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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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Cruel irony that cyclists, part of the solution, inhale the worst of the problem.
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Indeed. Nor does red light mess as much with animal (incl. human) physiology and behaviour and waking cued by white/blue/daylight. Potential small (safety?) downside: red light illumination …
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re/ the Mac Mini + eGPU + File Vault = no reboot... Really? Brutal! I was just yesterday looking at a new Mac Mini and a couple of LG 5K monitors (and, thus, the Apple Store eGPU). And I use Fil…
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> Also good is using more LED street lamps that focus the light where we need it, Focusing light where needed is good. Using LEDs, as we do now, has downsides though. LED lighting in cities is maki…
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In the context of lacrosse, it's sad that a First Nations team wouldn't be welcome to compete, since they are arguably closer to the game and more passionate about it than any other nation. …
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> "Users will never accept a phone that's continuously uploading everything in their lives to Apple's servers (or anyone else's), so all of this capability has to be on board th…
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Large scale meat farming practices.
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Sharing this for linguistic and intellectual curiosity. Happy Canada Day, fellow Canuck hackers.
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CMOS cameras almost always have a rolling shutter, but not always. At the Very High End of things, there are models that don't. e.g. the Sony PMW-F55 with a CMOS global shutter [1], around USD$30…
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Many ways to read this epic poem. Besides flat text versions from Wikisource and Project Gutenberg, here's a PDF, typeset with 17th century inspiration: http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/…
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That leaves 56% of the Earth's surface unmapped. (!!) Then add most (?) of the Earth's surface covered by ice, which seems at least as hard to see/sample/explore as the ocean floor…
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Obvious, yet still interesting to imagine IMO ... all of us here had ancestors who suffered and survived that year and we're all, in some way, a result of what they went through in 536.
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70s, check. 80s, check. Who has a 90s synth dosing experience?