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by overlordalex 7y ago
Its been a long time but we used PCA in remote sensing to reduce the number of bands into a smaller subset that are easier to handle. Satellite data is collected using sensors that are multispecteral/hyperspectral (for example LandSat
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by overlordalex 7y ago
Outline alternative: https://outline.com/3gpyRa [Off topic] I'm unable to access the site because of a cookie blocker that has a take-it-or-leave-it attitude - there is no option to opt-out of unnecessary cookies. Thes
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by overlordalex 7y ago
> I had repeatedly been told that a modern (post-Chernobyl) reactor was simply incapable of these failures modes Fukushima was commissioned in 1971. Chernobyl happened in 1986. I would not call the design a "post-Chernobyl" re
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by overlordalex 7y ago
The concept is called "Blameless Postmortems". There are many articles about it, for example this is the section from Googles SRE book: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem-...
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by overlordalex 7y ago
As part of this it appears that they were written by multiple people and it really kept jarring me out of the flow of the article. One writer was talking about the technical specifications of the suits while the other was giving weird perso
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by overlordalex 7y ago
How about reducing our weather forecasting ability? The downlink for satellite data is using the same frequency ranges, leading to concerns about local noise overwhelming satellite signals. > The Federal Communications Commission has pro
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by overlordalex 8y ago
I've read that they don't want to send it to the USA because of the possibility of Boeing to unduly influence the investigation. http://fortune.com/2019/03/13/ethiopian-air-crash-black-boxe... >
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by overlordalex 8y ago
The article has been slashdotted, but is the '+' operator back? I used to use it all the time until they killed it because they launched google+
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by overlordalex 8y ago
> There is no naval enemy on earth that is even remotely competitive with the US in any regard. I find this hilarious in the context of the incident, Who would win: the greatest navel power on earth operating a highly sophisticated and t
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by overlordalex 8y ago
That was a wonderful story but has a somehow unsatisfactory conclusion to the question. Spoilers below SPOILER The story appears to assert that to be human you need to have the imperfect faculties of a human body, but I would say that Fro
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by overlordalex 8y ago
This brings to mind a great Futurama scene: > Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand? > Farnsworth: Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one
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by overlordalex 8y ago
We put the end visualisation on our team shirts. Unfortunately due to printing limitations it didn't end up looking that good, but it's still a neat idea.
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by overlordalex 8y ago
Not available to read unless you agree to their tracking. Interestingly the original has a bad interaction with my adblocker where the "x" to dismiss the popup dumps me back at the homepage rather than the article
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by overlordalex 8y ago
From the article: > Rigmaiden eventually pieced together the story of his capture. Police found him by tracking his Internet Protocol (IP) address online first, and then taking it to Verizon Wireless, the Internet service provider connec
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by overlordalex 8y ago
> The Milgram study, and its numerous replications, have pretty conclusively shown that most folks will do something they know is wrong if a perceived authority instructs them to. That’s not really in dispute. Actually, this has also se
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by overlordalex 8y ago
This is not true - their original (and current) purpose is to calibrate the distance travelled by looking at the marks the tracks make - you can look at the distance between marks and use the circumference of the wheel to determine the dist
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by overlordalex 8y ago
We have a local news website that I think has a realistic model. When you view an article with an ad-blocker it shows you a dialog with a variety of options: 1. Whitelist the site 2. "Nah, journalists should go hungry" - this dism
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by overlordalex 8y ago
We made this mistake - the trick is determining what fields are sensitive, what are sensitive enough that they should be censored but included in the log, and the rest of the crud. It turns out that this is non-trivial - when censoring how
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by overlordalex 8y ago
We also do log reviews, but 99% of the time they simply complain about the volume rather than the contents. Do you enable debug logging in production? In our setup we log at info and above by default, but then have a config setting that let
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by overlordalex 9y ago
There is another youtuber who is building a house[1] - it's not on his own but he is documenting every step and it is interesting to see what goes into it. At this stage the lot has retaining walls up, and basic plans for the structure
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by overlordalex 9y ago
It would be neat if you could work in visa requirements as well so that it only includes visa-free or visa-on-arrival destinations. I find easy visas a privilege that not many western travellers are aware of; If I wanted to travel somewhere
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by overlordalex 9y ago
This is a really interesting question, and makes me wonder how robust the patch is to scaling, different lighting, etc. This also reminds me of using makeup and hair to prevent automatic facial recognition. I believe this is the project: h
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by overlordalex 9y ago
I'm interested to see how the curling federation handles this - the last I heard they banned brooms with directional bristles as they provided too much of an advantage. I can see this being an invaluable training tool, but ultimately b
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by overlordalex 9y ago
Sounds like you'd love https://regexcrossword.com/
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by overlordalex 9y ago
There was some action in World War 2 with shipping around the peninsula, but nothing in the city itself
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by overlordalex 9y ago
I live in Cape Town, and this article is missing some points about whats been going on: 1. "Day 0" has been moved forward - we're now expected to run out of water 21 April. 2. The daily limit of water per person is 87l but on
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by overlordalex 9y ago
Probably because you live outside of America - for some reason carriers in the states block the FM chip on their phones. "Your phone has an fm chip. So why can't you listen to the radio?" https://www.wired.com&#x2F
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by overlordalex 9y ago
Had to install libsdl1.2-dev, but otherwise compiled fine. Unfortunately I get a seg fault just as it starts loading (right after it measures frame rate)
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by overlordalex 9y ago
Although, this does happen[1]: > Oxford student given suspended sentence for stabbing boyfriend > Judge had reportedly earlier told Lavinia Woodward a prison term could damage her prospects of becoming a heart surgeon [1] https:&#x2F
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by overlordalex 9y ago
What I find fascinating is people on youtube who do actual chemistry, including making bakelite. Here is NileRed who gets pretty far considering he doesn't have a Bakelizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNLecfyWS8

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