eppeltert

29 karma · joined October 14, 2016

I always figured toothpaste for sensitive teeth contains local sedative.

However, European units of measurement before the metric system were a complete mess, the Italian units of measurement in particular.

Ironic how the author then gives the measurements in feet, after converting palmo to cm.

eppeltert··on [dead]

Anything that's rare can be used as a token of value.

eppeltert··on Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners

I've heard of at least one former prison being used for refugee housing.

eppeltert··on Supercharging Style Transfer

Did you try putting more structure (concentric outlines or a gradient or something) in the input image? Seems like style transfer would fall flat on a binary image.

eppeltert··on Supercharging Style Transfer

Still no continuity between video frames? Doesn't seem like it would be very difficult.

eppeltert··on Uber Self-Driving Truck Packed with Budweiser Makes First Delivery in Colorado

Not sure why you're being downvoted. The transition to "digital rails" will surely be gradual, but it will come.

eppeltert··on Uber Self-Driving Truck Packed with Budweiser Makes First Delivery in Colorado

Maybe the mandatory resting periods for drivers will be less strict when they're driving a self-driving truck.

eppeltert··on 'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears

Go read some classic scifi, PKD did the capitalist dystopia pretty well (and amusing) for example.

eppeltert··on 'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears

They just took the most obvious, silly things everyone predicts about the future and rendered them in the most simplistic, stylized ways.

Was unsuccessfully trying to articulate my gripe with this show but you hit the nail on the head. I think it also explains why I liked the first one best, while the talent show/advertising episode was just annoyingly silly.

eppeltert··on Kodak Ektra

I'd call it apt rather than odd.

eppeltert··on Be Kind

In general, this design principle is known as poka yoke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke