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tpmx
·3년 전·discuss
The article is talking about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor.

It refers to an 1887 patent application with 218 pages. Here's part 1 (specification) at 55 pages:

http://www.archive.org/details/PaigeCompositorUS547860Text60... (granted 1895-10-15, that tracks with the 8 year review period mentioned in the article.)

And here's part 2 - 163 pages full of lovely mechanical drawings:

https://archive.org/details/PaigeCompositorUS547860Sheets600...
tpmx
·3년 전·discuss
Yeah. It also relatively often breaks and requires a purge. I need to do it approximately once per month.
tpmx
·5년 전·discuss
Google quite quickly put up links to manually cached pages from e.g. CNN directly on the google.com start page.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/89...
tpmx
·5년 전·discuss
I had to change my OS timezone to UTC-6 (Central US) to get the timestamps in the web app to match up.
tpmx
·5년 전·discuss
The money, and the kind of people it attracts.
tpmx
·5년 전·discuss
Typical clinic grade at-home diagnosis kits use these sensors:

- Nasal breathing via a light-weight mask thing around your nostrils

- Heart rate and blood oxygenation via a pulse oximeter on a finger

- Physical orientation of the body (an acceleration sensor)

- Something around the chest that records contractions/expansions
tpmx
·5년 전·discuss
Sleep apnea - it's weird how you often don't notice/understand it until an external observer who has seen it before tells you what's going on. You just feel very slightly more tired each day. You randomly microsleep without realizing. It's quite insidious. It's obviously very dangerous if you drive a car.

This area needs much more awareness (and tech-based "disruption" - especially in detection, but also in making CPAP treatment more affordable and accessible).
tpmx
·6년 전·discuss
Please do explain how you find it ambiguous what exactly I'm calling "flaming crap". I'm actually quite curious. In fact, I suspect you are lying. But you're not interested once this topic has moved away from the the front page.

Reminder: What I posted was:

> It's odd how on HN you're not supposed to be negative of anything technical even if it's flaming crap, but also at the same time you're also supposed be assuming certain doom when it comes to climate change. How about we try to solve the technical problem at hand?
tpmx
·6년 전·discuss
> I'm sorry, English is not my first language. I did in fact read every word in your post, but still don't understand it.

Still you had zero doubts about incorrectly posting something about how I was calling this post "flaming crap" (I didn't).

Perhaps learn more English before you speak with such confidence.
tpmx
·6년 전·discuss
It's a comment in general on the discourse regarding climate change here.
tpmx
·6년 전·discuss
> Why is it "flaming crap"?

You 100% misread my post. I did not claim the article was "flaming crap". Please re-read it, this time reading every word.
tpmx
·6년 전·discuss
Yeah, what happened to being solution-oriented?

It's odd how on HN you're not supposed to be negative of anything technical even if it's flaming crap, but also at the same time you're also supposed be assuming certain doom when it comes to climate change. How about we try to solve the technical problem at hand?