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Pretty sure it wasn't just some guy who figured "I could totally do that" and was allowed to give it a go. Rather it was probably a scientific study like the current efforts, using…

I believe the Butlerian Jihad caused a ban for "thinking machines" with a tenet of "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." This to me at least points at a …

Definitely, I've been trying out a lot of dithering algorithms, and while they have big differences with only black and white as soon as you start adding more shades of grey they a…

Just had a look at this and here is the result for the test image: https://uploads.peterme.net/test-image_qr.png . Looks pretty good! It looks a bit like a dither, but with fewer a…

Thanks! I would imagine printing on paper would be a completely different ball game. I actually considered scanning the actual epaper display to show each of the dithering techniqu…

Ooh, I haven't actually! I'll need to implement and test this for sure. Looking at the results though it does remind me of a dither ( https://pippin.gimp.org/a_dither/ ), which I g…

Just did a bit of a deep dive into dithering myself, for my project of creating an epaper laptop. https://peterme.net/building-an-epaper-laptop-dithering.html it compares both erro…

Same! I've already signed up for the Time 2 and super stoked for it, then I saw the announcement for the Round 2 and I was about to switch over until I noticed it didn't have a hea…

I've been wanting a browser plugin like this for ages. Basically tell it which sites to limit, then once loaded it won't re-load for a certain amount of time, or until the next day…

Indeed, I have a remote doorbell where the outer button is a piezo button and the inside bell part is connected to a socket. But the button is quite thick, presumably because it ne…

Nothing, and it fact this works. To move to an example which actually compiles: import math echo fcNormal echo FloatClass.fcNormal echo math.fcNormal echo math.FloatClass.fcNormal …

There is a direct connection, you just don't have to bother with typing it. Same as type inference, the types are still there, you just don't have to specify them. If you have a co…

Of course, I'm heavily biased, but also very interested in mediating any such issues. I obviously can't, or wouldn't want to, force you to report anything. But it would be very app…

> The community "leaders" / moderation team is also full of abrasive individuals with fragile egos. I certainly hope this isn't the case any longer. As one of the moderators I feel…

Isn't this better though? The alternative being that every email or phone call is an hour, or that they batch it up based on gut feel. If I get a phone call that could easily steal…

Speech for the disabled would indeed be great, as long as the disability doesn't also affect the system which you use to "silent speak". As for the privacy thing, I would say that …

As other people have pointed out "audio range" is generally 20Hz-20kHz. Your phone (and other audio equipment) is therefore built to be able to transmit those frequencies. The way …

They left their e-mail in the talk, in case you want to increase the odds of reaching them

The headline as I read the article was "How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor", but it doesn't actually detail _how_ the mystery was solved. They …

Well, the C that Nim outputs isn't exactly human readable. Sure if you know what you're doing you might be able to follow along, but no sane maintainer would admit it into a C proj…

I mean "buildah" is at least searchable (imagine trying to look for a build tool called "builder"). The lack of capitalization doesn't have any positive side-effects, apart from sa…

It was referenced in the article as "the orange site" however the reason for it initially being named as such is probably because of HNs system of trying to avoid popularity being …

Because unlike food and housing health is something that can hit people very unevenly. Imagine walking down the road with a copy of yourself, everything in your life is equal, you …

I wonder if it's smart enough to detect if the neighbour is having a party or if people will start to get bogus Airbnb complaints from properties with these devices.