Osmium

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811.
by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I meant "doom" in the sense of loss of personal information and/or spyware. Basically, the things you were outlining. I'm glad to know that you can control these things as of 4.3 thoug
812.
by Osmium 13y ago
I've wanted to play around with one for a while, but don't want to commit until I've had a chance to live with it for a month. So, what would it take? A low price. If they offer a model at Nexus 4 prices, maybe... I'd al
813.
by Osmium 13y ago
A side-benefit of this project (The Avogadro Project) is that there are a load of interesting things you can do with almost-pure Silicon-28, e.g. see http://www.nist.gov/pml/div684/enriched-silicon-project.cfm (an
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yeah, I'm thinking about going down the VM route with Ubuntu Server inside Parallels. Seems a bit of a waste of computing resources though.
815.
by Osmium 13y ago
Looks interesting, but the name made me think it was a new API or something. Perhaps not the best choice (though cool).
816.
by Osmium 13y ago
I'd really like to use both macports and homebrew, and switch between them as necessary, but I don't know a good way of doing this. I know homebrew is relatively well-behaved and doesn't really put stuff outside /usr&#x2
817.
by Osmium 13y ago
This article is so opinionated. Just some counter-options: Enabling apps from everywhere : Don't disable this. It's actually a good security feature. If you want to run an app that isn't signed, right-click and click "O
818.
by Osmium 13y ago
You may well be right, but I think the key claim is this: "Most metal stampings go through one or two die tools to produce the final shape. With the Mac Pro though, the challenge is to produce a massive amount of plastic deformation wi
819.
by Osmium 13y ago
Eh. This product designer thinks otherwise: http://atomicdelights.com/blog/how-apple-makes-the-mac-pro
820.
by Osmium 13y ago
I believe the Group Policy requires Pro though. And this was Windows 8: a full-screen banner would pop up saying the computer would restart in 15 minutes, with no option to permanently dismiss it.
821.
by Osmium 13y ago
[In the far future] any plans to hook people up with e.g. a Kinect so you can capture point clouds and allow people to rotate the signs / see them from different perspectives? Or is this completely unnecessary? As someone who hasn&#x27
822.
by Osmium 13y ago
> they haven't surfaced a method for expert users to disable the warning In the most user-hostile move ever, I wanted to disable the "automatic restart in 15 minutes" thing on Windows 8 (Home). It required adding a registr
823.
by Osmium 13y ago
Counter-point: my upgrade was "smooth" in that it worked and there were no surprises. That said, there were definitely issues. Firstly, I couldn't find the update. It wasn't showing up in the store. Turns out I had to ru
824.
by Osmium 13y ago
Ah, yes, you want a surplus , but a surplus of what exactly? No one cares about the burgers. It's a surplus of good-will and happiness that they want to create, and I think to that end it's very effective indeed.
825.
by Osmium 13y ago
I think the concern is an ageing population rather than a shrinking one. Too many older people, no longer working, who need care or support and not enough younger people to provide it.
826.
by Osmium 13y ago
Why so obviously wrong? Seems reasonable to me that chimney smoke – defined as air with heavy particulates created from burning wood – might fall back down to the ground (and thus into surrounding buildings) once it has cooled. I'm not
827.
by Osmium 13y ago
That's because they build a native Mac GUI (same for certain other cross-platform apps, e.g. Handbrake).
828.
by Osmium 13y ago
Honestly, I think it'd be better if they kept a non-native UI that was at least internally consistent rather than trying to replicate a Mac native UI badly. I use so many apps with bad Mac ports that look perfectly decent on Linux...
829.
by Osmium 13y ago
Happens all the time. A colleague of mine has issues because she happened to have worked in a lab previously whose building also happened to house a lab that did nuclear research (even though she never did any herself). Scientists also move
830.
by Osmium 13y ago
> I suspect that many pure science studies are relatively easier to reproduce since it's more about basic properties. Not necessarily true at all actually. To use an example, the field I work in requires that we grow our own semicon
831.
by Osmium 13y ago
> That’s an implicit value judgment that Western medicine that focuses on pharmacodynamics and pharmakinetics is superior than the holistic take of Chinese medicine. It's implicit because it's the conventionally accepted view a
832.
by Osmium 13y ago
Honestly, I'm impressed $1.3M is enough for 50 studies! Though, of course, verification should be cheaper than the original research since you know exactly what to look for and how to find it.
833.
by Osmium 13y ago
Upvote for teaching me the "strings" command :) Never heard of that one before! Seems really useful.
834.
by Osmium 13y ago
I've tried Igor Pro before. I was impressed by its curve fitting abilities, but not much by its ease of use / speed of just getting things done. But perhaps it's time to revisit it. Thanks for the rec :)
835.
by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks for the recommendation :)
836.
by Osmium 13y ago
This is really exciting! I've always liked ggplot2 but sadly struggled with R syntax (the only time I ever used it was for ggplot2, and found it really confusing). For anyone reading this, I don't think this is intended to replace
837.
by Osmium 13y ago
By comparison, I found this map via a quick Google search: http://world-nuclear.org/uploadedImages/org/info/Naturalback... 0.484µSv/hour ~ 4.2mSv/year, so according to that map a large chunk of Euro
838.
by Osmium 13y ago
There are better tests out there. The one I did had 200 questions. I can't speak for their usefulness though.
839.
by Osmium 13y ago
Not to mention that a faster clocked processor has to stay active for less time to achieve the same task. A similar logic explains why LTE battery life is often better than 3G/UMTS too.
840.
by Osmium 13y ago
Wouldn't use uranium, because as another poster mentions it's more a novelty and there are better materials you could use, but you could make your own cloud chamber to observe radioactive decay with the naked eye. Makes for a real

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