Robadob

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by Robadob 11y ago
I have trouble encouraging people to migrate away from Facebook chat, even people I have on Telegram, often choose to contact me via Facebook or Hangouts (that latter because of its XMPP support).
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An intellectually challenging game of loop(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Robadob 11y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
Yeah, I've been on that one to and was rather unimpressed. One show did a segment about it a year or so ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk
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Form for Drug Dealers to Snitch on Competitors Results in an Arrest(nytimes.com)
4 points by Robadob 11y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
I've had around 4 dentists over the space of ~3 years since my long time one retired, and they all seem to have vastly different opinions about what dental work is necessary, preventative, unnecessary. With my original dentist I never
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by Robadob 11y ago
There is an interesting image[1] at the bottom of the article, about how to extract the DNA from a strawberry, surprised (and partially sceptical) that it's really that simple. [1] http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iBaJ
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by Robadob 11y ago
In the UK, if an establishment serves alcohol, they must also provide free tap water at request. It was designed with binge drinking in mind. Most places do still sell bottled water though.
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by Robadob 11y ago
From the authors post[1] linked by the article, this[2] picture shows them getting ~100 FPS. [1] https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?58385-Koola-s... [2] http://tof.canardpc.com/view/3934ce8b
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NHS to give volunteers 'synthetic blood' made in laboratory within two years(independent.co.uk)
1 points by Robadob 11y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
It's understandable that it will take a while to get used to (it's a fairly new interface/form factor combination for an input device), a Valve employee on Reddit has confirmed that the steam controller use in the launch vide
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by Robadob 11y ago
If your having a problem with buyers remorse. You can claim a refund until it's despatched, steam recently implemented a new refund policy ( http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds ). From the store page of the contr
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by Robadob 11y ago
>But you can say that the Steam Machines may have more games (but not as many that you can play with a joypad - since some PC games require a keyboard anyway). Apparently the steam controller is designed to be a suitable replacement for
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by Robadob 11y ago
That was the original title at the time of submission, they appear to have updated the title (and maybe the article) since.
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Virgin Galactic pilot recalls colleague's crash(bbc.co.uk)
44 points by Robadob 11y ago|29 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
I recall a friend ~12 months ago (in their final year of university), hearing positive news back from IBM after 6+ months of silence since their interview, by which point they had accepted a job elsewhere. I expect some companies prefer not
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by Robadob 11y ago
I was looking for this to, their faq ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq ) neglects to answer the question. On the community discussion it's been asked without an official response yet ( htt
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MDMA may help social anxiety in autistic adults(nydailynews.com)
1 points by Robadob 11y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
It's also worth noting that, you can't view BBC worldwide content from within the UK either due to regional restrictions. I've heard this is due to the BBC policy forbidding them showing adverts to UK users, yet it's con
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by Robadob 11y ago
Pretty sure NVIDIA has done the same on occasion, for example the 800m GTX series, doesn't have an 800 GTX desktop counterpart. Many of the 800m cards used the same chips as 700m series, just with small changes. Apparently they were o
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SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days(guru3d.com)
1 points by Robadob 11y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by Robadob 11y ago|2 comments
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by Robadob 11y ago
I did a bit of work with point-cloud/lidar data during a placement with an engineering company. They were actually driving down highways with LIDAR apparatus attached to a vehicle to build a point clouds of roads/similar. The shee
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by Robadob 11y ago
The whole "detector van" thing is mostly a bogeyman to scare people. The technology to remotely see what's showing on a CRT is Van Eck phreaking. Not sure over what distance it would be possible (and whether you could targe
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by Robadob 12y ago
When a pen-testing company has a contract in place with their client absolving them of any fault, it probably makes peoples confidence in carrying out social engineering (and not getting caught) much greater.
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by Robadob 12y ago
We had a guest lecture from a visitor who worked for a penetration testing company. It was surprising how easy he described (in person) social engineering to gain access to privileged areas and information to be. I can imagine that's o
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by Robadob 12y ago
Unrelated observation of the webpage, but the header/nav overlaps the scroll bar in chrome. I've tried messing with the css and I've no idea how this is achieved. http://imgur.com/fr8a035 Only other web brows
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by Robadob 12y ago
As someone with little music production interest, from first seeing the novation launchpad in Madeon's Pop Culture youtube video, I always thought there must be some unrelated uses. The art installation your team did looks great, the f
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by Robadob 12y ago
For anyone who has a midi controller available, it's a bit well hidden under 'Info'->'Tip: Got A Launchpad?' but apparently it supports the experimental Web MIDI API.
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by Robadob 12y ago
Website lists .net framework 4.5 as a requirement, so that seems unlikely.
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by Robadob 12y ago
It appears he's copied them verbatim, including the ellipsis, the broken links (from the original post) are supposed to be; [2] http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/html/whe... [3] https:

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