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Kinda reminds me of the signal language typing, used computer vision for that.
A head hanging Morse code version would be interesting as well. Or perhaps a mobile phone accelerometer Morse code would be fun too.
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The Neal Stephenson experience. That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book. The man’s truly one of the best out there, and I’m convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him, but it wouldn’t be a Stephenson without some real head scratching authorial decisions.
So true about the endings! And he's actually aware of it. Well, I'm reasonably happy with all of my endings, but I know that some people feel differently. But as you've noticed, they're different, it's not always the same thing. All I can say is different books end in different ways, and different people have different tastes in what they want to see. I'm well aware that there are certain people frustrated with the e…
On this topic, my Dell laptop detects that it's closed by having 1 (!) magnet in the screen, and a sensor on the case. So when I put my magsafe phone to the right of the touchpad, it thinks I've closed it and logs me out. My MacBook has 2 magnets in the screen to avoid this issue.
This is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Beautiful wording. So, I had to see where it was from, if anywhere else (Amazon.com): A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that…
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Cryptonomicon is one of the best reads on the planet, it's famous.
Is it now, though? I read it and didn't manage to get into it much, and don't really remember anything from it. I think it's one of those works of art that were so revolutionary that they started a whole genre, but now they seem badly done and clichéd just because everyone has copied them and iterated on them.
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Yes, it's an amazing book. But skip the last 20 pages, they're deeply unsatisfying writing.
The Neal Stephenson experience. That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book. The man’s truly one of the best out there, and I’m convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him, but it wouldn’t be a Stephenson without some real head scratching authorial decisions.
This made me smile because while I enjoyed Seveneves there was an entire interlude discussing swarms of spacecraft cooperating to avoid debris.
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I think this is doable; and practice makes perfect. I can enter passcode on my apple watch with my nose. It’s the smaller apple watch model. Nose is quite big.
I do this to my watch and phone, most often when cuddling the wife because one of my arms will doubtlessly be unavailable.
Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven - "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."
Why would apple ban this? Seems like a great way to increase sales!
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At risk of derailing the conversation, I finished Cryptonomicon earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Any recommendations for similar books?
If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.