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eggoaon Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies

This guy sells new beam-spring keyboards with optional solenoids. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com

I have never seen one in person.

eggoaon Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War

Ulysses Grant was pretty much a machine that consumed cigars and emitted union victories.

eggoaon A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published

It would have been tough since the book and movie for 2001 were created concurrently.

eggoaon The women who coined the expression 'surfing the internet' (2019)

In the library of my high school, circa 1995, there were a couple computers for student use. There was a sign near them saying "No Surfing".

eggoaon An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek

Impressive!

eggoaon An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek

How much manual pruning/selection from the generated text do you have to do?

eggoaon The pop and rock greats who love model railways

It's sort of surprising, but it's a group of weird, creative people with tons of money and free time. I'm sure they're doing tons of odd stuff, model trains among them. (Once they're off drugs, that is.)

eggoaon Review of “The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch (2001) [pdf]

Seeing that the author of this review was an undergrad at the time, I tried googling for him to see what he is up to now. It seems he has died after a short but outstanding career.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/story/2020...

eggoaon Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic

My gripe is the 1/2 second pause between tracks, even when they're supposed to blend together, like between 3rd and 4th movements of Beethoven's 5th. Otherwise it's awesome.

eggoaon Twitter confirms Twitter Blue

Maybe they're all just Johnnie Walker fans.

eggoaon Ask HN: How do you manage your personal budget?

I've got something similar driven by a data entry sheet where I put transactions. The monthly columns populate by sumifs()'ing off of that sheet.

I just started my third calendar year of this system on January 1st. It's working out pretty well. I like it more than an off the shelf budget app because I can customize it however I want. I use to keep track of other things like the last time I vacuumed my apartment.

eggoaon The Oldschool PC Font Pack

I miss them too. On a 1920x1080 laptop display I can see the grayscale font smoothing as a blur which my eyes try to correct for. In order to make it tolerable I've turned off font smoothing globally. Ugly and jagged text gives me less eyestrain than the built in blurriness of Windows font smoothing.

eggoaon Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning

This seems like an item for "Show HN".

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

(Not trying to scold or anything, but seems like this would fit well with that convention.)

eggoaon How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

Seems like the kind of process you'd come up with while tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms.

eggoaon How we’re using machine learning at Transit to improve Real-Time bus predictions

I've been using this app for several months without knowing what the "Go" feature was for. I guess I could turn it on and maybe help out other riders. Although if my phone is set to only get tower-level accuracy I don't know how much it would help.

Anyway great app and I look forward to the improvement when this rolls out to my city.

eggoaon Next – extensible keyboard-oriented web browser

cVim in chrome is a bit like this too.

eggoaon Netflix FlameScope

Some employers will block netflix, which is one reason not to put their technical blogging on their own site.

eggoaon How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]

Yes, but I don't think it's a black swan if you're waiting for it.

eggoaon Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

In 2025 the word "mean" no longer means "average", it apparently means "median". Amazing!

eggoaon How to tell if you are a supertaster

Me too. It would be a completely believable title for an article upvoted on Hacker News.

eggoaon Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)

If IT has your computer locked down, it's way easier to just pry the thing off.

eggoaon A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (2015)

Well, they're sterile too. That's certainly an evolutionary disadvantage.

eggoaon Using Deep Learning to Reconstruct High-Resolution Audio

I hesitate to even post this, but I listened to the audio examples and it seems like this project was not yet a success. I'm not trying to be a jerk or snarky, but the reconstructed audio sounded terrible.

eggoaon Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)

The 1984 BYTE magazine review said it was "clever, put together well, and performs some extraordinary feats" but "extremely frustrating to learn and operate efficiently."

This still describes Word, 32 years later.

eggoaon Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say

But it's not really balancing out if you look at the global totals. https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-...

eggoaon AirPods are now available

Someone just needs to sell accessory lanyards for them.

eggoaon Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack

Spotify clients can just go to the IP address?

eggoaon What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

This article appears to neglect the impact of craigslist and similar services on classified ad revenue. With that revenue gone newspapers are in trouble, mistake or not.

eggoaon Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images

I wonder if anyone at Yahoo tried using this to "deconvolute" noise into Cronenberg nightmare porn?

eggoaon Generating Faces with Deconvolution Networks

Some of the "illegal" inputs results remind me of Francis Bacon studies.