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Also, the cities on the lists are the only cities they even have data for, so it's possible for other cities to have higher counts.
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They are a hash generated from the service's public key.
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GPL doesn't even protect against this kind of situation. The copyright holder is not bound by the GPL license, they are the one licensing it. Anything release under the GPL is still available as GPL, but the copyright holder has no obl
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10y ago
IE 6 was released with Windows XP in 2001 and IE 7 didn't come out until the end of 2006.
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11y ago
The install environment for Windows, Windows PE[0], is an extremely stripped down version of Windows. It's based on the same code base as the main Windows, but basically only comes with the command prompt and task manager. It's av
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11y ago
Sail boats are able to sail into the wind. This, however, requires the drag of the keel to work. It might be possible to use a traditional rocket engine to act like a keel to allow using the laser energy to slow down the craft.
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11y ago
Philips statement about the block: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-...
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11y ago
"The Philips Hue system can be easily integrated with other ZigBee-based systems for additional home automation." http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/about-hue/what-hue-is/ Edit: Found a post about this b
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11y ago
> There are exceptions, prisons can operate cellphone jammers for example. It is not legal for prisons to jam cell phones. "The Communications Act prohibits non-Federal entities from using cell jammers. The FCC cannot waive this sta
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CloudFlare has a free CA for signing certificates specifically for this situation. It was beta in February. Not sure if it is generally available yet. https://blog.cloudflare.com/universal-ssl-encryption-all-the...
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11y ago
Vagrant works on Windows. You can use Hyper-V or VirtualBox for the virtual machine environment.
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11y ago
They are contractors, though. They own their vehicle and set their own hours. They can choose if they want to work that day or not. Uber is just a lead source to the driver. My neighbor drives a black car, legally licensed as a limo, and dr
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11y ago
It appears that it was a chemical storage warehouse, which contained calcium carbide (among other hazardous chemicals). A fire broke out in the warehouse and firefighters were fighting the fire with water. When calcium carbide reacts with w
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12y ago
Using the Google Books ngram viewer doesn't seem to be the best source for determining the age of alcohol brands. The dates you present are no where near the actual ages of the brands. Smirnoff and Bacardi were both founded in the 1860
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6 years before Fight Club the World Trade Center had a car bomb set off in it[1], so it's not like they got the idea from that movie. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...
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There is a tutorial on Adafruit[1] that makes use of that library to build a sous-vide cooker using a rice cooker or crockpot. I built one a little over a year ago. It was a great learning exercise. The real issue with it is that (at least
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That is actually done intentionally to allow for changing of the tuning parameters while the PID is running.[1] The author of the PID library has a full writeup on the design of the algorithm.[2] [1] http://brettbeauregard.com&#x
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12y ago
> You can't even boot the raspberry pi without running closed software. I thought that this was no longer necessary[1], but after searching around I'm not sure if this means it is possible to boot without the blob. Does anyone
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From that example it looks like it doesn't support NPM directly, instead you download the dependencies locally and include the node_modules directory in the zip file you upload. Interestingly the example makes use of ImageMagick, which
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12y ago
They can also recognize their siblings.[1] [1] http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070611/full/news070611-4.htm...
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> In a web application, keep an eye out for suddenly changing IP addresses. If the user's IP address for a session changes, terminate the session immediately and force the user to authenticate again. If your on a mobile device this
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I built a sous-vide rig with an Arduino[1] last year. The first recipe I made was deep fried sous-vide egg yolks[2]. [1] https://learn.adafruit.com/sous-vide-powered-by-arduino-the-... [2] http://seattlefoodgeek.
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12y ago
Aborted at T-0:12
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I don't believe that much RAM is uncommon for large scale database servers. 384GB RAM is only about $5000 from Dell. They also have a new server model coming out that supports up to 6TB of RAM [0]. [0] http://www.dell.com&#x
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Due to rough seas the rocket stage sank before they were able to recover it. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27166780
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"And we’ll have to devise proper packaging methods for these 1-atmosphere, helium-filled devices." Actually it does require helium, but no vacuum.
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> Coupled with a dynamic IP How dynamic is your IP really, though? My "dynamic" IP from Comcast will go unchanged for months or even years (I think the last time it changed was when I replaced my modem about a year and a half a
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13y ago
Kohler has a product like that. http://www.us.kohler.com/us/DTV-Custom-Showering-Experience/...
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13y ago
Amazon has official, open source SDKs in most major languages that cover all of the AWS service APIs. https://aws.amazon.com/tools/?nc1=h_d_dl
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I haven't personally done this yet, so I'm not sure if there is more to it, but there is a program called AVRDUDE[1], used to load the firmware onto the boards. I know that the Arduino IDE uses this behind the scenes. I'm not
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