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by alister 6y ago
Some more observations about this: - Most Americans & Canadians are completely unaware of the fruit. Some Brazilians are unaware of the nut. I met at least a couple Brazilians (in Sao Paulo and another region that don't have cashew
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by alister 6y ago
What's the location with the greatest connectivity? It's not New York City. Not Hong Kong (though it could be number 1 if you include some very near cities). And amazingly, San Francisco and the Bay Area have no cable landings at
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by alister 6y ago
I'm thankful PDF won, because otherwise I think it would have been Microsoft Word. There was a time when papers, books, resumes, contracts, etc. almost always came as Word. Does anyone else remember getting a book as preface.doc, chap1
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by alister 6y ago
That was an excellent summary of Adobe's software giveaway. Are you sure that the replacement serial numbers are individualized ? When I tried googling, some of my replacement serial numbers are found on the web, some aren't. Th
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by alister 6y ago
> This is an amazing bug. They took AES (seems fine) and an inappropriate but in principle secure cipher mode (CFB8) and then they fixed the IV as all zeroes A bit more detail on what happens next: "So with an all-zero IV and plai
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by alister 6y ago
As to the significance of "5826 D.B.T. 1976", it appears that it stands for Denver Bicycle Tax. This is probably why the author tried phoning the Denver police and then the oldest bike shop in Denver.
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by alister 6y ago
Doesn't this put everyone on an equal footing? You can't take your client for golf or shake hands, but neither can your competitor. Though I can imagine a scenario where it's equally bad for everyone. For example, if the clie
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by alister 6y ago
Thank you, I've corrected it. It raises the question of why anyone bothered with a 2 symbol abbreviation for just 3 letters.
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by alister 6y ago
Page 32: > At which time I found that method of Infinite series. And in summer 1665 being forced from Cambridge by the Plague I computed the area of the Hyperbola of Boothby in Lincolnshire to two & fifty figures by the same method.
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by alister 6y ago
The author explains his visualization as follows: One is a red light, which has a wavelength of approximately 650 nm. The other is an infrared light, which has a wavelength of 950 nm. (Throughout our description, we will show the infrared
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by alister 6y ago
> How many times can we download google.com in a second? Exact answer: 4 I was a little suprised by this one. Sure, network connections are are going to be much slower than local operations, but where's the time going? Is it m
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by alister 6y ago
Another question: (d) How much does the precise wavelength matter? The study used 670nm but also mentions the range 650-1000nm. Lots of red-light gadgets are available on Amazon but how do you verify the wavelength? I was thinking of an opt
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by alister 6y ago
Questions: (a) Does this study sound plausible? (b) Would staring at the correct red color on a monitor work? Or would that not work since monitor colors are generated by mixing R, G, and B pixels and therefore not a pure wavelength? (c) Wo
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Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light(sciencedaily.com)
270 points by alister 6y ago|112 comments
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by alister 6y ago
> Apple reserves the right to disable Sign in with Apple on a website or app for any reason at any time. Holy cow, how is this acceptable to any app developer or software company? This is reason enough for me to never use Apple/
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by alister 6y ago
Trying to reproduce this Apple bug reminded me of another annoyance in the UI. I went to enable Safari Suggestions on my iPad, but it wouldn’t let me. The button remained greyed out. It turns out that I need enable Show Siri Suggestions
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by alister 6y ago
Hotels have universally switched to wifi, but I miss having an Ethernet jack. I think that at least some hotel Internet problems are actually wifi problems and not due to the crappy service provider they use.
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by alister 6y ago
> The Legal format itself is quite rarely used, the notion that it is for “legal” work is a popular myth; the vast majority of U.S. legal documents are actually using the “Letter” format. Can anyone confirm that this is really the case
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by alister 6y ago
As of June 9, 2020, there are 10 vaccines in clinical evaluation and 126 in preclinical evaluation around the world. Even though I don't understand the difference between a "DNA with electroporation" vaccine or "molecula
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World Health Organization's list of Covid-19 candidate vaccines [pdf](who.int)
2 points by alister 6y ago|2 comments
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by alister 6y ago
Link to the actual study (PDF): https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...
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The Lancet: Most comprehensive study to date to prevent spread of Covid-19(sciencecodex.com)
5 points by alister 6y ago|1 comments
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by alister 6y ago
> a good battery mower may last a very long time However I’m worried about the availability of the mower’s battery 5-10 years from now. The battery packs have unique shapes, controllers, etc., which might be discontinued or become insa
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by alister 6y ago
Since we're talking about counterintuitive things related to the coronavirus crisis, I was surprised to learn that N95 masks, that remove 95% of particles of size 0.3 μm, are even more efficient with smaller particle sizes. In turns
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by alister 6y ago
> This hasn't been my experience, so I tried an image search for [tom cruise] I believe what he means is that searching for first name + last name of someone who isn’t a celebrity gets you celebrities who match either the first
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by alister 7y ago
> “What do you guys do when you just want one cup of coffee?” Adler had wondered this many times himself. He’d grown increasingly frustrated with his coffee maker, which yielded 6-8 cups per brew. Why can’t you put just enough water an
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Surgical masks [are just] as good as [N95] respirators for virus protection(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by alister 7y ago|0 comments
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Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractor(cringely.com)
10 points by alister 7y ago|1 comments
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by alister 7y ago
> They're ubiquitous anywhere [an embedded device] is needed. Just like the Mac Mini. I’ve heard people ask why Apple doesn’t kill off the Mac Mini since it’s not an extremely popular consumer device. But apparently it finds lots
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by alister 7y ago
> Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, meanwhile, tag requests with identifiers, but that information is reset when the browser is re-installed. All send details of the webpages visited to the backend via auto-complete, but with verifying ident

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