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by bleair 9y ago
I think we might have a different definition of "Few pros do ... color work.. on Linux". Have you worked at Sony, Company 3, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm, Pixar, or Deluxe?
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Uber used contractor who used stingrays to track employee(arstechnica.com)
4 points by bleair 9y ago|0 comments
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by bleair 9y ago
The account cramforce has locked comments on the github page reporting this bug https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/6210
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by bleair 9y ago
Graphviz is fantastic. I'm pretty sure you can still read your .dot files into OmniGraffle (for when you need to add a lot of color and annotations). I also think its power comes from being to be turned into a callable library useful
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by bleair 9y ago
Looking at the map I suspect it's still the case a good many of the these cables end up trunking into the same building / using the same power and can be described as very much being in a "shared risk group". You think y
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by bleair 9y ago
Agree fully. Personal projects let you experiment, they let you try things out to see just how hard or easy building that set of features you were contemplating is. Now, if you personal project is intended as a gateway to your bootstrappin
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by bleair 9y ago
Are other astronomers confirming the origin of these FRBs? There's this example, where an unexplained signal turned out to be caused by a microwave oven: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05&#
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by bleair 9y ago
Why not have a real discussion about the environmental differences that influence interests and expectations. American society has very clear gender roles and expectations. Why are girls by age 6 conditioned to think "math is hard&quo
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by bleair 9y ago
I'm reading this and I just can't help but laugh. Let's say a company decides to do a "stay working here interview" and then the developer points out the things they would like to work on and the ideas they want to
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by bleair 9y ago
There's a lot doctors just don't know. You should always be your own advocate, and you should always consider the treatment plan suggested by your doctor and ask questions. Note, please understand I _not_ telling you to be a dick.
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by bleair 9y ago
But after a short while the problems go away because, well source safe means you'll never have access to those files again and sourcesafe itself will become unusable solving both problems (someday you'll have to buy a new computer
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by bleair 9y ago
It appears the emotional power of "money" coincidences with zealotry. It must be exciting to have your money tied into something that could split. If the split does happen and both forks keep running won't the world economy
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by bleair 9y ago
Think about how much budget and time and resource and nasa-career-path risk it would take for a manager at Nasa to ask for taking on a restoration project like this. Not going to happen.
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by bleair 9y ago
Better images of the actual list described: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4145360/400-year-old...
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by bleair 9y ago
Nice writeup. I think the people who are good at twitch streaming are charismatic and/or funny. Being entertaining is awesome, but isn't necessarily the same as being good at reasoning through problems or engineering good softwa
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by bleair 9y ago
This looks most promising. I've always longed for an online collaborative version of OMNI graffle (they have such nice gradients and document themes and their UX almost always does what you want).
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by bleair 9y ago
The details aren't completely spelled out here but SGX looks to be an interesting extension of the idea of "virtual machine per block of code" https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx It appears a runtime p
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by bleair 9y ago
When intel had the floating point division hardware bug they recalled chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug I wonder if intel will do something like that again or if the industry as a whole is more tole
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by bleair 9y ago
The slide deck contains words like ideate... I wonder if these slides will _inspire_ VCs in the bay area and/or the show Silicon Valley... as I understand it they did raise a lot of capital and even if they are forced to give 1/2
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by bleair 9y ago
Does anyone remember CygnusEd? To this day nothing I use scrolled as nice as that text editor did. Such fluid scrolling. Sigh.
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by bleair 9y ago
This is the best summary of the debate about climate change I've seen - Unfortunately, some experts believe such tough decisions exceed our political and psychological capabilities. “The world will not rise to the occasion of solving t
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by bleair 10y ago
I'm certain the value here comes from changing your focus and mindset. If you switch to a mode of thinking of "I ned to give you (the rubber ducky) context and explain concepts so that you can see intention and reasons for this co
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HPC firm Scalable Informatics has sadly closed shop
3 points by bleair 10y ago|0 comments
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by bleair 10y ago
I think this could set an interesting change in motion. Assuming ISPs start selling their costumer's browsing behaviors I imagine we'll soon see a "marketplace" for selling of this style of information. This could be a
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by bleair 10y ago
How likely are the right to repair laws to pass? I'm not familiar with the GOP's stance on this issue
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by bleair 10y ago
The article is a bit short on medical details. It sounds like he was diagnosed Type 1 diabetes and then after time they think his pancreas regrew the beta cells needed in a functioning pancreas
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by bleair 10y ago
I've been wondered exactly this about the He filled drives. Should I just assume that after 4 years the drive is not going to work? 8 years? I am aware that in 4 years modern drives of the same cost will be at least 4x the capacity,
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by bleair 10y ago
You should assume any (phone or windows store or mac store) app you install can and likely will be uploading all personal data that it can to their "mothership" in the name of wishing to keep track of Usage and "improve"
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by bleair 10y ago
The article mentions collection of top soil and I assume vegetation and a plan to burn this to reduce it's volume. I can understand how burning will make the volume smaller, but I can't imagine how to burn this material and not sp
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by bleair 10y ago
The noise inherent to film. Aka film grain is more irregular than digital sensor noise and can be more pleasing to people. People have argued that part of this is familiarity. People who grew up watching film have a large base of memories a

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