JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> coffee shops are really mainly places to hang out Isn't that so in the US? I mean, the guys from Friends practically lived in that Central Perk coffee house.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The earlier de Havilland Comet was also incredibly beautiful and made by innovative woodworking techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH.88_Comet?oldfo... , one of my favorite planes ever.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> the authors didn't use plagiarism software, the article never mentions which exact piece of software they use The article (at least now) says "Mr. McCarthy used decidedly modern techniques to marshal his evidence, employing W
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Here in my uni we give future engineers their first taste of data acquisition and generation using the sound card as general purpose I/O. It's perfect because it's a very capable DAQ system (16 bit samples @ 48 kHz!) and almo
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Ops, I meant to ask how they were validating academic addresses. I'm actually a postdoc, but my university domain is @upv.es, and I've found that sometimes it doesn't get recognized in American websites which expect a .edu fo
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I'm sorry, but what is an academic email address?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Here in my region in Spain (~5M people), all school computers come with a custom Linux distro, and only for some professional education courses they have Windows (for "real world" specialized software with no Linux alternative).
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> The prison bit is particularly memorable. Ah! But have you named them yet?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Is this in response to https://mathwithbaddrawings.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/2017... ?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
As someone whose washing machine broke the other day mid-washing, having to do the laundry old-style, I cannot agree more with you.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Time spent doing laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to an hour and a half in 2014. This might sound trivial in the grand scheme of progress. But the rise of the washing machine has improved quality of life by freeing up time
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It seems the correct URL is http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/24/the-dreams-of-an-in... with the final slash.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> In the old Falcon 4, there was a large manual that one required just to operate the radar screens. and folks would learn them . I still have it around... in the preface, one of the lead game designers (IIRC) tells the story of how he w
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I believe it's individual VAT handling. They've solved it for EU citizens but for instance, about Russia, it still says [1]: "In Russia, Google Cloud Platform services can be used only for business purposes. Warning: If the s
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Maybe https://www.mapiful.com/ works by you? Disclaimer: never actually used it, but it looks nice.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Correct, better photo: https://www.hackup.net/wp-content/gallery/zsun-wifi-2/zsun13...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
That's true. Maybe when a buoy registers an "event", an "snapshot" of more fine-grained 15-sec data is recorded from all DART buoys? Edit. From this page: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart/dart.shtm
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I know but since tsunami.gov it's getting is getting hammered I figured out it's better to leave their bandwidth for people in risk rather than hit them with the HN frontpage effect.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Not an oceanic scientist but sound speed in water is ~1500m/s. This is the speed at which a pressure perturbation propagates. The speed at which the actual tsunami wave would propagate is much more slower than this. So I believe that t
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The page is specific to Hawaii, but you can go to http://www.weather.gov/ and in the map, click your region and then "tsunami warning" or "tsunami watch" to see estimated times for other states. This is
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Times for Alaska: Estimated tsunami start times for selected sites are; Kodiak Alaska 145 AM. AKST. January 23. Elfin Cove Alaska 150 AM. AKST. January 23. Seward Alaska
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Link to the actual buoy data page: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46410&type... Worth noting that other nearby buoys don't show such a dramatic wave: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/stat
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Dropbox International Unlimited Company appears to be based in Ireland, and thus subject to EU law.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Besides their tendency to create antipodal hurricanes, type safety is a major problem with butterflies.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
They erased this glorious status update: > I fell asleep at my desk. In a dream, the ghost of a butterfly from the future whispered to me "the dollar hit 0 bitcoin". I wake up, people around me dabbing the blood from their eye
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Plus, it's not like bribing oracles is unheard of. Herodotus, who lived 2500 years ago, already reports instances of bribery affecting the predictions of the Oracle at Delphi: https://archive.org/stream/jstor-32870
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Plus, video footage of the car in space could have been obtained in this launch, then conveniently released after Falcon Heavy launch. Neat conspiracy theory!
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
On the plus side, they are always short of Class C personnel if you don't mind.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
At least in my country, Spain, guest data must be sent to the police database within 24h of his/her check-in.

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