Osmium

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by Osmium 12y ago
> When you’re making a joke prototype game where the main character is a goat ... Kind-of tangential, but speaking of goat-themed video games... around the same time Goat Simulator was released, there was another video game released ca
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by Osmium 12y ago
If that's true, why not help educate? What is Norway actually like?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> What's really amusing is that a previous generation of art critics had exactly the same complaints about the "spectacularly flexible and inarguably lovely" neon signs that this guy likes. Is that really true though? Neon
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Oh and another thing a lot of people don't know: The OS stores Wifi passwords in EFI boot variables. This is used for Internet Recovery. So if your device is stolen or just lent to someone else, consider your Wifi passwords compro
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by Osmium 12y ago
> And, honestly, I think I was conflating the STEM in this article with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy It's easy to do. TEM/STEM vs SEM vs STM. All completely different things. This is what happens when scientists name things :P
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I assume it could only scan the surface It's not just the surface. It depends on the technique and the microscope, but all the atoms between where the beam enters and leaves the sample will contribute in some way (though you can h
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by Osmium 12y ago
> While in college, I put in dozens of hours on an SEM and got pretty good at it. A TEM is a whole 'nother story... For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, a SEM (scanning electron microscopy) is an electron microscope that
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by Osmium 12y ago
> In case anyone is interested we've been able to do this for quite some time for TEM and SEM. Well, not with SEM :) Do you have any more links to other significant cryo-EM papers btw? Looks incredibly fascinating. On the non-bio si
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by Osmium 12y ago
> What are the odds of a negative, 100 KeV (medium-high energy) electron in the beam interacting with a heavy, relatively stationary, positively charged nucleus? High. > What are the odds of a negative, high energy electron interactin
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by Osmium 12y ago
> There is no method for capturing a full 3D model in experiment 3D atom probe is getting there[1], though that's not at all appropriate for biological samples. This is where you get a microscopic conical section of your sample and
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's interesting, because I only use iCloud sync heavily with two apps, but I never have issues with with either of them, which leads me to suspect it's partly a development issue. I hesitate to blame the app developer per se th
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Worth noting that F# has language-support for Units of Measures I had no idea. That is crazy cool. Do you have any recommended resources for learning how this works behind the scenes? (I tried implementing something similar in Swift, w
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by Osmium 12y ago
> So i wonder what can Apple do to make this activity common, that other companies couldn't do ? How will they achieve this ? A large marketing budget helps, e.g. see the video they launched with. Making it easy to use and frictionl
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Reception would be distinctly negative if something as crucial as health research were closed source I don't know about that. HealthKit is essentially closed and no one seems to mind, and it's all about the data ultimately an
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by Osmium 12y ago
I believe (someone correct me if this is wrong?) that you can in principle daisy chain a USB-C connector for both data and power?
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by Osmium 12y ago
From the keynote, it's my understanding that Apple doesn't have access to any of your health data. It seems that your data is ultimately stored with whatever organisation is doing the study. They also emphasised that you, yourself
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by Osmium 12y ago
ResearchKit is a surprise, and open source too? Go Apple :)
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I can't think of anything good to say about this article. Yeah, it certainly reads as very smug (at least to me). I think it's an attempt at humour that just comes off as condescending; after all, we've all been beginner
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by Osmium 12y ago
> But I was under the impression that we were Apple fans in the first place because they made best-in-breed products for everyone, not just the elite. Another take on this quote: the watch has the same functionality regardless of wheth
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by Osmium 12y ago
From the recent New Yorker profile of Jonny Ive: > The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists ”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any s
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's difficult to convey how big a deal Tesco's issues have been in the UK–it's had very extensive media coverage, a parliamentary inquiry looks likely, and there are investigations ongoing by the Serious Fraud Office and sev
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by Osmium 12y ago
I see plenty of under-25 offers? e.g. theatre tickets, railcards... (though the latter is also available to students of all ages, but you don't have to be a student to get it, just 25 or under)
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by Osmium 12y ago
> We spent 10 minutes getting the room set up with their cocoapods Cocoapods with Swift support is still in beta. You'll probably have a better experience once it's been officially released. > Lots of "crashes" in
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by Osmium 12y ago
Just FYI for anyone who's interested, but there's a Swift implementation of QuickCheck described in this book: http://www.objc.io/books/ It's very minimal, but the chapter outlines what you'd need t
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by Osmium 12y ago
Also European here. You might not have tried the right peanut butter. Many big-name brands add sugar and salt, and also palm oil (to prevent separation). If you try peanut butter that's actually just 100% peanuts (you'll know if y
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by Osmium 12y ago
On Excel for Mac it had to do an 'Open and Repair' but then worked fine, but something was off. Viewable using OS X's own QuickLook too, so I imagine it'd open in Numbers as well.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Thanks!
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by Osmium 12y ago
Stupid question, but how do you download this? I can't see any menu at all, whether I'm logged into Google or not.
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by Osmium 12y ago
> This is why hardwoods are, uh, hard. General point of interest, but this isn't universally true. E.g. Balsa is a hardwood and is decidedly not hard.
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The human mind ... will stay significantly faster than computers at other types of problems This is controversial. Semantic tagging of photographs used to be something that was done much better by the human brain, but all of a sudden i

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