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Comment · 11 months ago
Your comment prompted me to go read about epicenters and I learned something new. The hypocenter of an earthquake is apparently the point of origin of the earthquake and the epicenter is the point on the earth's surface directly above the hypocenter. Had never heard of a hypocenter before.
Comment · 3 years ago
What’s stopping someone from just taking the derivative of a crazy expression, asking stackexchange what the integral is, then answering it themself with what they already know is the anti-derivative
Comment · 3 years ago
I think this is really wild and interesting. In my experience, they (more like specializations of the Kalman filter) are used almost universally in radar tracking. I'm curious where outside of academia you see ridicule for Kalman Filters?
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been (kind of) successful with this with my Apple Watch SE and Honda Civic. The issues arise when I have both my phone and watch in the car and it wants to connect to the watch. Then things get confused and don't work out the way you would want. With just the watch, however, it seems to work fine.

On a related note, I've had significant issues trying to play music through airpods through the watch. I can get it to connect, and it plays a few seconds of music, then goes silent. The screen still indicates its playing. Very frustrating.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's kind of interesting how handling this well varies from hobby to hobby and is tricky to balance from person to person. There's the argument that you don't want to spend too much until you get a feel for how interested you are but there's also the effect of quality of tools on enjoyment/annoyance/learning curve that has a big effect on interest a lot of the time. I guess, you're always just gonna wanna google around to get a better idea, but sometimes there's not great googleable info.
Comment · 3 years ago
Irrelevant to article content, but did anyone else find the cookie UX on this site infuriating?
Comment · 4 years ago
Is there any regulated/"official" definition to the word "processed" in this context? I see the word so much in the context of food in general and I've never known exactly what it means.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not if you keep overbuilding for star and moonlight!
Comment · 4 years ago
Being almost completely uninformed on the details of Apple/TSMC's dealings, I'm curious, would Apple ever position themselves to get into chip fabrication? I'm sure there are big reasons this is unlikely but it seems like if anyone could do it, it's Apple.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah this seems so strange a thing to do. Maybe they're personalized/ruggedized in some nice way?
Comment · 4 years ago
I've wondered the same thing. The only thing I can think of is some kind of god awful false positive rate. Which doesn't really make sense either considering the technology we have today.
Comment · 4 years ago
I can do this on my cellular Apple Watch. Not quite as easy to fiddle with, but for straight forward stuff in my own city it's quite nice.
Comment · 4 years ago
They want an exciting disruption to current theory.
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess if you already have C++ that you'd prefer not to re-write. Also things like graphics programming, while making great strides in rust, are definitely still superior in C++ in certain aspects so you might want to write, say, an OpenGL interface in C++.
Comment · 4 years ago
Very true. Although not such an uncommon contrast in Huntsville, AL, where Destin lives.

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