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by riskable 5y ago
> Why did we think it would be a good idea to stick a computer between the brake pedal and the physics equation? Because human beings have such a terrible track record that even "dumb" computers running code written by shabby p
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by riskable 5y ago
It's just your classic, "it's not so simple" problem. SWIFT has endpoints just like any other protocol. Someone's job right now is to compile a list of endpoints (aka banks) that are to be cut off and then it'l
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by riskable 5y ago
Just release the 3D models for the frame of the thing and hold a contest for the 3D printing community to make one Heck, with those details I could probably make something that works well enough.
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by riskable 5y ago
I don't know how it works with their headset but with the Quest 2 hand tracking (which is handled via four cheap IR cameras) you just make a pinch motion with your fingers to "click" or click-and-drag: https://supp
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by riskable 5y ago
As someone who's used a Quest 2 for hours and hours with a heavy 3rd party head strap, over-the-ear headphones, and a battery pack strapped to my head I wouldn't worry about the weight too much. Even playing intense games where I
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by riskable 5y ago
The natural motion for removing any VR headset is to lift it off your face and then hold it via the head strap which points the display directly upwards. Also, when placing the headset down for charging it's also natural to hang it up
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by riskable 5y ago
Can't use these headsets outdoors because the sun will destroy the screens (powerful magnifying lens aiming right at the screen). In fact, you have to be careful indoors as well. These devices need a simple shutter that covers the dis
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by riskable 5y ago
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy talked about this... > THE WISE OLD BIRD: Listen. Our world suffered two blights. One was the blight of the robots. > ARTHUR DENT: Tried to take over, did they? > THE WISE OLD BIRD: Oh no, no,
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by riskable 5y ago
Sure would be nice if Apple and Google got together to accept each other's systems. Or even better: If there was a standard that let any device send money with any other device (using compatible hardware). Imagine if there was a regu
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by riskable 5y ago
In knowledge work the skill of the worker matters vastly more because "the process" mostly takes place in their head. You can optimize a workspace and tools for productivity and the reduction of errors but ultimately that has a m
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by riskable 5y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned this: The researchers claim this material is completely impervious to gasses . Does that mean we've finally got a way to store hydrogen without having it constantly leaking away?
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by riskable 5y ago
Firstly let me state that yes, you could make a GUI with Java but it would suck because the GUI toolkits available at the time were just downright awful (and they still are!). Want an app that's super bloated and looks awful (no n
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by riskable 5y ago
Hate to break this to you but even a website that consists of nothing but HTML (no CSS/JS) is still an "app". It's still being executed in the runtime environment of your browser when you load it. Just because the webs
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by riskable 5y ago
As long as there's some mechanism to identify the fraudulent cards people can be held accountable for trying to pass off a fake as the real thing. Making, selling, or using a fake vaccination card is a felony. Can just anybody cal
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by riskable 5y ago
Here you go: https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-versus-a-conservati...
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by riskable 5y ago
Not if the police prevent enough (of certain) people from voting. They could simply give all the residents of certain areas the impression that they will be arrested (or blacklisted/long-term intimidation) if they show up to vote. Als
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by riskable 5y ago
> They are trying to stop unmonitored exfiltration of data. This was always a pipe dream (preventing data exfiltration). The best any company do is to prevent accidental exfiltration of data. Like when someone attaches a spreadsheet
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by riskable 5y ago
My anecdote: A lot of people seem to be using Chromebooks to replace tablets (because good, non-Amazon tablets that aren't expensive are rare these days). You can pick up a $250 touchscreen Chromebook that works as a vastly superior
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by riskable 5y ago
Another requirement would be that the current owner of the patent be kept on file and up-to-date otherwise the patent gets automatically invalidated. As it stands right now it can be literally impossible to find the current owner of a pat
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by riskable 5y ago
Patents were never about "encouraging innovation". Originally they were a money-making scheme for the Crown and quickly evolved into a pay-to-play scheme whereby patents were granted on things like salt (See: https:/&#x2F
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by riskable 5y ago
I've finally released the (OpenSCAD) source files for my Void Switch and its paired magnetically-stabilized stabilizer design! For background, I've been obsessing over making a fully 3D-printable (analog) keyboard for about two y
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Show HN: Revolutionary parametric 3D printable magnetic key switches and stabs(github.com)
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by riskable 5y ago
I think you're confused. The truth you're talking about exists outside of both of those contexts (theism VS atheism). Religion is just a collection of beliefs that may or may not involve "an invisible man in the sky". Th
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by riskable 5y ago
Actually, no: If the atheists are right then the theists are 100% wrong. There's no middle ground there or "truth to both sides." If the theists are right... Which theists? Are we talking about polytheists? Single god but mul
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by riskable 5y ago
The big assumption here is that increasing birthrates (above replacement level) is somehow the ideal outcome of a society. What if the ideal outcome is that humans populations shrink to 1/100th their current size and most "work&qu
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by riskable 5y ago
> Athiesm seems like the objective rational truth. > But why do billions of people believe in an invisible man in the sky? There's no equivalency or even logical basis of comparison between these two statements. You could'v
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by riskable 5y ago
> I think that in the days before good windows security, "Before" ‽ Windows still sets every file as executable by default (just an example). If it had good security you wouldn't need anti-malware tools always running i
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by riskable 5y ago
> Cultivation as in agriculture? No, "cultivation" as in Xianxia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia_(genre)
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by riskable 5y ago
There's nothing inherently poor about the production/animation quality of Chinese animations (donghua). The animation/art can be just as good as most anime. In fact, a lot of high-quality animes outsource much of their pr
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by riskable 5y ago
It's an interesting question because it hasn't been litigated before! If you make/sell a Winnie the Pooh bear and Disney sues they can't make the claim that they own the copyright to it (anymore). What they could claim

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