Been wishing for something like this for a long time
One day we’ll hopefully have the AI synthesize a précis that takes all its sources into account.
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neoteo commented on Delicate wash cycles release more microfibres phys.org/news/2019-09-dit... · Posted by u/lelf
Focusing on the fabric as the problem ignores the other major issue of the wasteful way we clean our clothes. This could potentially be much improved if we developed alternative ways of cleaning our clothes that didn’t waste resources and pollute as much as the current system: using lots of water, energy to heat the water, detergents to clean, energy to generate friction and circulation, dumping the waste into nature.
Are there any current efforts/research into new and better (efficient & sustainable) fabric cleaning systems?
neoteo commented on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? · Posted by u/subhrm
I think Apple's current approach, where all the smarts (Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Secure Enclave, etc.) reside on your device, not in the cloud, is the most promising. As imagined in so much sci-fi (eg. the Hosaka in Neuromancer) you build a relationship with your device which gets to know you, your habits and, most importantly in regard to search, what you mean when you search for something and what results are most likely to be relevant to you. An on-device search agent could potentially be the best solution because this very personal and, crucially, private device will know much more about you than you are (or should be) willing to forfeit to the cloud providers whose business is, ultimately, to make money off your data.
Monochromatic interfaces can be so beautiful.
I'd love to use a modern GUI that adopted this aesthetic. Even though the content of documents would be in color, having the UI itself restrained to a simple monochrome palette would be very enjoyable to use.
macOS: Preferences-> Accessibility -> Display -> Use grayscale
This is exactly how Theora Jones defeats Bryce Lynch's keypad in Max Headroom (Blipverts episode)...in 1987. :)
Love that you can convert the measurements to preferred units (such as metric).
I second Bruce's comment about cup sizes being regional. So are teaspoons and tablespoons for that matter. The wikipedia pages do reasonable coverage on this.
So good to clearly indicate which region's measurements are being used.
Always been a frustration of mine when reading recipes as having to figure out what country the recipe is published in to figure out what the measurements actually are. (Unless they are in metric, which is unambiguous.)
In fact a country selector would allow not just measures to be adapted but also the ingredients (eg. in some countries dry-yeast is a lot harder to find than the regular kind). Cuts of meat are different too and you often have to resort to Wikipedia's language options to see what a tenderloin cut (say) is in your own language. Finally you could have alternatives with which you could swap out any missing ingredients.
The Max Headroom series 2 episode "Deities" was about a Vu Age church that sold A.I. recreations of loved ones as salvation.
neoteo commented on Project Soli – touchless gesture interactions by Google atap.google.com/soli/... · Posted by u/danr4
As always Douglas Adams had some keen, if slightly cynical, insight:
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years
radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
neoteo commented on Main is usually a function – when is it not? jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/... · Posted by u/b0b_d0e
I spent a bit getting it to work on OS X. The ASM becomes:
movq $0x2000004, %rax ; // BSD syscalls are divided into classes.
movq $1, %rdi ; // 64-bit registers use %rdi instead of %ebx
lea message(%rip), %rsi; // Relative Address of message
movq $13, %rdx ; // Same Length
syscall ; // x86-64 ASM syscall
movq $0x2000001, %rax ; // Exit Syscall
movq $0, %rdi;
syscall
message: .ascii "Hello World!\n";Nice. Thx.
Ok, so who's going to start doing the WWDC's ?