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Scalene2··on Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon with $400k Missile
What makes you think it was at anywhere near 80 000 ft?
Scalene2··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
You got a cite detailing the previous events?
Scalene2··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
Cessna can't fly high enough. Child can't stabilize laser well enough to do required damage.
Scalene2··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
You do know that they have done this several times over the last decade or so, right?
Scalene2··on Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?
Because it's profitable to recommend shit.
Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
What do you feel needs to be improved to make them suitable for work?
Scalene2··on Cargo airships could be big
Airships aren't aircraft?
Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
For me, the biggest issue with VR is friction. Just the process of putting on and adjusting a wireless headset, finding the controllers, then moving to the center of my play space feels like a chore. One worth doing, but a chore none the less.

Adding in fiddling with a cord will make me just slightly less likely to say: sure, it's worth the effort to get into VR right now. I really want a full body tracking setup, but if I have to wear special devices for it, then it's a no go. I don't mind putting up a bunch of cameras though.

Another issue is rotation, many people have a bias to the direction they turn, this twists the cord, AFAIK we aren't even close to having the tech to spin a high bandwidth (multi-gigabit) connection, I suspect that it may be possible to do with fibre optics.

But AFAIK most designs are looking at doing hip mounted or wireless supercomputers. We already have backpack supercomputers for VR.

Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
Practically every VR device supports this functionality, it was one of the first things developed for VR.
Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
When is the last time you tried an extended session? It is now possible to do 120Hz on the quest for some games and on PCVR. Earlier versions were limited to 72Hz. There have been other improvements too. Maybe update your headset, tweak some settings, find games that will work at 120Hz and give it another go.

Also, the Quest 2 is kind of old now, newer headsets are vastly superior with regards to blur and streaks.

Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
So that means that Amazon has sold a kindle book to at absolute best, less than 1 in 16 people.
Scalene2··on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
How does the author justify comments about 16K resolution being optimal, 12 cameras being the minimum required, and 240Hz being ideal?
Scalene2··on NASA, DARPA will test nuclear engine for future Mars missions
NERVA in the 1960s operated under a similar principal to the one just announced. Orion (what you're describing) was not the only proposal in the 1960s.

As for nuclear propulsion being the only way forward, I doubt that, I suspect that chemical will be more cost efficient for a lot of the trips, especially for unmanned cargo trips.

Scalene2··on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
I came here to make the same comment. Also, I now know that .gay is a tld and I'm trying to figure out how to take advantage, registration isn't terribly cheap, but the only restrictions are ones that don't apply to any of my ideas.
Scalene2··on Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
The trick is, next time you need it, make note of where you first look for it, and when your acquire more, put the newly acquired paper on the first spot you looked for the old stuff.
Scalene2··on The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)
The steps us nerds will take in order to get the experience we want are sometimes quite amusing.
Scalene2··on Show HN: A tool for motion-capturing 3D characters using a VR headset
Just went back, have no idea how I could have gotten so confused. Had ended up on a list of add-ons and such.
Scalene2··on Show HN: A tool for motion-capturing 3D characters using a VR headset
Oh, while you're here, I recently started exploring the possibility of starting a small shop. When I looked into Shopify I had absolutely no idea how to get started or how much it cost and your website failed to even come close to answering those things in the few minutes I had to investigate. Whereas with SquareSpace provided those answers in seconds.
Scalene2··on Show HN: A tool for motion-capturing 3D characters using a VR headset
This could be great for people doing work with various sign languages.
Scalene2··on Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
Insane and moronic can mean two very different things that can be incompatible with one another.
Scalene2··on Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers
Only if the input lag is static and not dynamic.
Scalene2··on Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
If your opening paragraph presents only a vague correlation then I'm going to suspect that the rest of your evidence is even more tenuous and not bother reading on.
Scalene2··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
> Weight gain was reported in 43 percent of the responders, with 56 percent of them gaining between 5 and 10 pounds 6 months after their surgery. Fat return was reported in 65 percent of the responders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16651945/
Scalene2··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
What kind of crap do you watch on YouTube that manages to taint the entire platform?
Scalene2··on Petrichor
Maybe we like the smell and are sensitive to it due to its association with arable land?
Scalene2··on “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
Yes. (it depends on the situation)
Scalene2··on Amazon packages burn in India, final stop in broken recycling system
So, in my city, there's a warehouse, they buy Amazon returns and surplus in bulk, every week on the same day, they fill shallow elevated bins ideal for picking through with the items. Day 1 everything is $25 an item, the price reduces each day until everything is $1 on day 7. It is a great low cost (it's actually profitable), probably profitable enough that if Amazon ran these themselves they could pay to process all the waste in an eco friendly way and not lose money.
Scalene2··on PicoCAD – A tiny modeller for tiny models
They can be used for pretty much anything that 3D models are used for.
Scalene2··on Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
I think marketing this more like a console and less like a game might be the way to go.
Scalene2··on Taking a Good Picture of a PCB
A lot of it is probably quartz in dirt.
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