhone, though Jeff Han’s 2006 TED talk changed everything). Fadell presented
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Now that the guy is no longer actively litigating early stage startups that he Angel invested in, and the true origin stories of the iPhone are more widely known he has become mostly irrelevant. However I would say there is meta informati
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>If a debacle on this scale is surprising today... I used to think of American passenger train travel as this romantic affair until being similarly stranded in an Amtrak the Cascade's for 24 hours with no cell or heat back in 2019 (
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Coffee. While Vienna is located at the crossroads between the planes and the Alps along the Danube making it modestly fortifiable from previous Ottoman incursions in 1529 and essential hub for quarterly markets. As the easternmost capital n
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Oh neat. That key extraction technique is very fun. Has anyone seen this this before in another major project?
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One of my unorthodox views is that the popular blue light obsession is exacerbated by magnesium deficiency, given how hard it is to get enough in our diets. Yes, blue light disrupts melatonin and makes it harder to get to bed. But magnesium
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Oxo claims they use Eastman Tritan Renew recycled plastics [1] which are FDA and EFSA certified for food use[2]. That said, I’ve personally been to multiple cookware factories in China and Taiwan and saw bags of Dow thermoplastic resins nex
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
See also Csiksgentmihalyi’s Flow Theory [1]. Vygotsky‘s ZPD is a useful 1-dimensional tool (literally a number line) for learning I find (to oversimplify) Csiksgentmihalyi‘z to be a better 2-D tool for conceptualizing performance in a task.
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
My understanding was that Tarsnap was just fine and that was the preferred solution for Hacker News outside Dropbox.
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Was unaware of the Aktiia. Thank you for posting. I saw firsthand how CGM changed my behavior and would love the same for ketones and blood pressure. I am particularly excited about the UT Austin research[1] that used conductive temporary t
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty (2021)(datacolada.org)
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Contempt culture is a form of negative reinforcement which has a clear utility function: it drives behavior change by reducing undesirable actions, which can be critical in certain learning environments or social communities. I'd agree
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Ten years ago Ubiquiti offered commercial grade hardware at consumer prices. Now I understand it’s the inverse. At least according to the disgruntled former employees that left sometime between the lifelogging wearable camera acquisition an
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
That’s a literal interpretation, but it misses the point of “Hard Landing”. The book argues that while the airlines weren’t monopolies in name, they acted like a government-sanctioned monopoly under the Civil Aviation Board. The Airline Der
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
It’s a spectrum not a binary. 1970’s Airline breakups were very beneficial to customers with lower prices and more routes popping up virtually overnight (though read “Hard Landing” if you want a more nuanced take), 1980’s AT&T breakup w
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Yes, that is a nice solution. I suppose the reason is because the Bitwarden option is cross platform and I don't want to sync two password managers. However when using Bitwarden the recent guidance is to turn off autofill[1] but even w
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
I’ll be hyperbolic and say the login flow is identical. A) Go to website, click through a password manager to copy and paste an arbitrary string of characters, receive TOTP request sent to your email to confirm your identity. Or B) Go to we
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
The author is conflating a different contemporaneous issue of the PS3 (YLOD) with the XBox 360. It wasn't "capacitors". Further, I would argue it wasn't monocausal but a big finger can be pointed at thermal cycling fatig
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Fun. You should link the github in the youtube. I assume it's this one? https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-paint
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
I found this playlist to be one of the better explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B4Kyj2rLw&list=PLx7-Q20A1V...
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Consumer Reports just published (as in last week) a report[1] surveying a number of these services and found almost all of them to be a little bit effective, none of them to be highly effective, and the cheapest of the lot to be the most ef
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Nice. I'm remodeling a place now. Observations from trying the flow: Fell off the flow when I had to rasterize our plans, when I tried to add multiple rooms, and again during checkout. PDF support should be a must, ideally multiple roo
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I recently performed a title search on a property going back to the 1820’s - the land was issued to the original owner by James Monroe and the buck stopped there. An acquaintance performed a title search on another property going back to th
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
Ah this brings back fond memories of the EngineYard challenge that consumed HackerNews in 2009[1][2][3][4]. From what I recall it was a bunch of YC founders writing janky cuda code vs djb who proceeded to smoke us all. [1] https:/&#x2
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by paulgerhardt 2y ago
The Kuiper proto-network came online in November last year with two satellites [1][2]. If you live near their Denver office you can pick them up on Ka band or just look up their id’s on CelesTrak or NORAD (2023-154A and 2023-154B). Having
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Feels like this is a direct response to the Amazon / Project Kuiper 7” terminal announced last year: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/heres-...
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Fifteen years ago I went to a museum exhibit on Reggio Emilia teaching methods that I still think about once a week or so. (Reggio Emilia is similar to Montessori in that it is child-led exploration but different in that encourages multipl

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