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by blaze33 14y ago
There is a more recent post from Leonid Elenin with updated data: http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/c2013-a1-siding-spring/ "the comet might pass just 41,000 km [...] from the planet’s centre [...] 100% certainty that the planet will pass throug
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by blaze33 14y ago
So that I'm still able to read it on my 640x480 CRT screen. Backwards compatibility is serious business at Google. Joking aside, it's a 62.5% x 1.2em font size which is rendered as 12px (at least with my chromium/ff defaults). Probably too
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by blaze33 14y ago
There is a lost gloves collection at Oxo: http://www.oxo.com/UniversalDesign.aspx #ifoundmanymittens
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by blaze33 14y ago
Yeah it was more about why native Americans didn't invade Europe in 1492.
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by blaze33 14y ago
What I really appreciate about spending time in the wild – hiking for me – is how it allows me to step back from my everyday life. Go to some place, eat, sleep, that's not much but it fills your whole day and it's a very satisfying experien
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by blaze33 14y ago
Over/underdetection of bicycles: http://imgur.com/a/tIS6c
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by blaze33 14y ago
Your mails got in my (gmail) spam folder...
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by blaze33 14y ago
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to talk about LinuxDesktopism? There I see part of an explanation regarding the opposite market shares between the server/HPC and desktop worlds.
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by blaze33 14y ago
I bought my current laptop last year. While wondering how annoying it would be to set up a dual-boot and have a not-so-bloated windows install, I've had enough: I called Dell, telling them I'm not agreeing with their software license and th
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by blaze33 14y ago
I used timeit ( http://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit.html ), cProfile ( http://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html ) and pycallgraph. There is a nice Q&A on this subject: http://stackoverflow.com/q/582336/343834 .
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by blaze33 14y ago
Hosted on heroku with a hosted heroku postgres dev instance, I observed a drop in the db response time : - from a consistent average of 10ms over the last week - to a new consistent average of ~2.5ms beetwen 17:31 and 17:35 UTC. AWS started
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by blaze33 14y ago
1500 UTC, the ubuntu.com homepage isn't updated but the 12.10 release is now available for download at http://releases.ubuntu.com/quantal/
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by blaze33 14y ago
1109 UTC, not yet released. Kind of surprised there's no countdown this time ^^
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by blaze33 14y ago
cf. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Bet... "Python 2 will continue to be available (as the python package) for the foreseeable future. However, to best support future versions of Ubuntu you should consider porting
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by blaze33 14y ago
A typical low earth orbit re-entry speed is mach 25. Here with a max speed just above mach 1, there's 25²=625 times less energy to dissipate.
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by blaze33 14y ago
Sure that it would add value to have the speaker's note but I found it actually helpful. The duck typing part interested me as it seems a good fit for the problem I'm trying to solve: I have to work with a bunch of objects retrieved from a
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by blaze33 14y ago
As a daily Vélib' user from day one, I'll add some insights a one-time user may have missed: * It's often the fastest way to get to another point less than ~5km away. * You quickly notice how most of the traffic regulation is only designed
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by blaze33 14y ago
http://bootsnipp.com/ & http://designshack.net/articles/css/20-awesome-resources-for... were recently posted here although they doesn't perfectly match what you're suggesting.
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by blaze33 14y ago
Currently in Paris : on average ~5s to load a page.
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by blaze33 14y ago
Reminds me of http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-fe... : "The simple act of putting a render time in the upper right hand corner of every page we serve forced us to fix all our performance regressions and omissions.
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by blaze33 14y ago
16:45 GMT update, the package was opened. It did contain a second package but as it did not said to open it in 2112 they proceeded to open it. It's essentially a lot of written documents: notebooks, letters, telegrams, some newspapers. Ther