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What you described is how a camera sees the world, and how we see it in pictures. Part of what seems unconvincing to me about these concept ideas is that the demo UIs are superimpo…

That makes sense. I wonder how these transparent displays handle the focus issues though. If you're not looking at your Monocle/Glasses, maybe 1in in front of your eye, but instead…

Dumb question maybe, but why does it need to be transparent or else projected directly into your eye? What doesn't work (or wouldn't work for you) about a flip-down hard backed dis…

"all programming philosophies are about programming" I don't think it is a reductive take. The second instance of the term here instead involves the more traditional concept progra…

It's been a while since I worked in this space but ~10 years ago I would have said TCP termination. It is a pretty big ask though. :) One issue in this area is that the underlying …

Probably, but FPGAs/reconfigurable logic can't be clocked at CPU speeds and usually have a limited number of floating point units and other "hard" resources. At the higher end, yes…

In the row picture, the elements of a matrix are the coefficients of linear functions acting on its domain. In the column picture they are coordinates in its image. Any matrix A or…

There's no way to ship solar or hydro energy. And for shipping everything else -- how would you power a boat from India to the US? Or a plane? Hydrogen remains the only green (ish)…

> The "news" in America has devolved quite a bit. We've stopped funding public news sources at the level they need The ownership structure of most news organizations is qualitative…

Just say what happened (Ray Lyle, Kansas City Star) Marginalize pseudo-events, don't make a story where there isn't any, don't re-report same stories (Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image…

I've been listening to AM broadcasts a lot over the last few months. I can get good reception from 2-3 local stations on my crystal set. One gives me state and national news, inter…

I disagree thoroughly. This was an extremely important moral for my dad, he imparted these lessons to us from birth (I know that might sound strange but I can't elaborate): we were…

We found newspaper articles that ran at the time my grandparents eloped from Misourri. They have headlines like "Kansas City woman marries Chinese", "she confirms he does speak Eng…

Do you have an opinion on the Laschamp event? The Wikipedia article for the says the evidence for these ideas is weak in that case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laschamp_event > T…

It's highly variable. I didn't go to a Catholic school but where I grew up there were religious camps parents could send their kids to, where they could be hit. Some of those kids …

My dad grew up in Shanghai and often made a point of emphasizing how lucky we were to be children in America. We were spanked and occasionally slapped in the face, sometimes for sm…

Octave is wonderful. It's one of those free software projects whose success and necessity inspire the entire movement. In one of my first jobs I saved a bunch of money for the comp…

I'm pretty sure you've been trolled.

No, mainly they identify the contributing factors and work to correct them. For a specific example check Air Canada 759, which nearly landed on a crowded taxiway at SFO in 2017. No…

The great filter is table stakes, getting over it doesn't guarantee anything. It's also impossible to accurately and confidently predict the future millions of years in advance.

Remarkable argument from Musk's team that no impartial jury can be made for him in San Francisco, because he has fired too many people there.

> My point is that all production is social production. The productive assets of every age are the joint product of all preceding ages, and all those born into the present are legi…

Your example deals with something completely different. This issue is more akin to the meatpacking workers' deaths, which were very high at some companies. It does generally does h…