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by jdiez17 12y ago
While it would have been convenient to have a RTG onboard, it would have made the lander too heavy (with the current RTG technology. Smaller nuclear generators are possible in theory but none have been built yet.)
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by jdiez17 12y ago
To be completely fair, it was not powered by solar energy - the experiments were run on power from the non-rechargeable battery. Which is fine, this is what Philae was designed to do. It looks like they completed all the objectives in the F
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by jdiez17 12y ago
This reminds me of Netflix's Chaos Monkey[1]. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that a system that has been exposed to random faults during development and maybe in production as well is the only way to go. It forces one to auto
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Some scientists believe the it might be the pressure sensors that have failed instead of the cold gas system itself. It's not an unanimous opinion though. Well, we'll see.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
They've started messing with the keyboards. I don't find this an issue personally (I'm typing this on a X1 Carbon 2014), but it bothers some people.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Yep, thanks. Getting a basic handle on English is not too hard, because of the lack of gender pronouns and a few other things, but masquerading as a native speaker is exponentially harder :)
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by jdiez17 12y ago
About a year now. My spoken English was pretty rough back then, but I started copying the sounds I heard when other people spoke, and it seems to have helped. Yeah, it's a lot harder to convey thoughts by speech in a foreign language,
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Learning an alphabet might not be particularly difficult in itself, but being able to consciously identify symbols is not enough for your brain to form higher-level abstractions. It's not unattainable by any means, of course, it's
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by jdiez17 12y ago
That's very true, and I didn't think about it. I'm very fortunate in that regard.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Hey, thanks. Yeah, being able to recognise non-native speakers (based on accents and non-idiomatic sentences) is apparently a significant evolutionary advantage. I remember reading most people can identify a person speaking in a foreign acc
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by jdiez17 12y ago
As someone whose native language is not English (and didn't receive particularly good English classes at school, but had access to the Internet): if you start at a young enough age, you pick it up somewhat naturally. Seriously. In my c
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by jdiez17 12y ago
It's been proved by reverse engineering the FTDI drivers and annotating the code. It exploits some edge case in which the counterfeit device does not behave exactly like the original. https://marcan.st/transf/ftdi_
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Wikipedia is a service puts up a huge banner every year asking you to please give them money if you don't want them to be forced to show advertisements, implicitly making you the product.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
> There is always a server that knows who you are. Whether it's a OpenVPN server hosted on an EC2 instance or a TOR entry node. There's a fundamental difference here. With EC2, you get a server that knows who you are and what y
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by jdiez17 12y ago
That's a positive feedback loop. A negative feedback loop would cause people to throw more resources at the outbreak until the derivative of the number of cases approaches zero.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Very rarely do I read every word in an article posted here, but this was one of those times and I'm glad I did. The article itself was very well written. You could feel the tension engineers must feel and the mind-numbing scale of the
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by jdiez17 12y ago
If you'd like to set up a recurring donation, then yes, Gittip is the easiest way to do it. That said, we're not picky about donations; we'll accept pretty much every payment method or barter.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
Thank you for using MediaCrush! We publish regular transparency reports[1] about several things, including our finances. We don't have any seed money, it's just coming out of our own wallet. [1] https://blog.mediacru.sh
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by jdiez17 12y ago
We haven't looked much into WebP as an animation container. And since it's only supported by Chrome (and will likely remain that way) we are not currently considering it. WebM and MP4 both have pretty good codecs for video; defini
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by jdiez17 12y ago
I am indeed. Happy to answer your questions.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
If you want to convert GIFs to WebM/MP4/etc you might want to check out the MediaCrush[1] code. Or just use https://mediacru.sh , which is and always will be free. [1]: https://github.com/mediacrush&#x2F
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by jdiez17 12y ago
It's less implementing it, more porting it and "hmm, will this work? I think this will work. Well. Let's try anyway. Upload. Try it. Crash."
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by jdiez17 12y ago
I'll bring my 250mm-sized quad copter to EMF; shouldn't be very difficult to replace the controller board with the MKe. If you don't mind not having stabilisation (horizon mode) you can put it together with four PWM outputs a
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by jdiez17 12y ago
I have! It's a lot of fun. I'm designing a panel of switches to play KSP.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
This is fascinating. I just finished reading some of their blog posts and they really make me want to get a career in space-related technology. This is insanely cool.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
You didn't read the article. It says they shocked the participants before the study started so the curiosity factor was not present.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
This is eerily close to some of the things discussed in The Birth and Death of JavaScript[1]. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by jdiez17 12y ago
I don't want to be notified when my contacts change their telephone number, I just want it to be up to date. And my phone does that already. Also, you don't go into a lot of detail on what a "card" is... I assume it&#x27
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by jdiez17 12y ago
How is it futuristic? What innovations does it include? From the frontpage, I can only see a meh-looking address book with features that have been in most for a while.
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by jdiez17 12y ago
I made a website that does this, and a lot more. It's also open source, and has been around for a while. https://mediacru.sh

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