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nemacol

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DBA WV USA
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nemacol··on Show HN: A web app to turn photos into 3D AR models.
Anyway to take a model that was created and get it into CAD / modeling software? I don't know much about VR/AR but I know it is a pain in the bum to replicate an object / create a model for 3d printing.

Thank you.

nemacol··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
Which password manager do you folks use?
nemacol··on Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
I own a physical copy of Diablo 2 that does not work anymore. License is dead and I don't know why.

Owning a physical copy is not helping me play the game as Bliz has decided that license is no good.

An NFT could have the same experience. Nothing forcing the vendor to honor it.

Seems if NFT game licenses worked the way they are being talked about in this thread then there would be no way to ban players for bad behavior because it would be out of the hands of the developer. Which clearly isn't true.

nemacol··on Intermittent fasting prompts anti-inflammatory response
>ignore it and it will go away helps.

When I was young I would hurt myself somehow and go to my mother saying

Me - My arm hurts when I do THIS (bend arm at elbow, back and forth)

Mom- Don't do that and it won't hurt.

Me - (Pikachu meme face)

nemacol··on iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
Reminds me a bit of these stories 10 years ago.

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/

"The accelerometers in many smartphones could be used to decipher what you type into your PC keyboard. "

nemacol··on Where have all the insects gone?
You are right, I forgot ticks. This spring while hunting mushrooms I would pick 10+ off of my pants after every trip out. I have a pill bottle with dozens of them from taking the dogs for a walk. almost always itty bitty little devils.
nemacol··on Where have all the insects gone?
Somehow mosquitos, stink bugs, and asian lady beetles persist in my area.

It is amazing to see every other type of animal come back stronger with the waning of industry.

nemacol··on Uranium Glass
Looking around ebay for a geiger counter and found this post, which includes some pieces of Fiesta Ware as a test source.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/170706729804

nemacol··on Uranium Glass
Fun to see on HN. Just in the last couple weeks I purchased a UV flashlight to search for this glass.
nemacol··on Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state
I am not sure I understand the goals here. Gerrymandering 2.0?

WV lost a seat in the 2020 census. Would move seats from Maryland to WV. From Blue to Red.

I like to idea just to square off WV's eastern panhandle. It would look nice on a map with a flat top.

nemacol··on Android 12 is live in AOSP
This is only tangentially related but... Anyone else cringe / feel and overwhelming desire to turn off any video like the first one in this article (#AndroidDevSummit: tune in October 27-28!) where someone speaks in that excessively excited and optimistic voice? It is as cliché and gag inducing to me as the infomercial voiceover guy explaining how something simple thing is a disaster and how they have now solved it.

I can't turn that shit off fast enough.

Also, I really like Keri Byron from Myth busters, etc. This is not a complaint about a personality or whatever. Just this delivery that seems to be everywhere in tech sales pitches and time shares.

nemacol··on Coinbase Breach Notification
Interesting. thank you for the links.
nemacol··on Coinbase Breach Notification
And they would have had to do ~6000 SIM swaps? that seems like too many for a short period of time. Maybe?
nemacol··on New Surface products, built for Windows 11
There is a good tag line "Microsoft - redefining infinity"
nemacol··on Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
If you can pepper in the phrase "single pane of glass" you will be sure to hook em with the sale pitch.
nemacol··on Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
>What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?

Among the list of nasty things we are doing, fracking stands out. Fresh water is scarce in much of the world. Ground water is drying up and massive aquafers are eroding.

Simultaneously we are pumping cancer directly in the ground, breaking up rocks, and mixing the cancer stuck in the rocks into the ground water. Pumping that cancer back out and ... god only knows what is really happening to it.

My town, which relied on well water for as long as it has been a town, had city water installed in 2005~. Right around the time all the well heads were going up. I would guess that my well is no longer safe/usable - though I have never had it tested.

Seems a real shame and extremely short sighted.

nemacol··on Apps Getting Worse
Jumping on the band wagon

Muscle memory is a thing and moving buttons around makes using the app harder.

Similarly, I want apps to realize that is not the only app I have on my phone and my life is not going to revolve around using it.

