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by thdrdt 6y ago
I like his way of thinking: don't create new parts for your prototype all the time when they don't work but just fix them quickly so they will work (with tape, nails, glue and what not). And only when the prototype works create ne
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Around 10:25 the time-lapse.
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I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video](youtube.com)
560 points by thdrdt 6y ago|114 comments
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Cheap 3 axis CNC machines are very dumb (I broke a home built machine once because there were no end stops and I programmed it wrong (stepper motors are very powerful)). And there are professional CNC machine costing waay more than this rob
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by thdrdt 6y ago
This is exactly how you recognize a good internet marketeer. They don't focus on getting a lot of traffic, they focus on getting the right traffic.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Personally I like his forms. But I sometimes wonder if he is a good architect. Maybe he should be called a great artist. The same can be said about some website/app designers. Beautiful designs but barely useable. Maybe those designers
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I like Blender a lot. Especially since v2.8. How you can rearrange the interface. The shortcuts. How fast it is.
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Ask HN: What's the best piece of software you use every day?
36 points by thdrdt 6y ago|52 comments
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by thdrdt 6y ago
You are right. 'die' refers to falling apart. I am not an expert but I believe the reproduction of a virus is more 'chemical' than 'biological'.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
If they take the efford to alter the circuit they might as well place a camera somewhere else, listen to all your network traffic, install a (hardware) keylogger and what not. I think you are taking this too far. People who fear to be track
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I am not sure if this is true for the benchmarks but last week they fixed a bug in (I believe) hair rendering. Render times went from 45 to 5 minutes. So it all depends in what is being rendered and how a render core is optimized for it. Al
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Well the comparison is between CPU and GPU. Will there come a point that an affordable CPU is faster than a GPU? Maybe that time will come but I am not sure if that will happen soon.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
If you look at the Blender benchmarks you see that the 64 core Threadripper is faster than any GPU. But the price is steep for that CPU (almost $4000). So while CPU's can be faster the question is if it is relevant. Because you still n
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I'm not sure your CPU will be faster. I'm using Blender on a Ryzen 9 3900x with a RTX 2070S. The CPU is never faster than the GPU. CPU + CUDA is way faster, but when I use OptiX (RTX) it is unbelievable how fast it is. The GPU Ray
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by thdrdt 6y ago
"...an excuse to comment rarely" Well you can also look at it from another angle: unnecessary comments are a distraction and make code less readable. You are not writing comments just to comment. You write them to make things cl
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Yes, I think your example is better because "// Set the value of b to the number of iterations we'll be making" is almost the same as "/ Set the value of b to 3" when the code explains that `b` is
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Yep. I once worked at a company that had backups of all the data. Until they needed a backup and discovered they were not readable. Months of work were gone.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
The only time I place comments is exactly this: to explain why. Today I just had this example. I placed a little sleep in a loop. But there is absolutely no way to know why it is there. So I inserted a comment to explain the loop is DOSing
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I believe it is more than the Fear Of Missing Out. We are very curious creatures. It can be caused by not liking your job and looking for a way out. It can be a dopamine addiction. Most distractions are very easy to process so when you are
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Another way to look at it is: stop context switching (all the time). Personally a lot of context swithing is giving me stress and is draining my energy. It also makes me less productive. So I believe the article is spot on.
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Hundreds of Scientists Call on WHO to Recognize Coronavirus Airborne Risk(slate.com)
5 points by thdrdt 6y ago|1 comments
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by thdrdt 6y ago
There are some nice talks from Jordan Peterson about the significance of the Bible and it's stories. It has a lot of positive reactions even from atheists. Maybe you also can appreciate them.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted. There is growing evidence that the virus mostly spreads as aerosol and that the amount of particles you inhale dictates how sick you get. The so called super spread events account for over 80% of the
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ganbrood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganbrood/
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Photographer creates photo portraits from paintings with AI(basuterwijk.com)
3 points by thdrdt 6y ago|1 comments
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by thdrdt 6y ago
It's old software but I believe this can also stitch 'flat' panorama's: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ See "Stitching flat scanned images": http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Well the moment you allow access because you think the app has good intentions it can misuse it later. Maybe the popup should not show when the user presses 'paste'. But I believe awareness is the first step.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
The "Selling Right Now" feature on the homepage shows it's success. Some years ago you could read what was being sold. Today it's scrolling too fast :)
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by thdrdt 6y ago
When you install software from JetBrains and have the registration key on your clipboard it will autofill it into the key input field. There are so many programs using this that it all boils down to trust. Personally I don't trust Link
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Looks like this is what Bret Victor is promoting for years: a real-time feedback loop with your code and the outcome. This would also be very nice for game development as Bret Victor demonstrated multiple times. great!

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