Thrymr

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Timbr has been acquired by DigitalGlobe(medium.com)
1 points by Thrymr 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 10y ago
> This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars! That's akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 "because of this & that & this..." We don't know yet whether this is the iPhone
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by Thrymr 10y ago
United Airlines implemented them as multiple choice dropdowns: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/0...
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by Thrymr 10y ago
One has already made it this year: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-crystal-serenity-nor...
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by Thrymr 10y ago
The effects due to particulates are local and short term. The effects due to CO2 are global and long term. 400 ppm CO2 is indeed a real concern, but it does not follow that locally high levels of toxic particulates are not a real concern.
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Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover(theatlantic.com)
3 points by Thrymr 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 10y ago
Chips with sensors everywhere is inevitable; both are cheap and getting cheaper. The real question in my mind is whether the devices will be using proprietary protocols to communicate with centralized corporate cloud servers, or some kind o
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by Thrymr 10y ago
"you, the designer" may not have created the operands, just taken them as function arguments. Sure, you should have written tests for different types of input, but if you didn't, it may surprise you later.
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by Thrymr 10y ago
Even better, they have you click the "Forgot your password" link, as if it was your fault.
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by Thrymr 10y ago
A representative present for a roll call and explicitly abstaining is a form of voting. A citizen staying home on election day is indistinguishable from apathy.
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by Thrymr 10y ago
They should count the words in photos of text posted to get around the limit, though.
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by Thrymr 11y ago
There has been some effort in Project Gutenburg to typeset public domain books (and at least one journal issue) in mathematics: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29 Doing this for all of the scient
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48% of people plug-in USB drives found in parking lots(elie.net)
1 points by Thrymr 11y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 11y ago
That's formal continuing education. I'd like to see the concrete number for software engineers. There is no similar standard for continued training. Sure, software engineers are always learning new things, and many do so intenti
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Speechwriter Left to Head Up Communications at SpaceX(recode.net)
2 points by Thrymr 11y ago|0 comments
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Larry Summers: Data collection is the ultimate public good(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by Thrymr 11y ago|1 comments
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by Thrymr 11y ago
You're defining "democracy" more narrowly than is reasonable. The 2nd definition at Merriam-Webster, for example [0], is "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or
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by Thrymr 11y ago
The plan for the shuttle was 50 flights a year, with greatly reduced launch costs. It didn't work out that way. We'll see about SpaceX: they have one successful 1st stage recovery, and no re-launches yet. I hope they are successfu
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by Thrymr 11y ago
> It's not arrogance if it is true. No, it's still arrogance to believe you're right and the rest of the world is wrong. Even if you believe it's "true".
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by Thrymr 11y ago
Luckily, the wired bathroom of the future will gather these stats for us!
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by Thrymr 11y ago
> Obviously, it is not a good idea to have your private life in the cloud. That may be obvious to you, but it isn't to most people. Even most people who are uncomfortable with having their "private life in the cloud" make
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by Thrymr 11y ago
> elemental mercury, radium, and phosphorous were also used as medicines even when they did not have redeeming medicinal uses. Well, mercury is a fairly effective antibacterial agent, it's just that we don't use it much anymore
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by Thrymr 11y ago
Most UPS batteries won't last anywhere close to 18 years, either. Can you hot-swap your UPS battery as well?
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by Thrymr 11y ago
> But he was on his way to Cuba, which would have been his choice. His destination was Ecuador. It's not like he had a lot of choices, or he didn't try other countries: https://edwardsnowden.com/asylum-requests
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by Thrymr 11y ago
They used to make punch card equipment and typewriters. They've been around a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM
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The Metric Football Game (2012)(themetricmaven.com)
35 points by Thrymr 11y ago|3 comments
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The Metric Football Game (2012)(themetricmaven.com)
1 points by Thrymr 11y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 11y ago
They didn't miss it: "Array-oriented data processing: MATLAB/Octave, Julia"
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by Thrymr 11y ago
There's a link to the paper in the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03602
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by Thrymr 11y ago
"Orbital time near the surface doesn’t depend on the size of the object. If two planets or moons, or even asteroids, have density similar to earth, it will take about 90 minutes to get around in low orbit. Size doesn’t matter! (Only de

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