JorgeGT

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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   Just if anyone is curious, the technical term for the "tentacles" is pantograph . And if anyone is more curious about why it has "graph" in it, it's because the term refers to the old utensil for copying drawings
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   Ask HN: any other IM client that has Hangout's transparent UI for desktops? I really like how unobtrusive it is.
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   More timelapses from the Crew Earth Observation programs are available here, along the raw frames: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObser... (remember to click in the map to find all the available
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   Ubuntu not only came (or still comes?) with an Amazon app right on the launcher, but also offered Amazon product suggestions when you were using the search function.
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   This looks very nice! I've been toying with open LIDAR data from my country (0.5-1 points per m^2) in MeshLab but always got very noisy/spiky meshes.
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   Close, Spaniard! But it works here as you describe (even to the last sentence, unfortunately!).
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   There's no contradiction between paper ballots and speed. In my country we all vote with paper ballots, then at the closing of the polling stations the members of each voting table punch the results of their urn into a laptop which con
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   You can send it to a journal as a private individual, but probably a better way would to post a manuscript on arxiv.org, and once it generates certain buzz (if the problem is interesting and well solved) then either submit it to a journal y
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   by JorgeGT 8y ago

   Plus it opens up dangerous precedence. "Oops, here's some confidential data you never asked for, let me send a couple guys to scan your hard drives".
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Fun story: when the Soviets tried to reverse-engineer captured B-29s bombers (into Tupolev Tu-4s) they had a lot of trouble because their production of sheet aluminium, rivets, etc. was done in metric sizes, whereas the B-29 used imperial-s
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    So, habeas corpus , literally?
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    LaTeXTools in Sublime et al. will erase the temp files with a shortcut, plus you can add more extensions to clean in case you use packages that add more temp files.
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Said procedure could be repeated at the other airport though. Blockchain refills opportunity?
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Evil is trivially scalable, it just needs to be rebranded as good.
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    The old mantra: physical access is root access.
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    "It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it" ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from fear , 1991.
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    As far as I know, it used to be just a matter of writing the plaintext license into the appropriate file: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silentl...
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    I suspect Inbox was never meant to survive. It had small details that prevented mass adoption. For instance, it took them months after launch to implement an automatic signature, and then they added the artificial restriction to only allow
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    I'm tempted to classify it as an instance of the logical fallacy appeal to emotion .
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Spot on with nº2, look at the winners of the similar "Horizon Prizes" that the EU offers: https://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm?pg=priz...
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    I've found that for instance Berlingske in Denmark uses the Guardian font pack: https://www.b.dk/
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    BBVA in Spain has the same thing, it directly asks which phone number to send the code to, in case you want another person to withdraw the money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6KNWSKXmE
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Being outside the business, I found it surprising as well! The fonts are named GuardianTextWeb, GuardianSansWeb, etc., suggesting to me they have been purposely commissioned by The Guardian to obtain a differentiated look and feel. However
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    IANAL, but this seems to collide with their EULA with Commercial Type [1], since third party hosting of the font files is "strictly prohibited" and the font files are in fact all available in the repo, which certainly doesn't
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    There was a Russian chap that did this exactly this, modified his credit card contract and the bank happily signed the modified contract without reading it: https://www.nasdaq.com/article/updated-russian-man-turns-tab..
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Still a better website than many actual research institutes.
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing, I live a few km away from the spot and didn't hear. It's very fortunate that they managed to alert the lifeguard, because in most cases drowning is silent and discreet [1], unlike the movies. I wonder if either
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    I think this is what the article addresses here: "There’s something you need to understand. The IRS places its workers permanently inside many companies where they continually receive privileged information while doing audits."
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    They seem to do a similar thing with Youtube. I have both Youtube watch history and Youtube search history off. The other day I watched a very amazing video about iron smelting in Africa. Now, each time a open a Youtube link, that spec
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    by JorgeGT 8y ago

    A plus is that you can easily import these into many programs (MATLAB, ParaView, QGIS, etc.) thus having a consistent look and feel in your plots.