coldsmoke

há 4 mesesdiscuss

Since I didn't get the name reference either, here is a link for those who want a hint: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico

coldsmoke

há 11 mesesdiscuss

I think it's this: https://bamx.epfl.ch/

Looks very cool indeed

coldsmoke

há 2 anosdiscuss

We've experimented with that at SVT (Sweden's public service broadcaster). Or rather, the video team has, I'm just a web dev, so I don't know the details other than what's in this blog post:

From the eyes of the viewer: Attention-aware video compression for improved low bitrate video https://medium.com/the-svt-tech-blog/from-the-eyes-of-the-vi...

coldsmoke

há 2 anosdiscuss

Not only that, but a lot of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts are also on the left side.

coldsmoke

há 5 anosdiscuss

That's the thing - when the plant is outside it will get sun from multiple directions as the sun moves, but when it inside the light will only be coming from the window. And even outside the sun is shining more from one direction (south here in the northern hemisphere), since it is below the horizon at times, which will often cause plants and trees to have more branches and leaves facing that direction.

coldsmoke

há 5 anosdiscuss

It feels like they're also prime candidates for making a tour with them as actual robots (or holograms), so they wouldn't even need to tour themselves.

coldsmoke

há 5 anosdiscuss

I recently found this video of Billy Gibbons performing in the street in Helsinki without anyone noticing. I like that he becomes less recognizable when not wearing sunglasses.

https://youtu.be/YHUQNxggT_k

coldsmoke

há 5 anosdiscuss

It's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was supposed to come back last year, but you know...

coldsmoke

há 6 anosdiscuss

There is a Swedish podcast (Snedtänkt) that has a lovely email address for contacting the show (I've translated from Swedish) - preferablyonlypositiveresponse@[email provider].

Not sure if it actually works, but I think it might prime people into a more positive mindset.

On a similar note I loved that emails from Readmill came from [email protected] as a contrast to the usual user hostile noreply addresses most companies use.

coldsmoke

há 6 anosdiscuss

Reminds me of The pattern on the stone by W Daniel Hillis where he builds a tic-tac-toe computer out of mechanical components. It's a great book for explaining how computers actually work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pattern_on_the_Stone

coldsmoke

há 7 anosdiscuss

You beat me to it while I was looking for references. =)

"The stars and gas in the Milky Way rotate about its center differentially, meaning that the rotation period varies with location. As is typical for spiral galaxies, the orbital speed of most stars in the Milky Way does not depend strongly on their distance from the center. Away from the central bulge or outer rim, the typical stellar orbital speed is between 210 ± 10 km/s (470,000 ± 22,000 mph). Hence the orbital period of the typical star is directly proportional only to the length of the path traveled."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#Galactic_rotation

coldsmoke

há 7 anosdiscuss

Do you mean 10 minutes? He lines it up with Polaris, so it only needs one axis of rotation. But I guess the alignment isn't that good since it is just eyeballed, but it should work for exposure times much longer than 10 seconds. He is even rotating the screw every 15 seconds which wouldn't make much sense for a 10 second exposure. =) Clever little project in any case. Thanks for sharing the video.

coldsmoke

há 7 anosdiscuss

Addy Osmani has a "one-line debugger" that gives each element on the page a random colored outline.

    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll("*"),function(a){a.style.outline="1px solid #"+(~~(Math.random()*(1<<24))).toString(16)})

https://gist.github.com/addyosmani/fd3999ea7fce242756b1

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

Actually, come to think of it, every image is created to trick the brain's image processing. When viewing real scenery the eyes get hit by photons of all sorts of colors, but since there are only three different color receptors (with overlap) we can trick the brain into thinking an image with only red, green, and blue in it is the same. But for example some birds that can see ultra violet will probably not recognize an image of a flower since it lacks that spectrum.

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

This optical illusion [1] is the closest thing I've come across. It relies on the fact that there are apparently separate parts of the visual processing in the brain for fine details and for more coarse features. This illusion consists of a picture of the fine details of Albert Einsteins face, so when you are close enough to see the details, you see Albert. But there is also a blurry image of Marilyn Monroe, which isn't really possible to make out until you view the image from farther away, or squint your eyes, so that the finer details are lost.

[1] http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/albert-einstein-mar...

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

Hehe, I was just about to build something similar. I like the extra touch of it not even being served over https.

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

Interesting - "correct horse battery staple"[0] is flagged as not being in the data set. I was sure someone should have used that by now.

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

They're not, actually. Almost no one is average if you look at multiple features at once. I would guess that most people have something they wouldn't be too happy with everyone knowing about.

"In his research measuring thousands of airmen on a set of ten critical physical dimensions, Daniels realized that none of the pilots he measured was average on all ten dimensions. Not a single one. When he looked at just three dimensions, less than five percent were average. Daniels realized that by designing something for an average pilot, it was literally designed to fit nobody." [0]

[0] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

I guess they've named it that because the lyrebird is an amazing impersonator. The end of this BBC clip blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y

But you may have a point, and the ethics section makes it clear that they are indeed very aware of that this may be misused.

coldsmoke

há 9 anosdiscuss

Not only that, but people also _want_ to buy new appliances, since they actually become better. More silent, less power drain, more features, etc. So if everyone buys new stuff every ten years or so anyway, why bother building stuff that lasts fifty since that undoubtedly is more expensive.

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