skedaddle

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by skedaddle 4y ago
What you described is how a camera sees the world, and how we see it in pictures. Part of what seems unconvincing to me about these concept ideas is that the demo UIs are superimposed over basically isometric, wide depth of field pictures a
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by skedaddle 4y ago
That makes sense. I wonder how these transparent displays handle the focus issues though. If you're not looking at your Monocle/Glasses, maybe 1in in front of your eye, but instead on something hundreds or thousands of times that
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Dumb question maybe, but why does it need to be transparent or else projected directly into your eye? What doesn't work (or wouldn't work for you) about a flip-down hard backed display?
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by skedaddle 4y ago
"all programming philosophies are about programming" I don't think it is a reductive take. The second instance of the term here instead involves the more traditional concept program: "a regular plan of action in any unde
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by skedaddle 4y ago
It's been a while since I worked in this space but ~10 years ago I would have said TCP termination. It is a pretty big ask though. :) One issue in this area is that the underlying hard logic is limited, and differs from vendor to vendo
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Probably, but FPGAs/reconfigurable logic can't be clocked at CPU speeds and usually have a limited number of floating point units and other "hard" resources. At the higher end, yes definitely, especially packet switching
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by skedaddle 4y ago
In the row picture, the elements of a matrix are the coefficients of linear functions acting on its domain. In the column picture they are coordinates in its image. Any matrix A or B can be interpreted from either point of view on its own.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
There's no way to ship solar or hydro energy. And for shipping everything else -- how would you power a boat from India to the US? Or a plane? Hydrogen remains the only green (ish) game in town for these needs.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
> The "news" in America has devolved quite a bit. We've stopped funding public news sources at the level they need The ownership structure of most news organizations is qualitatively different now than it was in the mid-ce
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Just say what happened (Ray Lyle, Kansas City Star) Marginalize pseudo-events, don't make a story where there isn't any, don't re-report same stories (Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image) "always fight for progress and reform,
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by skedaddle 4y ago
I've been listening to AM broadcasts a lot over the last few months. I can get good reception from 2-3 local stations on my crystal set. One gives me state and national news, interviews, the weather; useful stuff. From the other I&#x27
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by skedaddle 4y ago
I disagree thoroughly. This was an extremely important moral for my dad, he imparted these lessons to us from birth (I know that might sound strange but I can't elaborate): we were to expect no more or less from our country than any ot
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by skedaddle 4y ago
We found newspaper articles that ran at the time my grandparents eloped from Misourri. They have headlines like "Kansas City woman marries Chinese", "she confirms he does speak English", "is pregnant with his son&qu
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Do you have an opinion on the Laschamp event? The Wikipedia article for the says the evidence for these ideas is weak in that case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laschamp_event > This loss of the geomagnetic shield
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by skedaddle 4y ago
It's highly variable. I didn't go to a Catholic school but where I grew up there were religious camps parents could send their kids to, where they could be hit. Some of those kids had problems with drugs or aggression, but others
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by skedaddle 4y ago
My dad grew up in Shanghai and often made a point of emphasizing how lucky we were to be children in America. We were spanked and occasionally slapped in the face, sometimes for small acts of disobedience or unhappiness. Though I suppose it
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Octave is wonderful. It's one of those free software projects whose success and necessity inspire the entire movement. In one of my first jobs I saved a bunch of money for the company just by porting stuff out of Matlab. It wasn't
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by skedaddle 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you've been trolled.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
No, mainly they identify the contributing factors and work to correct them. For a specific example check Air Canada 759, which nearly landed on a crowded taxiway at SFO in 2017. No one involved was fired afaik. https://www.youtu
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by skedaddle 4y ago
The great filter is table stakes, getting over it doesn't guarantee anything. It's also impossible to accurately and confidently predict the future millions of years in advance.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Remarkable argument from Musk's team that no impartial jury can be made for him in San Francisco, because he has fired too many people there.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
> My point is that all production is social production. The productive assets of every age are the joint product of all preceding ages, and all those born into the present are legitimately joint heirs of those assets. TLDR if you're
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Your example deals with something completely different. This issue is more akin to the meatpacking workers' deaths, which were very high at some companies. It does generally does happen in extreme circumstances, or when some singularly
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Would you trade a dozen workmen's lives to get a development project done in under one year, rather than two? Are there actually many examples of tech businesses doing this right now? It doesn't seem to happen all the time. You&#x
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Alan Kay was a big influence for me and I still respect him a lot, but you know, something about Smalltalk didn't work... and it was exactly this whole live object/heavyweight runtime distribution stuff.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Hey don't blame the species!
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by skedaddle 4y ago
It's "fascist", classically. For the Italian movement during the 20s-30s this idea was quite explicit. Roman empire was a strong theme in Italian propaganda, with Mussolini fashioned as a Caesar / Augustus type. It was e
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by skedaddle 4y ago
Well the norm for their generation is terrible. Look up "instagram mental health".
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by skedaddle 4y ago
"Cost of living" must have meant something different back then. To me, it doesn't survive very well as a concept in the interwar period.
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by skedaddle 4y ago
They are not comparing to compression cycle efficiencies. They are comparing ionocaloric results to other caloric cooling techniques. Electrocaloric cooling requires an E field of hundreds or thousands of volts per cm to cool a material 15K

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