FoeNyx

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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Yet even more unusual than Adam for girls. 1 in 220,489 girls ( http://www.babynamescience.com/baby-name/Adam-girl )
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
It also crashed in Firefox. But with webGL crashes I never know if the problem is in the browser or in the video card driver.
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
In 2014 Snowden said NSA can do so (but not how). It was quite discussed at that time. for example: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-remotely-turn-on-phones,news...
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
> Your livelihood is not threatened if you don't see some information hidden through a facebook login. I would have missed an exam, because the place and date were only communicated through that medium. > I can see enabling adblo
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Indeed their shadow profiling via other websites is a serious concern (I usually try to block requests to fb/goog on other websites, with the help of some browser addons). But my main concern, as other people mentioned it here too, is
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
> why do you keep going there? Have you ever considered that some contents are only available there? It's more the fault of some users that post required informations there, but it's a reality. Personally I rarely go there, and
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Is option 2 even possible at the moment?
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
And that name could certainly be of some interest for people in the security or cryptography fields (kagi meaning key in Japanese)
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
@joelburget, btw the "demos" link leads to a 404. ( https://github.com/joelburget/d4/demo )
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Indeed, but Betteridge's Law of Headlines is often related to somehow sensationalist headlines, whereas this headline seems more like a part of a "Reductio ad absurdum".
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Alongside climate change, there is also the often forgotten "ocean acidification" part of the problem.
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
To be fair, the ISS is not a long-term habitation either.
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
So 3 decades ago the autopilot could already keep the car in the current lane but was not able to avoid the unicorn^W donkey? Drivers need to remain engaged and aware!
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
Prions remind me of the apocalyptic theory about strangelets and strange matter : "One speculation that has resulted from the idea is that a strangelet coming into contact with a lump of ordinary matter could convert the ordinary matt
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by FoeNyx 10y ago
The French republican calendar was tightly related to the French revolution and the French society of that time and was probably never conceived with the purpose of being adopted by other countries. Whereas the metric system's proponen
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
> What do the colors and arrow tips represent? Dunno about the arrow tips, but seems like the slowly changing colors enable you to quite easily follow the original order of the lyrics. (except if the reader is color blind)
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
That was bothering me too. At least, it is not a typo from ubernostrum, it's spelled "defence" in the original [1]. Moreover that's the British spelling of defense (is there a link with the lack of capital?). Also note t
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
In one example: "Alexa, adjust my home thermostat to 74 degrees" It would kill some people if used here in Europe (because we would rather adjust our thermostats in radians). More seriously, is there any protections against danger
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
The Carmine [1] — a red dye most often made from boiled and dried Cochineals [2] — is frequently used in a lot of food products like ice-cream, candy, yogurt, juices, cake, sausage, etc. So most of us probably unknowingly started to swallow
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
Maybe for this kind of events (when people need to hide) you should postpone the push until the situation become calmer? On the other side, the push notification can alert people yet unaware of the situation, and save their life. I guess we
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
When I usually end up bookmarking all my open tabs after 3 months, they are often above 1000 tabs ... and this both at work and at home. Seems some of my coworkers suffer from the same ailment but with less pronounced symptoms. Is it seriou
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by FoeNyx 11y ago
supposedly subvocalising is slowing you (resources allocated to your TTS module rather than to your arithmetic coprocessor ;)
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
the %u200B is not being displayed while hovering the link by Firefox 35.0.1 / Linux (but it is displayed with beta 36 on the same computer)
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
What you are describing is not the 35h system, but the "RTT" (the extra days off coming for the accumulated extra time per day). There are a lot of private companies in France where the 35h do not implies those extra days off. For
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
I rarely see people being weird to women on IRC, but I guess it's as IRL: there are good places and bad places.
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
Interesting excerpts from the details : * "On the surface the Sun rotates slowly at the poles and quickly at the equator." (~26d vs 38d) * "The rotation rate through the interior is roughly equal to the rotation rate at mid
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
Very Interesting, thank you! But it seems there are several methods to create composite views on SDO website (several freq ranges used as RGB of the output composite images). I guess there isn't one easy way to visualize all of this, o
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
Found this description, on ESA website, for an old SOHO picture taken around 304 Å : "304 Å : spectral line emitted by ionised helium (He II). Corresponding to a temperature of about 60,000 Kelvin, emission in this line shows the upper
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by FoeNyx 12y ago
I'm far from being an expert, but my understanding is that magnetic forces are really intense around solar spots, and that a change of polarity might channel back some ejected coronal matter. See the current magnetic field lines : htt

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