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by oxplot 11y ago
Anyone noticed the colors in the TIFFs are off? They're very saturated and slightly off hue (compared to the preview image and the PDFs).
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by oxplot 11y ago
Ah, nostalgia. I used MSN Messenger religiously until I started college at which point had to switch to Linux (thank goodness). Lots of fond memories. At some point I figured that since MSN lists the online "buddies" in unicode or
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by oxplot 11y ago
Got an entire empty wall to furnish with these.
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by oxplot 11y ago
I believe most mobile phone cell towers transmit local time. I'm not sure if you need to be subscribed to a service or not. If not, then you basically only need a cheap GSM module, costing around $10.
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by oxplot 11y ago
> Okay, it looks like I'm going to have to do this the hard way. Is the Sun up in Melbourne? > Let me find a webcam somewhere in that city. Seriously? Can't just Google "sunrise time in Melbourne"? Sure way to lose
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by oxplot 11y ago
> For example, coding standard says every "switch" statement has to have a "default" case. grep "switch", grep "default", and you get wildly different numbers! Standards were not being followed. A
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Why is 'ls' suddenly surrounding items with spaces in single quotes?(unix.stackexchange.com)
5 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
> Supposedly, with Android you are free to install software from arbitrary sources ... Certainly. Go to Settings -> Security and tick "Unknown sources" option. > With Android devices there is a distinction between “rooted
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by oxplot 11y ago
Hackaday ( http://hackaday.com/ )
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by oxplot 11y ago
I've only ever used FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. I assume SolidWorks is something like FreeCAD, an interactive 3D editor. Out of the two, I'd pick OpenSCAD any day. Here're some reasons: * If you're a programmer, the learning c
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by oxplot 11y ago
Note that SQuirreL SQL [1] or just about any JDBC compliant SQL client combined with Sqlite's JDBC driver [2] can be used to interrogate/manipulate the structure and the data stored in Sqlite database files. [1]: http:/&#x2F
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by oxplot 11y ago
If you'd like to criticize or praise their UI, it'd be helpful to others if you made it explicit, so in the least the developers could learn the strong/weak points of their work.
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by oxplot 11y ago
http://libgen.io/ which archives the sci-hub's newly accessed papers distributes the copies through BitTorrent. Libgen itself is also mirrored in multiple locations. Even if Sci-hub is taken down, it shouldn't tak
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by oxplot 11y ago
I don't know where vortico's getting his/her stats, but you can calculate it yourself from the http://libgen.io/ , where sci-hub.io stores the newly accessed papers [1]. They have torrent archive of all the m
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by oxplot 11y ago
Didn't know about API gateway, so it's all good then. Also I meant to say "Cloudflare".
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by oxplot 11y ago
I've been doing this for years but sparingly and in my blog (in fact my blog's heading reads "because I forget simple little things too soon"). Never occurred to me to git it as that makes it effortless to record just ab
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by oxplot 11y ago
I too turned off notifications on gmail a long time ago. However, I've setup some filters looking for words like "urgent", "emergency", etc without telling people that I have. They're all labeled accordingly an
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by oxplot 11y ago
Infinite scalability is all party until you get DDoSed and have to sell your house to pay the bills. How do you prevent that? Cloudfront maybe?
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by oxplot 11y ago
CHDK project [1] early on used to dump flashes of Canon cameras through their LEDs [2]. [1]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK [2]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Obtaining_a_firmware_dump#Hardwar...
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by oxplot 11y ago
Some interesting electronics examples I found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSmrjmP85Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0zHiVw-c7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eHgnLFk9k
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by oxplot 11y ago
To add to that, and perhaps more importantly, is human brain's constant reaction time and tunneling of the vision at higher speeds. The former means that you'll be travelling a longer distance before being able to react to somethi
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by oxplot 11y ago
Great idea! I can think of a crowd sourced site that publishes these hourly stats from all ISPs and at different locations.
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by oxplot 11y ago
Are you sure about it being marketing 101 and not 901? I can clearly see 100% of ads I've seen over the past month from established or younger companies doing exactly what Simon is criticizing.
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by oxplot 11y ago
If a website only uses HTTPS for login, then it has to set a cookie for HTTP as well, otherwise how will the user navigate the site after login? From top of my head, you can implement this by associating the randomly generated session ID th
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by oxplot 11y ago
Can anyone with startup experience talk about the effectiveness of the method that Simon Sinek promotes [1] as a way to break through a market filled with "shitty" products? [1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/simo
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by oxplot 11y ago
Thread with bulk of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
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by oxplot 11y ago
Note that the game won by AlphaGo against the human player took place in October last year.
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AlphaGo: Mastering the Ancient Game of Go with Machine Learning(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
108 points by oxplot 11y ago|2 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
Voltage is what drives current so they're directly proportional and their proportion depends on electrical resistance. Given that human body's resistance to electricity is more or less constant, that allows calculating a dangerous
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by oxplot 11y ago
Regarding the ranting, it's a common thing. Let's talk apps. I've seen people giving one star because the app took 5 steps to initialize instead of one. I've seen people rate movies the lowest because "the last 5 mi

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