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by todd8 9y ago
Thanks for your insightful comments. I hadn’t thought of sensors as an application and wondered about what this would be good for.
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The Best Windows Laptop $1,000(ish) Can Buy(google.com)
1 points by todd8 9y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
In this paper, the authors calculate that between 110 to 196 Million people will be saved from premature death by reducing temperature rise from 2°C to 1.5°C. From the abstract: > We therefore examine the human health benefits of increa
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Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated of CO2 emissions reductions(nature.com)
2 points by todd8 9y ago|1 comments
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Is Ada a failed language?(medium.com)
63 points by todd8 9y ago|138 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
No that's not how ISO works. The Canon ME20F-SH shoots high definition video at professional video shutter speeds and has an available ISO range of 800 to 4,560,000. At $20,000 I'm not suggesting that this exact camera would be ap
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by todd8 9y ago
I've read (see [1]) that humans have a low-light ability that approximates ISO 60,000, a pretty large value and larger than simple video cameras provide. However, very high end pro/enthusiast SLR's go considerably higher, see
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by todd8 9y ago
You’re right. What I discovered was that I would lose the mouse cursor because I couldn’t quickly move it to an edge without tracking it visually all the way to begin with and once the cursor crosses the edge it breaks visual continuity by
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by todd8 9y ago
On some early graphical computer user interface, I can’t remember which one, one could specify that the mouse cursor would “wrap” to the opposite edge. It was like the ultimate non-Fitt’s law configuration. I hated it when I tried it, I wou
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by todd8 9y ago
I’ve heard the answer to this question somewhere, but now I can’t remember what I heard. :) More seriously, some of this, to me, depends on what I’m listening to or reading. Fiction or easy non-fiction audio books do allow some degree of mu
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, the genie gives you exactly what you ask for but misinterpretes what you wish for.
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by todd8 9y ago
This discussion of ciphers vs puzzles has reminded me of one of my favorite books growing up. It was Helen Fouché Gaines Elementary Cryptanalysis . I found it in the library in 1962 and treasured the copy my Aunt purchased for me. This boo
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by todd8 9y ago
My wife and I have a the simplest, silly "secret" recipe. Many of her girlfriends don't work and some are really amazing cooks, but my wife who works full time doesn't feel like she has time to bake cookies or make three
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by todd8 9y ago
According the University of Texas Energy Institute[1], the federal financial support in the USA for generation of energy is estimated to be (2019 numbers): Oil & Gas $0.95/MWh Coal $1.07/MWh Nuclear
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California cops use decoy to catch whoever is shooting at Apple and Google buses(finance.yahoo.com)
16 points by todd8 9y ago|2 comments
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by todd8 9y ago
I met a nice person once that worked at an IBM location. He was in fantastic shape, he commuted to work 5 miles away—on foot! He ran both ways. I barely qualified to run the Boston Marathon and had a good time running the race through my ol
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by todd8 9y ago
Why should rural New Yorkers be paying for NYC’s MTA funding?
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by todd8 9y ago
In the 70's I had a co-worker, perhaps the best programmer in the department, that had gone to school with Knuth. He told me that one day while in college Knuth was using one of the available key-punch machines to punch his program on
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by todd8 9y ago
The answers to your questions are no and no, but the reasons for my not wanting a repairable electronics law are economic, philosophical, and pragmatic/political. Naturally, consumers should be protected from fraudulent claims and misl
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by todd8 9y ago
Once upon a time, programmers didn't have IDE's, Emacs, or even text editors. I'd been programming for seven or eight years before Bill Joy created vi. Each programmer and each program had its own style. Often, a program&#x27
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by todd8 9y ago
I’m happy this is happening in a state that I don’t live in. What next, in their infinite wisdom and prescient vision, will the political class think up for us? Maybe every restaurant’s deserts must be gluten free or automobile repair place
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by todd8 9y ago
I've got a copy that I bought new while in grad school (back in the '70s). I read and reread it; it's a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I kept in in my grad student office in the CS building, so to protect it and my other CS book
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by todd8 9y ago
Only if solar wind can be modeled by a uniform field. Radiation from flares might not drop off in an inverse squared relationship, but I'm not an astrophysicist so this is just speculation.
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by todd8 9y ago
That's such a good idea, and it's just the sort of inventive thinking that I really like hearing: the problem is obvious and anybody that knew anything about DLP's should realize that they can very rapidly control the illumin
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by todd8 9y ago
Well, I did hesitate when I was writing that statement, and technically you are right that microscopic mirrors positioned by electrostatic forces are electromechanical. :) My original point, and what my complete sentence said, is that the t
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by todd8 9y ago
I noticed on the TI DLP product web page for automotive [1] that heads up displays are another intended use. I've driven my daughter's car and really like color heads up display in her vehicle--It took a few minutes to get used. T
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by todd8 9y ago
They will certainly be more complex in the sense that software will control the areas in the drivers view to be illuminated, but headlight assemblies that respond to steering position and car pitch angle are already expensive and burdened w
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by todd8 9y ago
TI's DLP technology, used in 85% of digital cinema displays, utilizes a matrix of tiny articulated mirrors, one for each pixel. Each of these mirrors has two controllable positions (for example +17 degrees and -17 degrees). A separate
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, From CDC: > In large central metro areas, those aged 35–44 years (2.08), 45–54 years (2.60), 55–64 years (2.60), 65–74 years (3.36), 75–84 years (5.19), and ≥85 years (5.24) had statistically higher death rates than those in the sam
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by todd8 9y ago
I’ve noticed that restaurants have jumped in the “small plate” bandwagon serving tapas style dishes of a few bites and meant to be shared. This isn’t really my favorite kind of sit down dinning, but it allows restaurants to generate larger

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