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learn_more··on Terraforming 1Password
Our marketing is currently geared towards teams, so our pricing starts at 12k USD/yr for a 10 user subscription. We haven't yet rolled out official individual pricing so I don't want to jump the gun here by announcing prematurely, but if you start a free trial and mention you're seeking a single user, we can discuss further via email.
learn_more··on Terraforming 1Password
Have a look at https://www.pathwaysystems.com/video/#racks1

The video is a bit slow because it's meant to be instructional. There are other videos on the same page which show how the model (graph) can be viewed logically instead of isometrically (what we call spatially).

I'm the CTO, happy to answer questions.

learn_more··on Atlantropa
If the only outflow was was from evaporation, the salinity would keep increasing. Eventually the salt would have to be removed somehow. Perhaps some of the energy harvested at the Straits of Gibraltar could be used to exchange some of the water to keep the salinity down.
learn_more··on Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
I agree. videos of product features are much easier to make than written documentation about those features.
learn_more··on Returning to analog and putting digital in its place
Analog is more intimate than digital. When I look at the night sky through my binoculars, the photons of distant stars land upon my retina. They touch me, and I touch them, despite the stars being light years away.

When I look through a digital camera, I see the stars but I know the photons are fraudulent. The information is there, but it's lost something.

With analog, if I could focus better, I'd see more and more detail, until it's inseparable from noise, but it's still in there somewhere

With digital, if I zoom, I know I'll find just a pixel or a cold dead square wave.

learn_more··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
I've been doing the same thing for years. I have two bins each for socks, underwear, and t-shirts. when the dirty one fills, I wash it then dump into the respective clean one. The trick is to buy a full loads worth of socks, and a full loads worth of underwear which is probably an unusually large amount for most people. Throw hardware at the problem!
learn_more··on Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
This law should be good for the careers of models who actually are nearly perfect looking.
learn_more··on Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
The more likely explanation for why you hear it in some locations and head orientations, is that the volume is right on the threshold of your ability to hear it. By turning you head, or obstructing the direct path, it drops below your sensitivity threshold. I have a ticking wristwatch that demonstrates this effect very well.
learn_more··on Ask HN: Why can't we stop hurricanes?
How about coating the sea surface with a very thin layer of oil to reduce evaporation?
learn_more··on Simple Techniques for Lowering the Cost of Zero-Energy Homes
Double glazed are quieter than single. That's a nice benefit as well.
learn_more··on These Robots Are Using Static Electricity to Make Nikes
the article mentioned wall climbing as a prior pursuit, with less of a market.
learn_more··on Eclipses and Decibels
You must remember that the irises in your eyes are dialating as the sun is being eclipsed. If that was not happening, you would undoubtedly notice the change in visible light like you do the heat.
learn_more··on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
The cost model is like a time limited software license. If there is some new trick to extend the license, the drug companies would likely just charge more up front.
learn_more··on 42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic
I use a wide mouth, vacuum bottle, to cook rice or pasta. It keeps the heat in, so you only have to heat it up initially, not continuously. A bonus is that you don't have to pay any attention while cooking,
learn_more··on Why Wallflowers Don't Make Friends
Learn to hack your own confidence.

If you are heading out for a social event, take your good clothes to the gym, workout, shower and change there, then go straight to the event while you are feeling peppy and confident!

learn_more··on Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar
Stereo vision gives you two slightly different perspectives on a scene. A single point in the 3D scene will be seen in a slightly different position in each 2D image. The offset between the two positions give you the depth information. The more offset, the closer the point is to the observer.

The difficult part however is pairing the points between the images. You and I do that easily, because when we see, for example, the top left corner of our refrigerator, we can easily identify that same point in both images, probably because we recognize the objects we are looking at. A computer has more trouble pairing the points.

Lidar is a way a cheating, by temporarily shining a dot on the locations so that the points can be found and coordinated easily from both images.

learn_more··on Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
learn_more··on Remove United from your flight results
We don't need another regulation to solve this. Seems like the free market is going to handle it just fine.
learn_more··on Don't Fly During Ramadan (2013)
They probably just looked it up on Google maps.
learn_more··on Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System
Well said. To clarify my point, GPS maps can actually be a learning tool instead of a crutch. But it seems to require static map orientation. When the map is always oriented north, it teaches you about the city as you see your location move within it. When it's constantly shifting the map orientation around, it seems it's too confusing to extract "big picture" knowledge. I don't think most people realize this, since mapping systems often default to the "driver-centric" viewpoint, and if they don't, it's the first thing people change.
learn_more··on Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System
I'm simply pointing out there is an often overlooked benefit to using navigation with a static map orientation. For folks who are "bad at directions" this may help them fix that deficit.
learn_more··on Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System
If you train yourself to use a static orientation however, you develop a much better "big picture" awareness of the city you drive in, eventually freeing yourself from requiring navigational assistance.

The additional cognitive load is worth it for me.

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