deadfall (u/deadfall)

deadfall commented on The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range vividmaps.com/central-pan... · Posted by u/kdamica

Tsiklon · 3 years ago

From a human perspective, that settlers from one part of the range found a home in another part of the same range is interesting - the heavy Irish and Scottish settlement in Appalachia, taking language and music with them.

deadfall · 3 years ago

A small town in Appalachia I grew up in had a Scottish Museum and Festival. Franklin, NC

deadfall commented on Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Bender

deadfall · 7 years ago

I'm actually from that area and recently been back to take the glass bottom boat tour. The monkey's are pretty illusive and usually stay away from humans and live in the Silver Springs state park, which is next to the Ocala national forest (second largest nationally protected forest in the US). I remember the guide telling us only a few people have died from contact. In those cases were reseacher/scientist that had been studying the monkeys and had been urinated on (in the face in one case). The monkey's do bring tourist dollars to a pretty poor economic area.

deadfall commented on Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera (2005) graphics.stanford.edu/pap... · Posted by u/fgeorgy

joefkelley · 10 years ago

Also check out Lytro, the company created based on this technology. They've got some pretty impressive demos on their website: https://pictures.lytro.com/

deadfall · 10 years ago

Also it looks like it is patented tech http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20140240578

deadfall commented on Ask HN: Just moved to SF, what's the best way to discover local startup scene? · Posted by u/nnd

deadfall · 10 years ago

Just go to the ones that interest you. meetup.com is a great place to find hack nights, meet friends, and find startups. When I first moved here I went to Ruby meetups, hack nights, dev talks. I quickly realized that everyone here was way smarter than I was and it was awesome. So much to learn.

Posted by u/deadfall 10 years ago

Ask HN: How do you stay in shape?

deadfall commented on California's Broken Jaywalking Law systemicfailure.wordpress... · Posted by u/cozzyd

escherize · 10 years ago

This is a bit like keeping speed limits down at 65 mph (a standard set when car technology was 50 years less mature).

It's another way that the state can selectively punish most any citizen at will, within the bounds of law.

deadfall · 10 years ago

Yes, I agree. The flow of traffic for most commuters, like myself, seem to around 75 mph.

"The speed limit is commonly set at or below the 85th percentile operating speed (being the speed which no more than 15% of traffic is exceeding)[41][42][43] and in the US is typically set 8 to 12 mph (13 to 19 km/h) below that speed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit

Posted by u/deadfall 11 years ago

NASA/JPL Coding Guidelines jarmenia2.prizmshare.com/...

deadfall commented on Two Airplanes Successfully Ditch in Pacific avweb.com/avwebflash/news... · Posted by u/2a0c40

deadfall · 11 years ago

Is the camera filming from the HC-130 Hercules airplane?

deadfall commented on U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars wsj.com/articles/u-s-spie... · Posted by u/dctoedt

deadfall · 11 years ago

Just last night I watched an older episode of Jay Leno's Garage and they brought in a few of California Highway Patrol (CHP) cars to show off. The officer explains that new cars are equipped with a license plate scanner find wanted people.

deadfall commented on Ask HN: Why is soylent worth $100M dollars? · Posted by u/giaour

deadfall · 11 years ago

Current Customers Sales + Potential Customer Demand = Value?

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