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by leecb 7y ago
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by leecb 7y ago
> To the best of my knowledge there are zero remaining manufacturers of CRTs in the world. I have seen plenty of stores selling (small) CRTs in stores in Asia. They are usually quite small, and I bet they are quickly disappearing, but th
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by leecb 7y ago
> There are only three trillion dollar industries in existence: energy, high speed transport, and communications. I would suggest that housing is a 4th trillion dollar industry.
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by leecb 7y ago
Unfortunately your map has cropped out several countries, included where I live. Do you have a copy that has Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Zealand, New Caledonia, etc?
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by leecb 7y ago
Perhaps he means 79% of the cost, rather than 79% by mass or volume.
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by leecb 7y ago
To assist people with disabilities, you can request a little electronic reader that clips over the corner of the bill: > the iBill Talking Bank Note Identifier, is now available free of charge from the Treasury Department to any US citiz
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by leecb 7y ago
In similar systems, the position is generally tracked with the combination of interial sensors (accelerometer / gyro / angular rate sensors) and external references like GPS and star trackers. Inertial sensors are able to provide
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by leecb 7y ago
Flow chart is really cool! I wonder what the biomass used for transportation is?
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by leecb 7y ago
I just had the top case replaced in my 2016 MacBook Pro 15, and they used a top case from a 2017. The tech confirmed that they use the 2017 top case for 2016 models, but the 2018 top case isn’t compatible. The 2017 does have changes vs the
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by leecb 8y ago
The age isn't the only explanation for the low data rate- it's not simply low tech. GPS relies on receiving extremely weak signals, often with a very limited receive antenna. This means there's a real trade off- you can send
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by leecb 8y ago
Starlink is planning to deploy at 550km according to Wikipedia.
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by leecb 8y ago
Is there a library available where a person could use this algorithm for text-to-speech? What is necessary to generate the input features for this algorithm?
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by leecb 9y ago
I bought a first gen Apple product (against conventional wisdom), and seem to have gotten a lemon. Most of the stuff was not avoidable- image retention on the screen, worn out battery, defective motherboard, etc.
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by leecb 9y ago
My US-bought MacBook has been fixed under warranty in the US, Canada, Thailand, and Singapore. There are some country-specific restrictions- here in Mexico, they are unable to fix Apple products from other countries sometimes due to governm
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by leecb 10y ago
The whole OS seems more snappy to me. Wonder if they have somehow figured out how to file access latency? Perhaps less of the filesystem metadata needs to be accessed on each file access.
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by leecb 10y ago
I'm currently a customer of https://www.usglobalmail.com , just one of many services like this. They scan mail, can throw it away for you, and can repack / reship packages.
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by leecb 10y ago
If cars upload their data, as well as data about other cars detected in their environment (e.g. positions of other detected cars), we could detect the suppliers of false or incorrect data by comparing data from multiple cars in each situati
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by leecb 11y ago
They have decided to rewrite the C parts of NumPy in RPython, essentially working towards a pure Python version of Numpy. There are a lot more details sprinkled across several pages: http://morepypy.blogspot.mx/2013/11&
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by leecb 11y ago
Clang can tell you why a loop wasn't vectorized with a couple of compiler flags: -Rpass-analysis=loop-vectorize -Rpass-missed=loop-vectorized http://llvm.org/docs/Vectorizers.html#diagnostics
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by leecb 11y ago
This cable might actually have quite a bit of metal armour on it to protect the cable from damage. Here's a picture that came up earlier today, showing rigid metal "caterpillar" armour that goes on the outside of the cable to
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by leecb 11y ago
Isn't this a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention section? This seems to be explicitly describing how to circumvent protection measures for a copyrighted work. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text&#x2
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by leecb 11y ago
200 years ago, how would you validate his claim? You would have to have a more accurate time reference, and I'm not sure exactly what that would be.