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by avian 9y ago
The important part here is "usually". It should be stressed that using lists (such as SWOT mentioned in another comment here) can add to the bias towards US and other well-known universities. I have been involved in academia for 1
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by avian 9y ago
I'm excited to go to FOSDEM for the first time this year. I plan to be hanging around Open hardware and Internet of things rooms. > FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up! I was quite surprised to see that.
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by avian 9y ago
> Single source of truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t...
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by avian 9y ago
I wonder how many times the author spent time making a nice GitHub pull request for a popular repo. You know, taking care that you match the coding style, document your changes and reasons for them, make sure the CI tests pass, etc. only to
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by avian 9y ago
> However using my method, its only possible to track, when a user visits a link the first time This suggests that browser history sniffing is still possible - as long as you make the user click the link (in contrast to the old a:visited
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by avian 9y ago
A more interesting question would be if it is possible to disable the "dynamic" part of the CSS in any browser. Things like ":hover", ":active" that this proof of concept abuses and leave just the more benign s
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by avian 9y ago
I've had a similarly bad experience. I bought the original Chromecast years ago. Since then I've tried using it with two Wi-fi routers, at least three Android phones and an iPad and it never worked for me. The most common problem
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by avian 9y ago
> However, all these previous junk filters learn only from their errors and never from correctly classified mails. I use bogofilter [1] for my mail. It also uses Bayesian filtering and it can in fact learn from correctly classified mail
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by avian 9y ago
I don't understand the "You are Not the User" mantra. In the past I've worked in teams where we were actively using the product we were developing. Dogfooding is a pretty established practice these days. For most purpose
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by avian 9y ago
I got a new XPS 13 9360 at work 3 months ago. I was afraid how bad the coil whine will be, since that was the most common complaint I found on the web about this laptop. I can't hear any coil whine. Maybe my hearing isn't what it
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by avian 9y ago
> Should those 'a's have different Unicode code points? Unicode does have separate code points for mathematical symbols. See for instance U+1D44E MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL A. They see little use in practice though, apart from p
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by avian 9y ago
I edited my reply to remove the actual number. The argument still stands that you cannot expect 100% reliability.
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by avian 9y ago
Why would users refuse to buy hardware that works 99.9999999999% of the time when they apparently have no problem buying software that works 99% of the time? Radioactive decays and cosmic particles flipping bits give an upper bound for reli
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by avian 9y ago
The part from the title starts at 3:35. Sega Saturn used quads (distorted rectangular sprites) rather than triangles as the basic unit in 3D rendering. I think that approach is not that unusual for that early era of 3D graphics. Somewhere a
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by avian 9y ago
Care to elaborate? I think the talk was on topic and a suitable kick-off for the rest of the congress. I found Stross' perspective on predicting the future and AI novel and interesting.
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by avian 9y ago
True. Often authors don't even share the said piece of software or detailed plans for the prototype.
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by avian 9y ago
I would use a different browser window for maps. Even with tabs, window maximization is usually one click away, so not that much of a hassle. But I agree that I commonly see people having their browser window maximized all the time (on huge
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by avian 9y ago
> you are subjected to browser width text Some of us consider it a feature that a website allows the reader to freely resize the browser window (and the text with-in) to the width they consider comfortable.
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by avian 9y ago
For some websites, people might not want others to be able to find out whether they have registered if they only know their email address (e.g. same kind of websites for which the incognito/private mode exists in browsers).
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by avian 9y ago
I'm pretty sure it will be launched as an inert hunk of metal and plastic. Batteries will be removed, fluids drained, etc.
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by avian 9y ago
Nitpicking about an otherwise well written post: why show a kernel density estimate instead of a simple histogram? It can be normalized if you don’t want reveal the exact number of samples. Calculating a kernel density estimate just seems t
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by avian 9y ago
This paper explores the possibilities for such a mission. It’s not that far fetched technically. But realistically, I don’t think it would happen, even if the object looked more interesting than it currently does. https://arxiv.o
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by avian 9y ago
Personally, I'm strangely happy that this is turning out to be "just" an ordinary piece of space rock. Imagine if it looked more like a spent booster or a probe from remote observations. We would have no realistic way of inte
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by avian 9y ago
Way back in olden times? Yes. You could buy Netscape Navigator in a box.
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by avian 9y ago
Clickbait title. The candidate thanked the interviewer for honest feedback that would help him improve himself in the future.
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by avian 9y ago
Never heard about NiceHash before, but this story is currently being reported by Slovenian national media and NiceHash is presented as a Slovenian company.
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by avian 9y ago
> Many academic publishers have had trouble finding a sustainable business model I would say they have trouble finding an ethical business model. Most big academic publishers are printing money. Reviewers, many times also editors are u
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by avian 9y ago
> It just kicks the can down the road without solving anything Panspermia is an attempt to explain one inconsistency in our observations so far: it appears that life spontaneously emerging from inorganics is hugely unlikely. On other han
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by avian 9y ago
As I understand the elongated shape has only been determined based on the light curve. I'm guessing this assumes no big changes in albedo along the surface. It might actually be a much more round object with one light and one dark side
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by avian 9y ago
Anything artificial that travelled interstellar distances must be robust enough to survive such impacts without damage.

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