hobbes78

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by hobbes78 10y ago
I see a pattern here: everything that slows aging increases the chance of cancer. Take e.g. anti-oxidants, which fight ageing agents (free radicals) but cause cancer to spread faster. Take reducing the role of telomeres, which stops putting
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by hobbes78 10y ago
I came across a blog post that mentioned Oporto, Portugal to Ho Chi Minh, Vietname totalling 17000 km as being the longest train ride in the world... http://basementgeographer.com/the-longest-train-ride-in-the-...
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by hobbes78 11y ago
Have you ever considered using a re-shipper service?
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by hobbes78 11y ago
Regarding "dark/rainy roads where camera images are useless", camera images are not the main input, but rather one of many (radar, laser, collision detection, etc.). It may be comparable to landing a plane automatically witho
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by hobbes78 11y ago
Plastic is inert in a landfill, but occupies a lot of space. If it's burned, CO2 is released into the atmosphere and toxic ashes are left behind, although way less space is occupied. If all plastic is degraded by these bacteria, appare
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by hobbes78 11y ago
Yet it's still the most reliable vehicle... It's a hell of an industry...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Is it Bill Gates or William Gates? ;)
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Video compression (even lossless) leverages the fact that successive frames are very similar; that's not the case here, as photos can be taken hours apart, in various directions, and in various zoom levels. So you'll get basically
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by hobbes78 12y ago
The last ebook reader from Amazon (Kindle Voyage) features 300 dpi, so it's on par with inkjet standard resolution... But the other problems remain...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Two to five years isn't too far in the future... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hp-pla...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
As expected, mainstream media reports this as: 'Zoom and enhance': A much-mocked CSI trope becomes reality http://theweek.com/article/index/254848/zoom-and-enhance-a-m...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Europeans and americans may have diverging patterns of living, but sleeping in suburban areas and working in city centres isn't one of those patterns, as it's becoming the norm everywhere...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
If in 1500 you dropped some European settlers in the Americas, there a high chance they'll survive. If in 2014 you drop some settlers in Mars, they would surely die. Plenty of robots must be sent beforehand to build greenhouses, setup
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by hobbes78 12y ago
You'll probably end up with each guy trying to find the best girl he can, and each girl trying to find the best guy she can... Evolution proved it to work :) We should concentrate instead on removing impediments to this, such as arrang
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by hobbes78 12y ago
That's cost-benefit analysis... Wait!
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by hobbes78 12y ago
I envy the ignorant people, for they are happy...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
You can't build passive systems out of concentrated cells... It only works when the lens is aligned with the sun, so you'd get power a couple of minutes per day...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
I believe there is an archive folder per machine, but it only stores files replaced at that machine during 30 days...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Even if it's "multiple grams of caffeine", it's still very far from the 14 kg mentioned in the article... Actually the only way I imagine someone being able to have such an intake would be to use many, many caffeine pill
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Does anyone remember playing with the Logo programming language in the 80's and being able to control a "turtle" robot that had a pen attached and was able to pretty much do the same?
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by hobbes78 12y ago
You can't compare any of that with the atrocity of going to Iraq... She's just too tainted in blood for me to consider rejoining DropBox. She should definitely be behind bars...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
But they do get a better chance at winning. Instead of 1 in 175 million, they get 1 in 500 thousand. The problem is either is approximately zero...
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by hobbes78 12y ago
UPTEC last year accepted 165 new start-ups and 22 managed to gain independence and become self-sustained. A success rate of 13% in the start-up world is not that bad... https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Oh, and regarding server side software, a web server is enough if you named the tiles in a logic way. You'll have to provide a callback to OpenLayers to return the name of the tile, similar to this pseudo-code: GetTileFileName(zoom, x,
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by hobbes78 12y ago
Like this? http://www.thekremercollection.com/art/artists/Pieter-Codde/... It's actually based on Google Maps API, which isn't open source, but OpenLayers has equivalent functionality though I find
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by hobbes78 12y ago
That also happened to me. But then I realized I set the browser to display everything in 110% by default. If you go back to 100% indeed you can't do a proper screenshot...
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by hobbes78 13y ago
To offer full disk encryption, boot code for the MBR must be produced, and it has to be 16-bit. Current compilers just produce 32 and 64-bit binaries. So you have to use an old compiler...
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by hobbes78 13y ago
Though it is said the word comes from Spanish, I, as a Portuguese can only think of the pre-historic Celtic tradition... This year it happened again just two days ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careto
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by hobbes78 13y ago
I just create a torrent for the big file and email that torrent to the recipient...
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by hobbes78 13y ago
Grooveshark isn't really legal, otherwise they wouldn't be being taken to court by just about any record companies. By using Spotify you're really rewarding the artists you listen to.

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