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9y ago
Not sure you'd want some high energy photons scattering on your face after the collision of the light sabers. Except if you want to call it "the photon menace".
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Not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Herbivores, by definition, do eat living organisms (plants).
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But, in the article, the "bad examples" he gave, some real people wrote them. If you had to write back to such people with "bare" English, wouldn't they judge you as "childlike and naive" too? Isn't i
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In less than a year, on 2018-05-25, the new regulation will apply to organizations collecting or processing personal data (name, address, email, picture, etc) of EU residents. It's full of interesting things, here a quick TL;DR (no gua
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New EU's data protection Regulation will apply in May 2018
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Nice to see that last year prediction about an event this month was spot on. Also related: • https://twitter.com/tsboyajian • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-star-dims... • https:&#
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New dimming event of the Tabby's Star
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And let's not forget the infamous Atlantic Wall ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall
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> a meal without bread is unthinkable in France. It's an overstatement, it's totally thinkable (and in fact people often don't eat any bread depending on the kind of meal).
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9y ago
And "Fashion" is highly dependent of the location. Trendy in Tokyo is maybe not so in Paris, and vice-versa.
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It guessed I had a variant of Windows, yet I'm running a Linux with no spoofing of any kind. By transitivity FreeBSD is a subvariant of Windows ... or maybe not.
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Social networks should also tackle how their recommendation algorithm might be influencing the "information bubble" of citizens (or at least be gamed in order to do so). For example in France, during an election campaign, official
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It tastes good indeed, but in figure 3, France had 5 other brands containing some plastic polymers and/or pigment particles ... I now wonder from which brand is that F sample (clue : apparently packaged in a Glass container) Anyway the
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10y ago
Not sure you can call it an immigration form, because it's targeting "nonimmigrant visitor". Moreover the form do not specifically mention concentration camp guards: > "(...) between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in a
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10y ago
> "I'm sorry madam, this is an operating system we don't support" On the other side, old hardware can get a new lease of life thanks to linux. I have an old scanner (>10y) still working fine 'out of the box&#x
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> in other words, Trump didn't order the attacks Yep, he did not order it, he only asked kindly for some help > “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,”
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> The pyramids were also built with slave labour. Last time I read about this subject, historians and egyptologists were still having some disputes about this.
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In fact the video shows the 'inverted' mode at some point. https://youtu.be/NkUTGpegZN0?t=363
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10y ago
Also obligatory xkcd : https://www.xkcd.com/743/ > If you think he's crazy about a topic just wait 5 years, you'll admit he's right. 2012 → 2017 : yep after Snowden leaks in 2013 that confirmed Micros
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> the web VR using A-frame is at: http://virtualforest.io/vrforest.html And it works better with WebGL enabled, else you get a rather empty page.
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> I've seen this claim several times about French. Who said it was about modern French? French has been heavily influenced by different cultures. Some apparently used full or partial vigesimal systems such as in Basque, Breton, Norm
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It could also interestingly be mixed with reflected binary code [1] with only one segment changing between two successive values. > Theoretically, the Unicode Consortium could decide to add the Birkana symbols to the Unicode specificatio
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> Either way, 0-F is a lot easier. Easier for us because it's the conventional way hexadecimal was represented in computer history, and how we learned it. That rune-like system is more "logical" in the way you can visually
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On a side note, it might not be a good idea to directly glare at powerful LEDs. French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety noted [1] some points that might not be photo-biologicaly safe, the main points being
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That also reminds me of an interesting research paper last year about a "Machine Learning Approach to Visual Perception of Forest Trails for Mobile Robots". ( http://robohub.org/drones-recognise-and-follow-forest-t
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> this guy always has to be right and would work terribly with people of different levels of skills Are you talking about the recruiter?
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> On the other hand, that person is leaking his information directly to me just because of typos when he fills out online forms. I often get some misdirected emails because of a very banal name in my country. When the email contains a th
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Isn't this way too steep to be Mt Fuji?
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To quote Krebs [1] on that subject: > BCP38 is designed to filter such spoofed traffic, so that it never even traverses the network of an ISP that’s adopted the anti-spoofing measures. However, there are non-trivial economic reasons that
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10y ago
> I think it also works with letters. Indeed it does. According to the man page : "When characters are supplied, the expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and y, inclusive, using the default C locale."
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