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by chuckledog 7y ago
Gary Gygax Memorial Lake Geneva, WI 53147 https://goo.gl/maps/dP5B9GqqBvnY6Pup7
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by chuckledog 8y ago
すごいよ Sugoiyo! Super! Cool! Wow! Awesome achievement Japan. I really admire that its means of propulsion doesn’t involve wheels (since the gravity is so low)
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by chuckledog 8y ago
Article is a bit light on the “how” part. Found this over at https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-dna-data-storage/ : “What Catalog does, instead, is cheaply generate large quantities of just a few different D
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by chuckledog 8y ago
Some of the rotors are retractable.
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by chuckledog 8y ago
Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship “Flettner constructed an experimental rotor vessel; October 1924”... Not practical. Renewed interest this century, improved design. New ships: Viking Line t
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by chuckledog 9y ago
In 17 Caucasian boys
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by chuckledog 9y ago
I believe in this encoding scheme, the primer targets would perform roughly the same function as hashtable lookup keys would in a file system. Along the lines of a VFS inode cache http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/
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by chuckledog 9y ago
Wow. Thanks! Just one minute of each of the seven exercises has improved my vision to the point where I no longer need my 1.0 reading glasses to read hacker news on my iPhone 7+. The improved vision seems to be lasting at least a few min
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by chuckledog 9y ago
Does DDG learn from what people !g for?
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by chuckledog 9y ago
"Stoner Blue" FTW
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by chuckledog 9y ago
From the linked website: "CockroachDB provides scale without sacrificing SQL functionality. It offers fully-distributed ACID transactions, zero-downtime schema changes, and support for secondary indexes and foreign keys". Signif
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by chuckledog 10y ago
Thanks for the great comment. You should write all this up somewhere, it sounds like a lot of hard-earned wisdom!
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Airbus CEO: self-piloted flying car prototype by EOY(venturebeat.com)
1 points by chuckledog 10y ago|0 comments
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by chuckledog 11y ago
Awesome game series! Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II#The_Ur-Quan_...
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by chuckledog 11y ago
This is excellent, in multiple ways. The main things humans are adding here are a) pollution and b) good strong fishing line. We're pretty good at both of those things...
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105" HDTV for $113,861.81 on Amazon(amazon.com)
7 points by chuckledog 11y ago|7 comments
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by chuckledog 11y ago
Fixed link: http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_...
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“Light recycling” to rival CFL and LED efficiency(m.phys.org)
3 points by chuckledog 11y ago|0 comments
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by chuckledog 11y ago
Yogurt is alive!
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by chuckledog 12y ago
I believe Instagram uses Cassandra as well as Redis. http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/100758229719/mi...
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Nice code. Thank you. Are those ball-to-line collisions energy preserving? I believe they are... However it seems there might be an edge case, where moving a colliding circle until it no longer intersects the line, might cause it to skip
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Coincidentally, shuffling was the subject of this week's puzzle on "Interview Cake": https://www.interviewcake.com/question/shuffle
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by chuckledog 12y ago
This is very interesting. 1) makes me think our upcoming Laundry-to-Landscape project will probably use our sandy front yard soil as a giant lint filter. 2) makes me think twice before using dryer lint as camp fire tinder. 3) from what I un
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Agreed even for normal color perception :)
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Agreed. Mine was an inexpensive Seiki. Super nice to have the real estate. Next one will hopefully be the 50" one, tilted like an drafting table.
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by chuckledog 12y ago
I had a chance to try out the flir one for a day. Pretty sweet but not perfect. It has a number of color scales prominently featured in the iPhone UI. Grayscale might match lumosity. I used "contrast" to quickly identify hot &#
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by chuckledog 12y ago
An awesome person -- her thoughts both challenge and provide a breath of fresh air. Check out her TEDx talk on the value of boredom: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxSydney-Genevieve-Bell-The...
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Any thoughts how software-transactional memory might apply for a use case like this?
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Also curious how it compares to mupdf?
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by chuckledog 12y ago
Cool! Does it do anything interesting during a network partition?

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