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by gmac 8y ago
The title reminds me of an arguably-even-closer-to-bird mode I rigged up for a fun conference exhibit at UCL years ago, using the Google Earth browser plug-in and a Kinect (linked via Processing and Websockets). We called it Pigeon Sim. Vid
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by gmac 8y ago
Afraid not — I was hoping for some replies here!
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by gmac 8y ago
It's a nice use of SSH tunnelling (e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/PortForwarding ).
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by gmac 8y ago
See also: http://localhost.run/
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by gmac 8y ago
I run one most of the time (IKEv2). I'm in the UK, and do it on principle to stop my ISP storing details of every domain I visit on behalf of government agencies. If I were in the US I'd do it to prevent my ISP selling that data o
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by gmac 8y ago
1. The amount of land or sea , which latter makes for a dearer installation but is much easier to find in densely populated countries like the UK. 2. My understanding is that, sure, you can't have a grid that runs purely on wind, but
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by gmac 8y ago
Nuclear power is cost prohibitive. How about: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36160368 ? For the cost to be prohibitive, it only really needs to be dearer than an alternative that's at least as good. That alt
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by gmac 8y ago
Genuine question: what benefits does this have over using a service provided for free by someone else? Privacy?
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by gmac 8y ago
big data firms are giving something away for free On that note, does anyone know if state-of-the-art models trained on billions of images (such as Facebook's model trained via Instagram tags/images, mentioned in the post) are pu
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by gmac 8y ago
BA flew them London - Paris for a short while early on. It was kind of ridiculous, not least because embarking/disembarking such a big plane took about as long as the flight.
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by gmac 8y ago
They do have a reasonably nice app (again) now. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/waitrose-partners/id13460641... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waitrose.g...
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by gmac 8y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20like%20t...
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by gmac 8y ago
Another option here is DNS servers that block ads. I can't vouch for the company itself, but I have found AdGuard DNS reliable and effective, if not memorable: 176.103.130.130, 176.103.130.131 https://adguard.com/en&#x2
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Mersenne Twister PRNG for JavaScript(github.com)
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by gmac 8y ago
Think of this as the ultimate, final form of the clear plastic binder from Calvin and Hobbes Brilliant. Almost everyone in economics presents using LaTeX (Beamer) for exactly this reason. The outcome is that almost everyone's slides
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by gmac 8y ago
Absolutely agree. I was hoping the XR would work for me, but I went to the Apple Store to try it and it's just far too big for my (reasonably big) hands. So now I have to pay lots more for a phone whose main feature is that it's s
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by gmac 8y ago
A way round this, of course, is a VPN. Which is also a handy way of using an ad-blocking DNS service everywhere. My setup is documented here: https://github.com/jawj/ikev2-setup
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by gmac 8y ago
Depending on what you're trying to achieve, running your own can be a good and simple option: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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by gmac 8y ago
You can have some of this in JS too by using libraries such as this one (which is mine): https://github.com/jawj/js-xre
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by gmac 8y ago
I just came across this and started using it for the DNS servers for my IKEv2 VPN (see https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup ). Experience so far has been excellent — especially the speed of web browsing on my iPhone).
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AdGuard DNS(adguard.com)
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Specification gaming examples in AI(docs.google.com)
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Protein produced from electricity to alleviate world hunger(lut.fi)
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by gmac 8y ago
The Jevons Paradox is an extreme form of the rebound effect[0]. More normally, we expect efficiency gains to be only partly offset by changes in behaviour. As an anecdotal example, we replaced one 60w incandescent bulb in our bathroom with
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by gmac 8y ago
Yes and no. Policymakers too rarely do anything to show they care about distributional impacts, but you could certainly arrange things so as to fix this. Why not impose a tax that doubles the cost of energy, and use all of the proceeds to f
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by gmac 8y ago
A nice use for this (tagged template literals) is bringing extended RegExps to JS. https://github.com/jawj/js-xre
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by gmac 8y ago
The FT might be the closest? I recently switched from the Guardian. But it plays up financial issues and plays down social issues, as you might expect.
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by gmac 8y ago
See also http://structuredprocrastination.com/ and related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151481
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TypeScript 3.0(typescriptlang.org)
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by gmac 8y ago
See also https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup for IKEv2 (I made this)

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