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by anonlastname 7y ago
Hopefully this will make helium supplies last longer for medical and industrial applications
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by anonlastname 7y ago
See: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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by anonlastname 7y ago
Finally, a distribution for Microsoft apologists
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by anonlastname 7y ago
The idea is that it maximizes simplicity.
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by anonlastname 7y ago
Little fish get eaten by bigger fish
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by anonlastname 7y ago
Thank god. Now I can finally sleep at night.
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by anonlastname 7y ago
I could see it being useful for when you want an easy way to get a high voltage spike out of a 5v power supply. For example, if you wanted to build a board for igniting the gas in a potato gun that ran off of a USB power bank.
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by anonlastname 7y ago
It's possible that it could actually work, meaning, average Joe thinks its kind of cool and buys some pepsi.
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by anonlastname 7y ago
I made a chatbot for the website Omegle one time. It just randomly selected messages to send from a list. It was sort of like the emacs psychotherapist but dumber. Some people would talk to it for minutes before skipping. It would be intere
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by anonlastname 7y ago
probably because a large portion of HN users are basically STEM nerd incels
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by anonlastname 7y ago
Those are not "because it allows us to get more profit." They are arguing that non-free Mathematica is completely in the best interest of their users. Of course it's not. At the end of the day, Sagemath is there for everybody
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by anonlastname 7y ago
Interesting that money is not even on this list
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by anonlastname 7y ago
So it goes
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by anonlastname 8y ago
This is because at one point the Tasmanian devil population completely crashed and much of the genetic variation in their population was lost. This is literally a textbook example of something called the "founder effect." The resu
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by anonlastname 8y ago
this is peak pettiness
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Google can be very difficult when it comes to approving add-ons for their add-on store as well. They approved my add-on that blocks porn ads on a certain website, but won't accept a trivial update on the grounds that it is too NSFW. Th
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Digital textbooks aren't going to catch on. The problem is that it is more profitable for publishers to have DRM, so there are legal barriers. The one digital textbook I rented this year is terrible. It is done through a website with a
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by anonlastname 8y ago
This is the most trivial program on the entire OS. Hooray for Microsoft, I guess.
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Many games have a modding community. A lot of these mods are usually suprisingly detailed model packs.
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by anonlastname 8y ago
I support the Google play model- if you want to have your app on the Google Play store it has to conform to certain standards, but the operating system allows you to install arbitrary APKs
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by anonlastname 8y ago
I don't understand who they were trying to catch with this "sting operation."
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Sorry chief but I don't believe in imaginary property
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Interesting how in the recent pictures all of the skys are perfect and blue while in the old pictures they're clowdy. I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a hidden agenda behind this.
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by anonlastname 8y ago
this story doesn't really say anything about an application of the monster group to physics
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by anonlastname 8y ago
The Russian strategy during WWII and the winter war only "worked" because they accepted an enormous loss of troops to compensate for all of their other shortcomings. During the Winter War especially, Russian troops lacked equipmen
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by anonlastname 8y ago
I love this idea
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Building giant speakers to mock the Chinese from must be close to the peak of human pettiness. It is worse than the Frenchman in Monty Python...
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by anonlastname 8y ago
Perhaps people who think mathematics is full of low hanging fruit are the same ones who grew up looking for binomial coefficient identities and calculating the 3n+1 sequence. It might not seem low hanging to everyone, but maybe to mathemati
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by anonlastname 8y ago
In OpenSCAD you build your part by constructing its convex hull. This is done by using primitives with known convex hulls such as rectangles and spheres and combining them using operations such as addition, subtraction, union, and Minkowski
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by anonlastname 8y ago
There is a very good art of computer programming book that has a discussion of bit reversal algorithms

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