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by te0006 8y ago
that short-lived moment of hope when I misread the beginning of the title as "actual science"
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by te0006 8y ago
Good for you. For my part, I just stopped liking Toyota.
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by te0006 8y ago
Try sailing. No need to have an expensive yacht - a sailing dinghy or a humble daysailer will do. (In fact, the smaller the boat the more direct and intense the experience will be.) Older but perfectly usable small boats are surprisingly ch
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by te0006 8y ago
Also Opera is the only major mobile browser left with a decent text reflow implementation. Shame on Chrome for dropping it.
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by te0006 8y ago
https://www.tuvit.de/en/services/certification/
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by te0006 8y ago
You might use an app like taxi.eu to call a taxi, which allows to add constraints like "credit cards accepted".
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by te0006 8y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4838 "Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture This document describes an architecture for delay-tolerant and disruption-tolerant networks, and is an evolution of the architecture
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by te0006 8y ago
Looking back to my youth in Eastern Germany, in which I devoured each and every Lem book, I will never fathom how his novel "Wizja lokalna" ("Eyewitness Account") (1982) was able to make it past the censors of this commu
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by te0006 9y ago
Yes this is annoying but at least you can easily switch it off. Also, Opera Mobile is the only remaining halfway mainstream mobile browser that still does text reflow/wrapping automatically and efficiently. Shame on Chrome in that rega
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by te0006 9y ago
it can have many other nasty side effects too, such as weakening your immune system. Which can in turn cause rising levels of inflammaton which is really undesirable w.r.t. the original objective. So if your physical constitution is not per
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by te0006 9y ago
If you can name a short (<5 mins) piece of music more beautiful, moving but also all-encompassing than Bach's "Air on a G-String" please do so; I can't. Listen to this interpretation before deciding: https:/&#x2
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by te0006 9y ago
The Fidesmo dual-interface smartcard might fit the bill: http://shop.fidesmo.com/product/fidesmo-card-dual-interface You would need to buy and install the U2F applet ("card app") onto it. There are other appl
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by te0006 10y ago
It's a standard technique of sociopaths in management roles. See "Implement an 'It could be worse' Program" in the relevant classic (and hilarious) textbook: http://www.demotivation.com/excerpts&#x2
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by te0006 10y ago
This estimate seems a wee bit low IMHO.
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by te0006 10y ago
Modeling needs to get easier, especially for such simple replacement parts tasks. Any suggestions regarding tools for_capturing_ 3D (or at least 2D) models from photos or videos of existing objects? I imagine if there are multiple referenc
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by te0006 11y ago
Interesting ideas (even though your prediction regarding the next five years seems rather... bold). Where is this vision sketched in some more detail? Any links?
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by te0006 11y ago
I'm not the one you asked the question but yes, that's what they do and it is a really dumb decision. I'm German and for perfecting my passive(i.e. understanding while listening) English language skills, I really like to vie
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by te0006 11y ago
It hasn't become much better. I use it from time to time but cannot really recommend it. The main problem is that some applications (e.g. LibreOffice) do not cooperate well with Desktops. LibreOffice is unable to have multiple document
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by te0006 11y ago
Well for a suitably frugal definition of "useful", you can. See their whitepaper: http://getfreevolt.com/downloads/RF%20Energy%20Harvesting%20... Any EE experts around, willing to validate their assessments?
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by te0006 11y ago
"a personal touch"... towards the user this creates the impression that the service has human beings working hard to provide high-quality advice. Nevertheless, many requests will be answerable by a combination of natural language
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by te0006 12y ago
ha, "horrendous"? Try an S4 mini and see what Samsung can do when they really want a phone to have a bad camera.
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by te0006 12y ago
Here in Germany we have a nationwide network of those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation like a 24/7 automated post office. Great for getting _and returning_ shipments not just from Amazon but from most an
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by te0006 12y ago
Alas, another thread on Lem and again no-one mentions the one text of his most pertinent to HN: Golem XIV. Think transhuman intelligence, think quantum computing, think singularity, and imagine Lem thought about this stuff in the _seventies
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by te0006 13y ago
Celebrate Pi? Really? With its bogus factor of two infesting each and every equation? Simplicity and elegance, your name is Tau. http://tauday.com/
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by te0006 13y ago
This is just sick. Does at least some tax apply to such transactions in the US? Or think what the Gates Founation woul dbe able to do with just, say, a quarter of this money.
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by te0006 13y ago
Your smartphone gets strapped in front of your eyes with a bit of optics inbetween, apps display side-by-side 3D and use the phone's gyro and accelerometer for basic head tracking, and voila. Comes with SDK, some apps already availabl
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DIVE: head-mounted smartphone immersive VR for €50 (durovis.com)
5 points by te0006 13y ago|2 comments
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by te0006 13y ago
thingamy.com have been building and offering a web-based system for supporting what they chose to call "Barely Repeatable (business) Processes" for years, and put a lot of tought into it. Written in Lisp btw. See http:/&#x2F
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by te0006 13y ago
Nice. A feature-complete, fast, open-protocol, open-source(partially at least), free-and-committed-to-remaining-free IM solution (iOS+Android mobile apps AND infrastructure) that seems reasonably secure, to a non-expert at least. Have been
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by te0006 15y ago
Can't wait for the opportunity to lose my entire savings in a two-minutes backstreet incident. Better use this only for the equivalent of todays's purse with as much cash as you feel you need for the next few days. See also http://news.yco

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