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by jcl 8y ago
If it's specific to Aspergillis, maybe never? The article says that farmers only really want antifungals that prevent plant diseases -- Aspergillis is an "accidental bystander".
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by jcl 8y ago
The "disjointedness" is probably due to the artwork being fed back and forth between some rollers. You can see a significant kink at the bottom of the shredded portion, probably due to it being stored pre-fed into the rollers. T
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by jcl 8y ago
To be fair, No Man's Sky is a much better game today than it was around launch, when it was getting peak bad press. At that point, the prudent move might have been to cut their losses and move on to other projects. But instead Hello
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by jcl 8y ago
For what it's worth, it looks like his initial focus was on making a 2D web game. Unity had only just started supporting HTML5 as a target around the time he began, with plenty of rough edges, so it may not have been an obvious good c
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by jcl 8y ago
FWIW, it looks like the Kinesis boards, at least, hold their value well... There's only one used Advantage 2 board available on Amazon, at practically the price of a new one. (The used market might be a reasonable stand-in for rental,
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by jcl 8y ago
No, he's right. Shaders exist at the graphics API level, and while they're designed to be run on dedicated GPUs, they can be run on CPUs, too. Chrome, for example, ships with a software rendering fallback, which ensures WebGL sh
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by jcl 8y ago
The authors are assuming that they are allowed to use custom fonts. So if they need eight different variants of any particular glyph, they can just create eight different custom fonts where each glyph has the desired appearance. And yes, i
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by jcl 8y ago
I'd guess that the negative effects of blue light over a lifetime might only have become noticeable in modern times, with better vision correction and treatment for conditions like glaucoma and cataracts. If so, there probably hasn&#x
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by jcl 8y ago
Great project! Reminds me of pre-CG special effects that were also achieved with motion control and long exposures, like the 1980 HBO opening animation: https://youtu.be/wqzihgR_-SI?t=400 Or the slit scan technique used fo
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by jcl 8y ago
They tried. From the closing paragraphs of the article: "A group of Burger King restaurants tried to get a class act lawsuit together, so did a group of unhappy McDonald’s customers in Canada."
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by jcl 8y ago
Here's a neat puzzle game that got posted several months ago, on the quantum mechanics of photons: http://play.quantumgame.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905924
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by jcl 8y ago
Along the same lines, Silicon Zeroes covers a lot of low-level computer science and hardware engineering concepts. I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising instructor has used it for labs. https://store.steampowered.com
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by jcl 8y ago
Thanks for the quoteinvestigator link... I was likewise reminded of Terry Pratchett's version, also mentioned there: "A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on." It's quite amazing that the re
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by jcl 8y ago
Apparently, yes. The author tweets later in the thread that the benefits they have seen include: "Fewer kb sent to visitors, more explicit syntax when performing DOM manipulations, ability to use Flowjs for static type checking"
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by jcl 8y ago
A similar example of how sensitive measurement tools are: wine from the Livermore area is slightly higher in tritium than wine from elsewhere in California, ostensibly because of proximity to LLNL. https://books.google.com/
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by jcl 8y ago
Reminds me of crocheted hyperbolic surfaces, which make it easier to visualize some less-intuitive properties of hyperbolic geodesics: http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html
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by jcl 8y ago
Since ZBrush is a widely used 3D program, it may come as a surprise to many that it barely uses the GPU, relying almost exclusively on the CPU to render millions-of-polygon models at interactive speeds. ( https://pixologic.com&#x
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by jcl 8y ago
Apparently some golf players even carry hole-in-one insurance against themselves, to cover the unexpected cost of the traditional celebratory round of drinks for everyone in the club afterwards. https://priceonomics.com/why-
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by jcl 8y ago
The practice paper given to children learning kanji is commonly partitioned into a 2x2 grid, to help with proportions -- kind of like how children learning to write English are given paper with guidelines for baseline, ascenders, descenders
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by jcl 8y ago
Curiously, while Lovecraft's works of fiction may fit in a single volume, his correspondence does not. It's estimated that he wrote over 100,000 letters -- one of the most prolific letter writers in history. https://en
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by jcl 8y ago
Reminds me of Mad Jack Churchill, who in his later years would surprise fellow passengers by throwing his briefcase out the train window -- ostensibly into his backyard to avoid having to carry it home from the station. https://e
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by jcl 8y ago
It's a by-hand recoding of a C decompilation of the original game's binary. Using C++ -- or any abstraction that departs from the original code or memory structure -- would actually have made the process more difficult, at least
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by jcl 8y ago
One guy used them to prank his roommate: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-... (I was kind of disappointed that the "hypertargeted ad" link in the article went to a generic how-to article
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by jcl 8y ago
One potential flaw of this approach is that there are potentially legitimate services that bridge internet calls to local numbers. IIRC, Skype worked this way, and I assume other things like Google Hangouts and Twilio do, too.
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by jcl 8y ago
As far as I can tell, this is an advertisement for QuickBase. I can't tell from this article or their homepage how they are replacing code, but it sounds like they're trying to fill the niche of Microsoft Excel and Access, letting
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by jcl 8y ago
This is exactly why it's so valuable to keep good notes while onboarding a new engineer... A fresh set of eyes gives you a rare opportunity to see problems that familiarity has blinded you to -- yet a new engineer is in the worst posi
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by jcl 9y ago
FWIW, I'd expect any git hosting provider -- including gitlab.com and bitbucket.com -- to be similarly eager to evangelize new git releases, since an improvement to git is an improvement to the usability of their offerings. At the ver
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by jcl 9y ago
I don't know... While the title might give that impression, the opening paragraph seems pretty up-front about distinguishing "the open source Git project" from GitHub ("here's our look..."). They don't e
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by jcl 9y ago
> We're just burying our heads in the sand about the reality of it. A note of irony: ostriches are African fauna that are unlikely to soon go extinct, because they've become livestock.
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by jcl 9y ago
I assume that toilet lids are ceramic to have the same durability and antiseptic properties as the rest of the toilet, and that they are made thick enough to not break if dropped. There are probably other materials that would also work, tho

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