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mhei commented on Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It   eetimes.com/document.asp?... · Posted by u/JoachimS
garmaine · 8 years ago
3D printing is additive. Not sure what SLA is?

I would love to see the microfluidics cooling. I wonder what would happen if you reached boiling though--it'd probably explode the chip.

mhei · 8 years ago
In this context, SLA = Stereolithography
mhei commented on Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines   github.com/Picovoice/stt-... · Posted by u/kenarsa
mhei · 8 years ago
I wonder if they actually trained Cheetah on a different or the same dataset they are benchmarking on.
mhei commented on The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects   olioapps.com/blog/the-los... · Posted by u/theothershoe
sebcat · 8 years ago
That doesn't work for me. Tried with empty Makefile, no Makefile, with make (PMake) and gmake (GNU Make).
mhei · 8 years ago
Try "make foo" instead of "make"
mhei commented on Prince Rupert's cube   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pri... · Posted by u/enhray
cousin_it · 8 years ago
Another nice puzzle:

A cube looks like a square from three orthogonal directions. A cylinder can look like a square from infinitely many directions, but they are all coplanar. Can you find a convex shape that looks like a square from more than three directions, without all of them being coplanar? In particular, can you find a convex shape that looks like a square from two distinct sets of three orthogonal directions? Can you find all such shapes?

mhei · 8 years ago
(Rot13 as not to spoil the riddle)

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mhei commented on Exploiting modern microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and other attacks [pdf]   people.redhat.com/jcm/tal... · Posted by u/anarazel
tomca32 · 8 years ago
This seems to only be a video of the closing of FOSDEM. Some stats, thanking volunteers and reminders for people to clean after themselves. Am I missing something?
mhei commented on Micro Soldering Microscopes   microsolderingsupply.com/... · Posted by u/walterbell
lmilcin · 8 years ago
I have a condition where I don't have stereoscopic vision. This poses a problem when doing fine SMD.

I am using a camera connected directly to a monitor to reduce lag. This allows me to see both the monitor and the board at the same time, without moving my head. I see the board an the tip at an angle allowing me to judge the height. When soldering, I will mostly look at the monitor and regularly scanning to see the height of the tip.

The bigger problem is with placing fine components on the board. It's just slow and irritating. I will position the component in its location and then slowly bring it down until it touches the paste.

mhei · 8 years ago
Could it help to have a point-like light source from a good angle that gives you a sharp shadow? Then it may be possible to judge distance based on the distance between the tip and its shadow.
mhei commented on Filesystem error handling   danluu.com/filesystem-err... · Posted by u/Veelox
mjw1007 · 8 years ago
I can't see anywhere in the article where it says which version of linux this was tested on (beyond "2017"), which is a shame.

Is this the state of affairs after the improvements described at https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/ have gone in?

mhei · 8 years ago
second to last paragraph:

> All tests were run on both ubuntu 17.04, 4.10.0-37, as well as on arch, 4.12.8-2. We got the same results on both machines.

mhei commented on Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says   businessinsider.com/stude... · Posted by u/ALee
pizza · 8 years ago
The idea that scrolling may be jarring enough to hamper reading fits my experience. When I scroll, it doesn't feel like just my browser has to repaint the whole webpage, but it also feels like my brain has to reconstitute the structure of the page via a kind of inverse-repainting, just so that I can reorient my attention, before I can resume it.

In other words, if I

- have a (semantic) pointer to, say, the last word on a line

- am maintaining just the single last word I read in my short-term memory/register

- scroll and then have to look for the line I was just on before I have reoriented myself

then it feels like I have to do a kind of mechanistic attention-interrupt/syscall that locks my conscious interpretation of the text's meaning until I have returned to the index of the text that I was just at. I guess that also explains why sometimes, when I am simultaneously trying to reflect on the text while scrolling, I am significantly less able to do so fluidly, as if there were some underlying deadlock, and more often than not have to repeatedly attempt finding the next line..

But if you hold a book in your hands, there is much less variation in the 'streamed/online/', structural form of the text. More or less, all that my brain knows it needs to anticipate is page turning. It can figure out how to cancel out my hand movements, background visual information, surroundings, etc. from my conscious experience because that's what we've evolved to be able to suppress from our attention.

Maybe, then, computer file viewing UIs that have page-flipping skeuomorphisms are less attention interrupting, because they would avoid these interruptions being done more than one time per page/pair of pages?

Link to the mentioned paper: http://www.co.twosides.info/download/To_Scroll_or_Not_to_Scr...

mhei · 8 years ago
I feel the pagination method demonstrated here is advantageous in that regard, eliminating vertical motion while allowing to see parts of two "pages" at the same time:

http://www.magicscroll.net/

I would love to have that on my ebook reader, may need to hack that together some time to try. I dislike switching back and forth between two pages as is sometimes necessary; in this regard, this even seems better to me than a regular book.

mhei commented on Binary Puzzle   binarypuzzle.com/... · Posted by u/mabynogy
rgerganov · 9 years ago
This is copy paste of http://0hh1.com
mhei · 9 years ago
Or possibly the other way round? 0hh1.com was registered in 2014 according to whois info, the puzzles on this site go back to 2011. (I'm not claiming this is proof, of course)

u/mhei

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