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by anorakoverflow 3y ago
It wont’t turn the image upside down, but the depth will be inverted, so what is meant to jut out at you will become a trough away from you.
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by anorakoverflow 3y ago
Also, if I’m seeing this correctly, it only recognises ASCII “words” (a–z, A–Z, 0–9, _), so it’s not even accurate and will over-count words with accents, umlauts, etc.
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by anorakoverflow 3y ago
IMO, here’s a lot of room for improvement for German, because it’s a real dice roll whether a compound noun will be recognised or not. You can try swiping the components individually, but then you have to go deleting spaces everywhere. Unle
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by anorakoverflow 5y ago
I completely agree. This is what I check every time there’s news about Thunderbird before I consider switching.
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by anorakoverflow 5y ago
ArsTechnica did an in-depth review last year [1] which was also discussed on HN [2]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/a-decidedly-non-linu... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by anorakoverflow 5y ago
There is some (incredibly slow) turning in their “Automotive Visualisation”: https://www.fovotec.com/automotive
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by anorakoverflow 5y ago
Something similar was posted on HN before [1], seems to be offline though. There’s an archived copy here: [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/2018072614
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by anorakoverflow 5y ago
Looking at the links in the Wikipedia article I discovered this wonderfully “old web”-style page with various envelope folding guides[1]. I found it so endearing that I sat down and tried a few of them out, which was great fun. [1] http:&#
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
I’ve tried out Apple’s Look Around recently and was impressed with the transition animation compared to Google Maps. If you have an Apple device, try it out in London for instance: Moving past a red telephone box shows how the object kind o
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
Sadly, the new PDF viewer still doesn’t support smooth two-finger zooming on macOS. The new theme is kind of neat though.
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
I know exactly what you mean! This is even more annoying in German, where every noun is capitalised.
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
The problem with scientific terminology is widely recognised in communication science. The issue is that while terms used by disciplines such as physics, law or medicine are sufficiently esoteric that someone “on the outside” wouldn’t use t
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
You raise some points that were also raised by a sibling commenter, but I’ll try to reply to them. You are correct that FB and EC are different concepts that are unfortunately often used interchangeably (even in research). This stems from t
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
You raise very valid points. The case you describe would be characterised as “oppositional reading” of mainstream media by those believing in a conspiracy. However, this is unrelated to the common understanding echo chambers. A big problem
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
This echo chamber concept is cited time and time again in mainstream discussions, so much so that communication researchers argue that it has created “its own discursive reality”[1]. In fact, there is very little empirical support for the f
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by anorakoverflow 6y ago
I used Anki extensively a few years ago when studying a new language at uni and it helped me a lot, but I just installed it again and not much has changed. It was clunky then and its flaws are showing even more now. Correct me if I’m wrong
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by anorakoverflow 7y ago
There’s a classic theory in communication science by the German researcher Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann called the “spiral of silence”[1]. It basically says that people have an idea of the general public opinion on a topic, and in case their ow
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Roam Research – A note-taking tool for networked thought(roamresearch.com)
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by anorakoverflow 9y ago
The author's point about "dumb" ligatures doesn't really hold up: While the "fi" ligature will always mean "f followed by i" its use is not always correct. For example, in German compound nouns, you d