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by maxmcd 8y ago
And on that note: what.cd
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by maxmcd 8y ago
The out of date link to the IBM RealThings guidelines is also a fascinating relic of the past: https://web.archive.org/web/20041029001345/http://www-306.ib...
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by maxmcd 8y ago
The open questions seem to be: - Is a legitimate news organization incompetent when it comes to a deeply technical investigation? - Why are large publicly traded tech companies refuting the article to the point of potentially defrauding inv
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by maxmcd 8y ago
The localhost talk for rbspy (the inspiration for this project) is awesome: https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-julia-evans Imagine it should also provide relevant insights into the structure of this tool
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by maxmcd 8y ago
To me, this article strongly recommends reading textbooks and softly recommends this list. They even go into detail about what methods should be used to validate textbooks generally!
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by maxmcd 8y ago
I meant using the known location of existing earth GPS satellites
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by maxmcd 8y ago
Wait, could they use earth GPS and it would just be very innacurate?
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by maxmcd 8y ago
Linked in the readme: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/7633
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by maxmcd 8y ago
You might want to check out this PR: https://github.com/cockroachdb/activerecord-cockroachdb-adap... looks like a lot of work has been put into compatibility but it hasn't yet been merged
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by maxmcd 9y ago
How can an image properly illustrate (in RGB) what colors are outside of the RGB gamut? That image must be inaccurate? Should I assume the image is technically incorrect but a good illustration of what the RGB gamut does look like?
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by maxmcd 9y ago
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=fb75f2cf-3f... $533/mo
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by maxmcd 9y ago
Some discussion here: https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-iPhone-iPad-product-photos... I know that historically a lot of their photos that look like renders are real photographs, but I thought the general consensus was that
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by maxmcd 9y ago
Whoops, fixed the timestamp in my parent comment.
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by maxmcd 9y ago
You can argue this device is fake, but they clearly don't have any problems creating a physical representation. https://youtu.be/m-Tp8-CAxPI?t=6m8s These companies also frequently market with 3D models: - apple.com - i
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by maxmcd 9y ago
Here's the initial writeup on Observable: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ct2nne... And source: https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-stdlib
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by maxmcd 9y ago
Agh, apologies, missed those with my adblocker
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by maxmcd 9y ago
I believe the solution present on this linked page will help you: https://www.vincedes3.com/save.html Opens imessage again with a message draft so that you can delete the conversation without fetching the linked bug
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by maxmcd 9y ago
$1,500 at release in 2011: http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2446 Not sure if this is an updated version or if there's another reason for this to be relevant at the moment.
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by maxmcd 9y ago
I believe in the united states it is simply against the terms of service of the card provider. I imagine the law isn't "allowing" customers to pay processing fees, it's simply preventing the provider from setting those t
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by maxmcd 9y ago
Interesting. You can have one too if you want. One example: limited.international and international.limited are both available
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by maxmcd 9y ago
If I can't explain where the wind comes from, why there are tides, or what the sun is, I can still sail a ship. Complete understanding of all the components of a subject or system doesn't typically seem to be a requirement to do w
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by maxmcd 9y ago
It is made clear a few times in the article that this is a "slower" setup. > With such slower-but-more-secure deployments, our uplink Internet port goes to our firewall; nothing else is connected directly to the Internet – so t
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by maxmcd 10y ago
A reply that was deleted mentioned that some engines use Monte Carlo simulations which are non-deterministic (?). My experience with chess engines being non-deterministic is that if I pick the same opening I don't always play the same
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Interesting that it's deterministic. I can get it to play the same game again and again. Why is this not the case with more advanced chess engines? Edit: Apparently single-threaded stockfish is deterministic. Maybe my experience with n
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by maxmcd 10y ago
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/new... NYC subway construction costs exceed costs of similar projects in different countries, by quite a bit.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964685
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by maxmcd 10y ago
In case it's helpful: in Chrome you can shift-click and select ranges of tabs and close them all at once.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
epochalypse.now (not avilable just yet)
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Given this logic, it's interesting that the War On Drugs in the United States didn't lead to earlier large-scale production of marijuana concentrates.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
From previous recaptcha discussion[1] it seems like the going rate for solving recaptcha's is $2 for 1000 solved, or as low as $1/1000. This method would actually be more expensive than that at $6/1000[2] 1. https:/&#x

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