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by Figs 11y ago
Well, there is the case of Aristarchus who came up with the heliocentric model of the solar system about 1800 years or so before Copernicus. His model was rejected because of experimental evidence -- the theory predicted stellar parallax wh
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Mozilla is removing tab groups and complete themes from Firefox(venturebeat.com)
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by Figs 11y ago
I wrote a post on reddit with some code to generate diagrams with generalized divisibility testing the last time I saw this idea (about two years ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1p9g8t/start_
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by Figs 11y ago
Does using a solar panel to run a reverse osmosis machine work better than an evaporation-based solar still? If so, why is it more efficient?
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by Figs 11y ago
> lots of JS libraries expect things like viewport and window size information, I wonder how Google is achieving that. Just plug in common screen parameters (e.g. 1920x1080, 1366x768, ...) and analyze it as if it were the result you&#x27
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New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used to Target Foreign Affairs Ministries(blog.trendmicro.com)
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Convicted by Code: Defendants should be able to inspect code used in forensics(slate.com)
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This VW Diesel Scandal Is Much Worse Than a Recall(popularmechanics.com)
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by Figs 11y ago
It also shows nothing at all if you turn off JavaScript in Firefox. Not even a crappy "You need JavaScript" error -- just blank.
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Researcher warns of major x86 security flaw(bit-tech.net)
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by Figs 11y ago
Well, Sourceforge is still recovering from a major fuck up in their storage system a week ago, so it's not that surprising that things aren't entirely working... http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infra
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by Figs 11y ago
Thank you for the correction. If you don't mind, could you please explain the grammar of "はげましなから" since it seems I was mistaken in interpreting that construction? (I thought it was "because of encouragement".) In p
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by Figs 11y ago
It's really hard to read the text in that picture because of the JPG compression artifacts, but I did my best to try to transcribe and translate it. I'm not a native speaker of Japanese though, so if anyone sees a mistake, please
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Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color(pluto.jhuapl.edu)
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by Figs 11y ago
I'm getting a plain black page from this link in both Firefox and Chromium. For the people that the link works for -- is there anything else of interest in the post beyond what's in the title and the previous story posted earlier
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by Figs 11y ago
You can already see some of the recent pictures they've taken here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php?page=1
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by Figs 11y ago
You'll probably get sued -- http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-anoth...
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by Figs 11y ago
How do you disable TRIM on common distros? Under Ubuntu, is it just preventing /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim from running, or is there more to it? What about CentOS, etc?
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by Figs 11y ago
Is there a list of firmware versions with release dates somewhere? I can't seem to find a changelog.
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by Figs 11y ago
It's a legacy from WWII. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
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by Figs 11y ago
If they really become unacceptably bad, people could start backing an alternate DNS root en masse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root Good luck getting anyone to agree on which one though.
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by Figs 11y ago
> Readability-esque algorithms presumably do They look for the div with the most text/paragraphs in it and assume that's the article. At least, that's what the open source ones I looked at a while back do -- the proprietar
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by Figs 12y ago
Are there any reports of this phenomenon occurring in Alaska and Canada?
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by Figs 12y ago
> I always wondered why they hung onto cartridges for as long as they did. Well, they tried to start getting CD tech in the mid 1980s but fucked up badly. Sony and Nintendo were going to produce an add-on for the SNES so it could load
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by Figs 12y ago
Security and better performance on cheap hardware are two reasons I turn it off by default and only enable it when I really need it.
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by Figs 12y ago
Hmm... what does an MRI scanner update do ? I would have thought a system like that would just record whatever it gets from its sensors and any updates needed would only apply to the analysis and visualization software... Do the updates a
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by Figs 12y ago
It's possible to write malicious Makefiles that do things like: install: rm -rf /* If you just `git clone <evil-repo> . && make` or `git clone <evil-repo> . && sudo make install` then s
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by Figs 12y ago
I had the opposite reaction after having to work with a number of complicated reductions; in a lot of cases, a short for-loop and accumulator variable would have made the code much easier to read...
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by Figs 12y ago
I was bugged by games not having proper polar regions too a while back. One solution I thought of (but never got around to implementing) was to use a cube map to represent the surface of the sphere. I thought it'd be easier to work wit
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by Figs 12y ago
They're talking about unexploded ordnance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded_ordinance I don't know if there's a more recent example of Civil War UXO causing injuries, but here's a news articl

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