jurjenh

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by jurjenh 13y ago
Yes, but that's not the only way bananas propagate. The fruit is how genetic variability gets introduced, but they also develop shoots from the root system, which eventually grow into trees themselves. I believe traditionally bananas a
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by jurjenh 13y ago
They look much more like passionfruit, but with more solid fleshy material. I think the seeds are hard and inedible, but haven't ever seen them in real life... Also the cultivated ones have been developed specifically for their transpo
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by jurjenh 13y ago
The problem here being that "normal" bananas have seeds in them, and the Cavendish and Gros Michel are specific hybrids that don't - so the only way to propagate is essentially cloning them (take a cutting and grow it) - lots
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by jurjenh 13y ago
I could imagine some sort of organ senses - child has certain hormones (eg testosterone) in salive, and certain receptors on the nipple pick up on these hormones and then tailor the milk. Note that I have no basis for this claim, but one of
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Hmmm... where do we find out about all the CLASSIFIED blog posts? NSA internal forums? Any place where there's a summary of these reviews as metadata, hence leaving the content "CLASSIFIED" ? Who is watching the watchers?
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by jurjenh 13y ago
How would they encourage "internal" blogs though - asking directly would most likely raise flags, or a flood of insincere blog posts that would counter the desired result. What I'd be more interested in is how much this issue
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Micro-payments. Quick, easy, one-time. Then you don't need to worry about a thousand subscriptions to rarely-read sources. Sounds easy, but I don't believe anyone has something that works?
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by jurjenh 13y ago
There is the issue though that as young people, they may well not have the maturity or information to fully understand and comprehend the decision they are making. I was going to detail this as a possible excuse - but considering this reaso
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by jurjenh 13y ago
That's a very interesting statement that can be read many, many ways... It may pay to clarify your background a little. I'm a recent law graduate (- but I now work for the NSA...) researching warrant canaries (- and looking at
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by jurjenh 13y ago
"A virus has been detected in your driving software. Please upgrade now to remove this threat" ... and the consequences are potentially a lot more damaging than PCs. When the target gets big enough, it will happen. And how to prot
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by jurjenh 13y ago
An easy starting point would be to get this kind of data on similarly aged cars - cars sold over the last 2-3 years, then see what stats you can get there. I'd guess that you'd find some models that have never caught fire and some
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by jurjenh 13y ago
> This means that if large triangles could be ‘drawn’ in space, their internal angles would add up to less than 180 degrees. I wonder if this could somehow be done with the voyager 1 and 2, although I imagine this would involve setting t
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by jurjenh 13y ago
It was "inefficient" when Google did it... Right person in the right place with the right contacts at the right time with a certain amount of luck on your side. You can game some of these, but the thing not to forget is that it ta
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by jurjenh 13y ago
At a guess, I'd say its a round fluorescent tube hidden in the rolled/folded edge of the lamp - shining light up into the dome, which with the right angles should reflect back the light with the same intensity from any point. (N
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Strength of gravity shifts(newscientist.com)
4 points by jurjenh 13y ago|0 comments
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by jurjenh 13y ago
While this is a great solution for places without easy last-mile connections, it seems to me this would still be vulnerable, as one compromised connection would essentially allow the same kind of snooping that we've got going on now. D
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by jurjenh 14y ago
which makes me wonder if there is a simple java package to do that - probably not much to write a simple curl / wget for java so that on any machine with a JVM you can just lein your way to clojure...
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by jurjenh 14y ago
Just had a reminder of that this morning... Was doing a bit of routine maintenance on the server at work when I noticed repeated ssh login attempts appearing in the system logs... with usernames that clearly don't exist. Tracing the source
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by jurjenh 14y ago
download brew and install redis... nah, no time to do that just to get a preview of how it works. Well, it may be the bees knees, but I'm not doing all that to get a look at it.
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Hover bike lets you feel the Force(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by jurjenh 14y ago|0 comments
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by jurjenh 14y ago
In one of the linked pages - http://quantifiedself.com/2012/07/nick-winter-a-lazy-mans-ap... he mentions quantifed mind, but I can't find any site with that name. EDIT: Ooops, a little googling further reveals http://www.quantified-mind
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by jurjenh 14y ago
And of course there is still the arc forum... http://arclanguage.org/forum
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by jurjenh 14y ago
But then you might want to use it with lets say glossy plain-coloured melamine sheets - most surface trackers have a lot of problems with this, so the calibration stickers are a cheap and reliable solution. The only issue I can see is kick-
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by jurjenh 14y ago
As a result of doing that, you'd be transferring the CO2 from the oceans back into the atmosphere. I'm still unsure about the appropriate process of dealing with all the CO2 released over the last ~200 years - it originally came from somewh
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by jurjenh 14y ago
Radial power transfer efficiency drops off proportional to r^2, as does omni-directional sound. Unless there is some sort of directional beam established to focus the energy transfer, I imagine these power losses will indeed occur. Note tha
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by jurjenh 14y ago
From the video link further down the comments it clearly states that it uses ultrasound at around 50kHz, which is then transformed back into about 30V, but I didn't pick up any information about how much power is actually transmitted. As fo
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by jurjenh 14y ago
I think the issue will be compiling it for the CLR and then distributing it. The current script gets and runs a JAR, but I 'd imagine it would be relatively trivial to modify the script to run the CLR instead - but you'd have to build from
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by jurjenh 14y ago
light server stop if you look through the script file, it has a series of options. light table light server start | stop | restart light update [version] but as far as I can tell it always checks for updates first and wil
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by jurjenh 14y ago
Another test done, now for a hold at 235m. Does anyone know why this has been changed? I'd hazard a guess at dragon being slightly off the target position (slightly northwest), but haven't heard any commentary about why this may be. I thoug
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by jurjenh 14y ago
Watching dragon sliding over those clouds is pretty hypnotic. You can see why they say watching earth from space makes the boundaries between countries disappear.

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