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by devindotcom 5y ago
I definitely support this but the 400x300 4.2" screen is not something I'd want to read on for extended periods. The generation of e-paper displays on commercial readers right now is really very good. Hopefully the FeatherWing 2 b
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by devindotcom 5y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/cognixions-brain-monitorin...
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by devindotcom 5y ago
F/1.8 is a familiar number to people only because of how that number matters for a full frame, APS-C, or 4/3 sensor. It doesn't translate well to what would produce good image quality on an 8mm sensor. The equivalent F number
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Right now the state of the art options are either surgically implanted electrode arrays (invasive and very limited in what they can detect), electroencephalogram type helmets (non-invasive but only get very vague signals), or fMRI type imag
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Cool cube and I want one. But a metalworking friend of mine warned against getting a ring made out of tungsten. Apparently a climber had one on and broke his ring finger, and the EMTs couldn't get the ring off because the finger had sw
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I have to disagree. It felt like a weird, racially-tinged power fantasy to me. I liked how it started but it kept going in directions that surprised and disappointed me.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Some are valuable for the reasons the other person responding noted, but some of the low confidence predictions may also be high confidence predictions of a disordered class of protein that doesn't have a standard rest state. So it&#x2
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Also announced today was RoseTTAFold from UW's Baker Lab, which claims nearly the same accuracy at much higher efficiencies. There's a public server and paper in Science. More info here and here: https://www.bakerlab.or
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Give me a break. These articles have journalists quoting medical experts speculating on possible and past documented problems resulting from a rushed vaccine process, and the (then factually unjustified) lab leak theory that experts in fiel
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by devindotcom 5y ago
FYI the flight has been delayed 1.5 hours due to weather early this morning delaying the rollout. New takeoff time is 8:30 local, 7:30 pacific. (I'm here)
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Regardless of the merit of this particular piece, the portion of Butler's Erewhon comprising "The Book of the Machines" makes for very interesting and forward thinking reading. You can skip directly to it here: https:&#x2F
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by devindotcom 5y ago
"The story was withdrawn to avoid my death," she says. It is not sensationalism, she was nearly driven to suicide. She is not obligated to summarize her trauma into bullet points for you so it meets your requirements for being d
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Sometimes it's better to accept that someone's lived experience is more accurate than your assessment of it from an article you just read. Your comment comes across as extremely callous and insensitive towards someone who is shari
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by devindotcom 5y ago
This was a really interesting read. How horrible for the author that she had to be the sort of rag doll at the center of a bunch of ignorant and/or malicious flamewars. For someone in transition to have your identity and sort of gender
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by devindotcom 5y ago
The Plague's opening is very prosaic, since that's sort of the voice and the point, that even extraordinary events are meaningless except in the importance we attach to them personally. The opening of The Stranger is much more gra
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I have to imagine copyright has nothing to do with it, since it was never copyrighted. They can hold onto it for another century if they want.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
This sort of thing is always tough. Sometimes estates truly do the opposite of an author's intent, such as with Tolkien's Beowulf. I believe it's on record that he never wanted it published. It's not so clear cut here; S
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by devindotcom 5y ago
You might ask if you can test out this one - no surgery required. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/cognixions-brain-monitorin...
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Going with your own logic here, you're just in the middle on a race to the bottom. The show would reject your offer for someone desperate who would not make any such demands. The producers are dictating the terms here, they are complet
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by devindotcom 5y ago
No, it's a custom thing.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Kobo readers have Pocket built in. Would be nice to have straight RSS too but I send long reads to my reader all the time. reMarkable has a Chrome extention to send stuff to its devices, though it's a bit less seamless.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
You can see this in other LCDs as well. It's not deliberate AFAIK, the direct sunlight bounces off the back layers and causes the active RGB filters to be visible at certain angles.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Pretty gnarly. I'm going to ask the FCC about this.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I agree to an extent, but here's the article: >Mr Pendley attended the Capitol Riots of 6 January, investigators found, having driven from Texas to Washington DC. Investigators said he told friends he had brought an assault rifle wi
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I read lately that the Heaviside layer (Kennelly-Heaviside properly) of the atmosphere, composed of ionized gases, was used for years to bounce radio transmissions off of, allowing them to "skip" multiple times occasionally and tr
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by devindotcom 5y ago
"science function" is actually pretty great.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Take Musk's talk about BCIs the way you take his talk about Mars colonies. But my guess is we'll have the latter before the former is common. There will be some interesting BCI tech in the next few years but as the author notes, i
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by devindotcom 5y ago
>Either help out, or get out. Leaving aside that this person was probably in this field before Neuralink and the others, in matters such as these, offering an expert opinion on a market filled with snake oil certainly is helping out. O
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Interesting if true but it seems odd to think that Von Neumann of all people in the 20th century perhaps would need to steal someone's ideas. From what I've read of him he was more likely to improve on them before the ideator had
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by devindotcom 5y ago
How strong your antipathy! Many people think pull quotes look good and serve a purpose, print or digital. I agree with them.

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