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by fernly 14y ago
P.Z.Myers criticized this rather severely[0] a couple days back. "They cherrypicked their data points. They didn’t include lungfish, ferns, onions, or some protists because that would totally undermine their premise; those are contemporary
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by fernly 14y ago
self monitoring of blood glucose?
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by fernly 14y ago
Deployment/distribution can be handled by bundling the app. For Python 2.x, there's PyInstaller[0], Py2App[1], Py2Exe[2] all of which do much the same thing: make a single binary out of a python app and all its dependencies including the in
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by fernly 14y ago
I have a DirecTv DVR and I can skip commercials two ways, by clicking the 30-second forward skip or the old Tivo-style 1, 2, 3, fast forward gears. How does the Dish Hopper differ? Does it automatically skip with no remote-clickery? Or fewe
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by fernly 14y ago
"Solar Wind Energy has said... that each tower would require a permanent workforce of 1,000 people." Doing what, exactly? That has to be a bogus number.
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by fernly 14y ago
Forget the lawyer-talk and economist-talk. To 90% of all depositors, they have a simple contract with the bank: I give you my money and you can use it to make more money (loaning it out at interest, etc) on one condition: you keep it absolu
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by fernly 14y ago
They are still "enhancing" Blogger. Less than a month ago they introduced a drastic change in the image-upload UI that basically broke it for everyone. It appears to have been meant as an improvement but whoever did it, clearly didn't under
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by fernly 14y ago
I guess it's pretty but the linked demo(?) page is quite confusing. The top article scrolls uncontrollably fast; at first I thought I had some input, thought I causing it to go up/down but couldn't figure out the UI. Why the bleep wouldn't
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by fernly 14y ago
The point Stephen Few makes (and I would second from my much more limited experience) is that the publisher takes a very large cut (not untypically 85-90% of the gross) and in return does very little. One, they do the editing, contracting t
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by fernly 14y ago
I think Mr. Ashton is trying to illustrate Sagan's dictum, "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Except it's coke, and he doesn't go past bauxite.
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by fernly 14y ago
Just tried it and the website had extremely slow response in both Chrome and Firefox. It would basically show the first line of pics and then go to a blank window with small scroll thumb on the left (?why?) and never respond again.
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by fernly 14y ago
The time-honored way of promoting a car is to run a road competition. They need to create some kind of long-distance rally (or rallye) between Model S's and gas-powered cars, with a prize big enough to draw lots of coverage. Even if the Tes
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by fernly 14y ago
When a kleene star follows a quantifier, the "n times" legend under the quantified diagram element gets cropped, e.g http://www.debuggex.com/?re=a%7B2%7Db%2A&str= Chrome, mac os.
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by fernly 14y ago
Oven knobs, fine. But there are so many things that can't be machine printed; they require the assembly of components made of very different materials. Take "sporting goods" mentioned in the article. Tennis racquet: supposing you could prin
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by fernly 14y ago
The Knuth optimal balancing algorithm is implemented in C in the Gnu Core Utilities program "fmt" -- see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ -- and is plenty fast enough for a browser to render text.
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by fernly 14y ago
But if I read the article right, the car IS adjusting its display for temperature. When the temp went down, the calculated available miles went down also -- and almost accurately, that is, the car went dead about when the miles-left display
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by fernly 14y ago
You can make subtle political comments. Long ago I was very comfortable with my assigned workstation, so I named it "bag-end". Then owing to a stupid management decision all in my group were required to move to machines of an unfamiliar and
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by fernly 14y ago
> Workstations my university were named by location -- swlab01 or even by the hall numbers, 496-01, 496-02 They were never moved? Or did they have to be renamed then?
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by fernly 14y ago
To judge yourself by contrast to others is one of the most efficient ways of making yourself unhappy! Consider: if they are doing better than you, you are jealous and you think badly of yourself. If they are doing worse, then you may think
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by fernly 14y ago
This is very good, but you need more than verbal undertakings. You need paper, in particular you need a Medical Power of Attorney, a notarized document authorizing you to make medical decisions on behalf of your Mother and Grandmother (and
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by fernly 14y ago
The Insight Meditation Center, a long-time buddhist group, recently acquired and opened a new retreat center in Scotts Valley. See http://www.insightretreatcenter.org/ The meditation methods used there would be the same as the above.
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by fernly 14y ago
I disagree on "Lovely" -- I find it hard to read. Dark-gray text on light-gray background throws away several levels of contrast. I had to ctl-+ twice to get a comfortable type size. And the wide blue nav-band on the left is just a waste of
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by fernly 14y ago
Looking on Amazon I see you are correct in part, you can order a season pass for the current season of, e.g., CSI NY. However, "TV episodes are delivered as soon as possible after the episode is aired by the network (usually the following d
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by fernly 14y ago
I don't understand how the writer supposes Intel can acquire unbundled content and sell it per-channel or even per-show. Yes, that's the consumer's dream, to be able to subscribe to and pay for only one's preferred channels (or even shows),
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by fernly 14y ago
This is potentially huge news. If it can be replicated you can take all the high-fat/low-fat, high-carb/low-carb, paleo whatever diets and chuck them. "we show that one endotoxin-producing bacterium isolated from a morbidly obese human’s gu
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by fernly 14y ago
Not only obesity, but insulin resistance: basically gave the mice the start of "metabolic syndrome", as also observed in obese humans.
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by fernly 14y ago
There are dozens of velomobiles being made and sold, and some of them are the sweetest, most beautiful little vehicles ever made. And just about every one of them can be ordered with an aux electric assist. For pictures and prices see velom
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by fernly 14y ago
Ooh that's unfortunate... if you've spent any time in Italia you've seen the ah-pay, probably been stuck in traffic behind one. They are as slow as they are ugly and smoke and stink like the outskirts of Mordor. The less this thing reminds
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by fernly 14y ago
Exactly what part of "you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your ... photos (along with any associated metadata), ... without any compensation to you" is "confusing"? It is not complicated legalese; on the contrary
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by fernly 14y ago
You haven't thought it through. Try to visualize how such a program would be implemented. You run into intractable problems. One: who defines what traits are undesirable? (Do you imagine this would ever be uncontroversial? Aggression, for e

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