I long for a culture of Software as a Tool, like the hammer in my garage, it exists for when I need it. It does not beckon me for attention or email me about how the handle got updated. It will not need a huge update the moment I pick it up. I do not want to log into my hammer.

Perhaps I am nostalgic for pre-fast internet software. You acquire some bit of software and install it and it is what it is until you, the person using the thing, goes and installs the newest version.

You would get used to the bugs in the version you had - knowing they wouldn't go away - but the software still had utility and you kept using it. Now I get used to something and it changes every 2 weeks and every not and then it breaks something I liked leaving me frustrated and complaining into the void.

nemacol··on Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
Previous work experience (at a casino in USA). Security existed for customer service, general rule enforcement where it could be done verbally, and to observe and document activities to be used later - like in court or by police. Professional eye witness.

Of course there are times hands-on action was taken but the vast majority was no touch communication and de-escalation followed by a whole lot of documentation coordinated with video surveillance.

nemacol··on NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
Time for some percussive maintenance.
nemacol··on Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband
I live in WV and work a job based in PA.

Working on a communication (will call and email) to Ohio reps now, but they have less than zero reason to care about my opinion on the subject.

I contacted my ISP to see if they think it would impact them and asked if I can help in some way.

Apparently something similar passed in PA recently https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

nemacol··on Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband
I don't know how common this is but I live just outside of Ohio and use a small ISP based in Ohio that is a sort of spinoff from the municipal service they have.

That is to say, A municipal service exists as CompanyA and they started a private CompanyB to service people outside of the municipal service area. To the best of my knowledge it uses the same core infrastructure for both companies.

If they shutdown I will have no options in my area besides dish. It is a good product too; 400/10 with 40ms latency and very stable at a decent price.

Honestly, I would have to move to keep my job unless Starlink became available.

EDIT - I called my ISP and I am wrong. Both company A and B are private and this ruling will not impact them. While this news is still terrible, it should not impact me as directly as I had originally thought.

nemacol··on Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
OOohh hrm. might take a long time but I can't imagine why it couldn't happen. Dead core and little to no radioactive material in the planet.

Not sure magnetic fields reach between planets, but between a planet and a moon?

Got me thinking about it again.

nemacol··on Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
I wonder if this magnetism and/or superconductivity happens and impacts anything in some deep and sparse pockets of space where it can naturally get to super low temperatures? Is that a thing?

Trying to imagine how an object in space made mostly of iron moving around in the coldest parts of the universe might act or interact with other objects around it. Seems like if it is cold enough and there is enough metal around it might force some clumping of material.

Maybe nothing happens or it can't because where space is that cold there is also not much there to interact with? I am a casual consumer of science info, I don't know anything really. Just thinking out loud.

nemacol··on A URL Lengthener
Nice! Man, I even search first - I wonder why I didn't see it.
nemacol··on A URL Lengthener
Fyi - I posted this link to the sub https://www.reddit.com/r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/

It seems to fit very well there.

nemacol··on Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
It is amusing that your comment is about IQ and your name is IQunder130... I feel like you might be too focused on a poor measure of human intellect.
nemacol··on Amazon Sidewalk
I had assumed with was happening with Comcast's wifi option already. Manufacturers just have to have credentials and someone nearby to have a comcast network device.
nemacol··on So you want to build a carbon capture company
I like the idea of sort of (but not really) making coal again in a fight against climate change.

In WV we have tons of old strip mine - we should fill them up with plants and bury it.

If we did something like that I imagine the biomass under the earth would compress over time and the land above would end up shifting and causing issues for anyone that wants to use it.

Edit - Daydreaming about this scenario and I am imagining trying to sell the idea of refilling the old coal mines with biomass to folks living in coal country. An interesting and funny situation.

nemacol··on Light Pollution Map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia_oil_field

Just found this as I was attempting to figure out what the bright light is off Newfoundland.

nemacol··on Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
Just for the fun of it, I tried to play WoW classic on my late-2012 mac mini and it ran like a toaster oven, but it worked just fine. Pretty fun. After putting the SSD in it, of course.
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