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Some information about the Toyota cases: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... page 14 is especially interesting. And more technical information: https://…

Impressive! I've made something a lot more hacky and limited for simple realtime use cases: https://github.com/fdkz/aniplot Screenshot of a program that uses this library: https://…

There are still some mornings where one has to move to stage 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-9RCuV0Lg

For me the biggest problem is that the registered letter is not the letter that was hit by the finger, but the letter that the finger was lifted up from. Slide-to-type is off.

This did not help in my case. I have 3 DisplayPort 1.2 monitors, and half of the open windows get still tossed around randomly when the monitors wake from sleep, or when the whole …

I just disable the windows update service under "Services" and re-enable once every two weeks (and run the Windows Update GUI to click "search for updates" or what's it called) to …

> Why is zdnet trying to put this UK law as if it was something out of the ordinary ? Because the 2006/24/EC data retention directive [1] didn't say anything about browsing history…

Output of the nesC compiler is one big C-file, so no problems there.

One example: when the usb cable is yanked under macosx while a serial port is open, 50% of the time macosx crashes, and sometimes the crash occurs randomly up to 2 hours later.

I don't see a problem with the sentence "Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort - a disease of civilization". I read it like this: people think comfor…

I started with zx-spectrum and was also very happy with whatever was there :) But baby steps towards moving pictures that are indistinguishable from reality.. Eh, I'm just very pic…

Yes, there is. I have side-by-side 60Hz and 120Hz monitors, and window dragging for example on the 120Hz one is much much smoother (I had to buy a gaming mouse, because most normal…

Use the home button triple-click trick for night reading. http://lifehacker.com/5957534/invert-your-phones-colors-for-... Another thing that really helps is f.lux for iphone: http:…

A lot of people will be able to tell the difference. For example I routinely try to read pdf books on my iphone 4 ibooks (without zoom), but it's hard because there are not enough …

But what is a perfect market? What if misleading the consumers brings in the most money? If it was possible to somehow find out and compare the environmental impact of manufacturin…

Replying to myself. Using mkfifo is not necessary: import os, sys, time, subprocess, fcntl sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'w', 0) read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe() fcntl.f…

I'm using the mkfifo method on linux/macosx: import os import sys import time import subprocess # turn off stdout buffering. otherwise we won't see things like wget progress-bars t…

Some interesting links I found while searching for a low-power server/NAS for myself: 8.5W Core i3-based desktop computer http://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/6112/85w-core-i3-base…

This paper talks about an alternative to SMs: "Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems" http://www.sics.se/~adam/dunkels06protothr…

One sunny day I went outside and tested glossy and matte lcd side-by-side. I had the same results as described here: http://netwalker.nl/2007/07/28/glossy-vs-matte/ Glossy was bett…

http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm Strand Magazine (October 1925) An Interview with Harry Kahne, Whose Brain can do Six Things at the Same Time ... Figure 3: Writing with B…

somehow related :) http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/speech_synthesis_in...

Has anyone tried the Shangri-La Diet? Seems too simple not to try it. From wikipedia: "The diet itself consists of taking 100–400 calories in the form of extra-light (not extra-vir…

i'll add http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus.html

Karl Sims - evolved virtual creatures (1994) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXzcPNsqGA End-over-end Worm - Evolved Virtual Creature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qOBi2tAnI&fmt=…