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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I've imagined having an OLED screen which only flashes on momentarily. Could be used for writing without editing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Elon: If there is no owner of the requirement to have a steering wheel, then we won't take it as a requirement.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sadly or happily for me: one device, one specific pair of bluetooth headphones. I've started getting the $15 ones.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I would have thought anything that can radiate heat slowly and consistently would by necessity also absorb heat slowly and consistently

Something like a ratio of flame-side heat absorption at flame temperatures, to room-side emissivity at room-side temperatures(wavelengths)?? This could fall out from material properties without appearing as an explicit design detail (e.g. a surface treatment).

Comment · 3 years ago
As is commonly known, the Buddha taught that there is the high path, the middle path, and the meth path.
Comment · 3 years ago
Besides cost today, may also help mitigate a possible helium shortage in the future.

Also: MRI@Home?

Comment · 3 years ago
Forty years ago there was already this sentiment, as best as I can recall the quote: "It is well known that as the scale of the research grows, peer review becomes less effective."
Comment · 3 years ago
Walter Bright had a similar looking zed.exe, at least as part of Zortech C++.
Comment · 3 years ago
Jef Raskin: "Intuitive" == familiar.

User never used/discovered it before == not familiar.

Comment · 3 years ago
Temple Grandin has a newer book titled Visual Thinking. She tells of two groups taught to sharpen flints (IIRC). The first group had instruction only by gestures and example; the second group also had written or spoken instruction. Apparently persons in the first group developed skill faster. Overall she suggests that words can distract from visual observation or attention.

IIRC Derrick Jensen refers to an experiment in which apes caught on to cheating behavior faster than humans, presumably because they were not fooled by any spoken claims.

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