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by zwieback 5y ago
Super interesting read. I had prostate cancer 15 years ago at age 40 and had my prostate surgically removed, fully recovered now but it was stressful. It's great to see so much progress in the diagnostic field since the decision to hav
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by zwieback 5y ago
BBC (and other national broadcasters) should focus on news, children's TV and maybe a small selection of cultural stuff that otherwise wouldn't have exposure. It makes no sense to compete in the commercial entertainment space. I&#
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by zwieback 5y ago
The only one I've used is https://github.com/zxing/zxing , but it was a long time ago. Seemed to work ok for DataMatrix.
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by zwieback 5y ago
My dad bought an Apple ][ in Germany around 83, they were spendy but readily available and there was a huge fanbase. C64s were more popular with gamers and considered the high end of the toy range, inexplicably, since the HW was ahead of th
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by zwieback 5y ago
Do you think that over time you could "re-tune" yourself to different pitches, e.g. if you listened to a ton of music that's detuned by half a semitone that eventually you'd think that that's the new normal? Or mayb
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by zwieback 5y ago
Definitely true. Also, investment in on-chip peripherals can lock companies into an architecture much longer than on higher-level platforms. We spent a lot of time debugging DMA, SPI, interrupt controllers, etc. on a micro platform and that
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by zwieback 5y ago
One of the papers quoted by this paper is something I always wondered about: how can anyone have absolute pitch when you can detune your intrument slightly, e.g. if the Oboe gives the A and everyone tunes to that there's no guarantee t
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by zwieback 5y ago
If you count the Coldfire as part of the 68k line then yes, fairly popular microcontroller. Basically a reduced 68K instruction set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXP_ColdFire
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by zwieback 5y ago
better than no bike lane at all, though. Drivers don't really respect the painted bike lanes when there are no bikes around but I notice that it does raise awareness that a bike might appear
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by zwieback 5y ago
Maybe people aren't switching over in droves but when I opened up my 21 yr. old daughter's fridge the other day she had oat, soy and almond milk in there but no dairy. Personally, I like all the alternatives except soy but my goto
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by zwieback 5y ago
Is this propaganda? Seems like Turkey under Erdogan is backsliding rapidly.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Gorgeous! I've been wanting an artistic map of Portland will unleash this lib on OSM data.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I did a book report on this in 9th grade in Germany. I was fascinated by how Jules Verne painted the French guy in exaggeratedly positive and the German guy in negative terms. Even for highly self-critical Germans the caricature in this boo
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by zwieback 5y ago
Agreed. Bike shop business models are problematic and it's worth shopping around. My local shops sell a lot of stuff at reasonable prices and we have 4 shops in walking distance of each other so there's some competition but at tim
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by zwieback 5y ago
I think that's basically the same situation here in the US, bike shops are super busy but the supply chain can't keep up. I also have to say that most bike shops I've visited aren't that good. They seem to have an over-s
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by zwieback 5y ago
In real life every other website for the next week would have ads for "how-I-experience-web-today.com", Instagram and Facebook would have ads for other "experiences" as well
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by zwieback 5y ago
would be nice but kind of a big project: https://i.redd.it/igp7056s4a361.jpg
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by zwieback 5y ago
It was a shorter path, they would have had to travel much farther to get to West Germany than to West Berlin. At the time the commuter trains in Berlin were still going back and forth between the sectors and too busy to be checked thoroughl
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by zwieback 5y ago
Berlin had the most memorable wall but the entire country was divided by a wall as well. My mom's family abandoned their house and factory and fled to the west when the Russians took their property and punished them for being capitalis
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by zwieback 5y ago
I wonder if this kind of stuff is more likely to occur in technical communities that are becoming irrelevant but at one point had a lot of exposure.
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by zwieback 5y ago
You might want to parse out my sentence again. There's tons of racism perpetuated by businesses but I don't think this is one of them
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by zwieback 5y ago
I have a background in classic image processing and machine vision and back in the olden days we had the opposite problem: algorithms were just too specific to build useful applications. It's easy to detect lines and circles with a Hou
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by zwieback 5y ago
100% agree. How is it racist to offer something as a business, it's not like it's a government or other public project. We already have BET so this is just a similar offering in a different format. "Netflix for black people&q
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by zwieback 5y ago
Yeah, I noticed that when I started playing upright bass, compared to the bass guitar the sound starts with a noticeable delay.
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by zwieback 5y ago
[googling "oil patterns"]
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by zwieback 5y ago
Does a really good conductor train each section to come in on different parts of the visual cue then, e.g. double bass would play before the violins in the front? I guess you can't precisely solve this problem for more than a single li
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by zwieback 5y ago
I had no idea, now I'm disappointed that the pros aren't doing this with solid spheres.
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by zwieback 5y ago
So what does that mean for a large symphony where musicians are spread out much farther than sound travels in a millisecond? Let's say it's 10m, that would be about 29ms. I've heard really good musicians and conductors compen
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by zwieback 5y ago
Article raises some valid points but how do you catch the point where the spreadsheet gets out of control? Maybe MS could build in a warning system and then suggest some potential solutions. Minor quibble: it's an Apple III in the ad,
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by zwieback 5y ago
This is assuming "mom and pop stores" are beneficial. We certainly like them when driving through picturesque small towns but I know a lot of people living in those towns that prefer an efficient supplier. They understand what the

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