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by sxp 4y ago
The first thing I tried in VR when I got my Oculus DK1 was was to create a Javascript REPL in VR. I've experimented with many iterations since then and the biggest issue is the resolution of the headset in terms of pixels per degree. T
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by sxp 4y ago
An ESP32+eink is a fun gadget. I got a https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5paper-esp32-development-... before it went out of stock and it makes a nice weather station/status display that pulls info down from an in
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by sxp 4y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/FUI/top/?sort=top&t=all is another favorite of mine. If you want an excessively deep analysis of sci-fi UIs, I suggest https://scifiinterfaces.com/ On a related n
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by sxp 5y ago
IQ tests aren't illegal by themselves, but it's up to the employer to show that IQ is an important part of the job. E.g, leetcode tests in FAANG interviews are defacto IQ tests since interviewers are told to evaluate the candidate
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Elon Musk’s promised Starlink terminals have reached Ukraine(theverge.com)
10 points by sxp 5y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
> But why did Conan Doyle light on cocaine specifically as Holmes’ drug of choice? The article doesn't seem to actually answer this question. It talks about cocaine's anaesthetic use but doesn't explain why Holmes was usin
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by sxp 5y ago
This article is bullshit. It's strange that the article faked the header image using Google's Daydream View but shows the user using hand tracking. The article doesn't go into any technical specifics about the headset or setu
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by sxp 5y ago
This is something I've always wanted for virtual textbooks. A single .html file with all the JS, CSS, images as inline data blobs, etc. For most physics, math, CS, etc books, this should be possible. It would make it trivial to downloa
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by sxp 5y ago
tl;dr: "So at Simul, for the past few years we’ve been building this protocol: it’s called Teleport VR. Let’s see what we can make with it!" An alternative view would be that HTTP(S) would be "the HTTP of VR". With WebXR
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by sxp 5y ago
Sample images at https://hidrive.ionos.com/share/ayvcprk57q show the resulting 5k*5k depth map. It has lower depth resolution than what I would expect from a $4k lens. It would be interesting to see a comparison of thi
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by sxp 5y ago
> "Extremely fast" When people make claims like this, it would be good if they put the benchmarks on the first page. E.g, how does it compare with https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu which lets you target Vulka
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by sxp 5y ago
Some video decoders don't like resolutions that aren't multiples of 2, 4, 16, etc. So rounding 211 to 212 is safer since the latter is an even number.
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by sxp 5y ago
> ...as Wired puts it, Elite Soccer Players Are Smarter Than You Are - “and the sharpest of them score more often than dimmer teammates.” Since Harald Bohr was a soccer player, this sort of checks out. The extreme intelligence of elite s
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by sxp 5y ago
Original report at https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY21FH007.aspx > With the assistance of the EDR module manufacturer, the NTSB Recorders Laboratory repaired and downloaded the fire-damaged EDR. Dat
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‘Driverless’ Tesla crash in Texas wasn’t driverless, NTSB says(theverge.com)
12 points by sxp 5y ago|2 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
Can anyone recommend a good guide to monads for people with a C/assembly background? I've always had trouble understanding functional programming topics until I could figure out how to implement them in C use a basic struct + func
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by sxp 5y ago
For those who haven't seen the special, the core of the controversy appears to be Chappelle mourning his friend, Daphne Dorman. She was a transgender standup comedian who opened for Chappelle and defended his comedy against the Twitter
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by sxp 5y ago
> If the temperature is above 75°F, the job turns the smart plug on. If the temperature is under 73°F, the job turns the smart plug off. Would turning on/off a high current A/C like this have any negative consequences? Some A&
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Kickstarter for Lynx, a passthrough AR/VR headset(kickstarter.com)
5 points by sxp 5y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
> He said that he had communicated with customers by typing on an iPad, and that some customers had refused to work with him as a result. When he told his manager, the manager said it was the customers’ right, he said....He was eventuall
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by sxp 5y ago
The code won't compile on modern C compilers due to some antiquated syntax. https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-incunabulum has a translation that should work on modern compilers. The original code is worth investig
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by sxp 5y ago
How much people are paid clearly matches the scope of “... Apple business and must advance the work, deliverables, or mission of Apple departments and teams,”. Paying people fairly advances the Apple teams.
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by sxp 5y ago
tl;dr: Humans have souls which machines will never have. The core of the article is this quote "I will extend that further to claim that the only way to get a very human-like thought process is to run the computation on very human-like
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by sxp 5y ago
The two previous tweets that triggered this are also interesting: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1423053681520414724 > A troll was trying to get a rise out of me yesterday, suggesting that I should so
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by sxp 5y ago
Personally, I still use FAANG and assume the N stands for N\icrosoft.
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by sxp 5y ago
One of the key distinctions between ESAs and real support animals is that real animals undergo thousands of dollars of training (normally paid via insurance) so that they are well behaved in public. If ESAs underwent the same training, more
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by sxp 5y ago
And make sure the action is a POST instead of a GET. GETs should never modify important state.
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by sxp 5y ago
It has 8 lines. 7 of those are metacommentary (aka "noise"). 1 is useful information ("data"). It would be more efficient to have a higher signal-to-noise ratio in comments. Especially when responding to someone who is p
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by sxp 5y ago
For RSUs, your link says "California will tax the wage income to the extent services were performed in California from the grant date to the vesting date." Where did you get the 33%/25% for years 3 & 4?
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by sxp 5y ago
Incognito mode works.

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