FrojoS

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by FrojoS 14y ago
"This month marks the nine-month anniversary of the most natural and obvious, most joyful and energizing decision of my life: to fully commit 100% to my life's work." Nine month? This article lost me at the beginning of the first sentence
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by FrojoS 14y ago
tl;dr: The Russian leaders decided to give Cuba 100 nukes that were still left in Cuba and which the US hadn't taken notice of. But the russian diplomat Mikoyan was sane enough to see this was an insane plan and he was brave enough to stop
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Yeah, that was my line of thinking, too. Hasn't turned out to be true for me. The 256 GB are quite limiting to me. Things that eat up a lot of space on my SSD: - eMail: dozen's of GB, but I wan't to be able to read them offline - Virtual Ma
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by FrojoS 14y ago
I found this interesting: " [...] I think that rotating storage is going the way of the dodo (or the tape). [...] The latencies of rotational storage are horrendous, and I personally refuse to use a machine that has those nasty platters of
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Richard P. Feynman on pseudo science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbY BTW, I come from the field of robotics and there, hardly any published result is replicated either.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Is this New Zealand's version of The Onion? Also, the "article" is from 8:18 AM Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 and the "X-ray picture" should remove the last doubts. I have to admit, although I was in disbelief from the beginning, it got me quite e
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by FrojoS 14y ago
>Why do people insist on pretending all of Europe is full of bike lanes? Because as a tourists only stick to the main roads which often have bike lanes. Anyway, in my experience the situation in Europe is much better than in the US. My
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by FrojoS 14y ago
I couldn't read due to the much caps locks. After reading the comments, I thought I might add a few things. As others have pointed out, outdoors you would use mostly GPS, and maybe a camera pointing to the ground to estimate the position. A
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by FrojoS 14y ago
I saw the headline and the source and had one thought: "Finally"
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Once again, military research might lead the way. Note, if they invest into this, it's _not_ because of reduced price, increased efficiency or reduced greenhouse effects, but because of an _strategic_ advantage against "the enemy". Personal
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Because after 6 months the supplier forgets they soled you the phone and doesn't release any more updates. You might be able to update by rooting the phone, but most people can't get bothered. I've been once burned by HTC (Wildfire). One up
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Very cool. Thank you.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
What is a hospital with no doctors good for? I have to admit though, that my first thought on the story was: "Why build the road? Just move to the city!" In this case, I admire the endurance of this man and pity the destiny of his wife. But
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Aren't they already 95% efficent. Not to much room for improvement.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Actually not even that is true for every version for emacs. Auqumacs for OSX supports almost all standard editor commands like Cmd - s Cmd - z Cmd - Shift - z Cmd - c Cmd - x Cmd - v The only thing that doesn't work reliable for me is Shift
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Just curious, which Apple Machine are you running Ubuntu on? I have a late-2010 MacBook Air and also have skipped the last two OS X upgrades since they seemed to degrade quality. I'm definitely tempted to run Ubuntu instead but I assume the
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Yes. I had that whole list in my original comment, than deleted it because it was longwinded. I'm just asking if porn might _also_ be a factor. There are definitely other factors at work anyway. Look at France, which has a much higher birt
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Likely. But maybe there is enough control groups? Societies with less or minimal porn consumption?
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Yes. And on top of that, we've added regenerative braking, accomplished using the motors.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
I remember you wrote in an essay, that the Segway 'failed' because it makes people look lazy, like a 'smug', when they ride it and that changing the position to skateboard style might be the only change required. [1] Well, its not a Segway
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by FrojoS 14y ago
A bit off-topic: Has anyone ever tried to correlate societies porn consumption with the decline of birthrate? I could imagine different countries would have different access to porn, maybe this has an effect? Of course, Internet porn is onl
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Andrew Ng, in his machine learning class [1] urges people do use Matlab instead of Python, because in his experience people develop faster with Matlab than wit any other tool/language. Personally, I am experienced with Matlab but not so muc
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Yes. And since I am in charge of office supplies in my group, all the printer paper is recycled, too.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Thanks for correcting me!
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Great paper. Easy to understand, enlightening, fun. My favorite part: "The ‘non- fluent’ version of the excerpt was created by waiting until the departmental printer was low on toner"
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Maybe he is a hacker.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
A micro SD card? This is either fake or Apple is changing their philosophy quite a bit. If they thought people deserve SD cards, they could have integrated them a long time ago. I would appreciate an SD card but I doubt Apple wants to give
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Would you mind to link to any of it. After only seeing 'coming soon' windows, without any content, for a a dozen tries I gave up.
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Climbing Mount Everest: 5 obstacles (usyesterday.off, 1952) 1) Trip time A round-trip human expedition to the top of Everest, using current technology, could take two to three weeks. The slower you go, the more supplies you are forced to ta
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by FrojoS 14y ago
Landing people on Mars is most likely feasible with out major breakthroughs in science and technology. In contrast strong AI might be around the corner - or a million years away. Its much less predictable.

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