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by dwringer 8y ago
And yet somehow a company sharing its acronym with the name "Lying Manipulative G's" is merely par for the course in today's world. "if you can't beat em, join em!"
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by dwringer 8y ago
I can't count how many times I've thought of the usefulness of a system as described by the grandparent comment. The best I can come up with so far is some kind of dedicated screen, with always-on audio capabilities similar to da
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by dwringer 8y ago
[deleted because I was misinformed, as pointed out by a below comment]
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by dwringer 8y ago
Is there a formalized definition of this "rabbit hole" people have been abusing ever since The Matrix was in theatres? I feel like it was originally a metaphor but it's being used more and more literally to where I hear it a
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by dwringer 8y ago
I interpreted the post to mean Paypal is the poster's preferred choice for using as a credit card processing gateway. Merchants can sign up with Paypal to handle all card transactions, and buyers don't need a Paypal account to us
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by dwringer 8y ago
I've never used a flat matrix keyboard like the Ergodox or Typematrix, but I've been using a Kinesis Advantage2 for a few months which combines the rectilinear layout with cup-shaped "key wells" and a rather distinctive
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by dwringer 8y ago
This is a cool idea. New explorations and innovations in this direction are very welcome IMHO. I'm still a bit dismayed after reading about Douglas Engelbart's 5-key chording keysets that there's very little on the market t
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by dwringer 8y ago
... what documents have they released that were scientifically confirmed not to be hoaxes?
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by dwringer 8y ago
In WoW it was often a nightmare of dooming between 3 and 39 other people to twenty minutes of trying to find a replacement instead of actually playing the game. Not a big deal for the person who quits, admittedly.
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by dwringer 8y ago
As much as I respect Coltrane and love much of his work, I have to agree that some of his more exploratory efforts are what I could only describe as "not relaxing". I like to fall asleep with jazz albums playing from time to time
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by dwringer 8y ago
I was trying to keep this as a discussion about the technology and not about the politicians involved, but it apparently didn't stop most of the thread from ending up dead anyway, so the statement I had in mind (you can find more on th
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by dwringer 8y ago
On the other hand, I can think of at least two prominent elected officials (one at my state's level and one at the national level) who no longer speak in sentences that I can parse with my own mental model of English. The one from my
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by dwringer 8y ago
I have always thought an ideal physics curriculum at such a level would actually involve the students creating software packages to accomplish something like this. I think these are great illustrations of the principles, but there's v
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by dwringer 8y ago
If it had been thoroughly explained then there wouldn't have been anomalous experimental results. I agree that it's rather likely that we're seeing experimental artefacts rather than new unexplored areas of physical law, but
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by dwringer 8y ago
The Advantage layout is definitely one that sort of insists on two hands if you want to reach anything that the right hand types regularly and/or you want to use the arrow keys. The keywells are open on the outside edge, so it is pret
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by dwringer 8y ago
I agree that muting or muffling allows the presumably original recording (of "Laurel") to come through better. I was hearing a nasally high-pitched "yanny" with a very faint low frequency monotone "laurel" unt
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by dwringer 8y ago
When you are viewing the reviews, there is an option to filter displayed reviews to only the currently displayed "style" or subitem. Go down to the reviews and select "See all reviews" and a list of filter selectors wil
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by dwringer 8y ago
I think any definition of "modern science" that excludes existing human knowledge is not sufficiently broad. Though, as an inexact and informal term, I question where you've drawn the boundary and whether your own prejudices
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by dwringer 8y ago
This might not be the most authoratative source, and I'm no medical expert, but this overview from Encyclopedia Britannica[1] nicely describes the diversity in how diseases are classified (I know we aren't using the term "dis
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by dwringer 8y ago
Perhaps a more NPOV [neutral point-of-view] way to reframe the original would be "Claims made by IBM about Watson and AI considered fraudulent" - thus it is no longer advertising an opinion as implicitly true in the headline, but
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by dwringer 8y ago
It seems you may be correct in what was intended: > The word “code” derives from the Latin codex, meaning “a system of laws.” Today “code” is used in various distinct contexts—computer code, genetic code, cryptologic code (such as Morse
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by dwringer 8y ago
It appears incandescent bulbs have not been banned , but low-efficiency designs have been. [1] I still see incandescent GE Reveal bulbs at the store all the time. [2] > light bulbs using incandescent lighting technology were not banned
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by dwringer 8y ago
I don't completely understand why so many comments to this article are discussing "RBF" as an objectively real phenomenon. As I read it, the article seems to imply that completely neutral expressions are simply perceived as
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by dwringer 9y ago
That reminded me of this small piece[1] on the arcade version of Berzerk[2] from 1980. > The maze for each level was established on the fly using a seed number fed into a rudimentary algorithm. and, further, > Each time the code is “c
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by dwringer 9y ago
I like the suggestion from 1890 to use cotton in the ears as a low pass filter to increase fidelity.
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by dwringer 9y ago
It came up in the comments yesterday about the recent Panera security breach. Someone speculated that we were seeing the emergence of an infosec version of the four dogs defense. Presumably someone then felt it was interesting enough to w
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by dwringer 9y ago
At least around here, they were one of the only places to go with free public WiFi for a while. It could be something related to that, just a place to find open internet hotspots.
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by dwringer 9y ago
In fact that article states that the upper limit for the size of a central black hole in the Triangulum galaxy is estimated at 3000 solar masses, so it simply wouldn't be "supermassive" - but there is not a claim that no bl
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by dwringer 9y ago
When I and a lot of people I know signed up, an active .edu email was required. It was like the unprofessional kids' version of LinkedIn. The implicit conditions of the agreement to sign up for an account - that only other students a
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by dwringer 9y ago
There's a road that's effectively like that near where I live. AFAIK the traffic laws in my home state dictate that a speed limit change on a road takes immediate effect at the location of the sign indicating a new speed. There

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