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iijj
1y ago
I was no longer on the scene when it happened, but I’ve been told it became very difficult to get ongoing funding from the National Science Foundation for bioinformatics software around 10 years ago. You could get an initial grant to devel
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iijj
3y ago
Yeah, it is terrible. They have settings to modify resolution/refresh/latency mode, but those settings are always overridden if the TV's auto detection thinks it knows better. About a third of the time it will insist my Xbox
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iijj
3y ago
I have a 3 month old Samsung TV with recent firmware. I am trying to use it as a dumb offline TV connected to an Apple TV (which is, of course, online). Short version is it does not automatically connect to networks without user input, bu
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iijj
4y ago
It's called Distributed Propulsion, and it theoretically has advantages over normal aircraft propulsion. Presumably using dozens of piston or turbine engines has enough drawbacks to make it not worth it, which is why it hasn't be
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iijj
6y ago
Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but after having recently done my taxes, it seems to me you'd generate a capital gain or loss that has to be captured on IRS Form 8949 every time such a thing triggered bitcoin to be converte
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iijj
6y ago
I have to the run all my node development in x86 emulation and it's the same speed (both subjectively and by timing) as my 6 year old mac I was replacing. Things that rely on disk speed like npm install are much faster, though. I tried
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iijj
6y ago
If it is a rural area, drive around or use google maps to find empty land you are interested in, then look it up on the county tax site. If it hasn't changed hands in the last 20-30 years, call the owner. People who've owned empt
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8y ago
Percent change in sales from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019 Tesla -30% (90,700 to 63,000) (deliveries) Bolt -30% (6212 to 4316) (sold) Leaf -33% (4029 to 2685) (sold) Source: ir.tesla.com, random news articles on quarterly automotive deli
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8y ago
On Safari on iOS, long press the reload icon in the url bar to bring up a menu to request the desktop version or reload the page with content blockers disabled. In this case, it does fix the formatting of the graphs.
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iijj
9y ago
The primary advantage of airplane launch is that you can fly to into a launch window for an orbital rendezvous. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the target's orbit to be just right w/respect to the launch site, or do a long
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10y ago
Related: MIT OpenCourseWare's 2005 Aircraft Systems Engineering is a lecture series with many of the Space Shuttle's various lead engineers. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-8..
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iijj
11y ago
Yes, there are individual settings to turn off the 'Sense' features like the learning-schedule, auto-away. If you literally mean using it as an on/off switch... I don't think you can do that without just cranking the tem