JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Research has concluded that naming storms/hurricanes results in a much better public response. People is more likely to take preventive action against "Storm Eleanor", rather that against an unnamed bad weather report, plus a
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Done in Spain as well, free to download (RGB-colored .laz), but no online 3D viewer: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/buscadorCat...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I agree, I publish in the engineering field and in the field most "proofs" are validation by simple comparison against experimental data, DNS numerical simulation, analytical expressions, etc. In some areas there isn't even v
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
From EU Regulation 2016/679: ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... ) (32) Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
But WSL was released to the regular builds in August 2016?
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Yep, I saw this in rtl-sdr.com! They ask, for instance what does the S in SDR stands for, which obviously any legitimate commenter in such a niche site knows.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
You should absolutely rebrand as a course/training material, since it seems you're shipping much more than a printed book. As a researcher, experiment journals are really valuable, since in countless occasions I find the final, pu
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
All's fair in love and war.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
And also a very old one; Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592. (Still, Small Gods is one of the best revisions of the topic!)
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It is a common mistake, I remember that not so long ago my government (Spain) had to amend a law because the initial text incorrectly said % instead of percentage points.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> If you hook them when they're really young, though, then FB just becomes an unquestioned part of life. Exactly like religion. Facebook is learning from the best!
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
This is a good idea. My only suggestion would be to whitelist addresses only, not domains, since it is sadly not uncommon that an email account is compromised, especially at large orgs.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
But we are talking about him half a millenium later, very few people alive today will get that.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Given the complexity of git commands, I cannot rule it out.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Very nice! I only wish Google Scholar included the DOI field...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
IMHO storing cookies in a machine explicitly configured to block them seems to fit the "exceeds authorized access" language of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Or else the guy cleaning the ship's deck in the morning should be rewarded for discovering America. We know the guy by the way, one Rodrigo de Triana, natural of Lepe. NASA's DSCO satellite was originally named Triana after
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It is not only happening in the US, my SO in Spain received these a few months ago - unsolicited envelopes from China containing a single hair tie each (and once very cheap-looking sunglasses).
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I've been told that in some design seminars, IKEA explains that one of their targets is people undergoing a crisis such as divorce, job displacement, recovery after a disaster... situations in your life where you suddenly need to fully
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> I am planning on purchasing drones to calculate NDVI and other useful stuff. Have you toyed already with Sentinel-2 NDVI? There's a free API: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/twiki/do/view/SciHubWebPorta
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
This. We used a similar approach in my lab (but in MATLAB) to build reports of a certain experiment. The experiment generated a large amount of data daily; MATLAB was used to ingest and process the data, producing the necessary vector figur
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Also, drag scales with the square of the velocity [1], and a semi is a helluva slower than a racing supercar. --- [1] drag = 1/2 x air_density x frontal_area x drag_coefficient x velocity^2
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Problem is, it was not a lot of patience what ended slavery in the US, it was a lot of violence.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Minor note, you should add the field DOI={10.23915/distill.00007} to the BibTeX citation. This is also missing from Google scholar, and is a particular pat peeve of mine now that DOIs are practically mandatory (copying the helpfully-fo
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
If I remember correctly from the last time she also has a great post about decoding RF bus stop signals. Super useful for a home assistant!
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Not to mention social events on any subject when talking to professionals from other domains triggers solution to a long lasting problem. This is becoming more and more important as science/technology keeps getting compartmentaliz
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Also, people launching art projects, participating in active art communities, etc. have generally better "people skills" that introverts who prefer to spend the weekend at home doing technical side projects (like me!). This is a h
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I think no one has said it yet, but I believe the diversity you bring with your non-standard hobbies is a very valuable resource. Diversity being missed by people looking "culture fits" of workers who like the same exact things. F
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> I don't need extra features get my stuff done in Inbox. I only need signatures in my non-gmail account. This is almost the only reason I switch to gmail now, when I have to send an email to someone outside my institution... it&#x
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Maybe power adapters? France, UK and the US have different sockets.

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