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Joseph Polchinski, Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureate, Passes Away(breakthroughprize.org)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car(arstechnica.com)
113 points by privong 9y ago|107 comments
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Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (2007)(web.archive.org)
128 points by privong 9y ago|19 comments
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Many glaciers letting rivers run low, others are falling apart(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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Strange Weather Triggered Bacteria That Killed 200,000 Endangered Antelope(npr.org)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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Scientists racing to save vital medical isotopes imperiled by shabby reactors(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
My recollection is similar, with usage starting ~3.5 years ago and ending ~18 months ago. Jitsi was slow, would often crash. But it seemed to be the best video-conferencing SIP client I could find that worked on enough platforms that I coul
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by privong 9y ago
If you like LaTeX, there's some templates here: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae
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Business Plot(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> Leave them at home for an alibi. Presumably that isn't a great alibi though. The activity on those devices probably wouldn't match the "normal" activity when one is home, so I suspect it would be easy for a prosecu
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Keep Our Mountains Free. And Dangerous(nytimes.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|2 comments
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Here’s how, and why, the Spectre and Meltdown patches will hurt performance(arstechnica.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
I only said they were both affected by Spectre. But it wasn't clear if the OP was worried about performance issues or security issues, so it isn't clear on what basis they were suggesting that buying AMD is a solution.
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by privong 9y ago
> Just buy an AMD chip right now. AMD chips are reportedly susceptible to Spectre, so that's not going to help. From https://meltdownattack.com : Almost every system is affected by Spectre: Desktops, Laptops, Cloud Serve
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The Cinematic Control Room 1971-2015 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
It seems E. E. Cummings tended to prefer his name capitalized (though obviously he did not always follow consistent usage): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings#Name_and_capita...
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by privong 9y ago
> Are they independent from torvalds' kernel? I thought the kernel was patched very quickly (KPTI)? They have to package the kernel for Ubuntu and compile it with whatever modules are standard for them. Plus perhaps applying some di
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by privong 9y ago
> In my opinion, though, subtractive synthesis is the easiest to "get". Interesting, for me additive is the most intuitive. I find it easier to visualize sums of sine waves than subtracting harmonics from a more complex wavefo
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by privong 9y ago
For the benefit of others, I wanted to note that what you're describing is subtractive synthesis where you shape sounds by subtracting (filtering) components from the initial waveform. Additive synthesis is also a technique, where you
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by privong 9y ago
> EDIT: It’s not nice to vote people down just because they politely point out you’re demonstrably wrong. HN doesn't let you downvote the replies to your own comments or top-level comments for your own article submissions.
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Gene Wilder's widow on what it's like to care for someone with Alzheimer's(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
Here's an article about one: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-airlines-... ARCGIS had a fairly detailed visualization of the search and the data. At the bottom of the page, there are some example
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by privong 9y ago
> AFAIK it is MH370, not MA370. Good catch. I think MH370 was more commonly used, so I've edited the title.
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A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370(economist.com)
246 points by privong 9y ago|87 comments
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by privong 9y ago
CHDK link for those interested: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
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In democracies, voters warm to secret services(reuters.com)
41 points by privong 9y ago|12 comments
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Genesis P-Orridge on destroying preconceptions(thecreativeindependent.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> If they keep charging everyone else and make education free for employees, the tuition they would have paid becomes taxable income. Is this really true though? Some universities charge in-state and out-of-state students different tuiti
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by privong 9y ago
> $185 isn't much to start a profession. I imagine as a barber it's likely the least of your initial costs. I think $185 is just the licensing fee from the state and does not include the cost of the training or the missed reven
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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments

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