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Expo70 posted:does your chair make you think in different ways? yeah ... it makes me think i need a new chair!!! lmbo.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 18:35 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 03:17 |
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So i posted this about VR in the other thread and a bunch of whiners told me it was behind a paywall(???) so here it is again https://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexist/ quote:In the fall of 1997, my university built a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) to help scientists, artists, and archeologists embrace 3D immersion to advance the state of those fields. Ecstatic at seeing a real-life instantiation of the Metaverse, the virtual world imagined in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, I donned a set of goggles and jumped inside. And then I promptly vomited.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 18:40 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:this is a good thread even if I don’t understand it. I use a trackball i swap between a mouse and a wacom tablet
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 18:53 |
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Expo70 posted:this does make me wonder if the cornea has some sort of difference from estrogenic vs androgenic dominant bodies, given i know a number of people have experienced changes in their prescriptions when undergoing hrt. i think its something that really does need to be studied more, and better understood. one of the most interesting lines in that whole thing to me was: quote:
who knew? not me. yeah i thought the studies she mentioned on people undergoing hormone therapy was interesting and id really like to see more rigorous research
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 19:00 |
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someday steve jobs will be held to account for his crimes
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 19:01 |
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HCI has its roots in time & motion studies and jesus christ if you ever wanted to see what hell looks like take a look at the output of some of those studies commissioned for industry
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 00:03 |
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rotor posted:HCI has its roots in time & motion studies and jesus christ if you ever wanted to see what hell looks like take a look at the output of some of those studies commissioned for industry or, you know, turn off your monitor
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 00:03 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:there's the group of peeps who do it and there's the logical consequents of the subject at hand: we are really talkin about the group of peeps who do it, an academic eternal fistfight. SIGCHI, for example, split off from the SIG for "Behavioral Computing" in the 80s, so these peeps are not direct descendants of the peeps who were doing time and motion studies. but the HFES, who do the main journal in hfe nowadays, started off in WW2 doin em time and motion studies i mean i understand thats what you're talking about, yes
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 00:08 |
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you can even get The Clapper if ur too lazy to get up
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 03:25 |
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also i feel fairly certain that .... ugh, i cant belive i'm typing this ... I feel fairly certain your smart bulbs expose some sort of interface that there are already tools for and ... euugh ... you could probably just write an internal webapp for ... [vomits into wastepaper basket]
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 03:28 |
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i like the lights that have little tank circuits so you just touch em anywhere to turn em on and off
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 03:52 |
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the peel & stick LED tape that takes 12v is really good and makes making your own weird lamps really easy i made my girl a nice light out of just a straight 1x4" cherry board just covered on one side with LEDs. Just bounce the light off the ceiling and its bright af
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 03:54 |
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Sapozhnik posted:the iphone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 04:01 |
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leper khan posted:How many lumens do you want? A quick Google revealed these 7500 lumen gems for that Fury of the Day Star look thats a whole lotta leds
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 07:37 |
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Truman Peyote posted:do trackballs work for shooters? No.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 08:45 |
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like there will 100% be people who play their fave FPS with a trackball and think they're super good at it, but no, they dont work for FPSes.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 08:48 |
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PokeJoe posted:I used to play TF2 with a trackball guy and he could only play pyro with any success at all yep, same with qwtf. Its a pyro-only controller, and its not even good at it, it was very dependent on where he was on the map
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2022 08:51 |
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a microwave should have one control: a knob for setting how long you want it to run
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2022 00:48 |
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Progressive JPEG posted:I have a panasonic where you tell it how many watts to use and I normally set it to 400-600 territory, seems to cook more evenly if you're one of the 5% of users that use power levels, a second control will be allowed which is a knob that controls the power output ranging from 0 to max
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2022 01:04 |
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haptics are super cool
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2022 18:54 |
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notation is all made up anyway
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 03:16 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:so are words, and you'd better be as good at writing as shakespeare if you wanna make up as much poo poo as shakespeare people make up words every day, get over yourself. expo, if you need anyones blessing to make up your own symbols to represent your own theories - which you 100% do not, but in case you think you do - you have mine.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 07:30 |
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like where do you think all those fuckin symbols came from in the first place? mathematicians got tired of writing out a bunch of poo poo and said "oh gently caress it, lets just call it ⟄"
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 07:32 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:it wasn't "mathematicians", is the rub nah. if there isn't a symbol for what you want, you get to make one up, that's the rule.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 07:35 |
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maybe no one else uses it, that's fine. But in language and especially in mathematics you are free to make up your own symbols if current notation is lacking.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 07:36 |
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I bid you good night.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 07:36 |
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Shame Boy posted:i think a bunch of people are here specifically for the weird poo poo not me, I'm just here for arguments about brace styles, languages and what kind of bagels are best (salt)
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 22:12 |
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PCjr sidecar posted:you can still get these dials on cheap small microwaves its actually very hard to find microwaves with dial interfaces now. I have one on my wishlist for when i finally get tired of the POS i have now, and its entirely aimed at people who have trouble with fine manipulation skills.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 22:17 |
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Achmed Jones posted:oh man i saw some old infomercial for microwave cooking and it was hilarious how much of it was "get a ceramic plate really hot in the microwave, now grill poo poo on it." i couldn't figure out how it could be superior to just getting a hot plate in anything but the most dire no-counter-space circumstances dorms and rvs and such
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 22:20 |
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^^^^^^ lovelyAchmed Jones posted:so you mean dire no-counter-space circumstances? some dorms specifically outlaw hotplates, which is why i mentioned them
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 22:23 |
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Sagebrush posted:the circuitry for it is literally just a capacitive oscillator iirc catpacitive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dnUZE58UBg
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2022 20:49 |
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bring back the SpaceOrb imo
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2022 21:32 |
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Expo70 posted:I love the space-orb but it made zero sense. we had someone using it as a 6 DoF controller and it took some getting used to but after a while you could be pretty precise. Like if your game depends on super precise input then idk but for stuff like Descent it was [img-chef-kissyfingers]
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2022 22:18 |
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you could also get one of the cheap knockoffs that were almost as good
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2022 22:20 |
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PokeJoe posted:what kind of controller is good for the laziest possible use
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 04:28 |
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Expo70 posted:as someone into 6dof, the issue is that in Descent most combat happens at reasonably close ranges and the contradictions make finer inputs much harder. I mean it was a long time ago and maybe i'm not a pro level descent player or whatever but as i remember it seemed good to me. Maybe i'm just remembering the novelty, idk. Have you ever tried one?
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 19:13 |
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idk what your issue(s) is/are but in my experience engineering is often to afraid to push back on product or too ineffective at doing so. The analogy i always try to use is that PMs creating feature lists are shopping in a store without price tags. Engineering must have a seat on those committees if only to tell the PMs "wow actually that feature is really expensive just fyi."
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 21:13 |
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MononcQc posted:mostly it was the idea that dashboard metrics have to be chosen carefully because during an outage people have less bandwidth, not more, so you have to pick a restricted set of values that are likely to generally be useful to provide vitals (which are interpreted based on current context) rather than trying to add tons of metrics that provide their own context to an ongoing incident. this is a great argument for producing simpler, less capable systems.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 01:19 |
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MononcQc posted:One paper I love probably states it best through its title: "I want to treat the patient, not the alarm" its the same for any toolmaker. Fundamentally you need to realize that the tools you make are not center stage, the things they're using the tools to make are.. Toolmakers who haven't internalized this deep wisdom consistently make bad tools.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 05:46 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 03:17 |
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hahaha dr. weiner hahaha
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