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by yarcob 6y ago
Can anybody remember the story, I think it was a few years ago, when a journalist warned in an article that messaging apps like Whatsapp are vulnerable because they rely on a server for key exchange, and all the security researchers request
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by yarcob 6y ago
I'm trying to come up with an explanation why TI would do that. The only explanation I can come up with is that TI wants a closer relationship with their customers. They don't want to be a commodity chip producer. When distributor
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by yarcob 6y ago
As soon as they make a usable remote control for that robot the US military is going to buy a bunch of them and attach machine guns and use them to shoot up "suspected terrorists". Looking at what the US military has been doing wi
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by yarcob 6y ago
Offline trajectory optimisation sounds a lot like a dancer training dance moves?
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by yarcob 6y ago
There's more to it than just that. There's no way that just moving to predefined limb positions would be stable. You can't script an unstable system without feedback. Any tiny perturbation would cause the robot to fall over.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that most overtime regulations apply only when the employer instructs you to work overtime. You get a higher rate because you have to work more hours than you agreed in your contract. You can't just voluntarily wor
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by yarcob 6y ago
But this is an hour cap. The employer is saying, don't work more than 20 hours, or I'll lower your rate. It's better than a strict cap, since it does offer people to work more if they want. It would only be unfair if the empl
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by yarcob 6y ago
In my opinion the best work monitor in the world is the built in monitor of the Surface Studio. It's a 28" 3:2 monitor, resolution is 4500x3000. Text is crisp, images are perfect, there's lots of vertical space. As an additio
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by yarcob 6y ago
This is the solution. Power doesn't have to be free, but it should be everywhere. It's like all the EV charging networks try to replicate gas stations. It's stupid. Nobody wants to take their car to a charging station, pay by
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by yarcob 6y ago
Opening bank accounts is pretty cheap and easy in Austria. I don't know what it's like in Indonesia, hence my question.
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by yarcob 6y ago
The problem in that case was with a partners bank, not my own. The solution was to request payments in USD rather than EUR and have my bank do the conversion.
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by yarcob 6y ago
The hypocrisy is that Craig Federighi jokes about Marihuana all the time in Apple keynotes, but when a 3rd party developer does the same thing they ban it...
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by yarcob 6y ago
Developer probably has a private Github repo for source code and a public repo for things they want publicly accessible. It's funny that much of the public only associates Github with Open Source even though all their paying customers
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by yarcob 6y ago
Did you actually try multiple banks? Is the banking ststem really that broken in Indonesia? My experience is that bank fees vary greatly. My (limited) experience with US banks is that they have huge hidden fees and you get really bad curren
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by yarcob 6y ago
You can get 3D data from a single moving camera. The technique is called structure from motion and has been demonstrated to work well more than a decade ago. The biggest problem with relying on visual data is that you get very noisy data. P
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by yarcob 6y ago
Apparently there are people who try to mark public roads as "private" on Open Street Maps to discourage Waze from sending traffic. But Waze seems to love sending people via quiet roads, so maybe that's why Google is ignoring
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by yarcob 6y ago
Most daily newspapers have plenty stuff to read for hours, and often come with extras with even more stuff to read.
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by yarcob 6y ago
When I was a kid we didn't have a TV, but that doesn't mean we spent all day talking. My dad spent his time reading the newspaper or Dick Francis murder mysteries, my mom spent her time either on the phone talking to people or lay
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by yarcob 6y ago
I hope nobody throws it away!
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by yarcob 6y ago
I think the graphite iMac DV special edition was the most beautiful computer ever made.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I think the problem is deeper than that. Every company wants to advertise to high earning college educated people, and nobody wants to advertise to unemployed anti-vaxers. But presumably Facebook has a lot more of the latter. So they have t
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by yarcob 6y ago
I recently installed 5x20W LED lights in my windowless office kitchen for a ficus I got from a friend. And it's so much nicer now! It's amazing what light can do to a room. I think most homes should have an order of magnitude more
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by yarcob 6y ago
If you just want decent video quality for a zoom meeting where everyone shows up in their pyjamas then I agree -- setting up lighting like I described is wasted effort. But for example, if you are a teacher, or an instructor, or if you have
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by yarcob 6y ago
4x 5W LED isn't really a lot of light, especially if you are diffusing it. If your webcam can work with that, it's not that bad :) Edit: I just read your comment again and realized that you are putting the light really close to yo
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by yarcob 6y ago
To be honest I have no idea what photo and video lights cost now. When I looked into it a couple of years ago a minimum set of two strobes, mounts and a reflector would have cost more than 300€.
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by yarcob 6y ago
Here's a trick how to get beautiful studio-like lighting for less than 50€: - buy two large sheets of white styrofoam (1m x 0.5m or bigger) - buy two cheap bright floodlights (the brighter the better) - get some mounting materials (eg.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I recently sat down at an old computer (2006 iMac) that I had given to the kids for watching DVDs. I realised it still had Xcode installed. So I opened it and started a new project. And I really enjoyed it! Something about coding on this ol
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by yarcob 6y ago
I wonder if they do any post processing on the prints. Some wooden boats are coated with glass fiber & epoxy resin to protect the wood. You could do the same thing with a 3D printed part -- that would make it watertight and would also i
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by yarcob 6y ago
You're right, I had no idea how realistic drivers behave in newer games. Would be interesting to see what tricks GTA pulls off to hide the limits of their AI. Obviously they do a better job. (Sidenote: When the guy started beating up p
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by yarcob 6y ago
Reading the Twitter thread I wonder if people just have unrealistic expectations. Self driving cars are a billion dollar industry, and yet you expect a game dev studio to come up with a realistic AI for drivers? It's a game. People kno

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