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The sensor you’re describing is usually called an accelerometer.


No, accelerometers detect acceleration in linear direction (up/down, left/right, forward/backward), while gyroscopes detect rotation (pitch, yaw, roll). Smartphones have both, to detect all six degrees of freedom.

Edit: Apparently, for smartphones, all these sensors are integrated into a single MEMS chip, one sensor for each degree of freedom, three accelerometers and three gyroscopes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9X4frIQo7x0


BTW, smartphone acceleromoters are also packaged for hobbyists; a board like https://www.adafruit.com/product/2019 can be easily used to make any number of applications when coupled with a microcontroller. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-mma8451-accelerometer-br...


And the reason accelerometers can be used for sensing orientation here on Earth is, of course, because of the constant force of gravity :)


Interesting point. I guess this is much less precise than gyroscopes though.


I think that’s a pretty sideways reaction to someone who is just arguing for parents to actually parent their children, rather than let computers do a worse job.

Attentive, authentic parenting is pretty well agreed upon by modern society to be a good thing for all people.


Not after one prescribed dosage though…that’s the point.


But compared to regular Big Pharma meds, one dose of psychedelics is usually the whole treatment.

Getting out of depression or other severe conditions is hard, whether using psychedelics or SSRI. Take care of yourself so you don't get there in the first place.


That's not what this story, or the longer linked New Yorker story about Octavio Rettig, suggests. Further, it's besides the point: the thread you're commenting on is about the potential for grave side effects after a single dose.


Cool research. The assessed conditions are very tightly controlled, and I wish they better described the sensing mechanism used for the feedback in the “vibration mediated suppression” method. but the new material approach is promising however, as it’s much less intrusive than other approaches.


I was intrigued, but acoustically it doesn’t make a lot of sense really…the thrust exhaust where all the fast moving air comes out, also happens to be where all the loud comes out too. Their renderings don’t look like the engines are far enough forward for the fuselage to provide any significant obstructions to the path of sound from the exhaust down to the ground.


If the green bubbles didn’t violate Apples own accessibility standards for text contrast (https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-acce... would agree it’s a silly complaint. But there is no technical limitation requiring that a message be less readable because it came from an Android. So it’s not just “less cool” they actively make the user experience worse for you when you are messaging someone that doesn’t have an iPhone.


The focus is there because race has been the descriptor of choice for generations to quickly, lazily and cruelly discriminate against minority groups, and the lasting effects haven't even been fully understood yet, let alone remedied to the point where we can just ignore what has and is still happening because of someone's skin color.


Personally I'd rather have a sedimentary job than an igneous or metamorphic one...


lol. I realised I made that typo right after the time to edit elapsed.


These projects always interest me. I understand that the technical portion of Holo apps will be decentralized, but what is being done to decentralize the governance of what is and isn't allowed on the Holo network itself?


The Holo project is a bridge between the centralized Web world, and the decentralized Holochain App world.

Therefore, it will always have some aspects of centralization: real Fiat money exchange, DNS, CDNs, etc.

If you want fully decentralized, you can build and deploy a straight Holochain app, which requires no centralized services at all, and is hosted totally on the hardware and networking of the users of the App.


That's good to know. Still, with tens of thousands of satellites planned (that's just SpaceX) and the need for them to de-orbit and then redeploy, I think there is going to be quite a few of these things visible at any given time.


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