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Leaked Report from Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on AAV Observed in 2004 [pdf](media.lasvegasnow.com)
3 points by pp19dd 8y ago|0 comments
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by pp19dd 8y ago
They're looking for matching pattern fragments. One good way to visualize how they're assessing that is to take a look at the Genome Projector's DNA walk view. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/z3etcmy.pn
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by pp19dd 8y ago
My point was trying to lead toward understanding the problem, not the optics of the problem.
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Very rational thinking for an individual, one I happen to share. However, in a large system, there have to be some practical limits to consider in order to apply this stratagem to a large number of people. Bottlenecks. Like both this tra
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Eight years ago I was on a commuter train from DC to Baltimore and a strange woman sat next to me and started asking all sorts of questions about the train and Baltimore. By strange, I meant that she was talking: no one talks on a commuter
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Seems all the methods in the writeup are APIs (not sure about wit or sphinx), so what's missing is missing locally-run processes like DeepSpeech. But on that same note, I'd like to see greater accuracy comparisons on all these me
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by pp19dd 9y ago
That was my point exactly- annotations that require annotations. Think of it from the reader's perspective: they see $2 million highlighted in an article, they mouseover, click, tap or otherwise interact with it. But then a bubble com
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Huh. Actually, it looks like they cleaned up a bit recently. As of a few weeks ago, there were far more skeletons in place (as literally scoured from robots.txt). Snapshot from their antiquated ad spaces listing- https://pp19dd.
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by pp19dd 9y ago
One quick thing you can get into is assembling electronics kits. Granted it's not programming, design, or theory, but it's an interesting alternative that'll get you started without having to catch up on theory. All you nee
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Re: wife. He was not a nice man. These details I retained from Stephen King's 11/22/63 book which seemed rather ... unexpectedly well-researched. Here are notes from another author, Mel Ayton: http://mcadams.pos
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by pp19dd 9y ago
It never made it as a story.
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Newsrooms and bars are like twin brothers. You pick any newspaper, and there is always THE watering hole for it, usually the very nearest one. For the Baltimore Sun, that was the "Midtown Yacht Club" and the joke was in its name,
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by pp19dd 9y ago
The Mote in God's Eye could make an incredible movie.
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Scale is a problem. To give you an example, as of a few years ago, you could buy copy of a typical mid-sized city newspaper for $2. The other $15 it took to produce that day's single copy (that's everything combined, editorial cos
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Something always fails. Was curious about the details, though. Actuators from the linked Patent: - F12-BC (W-Robit, Taiwan) - PAC-UGT040D (PBC Linear, Roscoe, Ill.) Motors and servos: - BCH U04 (Schneider Electric, Palatine,
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by pp19dd 9y ago
On books, everything you say makes sense in the ideal world. But in practicable reality, things are a bit more complicated. Re: item 1, Baltimore is the birthplace of the "Stop Snitchin'" movement, a heavily distributed and
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Here's a metrics insight to help illustrate this- even for a legitimate news site, there are tons of articles that get far fewer pageviews than facebook shares, sometimes by a thousandfold. In other words, a catchy headline, provocati
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Everything. Just like the root poster, I am disgusted by clusters of knockoffs and increasingly more weary of seeing them. Just about anything common you run across on Amazon is probably not original (is there such a thing as an uncommon p
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Hmm. Think this is a far stretch from being a cellphone prototype. What I'm seeing is a wireless microphone with a number pad prototype. I get that the implied concept is to take power hungry components and offload them to a nearby t
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by pp19dd 9y ago
Re: money. $400 million was too large of a number for me to comprehend. I was curious. From FY2015, actual budget is $372 million. $227 million is applied toward investments - mutual funds, bonds, etc, presumably to ensure longevity and c
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by pp19dd 10y ago
From a 2013 reddit AMA: "Each ATM is different. We do 12,500, but have ones with metal cases that reach 26k." From a 2010 time article: "The average size machine can hold as much as $200,000, though few do. In off hours, most
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by pp19dd 10y ago
As far as news agencies go, it never really reached any significant audience: http://pp19dd.com/2013/11/north-korean-central-news-agency-k... I corresponded with the KCNA watch guy after my release, and he said it
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by pp19dd 10y ago
Here's a big punchline buried in this release: crowdtangle is now free. That's $30k value (+/- number of seats) given away to struggling news organizations.
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by pp19dd 10y ago
For me doing that is somewhere between an escapist fantasy and a backup retirement plan. I've been looking at Idaho properties for some time now because it seemed to have favorable acreage vs price ratios. Last year a random 40-acre h
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by pp19dd 10y ago
Indeed. Though I don't think they intend to maintain them. The article cites donated 'retired' engines. So this is an experiment, or a P.R. stunt. But if they'd take this seriously, it'd be so weird to estimate t
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Voyager Golden Record • Damn Interesting(voyager.damninteresting.com)
1 points by pp19dd 10y ago|0 comments
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by pp19dd 10y ago
I worked on software like this. You wouldn't believe how many variations of a typo can escape parsing.
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by pp19dd 10y ago
Unrelated to imaging, this domain jogged the memory. Author is the guy who created the "NOPPP" - no parts pic programmer: http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/noppp/ More than a decade ago I was starting out w
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by pp19dd 10y ago
The critical piece of evidence presented in his book was the blackout of 2003. Ted Koppel's version was short and implied that the power grid system is so vulnerable that all it took was some overgrown trees to bring the northeast down
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by pp19dd 10y ago
Many ways to accomplish the same thing in Linux, starting with a popen() call. ;) so thanks for pointing out tmux. Since I use screen fairly often, it had never occurred to me (until fairly recently) that you can rely on it to start with a

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