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by zwieback 4y ago
Sure, at this point we all know social media is like any other drug. And we love drugs and keep doing them, the wars on drugs continue to be spectacular failures. I don't think legislating or shaming the companies themselves will help.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yes, please, I'm sad every time my 55+ year old eyes can't decipher something. Especially when I'm hands-free riding my bike on a sunny day.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'm part of the remaining 10 percent.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I can get my knives sharp but even my really nice ones need to get resharpened after a few days of food prep. How long do these tuna-knives stay sharp, I wonder? Also, that's a big damn fish! Another question I have: I like my edges to
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by zwieback 5y ago
Of course you don't need to really understand entropy for it to be useful. It's definitely an interesting concept but when I was crunching equations for Thermodynamics, one of the weeder classes for ME, it becomes clear you need i
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by zwieback 5y ago
Also speakers, PAs, etc. and really nice saxophones.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Maybe not entirely a bad thing, if one plumber says that this other plumber is good I assume he knows what he's talking about. The flipside, of course, is that a mutual appreciation society excludes interesting outsiders.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Cool, but what's the advantage of this process? All the downsides of SLS plus more complex optics and chemistry so there must be some reason they are working on this.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Seems too cheap, actually. Charlotte is the best of the three, imo.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Wonderful, from now on I'll be imagining nymphs powering anything that moves on its own. Thanks, Demeter!
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by zwieback 5y ago
Articulated robot arm sounds like the most flexible solution. Trickiest part here would be safety - any robot with the power to chop, grind, cut would also have to have a good safety system or be enclosed. Right now I'm thinking about
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by zwieback 5y ago
lots of guardrails!
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by zwieback 5y ago
Exactly. I've worked in manufacturing automation long enough to know that the equipment needed to generate the huge variety of food even a mediocre cook can prepare would fill multiple kitchens. Automation equipment that's safe an
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by zwieback 5y ago
I think this is a general pattern: since the beginning of the industrial revolution people have been dreaming about robots doing things for us, replacing entire tasks. The reality is that putting computers into existing devices makes a lot
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by zwieback 5y ago
Good place to ask this: what about the "standard" academic paper font(s) from the LaTeX tradition. I hate it but it gives an immediate gravitas to anything.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Never really thought about it before reading this article but I think I prefer different fonts for different content: strong preference for clean sans-serif mono fonts for coding, something like Arial for general purpose content and somethi
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by zwieback 5y ago
I had good luck accelerating my Applesoft programs with TASC but I was surely a terrible programmer back then.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Thanks so much for posting that, looks like I'm eligible now. Was always feeling a bit bad when the blood drive came around at my workplace.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Not yet but I have a Twiddler still in original packaging but I think it's an old DB9 RS232 so it'll take some doing to interface it to my PC...
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by zwieback 5y ago
Having grown up in Germany I cannot donate blood here in the US (mad cow) so I guess I'll stew in my toxins...
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by zwieback 5y ago
My whole family (parents in their 50s, kids in 20s), we use it for fun and family group chats. When it was new it became the defacto IM standard in the kids' age group and it just stuck. Save for straight SMS, which pre-paid users don&
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by zwieback 5y ago
It's interesting the II shows up so frequently once he mostly boiled it down. A lot of old-timey jammers playing the songs he analyzed just don't play any minor chords so that beginners can keep up, so they play the II where it sh
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by zwieback 5y ago
I do have the expectation to not be tracked at all times but tbf they got a warrant.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Great list, thanks! Opinions on almost every bullet.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Came here to say that. At the time the post was written it was really just comparing x86 to the already dying RISC. Nowadays that comparison makes even less sense as the two schools of thought have more or less converged.
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by zwieback 5y ago
What? Who doesn't use LEDs nowadays? I haven't seen a CFL in a long time.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Thanks for the link, major nostalgia. I grew up with that, we even had a Bildschirmtext terminal. Should have added that to my original list.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Oh right, totally forgot about that. Telamonian Ajax (aka "Greater Ajax") is the one I'm thinking of.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Audio is pretty slow but is an M0 a good core for DSP? I would think something with floating point would be more suitable.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Oh oh! Well, at least I'm one standard deviation older than the worst!

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