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by phireal 9y ago
The 'new' aspect of this discovery is that we didn't know it was there before. I think that's a perfectly valid thing to call new. I don't think anyone's claiming the plastic is new.
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by phireal 9y ago
The plastics are not inert and interfere with the smaller organisms feeding in the ocean. Since these form the base of the ocean food web, if their growth is disturbed, the rest of the food chain suffers negatively.
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by phireal 9y ago
This is an odd attitude: we have all sorts of new discoveries of things that are ancient. The whole field of geology is based on very ancient things and it makes discoveries all the time. A discovery just means it's new to us, not nece
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by phireal 10y ago
I've tended to make backups read only so as to minimise the impact of accidental deletions.
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by phireal 10y ago
It's in the process of being archived and is not yet complete. If you have a spare sever and bandwidth somewhere, you can set up an ArchiveTeam Warrior. They exist as VM images and docker configurations. I've set up a docker insta
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by phireal 10y ago
Recommended system requirements for a decent oVirt installation are huge by comparison with Kimchi's. However, Kimchi is much less configurable than oVirt. So far as I can make out, oVirt is best suited for clustered virtualization whi
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ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform extracts encrypted comms(securelist.com)
3 points by phireal 10y ago|0 comments
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by phireal 10y ago
Office has a calendar in Outlook.
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by phireal 10y ago
Hence N.B.
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by phireal 10y ago
Perhaps, but this is likely to be quite a hot topic, so using misleading imagery isn't helping anyone.
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by phireal 10y ago
That image is misleading - the report is only 6417 pages which is only 12 books at (on average) 535 pages each. The image shows multiple copies of each volume.
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by phireal 10y ago
Like delta RPMs [0]? Software updates are distributed as diffs and applied to the existing package, so only the differences in the new packages need to be sent each time. This is computationally ineffficient (calculating and applying the de
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by phireal 10y ago
> taking baby cry down a notch This could end badly. I think the whole purpose of babies crying is to ensure you do something about it. Not that there's always a solution, but I'd rather be awoken by a loud, irritating cry freq
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by phireal 10y ago
Heavily downvoted comments in the right pane aren't faded as they are on the main HN site. I find that surprisingly annoying.
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by phireal 11y ago
We have an Electrolux full size battery powered vacuum and not having to deal with the lead is the change which had been most effective in getting us to clean more. It's also great for cleaning the car (especially as our model can be c
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by phireal 11y ago
Devon village (~400 people) here. We got fibre last year.
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by phireal 11y ago
To be fair, all words are made up. Their usage is what makes them relevant.
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by phireal 11y ago
All that sounds more like PEBKAC than anything else. I've had multiple VNC servers running on headless machines for longer than I can remember. Using x11vnc to connect to a VNC server is like SSHing into localhost instead of just openi
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by phireal 11y ago
I don't like that the journals with the highest impact factors in my field are all owned by Elsevier, Wiley etc. It'd be nice if this sort of action could occur across the whole of academia with a move toward open access journals.
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by phireal 11y ago
I use ownCloud [1] on a pretty low end VPS and the recent released are greatly improved over the earlier versions. The clients (mobile, desktop) are also much better now. [1] http://www.owncloud.org
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by phireal 11y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 , which has more comments.
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by phireal 11y ago
"Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again." Surely Google's infrastructure can manage to serve a spreadsheet!
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by phireal 11y ago
Similarly, the South Koreans have a geostationary satellite (GOCI) [0]. It's sampling interval is a bit lower (3 hourly) but has a high spatial resolution (500m). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Oce
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by phireal 11y ago
To the best of my knowledge, this thing takes snapshots of its viewing field every 15 minutes. That'll be tremendously helpful for calibrating atmospheric and ocean models of ecosystem dynamics.
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by phireal 11y ago
That link you posted says you can put fullstops at the end of lists if the elements of the list are full sentences.
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by phireal 11y ago
> However, I think it would be responsible journalism to ask a medical doctor whether the crowd did the right thing before hailing them as heroes and encouraging others to do the same. Perhaps they did and the medical doctor said it&#x27
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by phireal 11y ago
Presumably this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906 I think it means that sites can't overrule the browser's inclination to store passwords. The argument seems to be the browser makers will store
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by phireal 11y ago
Searching GitHub for S3SECRET and S3KEY might get interesting if this script gets used a lot.
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by phireal 11y ago
OK, I had a quick search and apparently going from LaTeX to markdown to JATS XML (with pandoc) [1] [2] is the least horrible way. [1] https://github.com/mfenner/pandoc-jat [2] http://blog.martinfenner.org&#x
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by phireal 11y ago
Is there a tool which will convert a LaTeX source file or Word document into the necessary format for eLife Lens? If I can avoid it, I'd rather not have to manually reformat my file into the eLife format.

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