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by Thrymr 13y ago
Aside: I purchased the professional edition of VueScan ( http://www.hamrick.com/ ) about as long ago as Windows XP came out, and it is still supported for upgrades. Better than bundled software, works on multiple platforms w
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How Statisticians Could Help Find That Missing Plane(fivethirtyeight.com)
68 points by Thrymr 13y ago|34 comments
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Citation: Michael Pollan: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
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They overlap, but are quite different. Arduino is a high end microcontroller, Pi is low end computer. If you want real time and low power, you want to be on the microcontroller side of that divide.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Either Bitcoin or beanie babies, really up to you.
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Not even close. The ISS is not a vehicle, it only has a limited amount of fuel for boosting its orbit. And even another spacecraft in the ISS orbit would take a vast amount of fuel to match altitude and inclination of the shuttle orbit.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
The question is, how many potential Warren Buffets were there in the pool to start with? You can't ask the question "what are the chances that this particular outcome would happen?" with a sample of one, you have to use the
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by Thrymr 13y ago
An example of a practical modern 8-bit assembly language to learn would be for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. It's small enough to get your head around, and useful for DIY hardware projects.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
There are similar dice on display at the Met in New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/... Description: "A number of polyhedra made in various materials are known from the Roman
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> Cue the sardonic "don't be evil" scare-quotes that inevitably appear. Those aren't scare quotes. That is quoting an actual full heading from one of their founding documents [1]: "Don't be evil. We believe
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Or, even better, a neutral 3rd party that reports throttling for many services/domains.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/03/20_antiw... http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8626408 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008&#x2F
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by Thrymr 13y ago
For the sake of the previous argument, however, this hardly matters. If the fraction is 100%, then 30 models of kettles can be supported at 100k/year. This is an order of magnitude argument, not a precise census.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Yep, purely anti-consumer. It was always a pain to use other software with an iPod. But MP3 was supported natively from the beginning. e.g. a support document from 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020821012854&#x2
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> refuse to play anything but a proprietary vendor format iPods have always had the ability to play standard MP3s. I've never converted a file to AAC for actual use.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Replacing an existing item in your house with something for 10x the cost is not something you want to be doing too often as a homeowner. The benefits have to be quite significant. I've got a simple programmable digital thermostat tha
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Cybercrime firm uncovered six active attacks on U.S. merchants(reuters.com)
2 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
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It's not likely that an entire large planetary body will maintain a state out of equilibrium for geological periods of time. Supercooling is unstable.
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That's only (arguably) true for issues of national or global importance. It is also important to be an informed citizen and voter on state and local issues, and many local news sources are woefully inadequate. Many states and towns hav
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Some of us don't like any of the current alternatives. In my opinion Gmail beats Outlook for mail, but Google apps are not really enterprise-ready for calendar and docs. Editing a document offline is not a feature that should just now
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Which is one of the advantages to a jury trial in criminal proceedings, so that a defendant's peers can evaluate the circumstances surrounding the alleged crime. Traditionally judges in the USA have considerable leeway in sentencing as
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by Thrymr 13y ago
https://github.com/tcr/langlangmatrix/pull/32
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Yeah, fuck that. Voting in a meaningless online poll isn't important enough for me to grant unlimited access to anyone, for however short a time.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
I wouldn't call Snowden a traitor, but I think the term is perfectly apt for Benedict Arnold. He was a general in one army who defected to the opposing army. That's pretty much the definition of traitor. That doesn't deny you
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Or don't vote. I don't give random apps total access to my Twitter account, even for a short time.
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The popup says "Please log in to ensure your vote is counted." The Twitter auth also includes the ability to post tweets for you, although the popup says "We won’t post anything without your permission." Didn't I ju
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by Thrymr 13y ago
In the article, caption to the large figure at the bottom: "Northern Hemisphere, Looking East-Southeast"
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Your scipy install is broken, it has nothing to do with his code. If you can't successfully run: from scipy.stats import * then it's not going to work. Try installing a scientific python distribution like Enthought Canop
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by Thrymr 13y ago
It means that unstable isn't specifically tested for security, but security fixes will go to unstable first, before they propagate to testing.
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I wouldn't underestimate the power of "just a paycheck". It does warp your world view when your livelihood depends on it, and you may not even realize by how much. Also, you are surrounded by others who believe what they are

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