Osmium

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by Osmium 12y ago
> Let this serve as a warning for young (age-with-a-potential-to-have-a-family) people who might be tempted to relocate to California It's interesting. This is a difficult conversation to have. I have good personal reasons for wanti
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by Osmium 12y ago
Very sad that this has happened. I can only imagine what it must feel like to those who worked on the rocket and its payload. It can really happen to anyone, even the best. At least we can all be thankful no one was hurt.
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Whether an attempt will be made, or whether an attempt will succeed? Neither. More about if it will compromise the artistry if plot is decided by a committee, which is effectively what will happen if the public gets to 'vote'
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by Osmium 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback--that's interesting. I'd assumed these were all LED based. If it is electrical contact related, could you not use a gel like another commenter mentioned using with a chest strap? It seems like a gimmick, bu
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by Osmium 12y ago
Do you think that'd be the case even if you tighten the strap significantly for a workout?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> However, I doubt that it's that accurate. How accurate is accurate? As someone who works out casually, I'd be happy with something that gave even ± 10 bpm, because that'd be far more information than I currently have. If
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by Osmium 12y ago
> So the CurrentC people are trying to assure CurrentC's future by pissing off the very same companies that they need to authorise their app? And also the very people who are most likely to be first-adopters for a new payment platfo
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.” Sincere question: what on earth would qualify as a "minor" war crime?
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by Osmium 12y ago
Exactly. I have a Roku 3. I don't love it, but it works and it's fast and it supports everything (Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon Instant Video, Plex). In that sense, they don't even have competition right now.
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by Osmium 12y ago
> you publish an outline to a site and folks bid on it I'd be very skeptical about that... > an editor matching service doesn't seem that far fetched This seems a lot more reasonable. I agree with your overall point that pub
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by Osmium 12y ago
> is to provide you and me with more to read at a better price than ever before As a reader, do you want to optimise for price or for quality? The argument is that one will ultimately come at the expense of the other, because good books
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by Osmium 12y ago
I'd like to know too, because QT makes the best cross-platform apps. A QT app on OS X feels good to use in a way that other cross-platform GUI apps really don't. But I've never tried to code with it, so I don't know what
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by Osmium 12y ago
> instead of anything else or in addition to everything else. In the last week, I've read a great young adult book as well as a Sartre novel. I consider my life enriched by both. There's this awful snobbery around young adult
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by Osmium 12y ago
Not necessarily. This isn't the case in the UK (where I am) for example, where blood donations are taken by the NHS.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Two other possibilities: * In the private health-care world, if you're getting paid, you might feel like someone else is profiting off your blood (how else could they pay you?) or * In the public health-care world, if you're getti
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by Osmium 12y ago
> every high school already requires a $100 graphing calculator I can't help but feel this is a historical aberration, and one that is bound to correct itself eventually. The reason it's so entrenched at the moment is, I imagi
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. There's a really good discussion here: http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2013/09/24/objc_e... and here: https://www.mikeash.com&#
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I'm not sure why this is news otherwise. One reason is that, I believe, currently if even a single 32-bit app is loaded on a newer iOS device, all the standard 32-bit libraries have to be loaded into memory as well which causes in
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Several people in our fairly small company are openly gay. It's not exactly your usual work environment! People who aren't naturally open about such things probably wouldn't be hired Please correct my reading of your com
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by Osmium 12y ago
> because we would definitely not want to employ someone who is uncomfortable with transparency And, likewise, I imagine quite a number of people here would definitely not want to be employed by someone who takes that sort of attitude. T
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I see this as negative discrimination and feel it ought to be very illegal. Completely agreed. "I'm being punished [paid less] because I didn't take out that mortgage I couldn't afford?" Seems like it rewards i
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by Osmium 12y ago
Somebody asked in another thread about Yosemite's new Hypervisor: "Hypervisor (Hypervisor.framework). The Hypervisor framework allows virtualization vendors to build virtualization solutions on top of OS X without needing to deplo
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by Osmium 12y ago
I second your enthusiasm for Gnome. It really is in a great place right now and is my shell of choice on Linux. But I disagree with the Yosemite criticism. Unlike Linux, OS X actually has a large degree of uniformity between third-party app
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I suspect this effect means that, for reactors, the wear and tear is more localized, but of a larger amplitude. Not exactly. The initial collisions do indeed cause localised damage cascades, but the overall effect of a large neutron fl
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by Osmium 12y ago
And notable they were profitable the entire time, no less. Very sad to see them go. Consistently high quality. If anything, there was too much high quality output to keep up with...
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by Osmium 12y ago
Conveniently available as a really cool iPhone app: http://funnerlabs.com/apps/slitscan I'm a big fan of this because (a) it gives you a photo with a time dimension! and (b) it happens to be a similar technique to
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by Osmium 12y ago
>There are similar competing technologies that do essentially the same thing in order to arrive at sub-difraction-limited images including STORM & Structured Illumination. Thanks for the info. Your mention of STORM led me to this: h
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I remember one of the first papers coming out from Hell's group using STED microscopy, showing extremely fine-grained cytoskeleton structure and dynamics Do you have any links to this, or other seminal papers in the field? Alterna
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by Osmium 12y ago
Not specifically. I haven't really heard it mentioned, but I don't actually do growth myself. It's mostly Stranski-Krastanov growth with islands growing until they coalesce. There's not really any significant flow of ato
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Blue ones are used, at least around my area, to decorate things. Don't let the "blue LED" headline fool you. This discovery did not just enable blue LEDs but a whole range of nitride-based devices. This includes, but is

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