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by mdf 8y ago
There’s a website for a project aiming to produce a modified version of rice using these improved photosynthesis pathways[1]. Some previous HN discussion on the subject can also be found[2]. Really interesting stuff! [1] https://
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by mdf 8y ago
Could this technology have applications for display panels?
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by mdf 9y ago
> Does having your weeks start on Monday get confusing at all? I guess I'd just find it weird to have Thursday be the middle of the week instead of Wednesday. Quite on the contrary! Wednesday is still in the middle of the working we
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by mdf 9y ago
This is very nice, but the system LC_TIME locale (and whatever the equivalent is on Windows) exists for a reason. I hope Mozilla will listen to the feedback in all these comments and consider basing the picker type on the system time locale
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PyPy v5.9 Released(morepypy.blogspot.com)
180 points by mdf 9y ago|48 comments
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by mdf 9y ago
Does anyone with a background in electrical engineering, material physics or something related know, if the same techniques described here could have any applications on mitigating electromagnetic side-channel attacks (and possibly lower th
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by mdf 9y ago
So, if the DMCA request turns out to be valid (e.g. hypothetically in court), shouldn't all the ad-serving domains just include a similar anti-adblock measure on their ad servers, thus making it so, that blocking their servers would co
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by mdf 9y ago
Nice to see audio finally getting the attention it deserves! And seems like VR is the driving factor. I wonder how this compares to NVIDIA VRWorks Audio[1]? When you think about it, 3D audio has many similarities to 3D video: rays of sound(
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Rotating molecules enable near 100% efficient OLEDs(cam.ac.uk)
105 points by mdf 10y ago|18 comments
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by mdf 10y ago
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: Include a PyPy3.5 package DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu already has a package for PyPy compatible with CPython 2.7 in the official repositories. However, a CPython 3.5 compatible version was recently released[1]. PyPy
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by mdf 10y ago
> This is 2017, and when we look forward to 2020, we still dont have anything to replace gif, jpeg, apng, png. > How about supporting bpg for a start? There’s FLIF ( http://flif.info/ ) with very promising compression
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by mdf 10y ago
APNG is great, but animated FLIFs[1] would be even better. Looks like many of their former todos have been completed, and from the remaining ones, only three are related to the file format per se. Hopefully these, too, get completed in time
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by mdf 10y ago
This got me thinking: given the same space, how does one create the hardest to solve maze? Obviously, you’d need to define hardest with some kind of objective metric. For AIs, this would probably be the amount of calculations performed, or
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by mdf 10y ago
This is pretty neat! What would really make a difference in how we perceive the SQL CLI world would be an IPython-like interface – complete with syntax highlighting, tab-autocomplete menus, easy multiline backlog entry editing etc.
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Swiss Voters Reject Nuclear Power Withdrawal Initiative(swissinfo.ch)
4 points by mdf 10y ago|0 comments
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by mdf 10y ago
Apparently the WIP warning was also removed from the site lately[1]. Can we infer that the format is being finalized? [1] https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF-hub.github.io/commit/2b9c81...
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Free Lossless Image Format Publications(flif.info)
84 points by mdf 10y ago|43 comments
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by mdf 10y ago
Fifteen years after the initial release of FLAC – have there been any significant developments in the lossless compression of audio since then? I know there’s FLIF[1] for lossless image compression and Zstandard[2] for general purpose lossl
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Metamaterial based flat lens promises possible revolution in optics(bbc.com)
148 points by mdf 10y ago|43 comments
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by mdf 11y ago
It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s). Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3]
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Finnish Defence Forces' Cyber Challenge(erityistehtavat.puolustusvoimat.fi)
67 points by mdf 11y ago|24 comments
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by mdf 12y ago
Yle - Finland's national broadcasting company - broadcast a TV-series named The Pohjoismaat (The Nordic Countries), where people from around the world are taken around in Nordic Countries and shown things they might consider weird. The
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Code Page 437 – Original IBM PC Character Set(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mdf 12y ago|0 comments
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DIY Simple Algae Home CO2 Scrubber(instructables.com)
1 points by mdf 12y ago|0 comments
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by mdf 12y ago
I know this is a bit of a dirty trick, but so far it has worked without problems for me at least: The issue seems to rise from a missing ensurepip module. I fixed this by just downloading the Python 3.4 sources, unpacking them and copying t
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Energy for Humanity – pro-nuclear environmental movement(energyforhumanity.org)
1 points by mdf 12y ago|0 comments
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Pygments 2.0rc1(pygments.org)
3 points by mdf 12y ago|0 comments
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Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mdf 12y ago|0 comments
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by mdf 12y ago
Reminded me of this: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
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by mdf 12y ago
Every once in a while, I've been reading the articles in this interesting blog[1] that covers various topics on procedural world generation. I've found that some of the articles (like, for example, this one[2] covering the creatio

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