guycook

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by guycook 5y ago
There's already an attempt at doing this on PC [0] led by Brian Fargo of Interplay / inXile fame. I can't speak to how effective it is or how many people use it but it seems to be still operative after a year on public beta.
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by guycook 6y ago
The NZ renting experience can best be described as punitive, and for foreigners coming here can be quite a shock at what it entails (no pets [0], no hanging pictures, short-notice no-fault eviction, good luck getting plumbing and electric f
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by guycook 6y ago
Sorry to be the downer on this article, but if you head to oneroof's "news" page [0] you'll see their entire raison d'être is to push out articles for NZ's media outlets to reproduce in the hopes of encouraging
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by guycook 9y ago
> laws-of-physics limitation This is only true if you limit your AR HMD design to beamsplitter + projector. There are existing prototypes [1] which demonstrate quite accurate lcd based occlusion for darkening the environment on a per-hmd
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by guycook 9y ago
I think my manner of speaking was too wry. To be clear: I'm perfectly happy for people to read my research by whatever means they need to take. I too hope that scientific publishing gets its act together and moves away from hoarding kn
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by guycook 9y ago
Whilst I am certainly supportive of open access science in general, and in the case of my own writing am glad to see it reach a wider audience, I'm surprised by the brazenness of linking to a pirated article whilst in discussion with i
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by guycook 9y ago
Have you used any optical see-through HMDs? There's heaps, and they all have no problem displaying text. If you look at the spec sheet for the BT-300 for example [0] you'll see "Virtual screen size: 80" support (virtual
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by guycook 9y ago
Sounds like an interesting place, I loved Isle of Skye when I travelled that area. I think the article might be overselling the "leading the world in energy" angle though -- I too live on an island where > 98% of the energy is
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by guycook 10y ago
Epictetus, Stoic philosopher says: "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions
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by guycook 10y ago
And if compile times are getting you down, you can still get the checks without producing a binary and save quite a bit of time with https://github.com/rsolomo/cargo-check
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by guycook 10y ago
If you haven't tried ConEmu [0], it's pretty awesome. I use it with the Git Bash that comes with the full windows git installer and it Just Works for most of my terminal needs. Haven't tried it with WSL but it can most likely
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by guycook 10y ago
Correct. I can't find the exact news article I read it, though this one shows the trend [0]. The most recent HILDA report shows that over 50% of < 30s in Aus will never own a home [0] http://www.abc.net.au/news&#x2
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by guycook 10y ago
> But at least one of these videos — showing an alien invader game that let the wearer of the supposed headset or glasses make use of real-world objects — was created by visual effects studio Weta Workshop. Prior to today, it was believe
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by guycook 10y ago
I know exactly what you mean. "Half" "of" "my" "searches" "look" "like" "this" "these" "days". I can understand throwing out one of many keywords when
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by guycook 10y ago
We have a setup that combines ToF, structured light and multiple colour cameras to reconstruct hands from the elbow down. Short version: it's a massive pain in the ass. In fact the setup really only works because we have a preconceived
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by guycook 10y ago
Spare a thought for us Cooks of the world. Four letters, a noun and a verb... After the gTLD explosion I thought I could finally snare a decent one but they all went into the $1000+ category immediately, excepting niches like cook.republica
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by guycook 10y ago
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst wit
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by guycook 10y ago
> I suppose a case could be made that people are entitled to a share of the success that they didn't help provide, but no one ever even tries to make it. Ha! If you genuinely want to hear people (very passionately) make this argumen
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by guycook 10y ago
I've never mined coal, but I did fly-in/fly-out work at coal mines surveying, and compared to coding it had the following benefits: - way better pay (not everywhere pays developers like the US) - kept me in shape - I slept
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by guycook 10y ago
If they knew about it, sure. All it would take is a 3 step (after initial download) instructional with some screenshots: 1. Open Explorer where you downloaded youtube-dl 2. Shift+Right click -> Open command window here 3. Type 'yout
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by guycook 10y ago
The tragedy of this software (and many like it) is that despite working exactly as advertised, easily and with a lot of features, because it's a quiet open source project without any SEO rigging it will never appear in page 1 of any se
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by guycook 11y ago
"You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away." I like it when people accidentally summarise life in 21st century capitalism on HN
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by guycook 11y ago
Sounds like the 'unlimited vacation' that's getting quite popular in the Valley
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by guycook 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008769 (and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160133 with no comments)
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What reporter Will Ockenden's metadata reveals about his life(abc.net.au)
2 points by guycook 11y ago|0 comments
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by guycook 11y ago
I don't mean to speak for the OP, just to relate my own experience. I grew up extremely disadvantaged - bottom 10% - and that's manifested in a few ways throughout life (ie. it took 7 years to get my bachelor's due to needing
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by guycook 11y ago
They gave us* another season of Community, so that was cool. *Although what they gave me specifically was "Geo Restriction - Sorry! The content provider has not given us the rights to play this video in your location." It's t
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by guycook 12y ago
> Either way, it's another data point for "privacy vs. progress of mankind, pick one". I read The Circle recently and thought "no one could possibly go for this". And yet here we are already in 2015
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The danger of letting the gaming industry curate its own history(gamasutra.com)
4 points by guycook 12y ago|0 comments
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Illegal service UberX outsmarts transport inspectors, disrupting stings(abc.net.au)
7 points by guycook 12y ago|0 comments

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