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Scientists now know why this orange turned purple out of the blue(abc.net.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
Thanks for the response. Good point on multiplexing, as fast high resolution single/dual channel ADCs are now cheap. It will be interesting to look at how much the multiplexing costs relative to FPGA (which can be quite cheap). At t
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by femto 8y ago
If it's not off topic, what's your take, as a professional, on the value of a single chip with the ability to record/playback several hundred channels? Are these a readily available piece of kit, or are they not worth having
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by femto 8y ago
One strategy is to pick a famous name to go with the surname. Look up the child's surname on Wikipedia and choose a first name from the disambiguation page, or put your surname into a search engine and pick from one of the top results
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by femto 8y ago
> this does not necessarily imply dishonesty or trickery. arguably, the most charismatic people might be those that are true believers Not ruling out that a true believer might have deceived themselves! (It's turtles all the way do
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Propagating a dream: Little Apples(abc.net.au)
3 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
This paper is the winner of the 2018 Ig Noble for Literature.
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Life is too short to RTFM: how users relate to documentation and excess features [pdf](eprints.qut.edu.au)
4 points by femto 8y ago|3 comments
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by femto 8y ago
You might also be interested in http://myriota.com/ It's essentially a long life "tag" (10 years depending on duty cycle) that can read sensors and go direct to satellite. Funded by Boeing. I'm not inv
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by femto 8y ago
There is a government consultation process open RIGHT NOW for this bill. You have to get your submissions in by the end of today (6 hours time). Every Australian here needs to make a submission (please). The page for the inquiry is: http
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by femto 8y ago
I'll mention Amaya here. https://www.w3.org/Amaya/ The original vision for the web was that editing/creation had the same status as viewing/consumption, and that websites were writable as well as readabl
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by femto 8y ago
A page full of PDF programs here: http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html including Battleship: http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/tutorial/games/navbat.pd... and Tic-Tac-Toe:
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by femto 8y ago
> If the electric telegraph hadn’t been invented, would engineers have continued to optimize the optical telegraph? Isn't that today's Free Space Optical Communications? Bandwidth is measured in Gigabits per second. https:&#x
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by femto 8y ago
What the parent doesn't explicitly mention is that there is a government inquiry open RIGHT NOW . You have to get your submissions in by 10th of September (5 days time). Every Australian here needs to make a submission (please). The
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by femto 8y ago
Might be a job for a website, along the lines of a crowd funding site? People would post their salaries, but they would only be revealed (anonymously or not?) if a certain number of fellow employees also posted theirs (by a certain date?)
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by femto 8y ago
That's because state of the art vocoders (as used in VoIP) are voice synthesisers. The encoding process breaks your voice down into a series of coefficients, which are sent sent to the decoder (voice synthesiser) at the other end. W
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Foodora fallout: ATO comes after failed food delivery company for unpaid taxes(abc.net.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
This actually does work. I went though a phase of keen mapping and entered detailed information for my local area, especially for things off road. (Triggered by OSM becoming rubbish when the license changed most of the Australian data was
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by femto 8y ago
I read it as a commentary on corruption, contacts and money governing access to things that should otherwise be accessible. People are so bogged down in trying to survive the system, often for the sake of dependents, that they don't h
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by femto 8y ago
A pity that Scratch is no longer written in Smalltalk. It was a natural move for a child to discover shift-click-R and progress from Scratch to Smalltalk hacking.
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by femto 8y ago
In a practical sense, I think this translates into fighting tooth and nail to avoid variants for a single customer. Listen to your customers/sales, but only incorporate their requests if they fit in with the product that you distribut
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by femto 8y ago
> Now I'm wondering if the pilots hold hovering competitions, in the same way people in the military frequently do target practice. Yes. Have a read of "Rescue Pilot" by Jerry Grayson. It's a great read. He describ
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by femto 8y ago
I guess you're right under the definition of proliferation being a new nation gaining nuclear weapons. I was thinking of proliferation, in the sense of their being more nuclear weapons, even if it doesn't involve a new nation.
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by femto 8y ago
"honeybees, newts, spiny lobsters, sea turtles and many others read magnetic fields. [...] What it looks like in their mind’s eye, however, and how it is maintained day and night, across thousands of miles, is still a mystery." Si
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by femto 8y ago
Australia's export of uranium to India. India has made an explicit decision not to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT). As a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, Australia is supposed to export only to countries that hav
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If anyone should want to ban Muslims it would be me – but I don't(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
There is a way to test the validity of their result. Go to figure 6 of the paper, in which they have a set of "Extracted Visual Elements" for each city. Cover the captions under each set, then see if you can pick the city. If t
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DIY medical kit that just needs water could help millions in remote communities(abc.net.au)
10 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
The same arguments could be applied to any child/parent relationship. How many adult children are under the influence of their parents? The ballot is secret, so a child would be free to vote as they wish. Children would have to be t
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by femto 8y ago
Perhaps the incongruity isn't that a 14-year old is running for office, but that a 14-year old can't vote? A 14-year old has the maturity to run for office, but is judged to be too immature to vote? There is a cohort of children

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