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by ableal 11y ago
> Next, there's a massive volume difference between the hot and warm modes. If I read the text and schematics correctly, that's because one uses 0.7V silicon diodes and the other 1.7V LEDs in the opamp feedback loop. (At least
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by ableal 11y ago
Seen from very far away and totally outside, this looks like an internal push-and-shove, with the (new ?) head of OneDrive saying "screw it, we're not paying out of our budget for the prizes that the hardware teams are handing ou
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OneDrive users can keep their free 15+15GB of storage, if they opt-in by Jan. 31(windowscentral.com)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
Via comment (by drew) at http://www.cringely.com/2015/11/30/soylent-green-now-made-wi... (The outcome predicted by Cringely in that article, by the way.)
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Yahoo’s Keeping Its Alibaba Stake–And Spinning Off the Rest(wired.com)
2 points by ableal 11y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
> together they describe 1) The objective is a single code, for whatever reasons, probably valid. 2) If I number all the words in a dictionary, I'm not designing a code, although 359060.1364734.128378 may translate to "bitten b
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by ableal 11y ago
I should point out that the rascal responsible for that cause of bleary eyes in many a grad student is among us and even gloating about it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686686 ;-)
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by ableal 11y ago
The Amazon page for Francis Spufford's Red Plenty, http://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/1555976... , currently features as 2nd comment one that starts by saying: "I happened to grew up i
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by ableal 11y ago
> The motor (or motors, Porsche hasn’t said) One of these days I'd like to know why there are no (well known) one-motor-per-wheel proposals. So much fun to be had with trajectory control ...
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by ableal 11y ago
Featuring auto-playing video advertising from "a personal injury lawyer" yakking, with hand in pocket, in front of "IF YOUR NOT HURT" slides ...
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by ableal 11y ago
Not to mention that "the OneDrive team" has taken the initiative of kicking the WindowsPhone users in the teeth by withdrawing the 30 GB cloud storage offer, without even "grandfathering" existing users. It was one of th
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by ableal 11y ago
A rather good perspective on how the stories came to be. I recently came across The Autobiography of Sherlock Holmes, by Don Libey, which was also pleasant reading. (Not particularly addicted to Holmes, my re-readings tend to be Rex Stout&#
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by ableal 11y ago
'meaning "which is what had to be proven"' , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D .
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by ableal 11y ago
I believe it's actually the fat. That's why lean meat requires larding, in cookbooks.
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Linux security: A new Mindcraft moment?(lwn.net)
5 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
> the server is recording the MAC addresses I believe WiFi routers have options for white-listing devices by MAC address. Probably being done automatically in your building.
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by ableal 11y ago
"Because our mapping services are now subject to the whims of angry, powerful residents, we have to rely on other sources to give us accurate directions. In a way, the post on my blog is almost like passing out hand-drawn paper cartog
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by ableal 11y ago
Yesterday I was going to add something like that, and got distracted. With all the disintermediation that the internet has supposedly done, there must be also room for some new-fangled intermediation ...
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by ableal 11y ago
I took my eyes off the Python ball for a couple of years, and yesterday was surprised when a colleague mentioned Anaconda Python. Seems that Travis Oliphant has set up an attractive solution for funding: https://www.continuum.io
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by ableal 11y ago
Relevant comment at ElReg (no link, about #36 or so, by MacroRodent): "At least where I live, Lumia's were widely advertised with the promise of bundling 15Gb of free OneDrive storage. Taking that away might catch the eye of cons
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OneDrive Suggestions: Give us back our storage(onedrive.uservoice.com)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
"Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016." They should secure these
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by ableal 11y ago
> continue our exponential trend of energy use. I think that trend has had its run - we're not brute-forcing every industrial process any more, getting clever about energy use is all the rage now.
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by ableal 11y ago
I don't know about happy, but the most expensive real estate in the world is in very densely populated places, such as New York City, San Francisco, London and, yeah, Tokyo. So, if not happy, at least willing. Or Montana and the Gobi d
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by ableal 11y ago
9341%&$& (mumble)nly the paranoid surv(mumble) ... &%#" (glurb) )/=(/"# [NO CARRIER]
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by ableal 11y ago
Also, from the horse's mouth: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/10/07/the-secret-diary... (P.S. this, from the book's editor, is actually a much better piece, which I would have posted if h
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Stalin's Man in London(standpointmag.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
Text and a couple pics (one gif animation): http://www.wired.com/2015/10/heres-a-self-driving-delorean-t... '"The DeLorean’s a really great car," Gerdes says, "unless you want it to accelerate
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by ableal 11y ago
The more dastardly conspirators upvote you, for obvious reasons.
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by ableal 11y ago
Too soon. Maybe in a couple of centuries, if there are any suitable hosts around by then, so they can properly exercise their biodefense whatevers.

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