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by riggsdk 5y ago
Are there any "open" search index initiatives going on? Like a curated wikipedia/openstreemap of internet search indexes (with ignore-lists like uBlock has for ads)? I fully realize the impossibility of a handmade search inde
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by riggsdk 5y ago
In Star Trek TNG there was a story arc that culminated in the reveal of a precursor humanoid race that had seeded their genome around the galaxy so that they ultimately resulted in the “big” races like humans, Klingons, Vulcans, Cardassians
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by riggsdk 5y ago
Basically algorithmic complexity analysis often ignores the cost of accessing data because the underlying storage is sometimes unknown - be it in memory, on a spinning disc or on magnetic tape. Unfortunately that gives suboptimal algorithms
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by riggsdk 5y ago
I found the best response is "Have a nice day" and hang up. While we hate them, they probably hate their job too. Being "nice" and not wasting my or their time means that they practically stopped calling me.
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by riggsdk 5y ago
A motion triggered photo should then also be considered a selfie since the subject caused the photo to be taken, not the equipment owner. Imagine the ramifications of that for speed cameras. “You can’t use that image of me speeding! It’s co
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by riggsdk 5y ago
I also have this issue with Spotify. I barely know the names of the bands/groups/dj's I listen to. I tend to have both a broad and narrow music taste at the same time. When I like one song from a band I rarely like their othe
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by riggsdk 5y ago
I'm curious what you think of all the benchmarks that sais otherwise. In a race between a motorized lawn mower and a racecar - if the lawn mower wins which one is ultimately the best "racecar"?
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by riggsdk 5y ago
Denmark also just decided to make the AZ vaccine (which is also dropped) voluntary in the sense that you can opt-in for getting it if you aren't afraid of the risks. I'm sure the J&J vaccine will follow. So not entirely droppe
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by riggsdk 5y ago
On the (maybe?) reverse: I grew up on a farm and later moved to a big city to study computer science. It was only then that my allergy kicked in. I wonder if that would ever have happened if I had gone the farming route in life :P In any c
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by riggsdk 5y ago
Also even if you have two recyclable plastics, if you mix them together they can become un-recyclable.
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by riggsdk 5y ago
Didn't the exact same team who first discovered this later realize that they had similar (if not better) effects by simply diluting the subject(=mice)'s blood with a saline/albumin mixture? If I recall correctly it was simply
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Looking forward to the eventual timelapse compilations. Seeing nature in fast-forward makes me feel so much in awe of how much is actually going on in the world.
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by riggsdk 6y ago
It also fuels the imagination for things like all-in-one lab grown clones of yourself (but without the brain) for replacement "parts".
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by riggsdk 6y ago
I find it funny how it all boils down to symbolism. What we symbolize for others though what we wear. If you want to show others that you go for nonconformism then you have to use some common shared language to get that across - and that th
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by riggsdk 6y ago
For a long time I thought of the sun as being the product of many cycles of recycled material from older suns - but if you look at the cosmic calendar our sun has been around for roughly half (a little less than) the age of the universe! Fo
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Technology connections covers quite a bit of ground on various types of humidifiers and their up/downsides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFAiCMLJ14 htt
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by riggsdk 6y ago
As with almost everything it is a matter of tolerance levels. You can in some countries say someting is fat-free (or sugar-free) if it contains less than 0.5 grams per serving. Lactose-free stuff still contains a very small amount of lactos
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by riggsdk 6y ago
It went open source: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Isn’t that in practice the same thing?
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Denmark also just got a “drivers license”-app that is valid everywhere in the country. You only need to bring your physical card when you travel. Our healthcare social security (national id) card is on the way as an app as well. Oddly enoug
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Because they unfortunately don't have to legally. It never caught on in politics and lawmaking. Not even the GDPR seemed to bother revisiting it. By honoring it they would loose an advantage over all the other ones who don't.
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Just the fact that it sends out-out HTTP calls to all those providers means that they now know that you are using that website. It's terrible design.
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by riggsdk 6y ago
The cookie policies and laws are broken. The ever-annoying cookie popups are breaking the internet in more ways than it fixes it. The choice to make each website show their own cookie selection screens is part of all this. I am one of the f
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by riggsdk 6y ago
That is the closest I have seen any rendered 3D faces getting to escaping the uncanny valley. The subtle mouth animations and volumetric lips that actually look like they are made of skin and flesh. Most mo-caps looks creepy as hell when ma
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by riggsdk 6y ago
I can get that sensation once in a while when I'm driving for an hour or so in my car. My brain kinda makes the car an extended part of the body so it's a bit of a strange sensation to suddenly "rediscover" your arms and
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by riggsdk 6y ago
To augment something you need to have whatever is there to begin with - so they either need a camera or you need transparent screens. An IR structured light depth camera is still ... well ... a camera.
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Especially if Apple keeps pushing their custom GPU's (which are already at 3nm). The current M1 GPU is somewhere between a GTX 1050 and a 1070 - so still a few generations old. With a bit more focus on the GPU part (and use a bit more
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by riggsdk 6y ago
It greatly depends on the techniques used for rendering. Current rendering engines are focusing on pixel perfection at every part of the screen as they don't know where you are looking. More and more games use a hybrid between path&#x2
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Since they do mention eye-tracking they can heavily exploit foveated rendering which will make the resolution extremely high at the exact point where your eyes are looking and much lower in the outer regions of your vision. This is practica
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by riggsdk 6y ago
Very cool, though hardly behaves like in real life. I can’t seem to make the “hello world” of latte art (the heart). With a few tweaks I’m sure it can be possible. I think the main issue is that it’s inherently a 2D-only simulation where la

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