jinto36

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by jinto36 3y ago
WebTV largely worked better than I think it often gets credit for, and I echo the sentiment elsewhere that it felt "futuristic" in a sense. I had a Windows desktop, but we came into possession of a Philips WebTV box since my fathe
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by jinto36 3y ago
Speaking of WebTV music, I was a huge fan of the original Philips WebTV dialing music. Sometimes I would just let it loop in the background when I was doing housework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZYWcGgg4Y Perhaps uns
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by jinto36 4y ago
Japanese culture also has a number of "ritual purity" elements, such as taking shoes from outside off in the genkan (vestibule) before stepping into the main part of a house, and ritual cleansing with water when visiting a shrine.
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by jinto36 4y ago
Reminds me of this article: "1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC" About a single Amiga controlling HVAC systems for 19 public schools. https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-cont...
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by jinto36 4y ago
One thing that works for me is to just start writing figure legends. That seems easy, it doesn't feel like "writing the paper". I end up basically writing the results section for that figure or table, so I just cut and paste
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by jinto36 4y ago
A lot of this is due to advances in imaging, particularly two-photon microscopy, that enable acquiring images (and video to some extent) in live subjects, e.g. mice and rats, below the top surface of tissue. For neuroscience, you can either
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by jinto36 4y ago
Alphafold is a big improvement, but a structure of a single protein in isolation isn't representative of how these things exist in vivo. Binding substrates can modify protein shapes, and proteins often function in complexes, which ca
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by jinto36 4y ago
Same for me, I try to make it meditative in a way. I don't use earbuds or anything, just try to continue existing and moving. Sometimes identify birds. Practice talking to myself in languages I'm studying. In races it turns into b
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by jinto36 4y ago
There are other weird VHS-based formats, such as WVHS, which was used to store HD-ish analog video on VHS- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-VHS Alesis also developed an 8-track digital audio recorder based on VHS, ADAT,
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by jinto36 4y ago
I've heard so many demoscene/8-bit covers of it at this point that I forgot the earlier versions had acoustic drums! Some examples from scene.org: https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2010/aaa10&#x2F
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by jinto36 4y ago
We haven't done lightning/thunderbolt, but the Youtube reviews include the different USB-C power modes. We also look at some aspects of safety, such as when overcurrent protection in kicks in relative to the device rating, and if
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by jinto36 4y ago
I haven't tried Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer has been a pleasant surprise. Worth the non-recurring $50 investment. I want to like Inkscape, but there are just too many quirks still. PDF output from Designer so far always looks
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by jinto36 4y ago
Re: Anker chargers, a few perform pretty well but many are kind of middling. A friend has been doing a lot of reviews of these on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsOnePlace ) and we started compiling test data
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by jinto36 4y ago
Akebi for Android is pretty good. For a while I used the Nintendo DS Japanese dictionary (Rakubiki Jiten) for the ability to do stylus-based character recognition, which was less frustrating to use than the Windows IME pad feature. Akebi wo
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by jinto36 4y ago
I pulled a 128D out of a dumpster (literally) around 2002, in the US. I was always a bit confused if it was actually a 128D or a 128DCR since the articles I checked at the time said the 128D wasn't sold in the US, but the nameplate doe
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by jinto36 4y ago
Ten years ago I went through my Apple collection to remove those RTC batteries when people started reporting that they were exploding. I have an Apple "set top box" prototype- didn't have one with a ROM that allowed to actual
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by jinto36 4y ago
Protein structure prediction was a huge deal, which is why AlphaFold received so much fanfare. It is actually pretty good. The next step is to predict where multi-protein complexes would interact- which is not just as simple as predicting t
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by jinto36 4y ago
In the US I can go to the supermarket and get "truffle macaroni and cheese" in a box for $5, because everyone knows that truffles are this rare, mysterious, and luxurious thing, and so incorporating them (or their essence) into re
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by jinto36 4y ago
It even generated indicators for references, but not the references themselves. I could see it being useful if it was some kind of system that could basically synthesize wikipedia articles from the literature for topics that don't alre
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by jinto36 4y ago
That Sequoia letter aged amazingly poorly in just two months. "...FTX—a company that may very well end up creating the dominant all-in-one financial super-app of the future. Nothing is a sure bet in crypto, but just the possibility tha
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by jinto36 4y ago
I'd also suggest that the "bubble" era had a long tail in terms of innovation- the huge R&D investments that were made in the 80s and early 90s were still showing results into the early 2000s. Then we started to see the r
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by jinto36 4y ago
Canon absolutely did this, I have the first-gen of their first-gen mirrorless system, the EOS-M, and I run a 3rd party firmware on it (MagicLantern) to be able to bypass the 30-minute record limit. The same was true in many other cameras as
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by jinto36 4y ago
I considered myself pretty knowledgeable about photography (mostly through videography though) but I never had a decent film camera, and neither did my parents, so most of my experience with film was disposables and a cheap panoramic camera
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by jinto36 4y ago
I feel like the bearing noise in pre-fluid-dynamic-bearing drives was an essential part of the experience, that this device doesn't recreate yet. A room full of warbly, sometimes harmonizing, gentle whirring of mid-90s Quantum drives h
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by jinto36 4y ago
Hi, I'm just wondering what the text-to-speech and speech-to-text for Japanese is based on? It works pretty well, and speech-to-text in a browser is not something I thought would be practical a few years ago. How much of that is being
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by jinto36 4y ago
There's a "snail" icon in the text bubble that pronounces it again, but slower. At least for me, in Firefox.
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by jinto36 4y ago
I'm not sure why then they couldn't just apply a more standard background subtraction method and show that the result still holds. Note that this approach was "room temperature" but under very (very) high pressure.
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by jinto36 4y ago
Kind of like a more modern Alan Booth? I read both The Roads to Sata and Looking for the Lost and they both really resonated with me. They're both travelog(ue)s. The Roads to Sata chronicled a complete 2000 mile north-south walk across
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by jinto36 4y ago
Folding bikes are much more common there, which helps a bit. You can go to a bike shop or a used-stuff-store ("recycle shop") and pick one up for $100-ish. Not going to be "nice" at that price, but it'll be function
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by jinto36 4y ago
Yeah, there really isn't a good reason to drive unless you really want to go somewhere that doesn't have a train station. There are not all too many such places. I'd also add a suggestion of renting a bike and riding the shim

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