nxcho

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by nxcho 3y ago
Yes, it was pretty much a reverse bike with the saddle on the frame and a handle bar just behind where the seat post should be, connected to the steering axle. The details is a little bit fuzzy since it was a couple of years ago but iirc it
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by nxcho 3y ago
When I took control theory at university, in the last lecture, the lecturer took out a bike with rear wheel steering and challenged us to ride it in the hallway outside the lecture hall in the break. No one could get it to roll more than a
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by nxcho 6y ago
This is a very good explanation of the how and why of the Swedish strategy https://bppblog.com/2020/04/23/the-swedish-exception/
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by nxcho 7y ago
Location: Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Numpy, Tensorflow), Matlab, C++, OpenCV, javascript (Node, D3.js) Swift/ios Email: job at kallerennes dot com Looking for
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by nxcho 7y ago
I don't think it is ok for any entity to make notes of when you buy condoms and then spend the night at an adress you don't live on and infer whatever it infers from that and then sell this information to any other entity to do wh
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by nxcho 7y ago
1. Pretend it is the 1970s in East Berlin and someone follows you around, noting down every interaction you have with other humans and every bit of media you consume and collects this information in a file somewhere for future use. This is
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by nxcho 7y ago
If you're interested in algorithmic drawing, https://turtletoy.net is a nice little toy to play around in and it uses the same primitive operations as most plotters (pen up and down, move to coordinate). One popular plotter
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by nxcho 7y ago
This is made by a Swedish adver^H^H^H^H^H creative communications agency called ODD Company ( https://oddcompany.se ) who makes these kind viralbait product campaigns. Not sure if it is made for another client or just as a way to
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by nxcho 7y ago
I would eye through some of his speeches. A couple of english translations can be found here http://web.archive.org/web/20180524035711/http://www.olofpal...
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by nxcho 8y ago
External debt is not the same as national debt and does not in it self say very much about the health of the public sector economy, since it includes private debt including accounts held in the country by foreigners for business reasons, ta
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by nxcho 8y ago
Swish is cleared by the Bankgirot system. I'm not completely sure about the technical details but there is no card involved.
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by nxcho 8y ago
Sure, Swedish cities are a little less sprawly than American cities of the same size (I have no data on this but my general experience is that both apartments and houses a slightly larger in Sweden but a bigger part of the housing stock is
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by nxcho 8y ago
Sweden is about the same size as California but with about one third of its population (and about 2/3 of the population density of US), still it is in the top 10 internet access list in about every metric you can think of (together wit
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by nxcho 8y ago
Unless I'm missing something they are selling Europa as a VST/AU and I guess the web version is more of an interactive demo
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by nxcho 9y ago
You can have messenger.com open in a separate tab/window if you want use the chat and mobile facebook simultaneously.
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by nxcho 9y ago
Unreal Engine and Unity is going to have ARKit support. If your ambition is to make an AR app for both iOS and Android I suspect that one of those engines are better. I don't believe giving ARKit to away makes sense for Apple at all. I
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by nxcho 9y ago
I personally prefer Stanky Bean
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by nxcho 9y ago
I would say that a lot of countries in EU are ahead of US in eliminating cash as well (wether this is good or bad can be discussed). The new EU Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) will essentially force EU banks to open apis for account info
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by nxcho 9y ago
I'm not sure the environmental impact of fishing an invasive species to extinction is positive compared to the problems the species itself causes. Especially if you want that venture to be profitable.
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by nxcho 10y ago
People in the nordic countries including Finland have more trust in government authorities and public administration compared to for example Americans. A government agency given the task to given the task to produce some kind of recommendat
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by nxcho 10y ago
Location: Sunnyvale, CA Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Numerical stuff (Python, Matlab, C++, some HPC mostly MPI and OpenMP), Web stuff (nginx, Python (Bottle/Flask), SQL, Javascript). Resume/CV: On request Em
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by nxcho 10y ago
It looks like a pimple. Clearly Ceres has hit puberty.
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by nxcho 10y ago
That is interesting. I thought that it was mostly and European thing. What kinds of cheese is common in Brazil?
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by nxcho 10y ago
Their main design office is in Sweden and most designers are Swedish. Sometimes they collaborate with 'star' designers and they have been accused of plagiarism quite a few times.
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by nxcho 10y ago
I have two slicers, a really good one and a bad one both from IKEA. Consistent quality is not really their thing.
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by nxcho 10y ago
Thanks. I have edited my post :)
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by nxcho 10y ago
In my experience, the more popular american cheeses are quite mild and have a low melting temperature to get a good melt and stretch on warm food. I don't find them particularly interesting to just slice and put on a piece of bread. It
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by nxcho 10y ago
Knife i guess or buy factory sliced. Most cheeses in america is a bit to soft to slice with a cheese slicer anyway.
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by nxcho 10y ago
As a Swede currently living in California who also has visited IKEA in several different countries I can report that the general experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden. There are some loca