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by aschampion 11y ago
My worst experience with Amazon yet is they've locked the Amazon video Android app from every Android TV device except a few select smart TV vendors and their own Fire TV devices. The result is I can't watch content I paid them fo
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by aschampion 11y ago
For a more (leftist) perspective on the motley composition of pirate crews, The Many-Headed Hydra by Linebaugh and Rediker has an entire section on pirating, as well as discussions of other slaving ship wrecks and anti-slavery mutinies.
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by aschampion 11y ago
To add to these: - Even in a walled garden like Kindle, arbitrary fragmentation of the platform. Books that my Kindle device is technically capable of displaying are locked to iOS/Android Kindle app only, etc. Publishers meddling in sp
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by aschampion 11y ago
This is exactly what they did?
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by aschampion 11y ago
At least in my exposure, Chapel is a language built for partitioned global address space (PGAS) cluster computing. So instead of a distributed model like MPI where each node has its own memory and you pass messages, or a shared memory model
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by aschampion 11y ago
I interned at a digital subscription television receiver manufacturer eons ago. One day I was given several boxes full of random remotes, a microcontroller with an IR receiver, and an oscilloscope. I spent the next month deciphering coding
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by aschampion 11y ago
Introducing more arbitrary jargon isn't going to make the distinction any more clear to a layperson, but if you do choose a neologism "libre" is just plain awkward.
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by aschampion 11y ago
Systemic bias doesn't require that everyone in the system (or even anyone in the system) be cognizant of the bias, only that the bias selects for qualities that will reinforce the same systemic processes. People that consent to polygra
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by aschampion 11y ago
The polygraph acts like the pot use question for many US law enforcement positions. People rightly recognize that it's absurd, but for the wrong reasons. It's not there to select for straight edge people who have never smoked up,
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by aschampion 11y ago
Your employer is paying for your labor, nothing more. If it doesn't impact safety, workplace rights or efficient collaboration, it's none of his business. He doesn't own your time, your sensory experience, or your right to ha
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by aschampion 12y ago
I would recommend using one of the collaborative online editors that reduce the learning burden of compilation, versioning, and package management while providing WYSIWYG: https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.sh
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by aschampion 12y ago
Shipping rockets is enormously risky and expensive.
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by aschampion 12y ago
I tried this morning and it still worked through domestic VPN, i.e., I'm a US customer using a VPN exit in the US. It only seems to be targeted at those using VPNs to get around region restrictions. So it should still be effective to c
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by aschampion 12y ago
No need for a second mouse: http://synergy-project.org/
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by aschampion 12y ago
This is not an observation of axes visible from Earth (since that is obviously biased): The team could not see the rotation axes or the jets of the quasars directly. Instead they measured the polarisation of the light from each quasar and,
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by aschampion 12y ago
I have and love a DX, but it's long in the tooth in speed, features, and lack of backlight. The UI and keypad are awkward and frustrating, and Amazon has no intention of updating the software. Worse, more and more Kindle titles are loc
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by aschampion 12y ago
Then don't use xcode as your C++ IDE. Xcode is for developing in the Apple ecosystem, but there are plenty of other options on OSX if that's not your target. Nearly every C++ toolchain and editor available to you in linux is avail
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by aschampion 12y ago
Free peering is mutually beneficial: Verizon is receiving payment from customers who want to access Netflix at reasonable speeds. Verizon serves consumers, who are by definition asymmetric users.
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by aschampion 12y ago
M.S. in C.S. with four years of professional software engineering experience. I'm looking to solve challenging problems at the intersection of data science, machine learning and HPC. While my academic research has been in biomedical im
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Sensationalist, neuroscience vs. philosophy drivel from the author. There's nothing extreme about reductionist physical determinism in philosophy of mind literature. This methodology, besides being grossly inadequate at the experimenta
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by aschampion 12y ago
Or just use vim in Sublime Text through vintage mode or the vintageous plugin. I use mouse navigation plenty when browsing code, but a mouse is never going to be as effective at routine tasks like changing text inside a matching bracket, sw
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by aschampion 12y ago
A modeler is making a faithful recreation of the upper four decks in CryEngine[1], which is quite an undertaking because of the multiple, contradictory, and often physically impossible schematics used during TNG's production. CryEngine
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by aschampion 12y ago
Stargate has an amazingly contemporary American conservative outlook on the universe: that most places, peoples and dilemmas, even if bizarre on the surface, ultimately boil down to familiar with-us-or-against-us conflicts that are solved t
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by aschampion 12y ago
The last (and only) time I used this it ended up adding all my development-focused extensions to my SO's Chrome profile, then when she removed them made a mess of my Chrome configuration on other systems, so YMMV.
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by aschampion 12y ago
Colwiz is another not yet mentioned: https://www.colwiz.com/
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A lot of people still have blinders on and can't see past the imaging problems to the exascale analysis that's required to exploit these data, or just view the computational side as perfunctory and don't anticipate that it wi
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by aschampion 12y ago
The strongback does a lot more than legs ever would: resistance to winds when awaiting the launch window, fueling, data connections, etc. Not to mention you need some sort of tower to lift the rocket upright after payload integration and se
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by aschampion 13y ago
What graphics cards are using 2 or 3 PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots?
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Most normal car doors aren't going to open well after a rollover, either.
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by aschampion 13y ago
Science has nothing to do with critical thinking, science is entirely concerned with predicting and explaining observable phenomena. Why and how prediction and explanation of phenomena constitute good critical thinking is epistemology, a ph

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