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by zwieback 5y ago
That was my reaction. To be fair author says: "Of the formats listed here, TIFF is probably the one most likely to still be in wide use, but it has evolved into a more specialized format for professionals, in comparison to something li
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by zwieback 5y ago
Another one that didn't make it: writing a packed binary file where the first two shorts are the width and height and then just 8 bit grayscale values. That was my favorite way to serialize images but I never had the foresight to add e
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by zwieback 5y ago
I've got a variant of this disease called "Shift-F10" mentality so I don't have to move my hand to the mouse.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Hough transform is awesome and it was patented in 1962!
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by zwieback 5y ago
Yeah, those look pretty cool. Not sure if they could go on every bike path but would cover almost all use cases.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'm a year-round non-e-bike commuter in Oregon. I love e-bikes but until you can ride without getting soaked it'll be successful only part of the year in most of the US. We need something between the e-bike and golf-cart style EVs
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by zwieback 5y ago
Probably has nothing to do with organic and much to do with where your stuff comes from, time of harvest, care taken in transport, length of storage, etc. Since there's a strong correlation I guess it's good to buy organic. The be
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'd say Germany is leading in "middle tech": mechanical, machinery, industrial equipment and of course cars (although that might soon be disputed). I grew up and went to university in Germany but spent all my working life in
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by zwieback 5y ago
Rarely anything new but I regularly need it for old manufacturing line equipment that just keeps running. 20 years is nothing for some of our assembly lines.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Awesome - here's an instructional video: https://www.aao.org/clinical-video/pneumatic-retinopexy-rhem...
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by zwieback 5y ago
"The Americans" is not only a great classic TV series but has lots of examples of cold-war era tech and planning complex missions.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Eventually all of these options will merge into more or less the same thing, how couldn't they.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I love public transit and opt for it if I can, even if it's a bit less convenient. Only remember a few cases where Uber was the best choice, definitely Las Vegas was one of them but if I can I'll never return there anyway.
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The surprisingly long history of electric cars(thekidshouldseethis.com)
1 points by zwieback 5y ago|0 comments
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by zwieback 5y ago
This may be hard to believe for the HN crowd but hp has been great for me (Corvallis, OR). Sure, we're not the company Bill & Dave started but current leadership has steered the boat out of the mess created by 10+ years of rocky ti
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by zwieback 5y ago
My original goal was to avoid the extra time and having to organize a ride but also the aftereffects - the last time I felt weird a day or two later (could have been a red herring). I just found it totally fascinating to see my own insides
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by zwieback 5y ago
Yeah, didn't like the aftereffects of Propofol the first time I had it so I did it without sedation the second time. Saves time as well.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I just had mine a couple days ago and opted for no sedation because I wanted to see what's going on. It was a bit unpleasant, at a couple spots the doc snakes the scope around some sharp bends and you can feel that inside of you. It to
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by zwieback 5y ago
That is concerning. I've heard that PSA can be produced in other parts of your body but at very low level, not enough to pass the threshold of concern. If the spikes are high and the test is reliable then there could be something lurki
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by zwieback 5y ago
My understanding was that the article was specifically meant to be about the emotional considerations, which are a result of the statistical challenges. BTW: one flipside of the high sensitivity is that if you have your prostate removed the
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by zwieback 5y ago
Awesome. Can it mill aluminum? If so, would you consider replacing some of the 3D printed parts with machined parts?
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'm one data point pro PSA: at 43 I had elevated levels, biopsy, detected cancer, prostatectomy followed by full recovery. I can also attest to the anxiety about the two big Is: incontinence and impotence. Luckily I had a great surgeon
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by zwieback 5y ago
A lot of nostalgia for an era that didn't exist: “It has never been more difficult to be a software developer than it is today...” and “Everything was so much simpler before..." SW dev has always been overly complex, long before A
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Jalopnik's dirt cheap Chinese EV finally fails(jalopnik.com)
5 points by zwieback 5y ago|1 comments
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by zwieback 5y ago
I think we're just seeing a sector getting used to a systemic shift from for-profit vetting by name brand publications and universities to a freer publication system with lower average quality. As an engineer I'm a consumer of sci
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by zwieback 5y ago
That's a nice looking panel, would like to hear a little more detail on the wiring and switching of AC loads. At work we're only allowed to go up to 50V, for everything else we have to call in an electrician and that costs $$$. ed
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by zwieback 5y ago
The house we bought (in 95) had those and we took them off and right away put them back on, looks better with. Arguing against them is like arguing against painting your house different colors, seems silly. Also, real shutters aren't a
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by zwieback 5y ago
Yes survivor/selection bias was mentioned in the article. Agree about the Palo Alto observation, when I visit my in-laws down there I enjoy just walking around the old PA neighborhoods. It's like a free luxury house and garden tou
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by zwieback 5y ago
Buried in the article is an important point: people care a lot about interior and not much about exterior appearance. Typical cookie-cutter suburban neighborhoods are built assuming nobody walks around in them anyway. On the inside these ho
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by zwieback 5y ago
Maybe we think the rich guy could be leader we could align ourselves with but a whole group is something we wouldn't be likely to join. I wonder what the results would be if you tested whether a participant how deserving a "friend

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