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by mnem 8y ago
The paper did include transportation in the evaluation: "Studies included provided ~1050 estimates of postfarm processes. To fill gaps in processing, packaging, or retail, we used additional meta-analyses of 153 studies providing 550 o
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by mnem 8y ago
One could argue that there's somewhat of a difference between a vegan diet and suicide.
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by mnem 8y ago
The problem with that argument is that articles are written about individual events, and aren’t trying to be comprehensive evaluations of global warming. It’s neither informative nor helpful to dismiss such individual articles as being non-
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by mnem 9y ago
Generally platforms providers optimise graphics highly for their own platform. A generic cross platform library rarely invests similar effort for every platform it can run on. The usually applies more to mobile however - most desktops requ
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Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering(github.com)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 9y ago
The downside of custom rendering engines is that they’re rarely as efficient as the standard platform affair. While that’s less impactful on desktop, it can be a killer for batteries on mobile devices and laptops.
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by mnem 9y ago
Google Code and and Sourceforge were around for, what, 10 years or so? That would be 10 years of potentially greater levels of contribution. IMO, that's a price worth paying for moving a repo once a decade. Everything is ephemeral. T
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A Mental Disease by Any Other Name(m.nautil.us)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Mechanical Turkers may have outpredicted most popular crime-predicting algorithm(theverge.com)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 9y ago
Erm, MMOs predated Second Life by many years. Even discounting MUDs and so forth, Ultima Online was around about 5 or 6 years before Second Life.
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Hacking the PO(hackingthepo.weebly.com)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Scudo Hardened Allocator(llvm.org)
35 points by mnem 9y ago|8 comments
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SNES PC casemod(imgur.com)
3 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Crates.io Ecosystem Not Ready for Embedded Rust(tockos.org)
3 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 9y ago
How much less of a budget would NASA get without entertainment such as Star Wars to fire people's imagination?
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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is(yourcalendricalfallacyis.com)
3 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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CPU latencies(url.godbolt.org)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 9y ago
The 90% figure from that list is described by the study which listed it as from an unreliable/untested research methodology with a small sample size (18 cases). It looks more like ~20% is a more common upper bound for the figures liste
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by mnem 9y ago
A similar argument could be made for 6s to 7 though (and I suspect a lot of people did make that argument), so there will be plenty of 6/6s people out there who will see it as an improvement. From the circle of people I know, it's
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Exploring Generative 3D Shapes Using Autoencoder Networks(autodeskresearch.com)
2 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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by mnem 9y ago
That's reasonable. I think I misunderstood because it was on the front page - I assumed it was showing a neat new thing rather than someone exploring a something new to them. My bad. It's a shame I can't delete my original co
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by mnem 9y ago
Apologies for starting with a negative comment, but why use C if you aren't going to write a cross platform timer?
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by mnem 9y ago
Can't you check if the NSColor.type == NSColorTypePattern?
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by mnem 9y ago
That doesn't normally happen. As mentioned in that article, one thing that can trigger it is if you incorrectly remove a custom font while not removing it's use in UI elements in your application.
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by mnem 9y ago
Are you under the impression that you have to use Xcode to create Mac or iOS applications? Or do you just mean that Apple provides an IDE?
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Essential Phone review: Impressive for a new company but not competitive(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Using chatbots against voicespam: analyzing Lenny’s effectiveness(blog.acolyer.org)
97 points by mnem 9y ago|31 comments
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Apple Developer Site Down, Perhaps Due to Accounts Being Hacked by Russians(daringfireball.net)
4 points by mnem 9y ago|0 comments
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Z3 – The Zork CPU(opencores.org)
167 points by mnem 9y ago|11 comments
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THE LIFE-SIZED UNICORN GUNDAM STATUE Nearing Completion Except the Feet(youtube.com)
1 points by mnem 9y ago|1 comments

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