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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
When I called to cancel my account I told them I was moving out of the country. Total lie, but it made the cancelation process really easy.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
Like electric cars, they have that nice abstraction layer where you don't _have_ to depend on fossil fuels. Just provide solar charging!
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
In some of his recent keynotes (especially the later quakecon ones) he focuses a lot on how he's changed his mind and that he now believes that software development has a lot of "social science" aspects to it. I think he&#x27
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
I'm in the same boat, mostly from weapon repairs. My income is pretty good, but I usually need to repair things after a quest, and the cost of repairing really puts a dent in my accumulated cash.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
That seems to be slooowwwwwwly improving, but honestly the biggest improvement for me will be the light rail from downtown.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
It was going much too fast to stop (given the available propellant). Also, that would have extended the transit time significantly. On the upside, it's sounding like the Kuiper belt is a really interesting place, so we'll get to s
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
Getting under the surface of the ice might not be too bad, but getting a signal back up would definitely be.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
This was linked elsewhere in the comments. I think it answers some of your questions: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/644675/5be656c24083e53b/
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
Yeah, it definitely wasn't as impressive as it seemed on the surface. A much better test of Watson's performance would have been QuizBowl, where contestants can buzz in while the question is still being read.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
Yeah. The coverage area of the transmitter must be massive.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
My understanding is that it is going to burn up naturally unless they do something about it. Its orbit is low enough that it feels a fair amount of drag.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
You can actually see the video feed blip out once per revolution. I assume it's because the transmitter is briefly pointing away from the receiver.
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
The lab I work for ( http://lasp.colorado.edu/ ) has an instrument on board (MASCS). I worked on a 3D visualization tool for the data it produced. As far as I know, it accomplished all its goals (and more!). Many of the findi
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
I was actually fortunate enough to work on the MESSENGER mission for a while (in a small way). Sad to see it go, but it had a really good run. This article has a nice overview of the things it accomplished. http://www.colorado.ed
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by ramidarigaz 11y ago
Good to know their SQL sanitization is working...
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
There are forks of Tomato that have been updated much more recently. I'm running the "Toastman" build of Tomato.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
That metallurgy book looks awesome! I just picked up my blacksmithing hobby again recently, so this is very timely. Thanks!
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
The "sports or business section of the newspaper" is the internet these days...
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
Yep! Currently it has some graphics performance issues on Linux, but it's perfectly playable and they're actively trying to improve it.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
Also, for anyone who has an Oculus Rift (or has access to one), Titans of Space does a really good job of depicting things like this.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
Looks like they diverged. Lots of duplicate comments. Edit: Nope. All comments show on both.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
Worst case, I bet someone will make a chrome plugin to purge twitter results from search.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
That sounds like a seriously awesome course. I wish my school would do that...
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
This discussion is happening quite often in the VR world. Essentially the accepted opinion is that 1) AR is harder than VR and 2) solving the problems that VR has will get us closer to usable AR
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
These are going to be LEO satellites (no higher than a few hundred km), instead of GEO satellites, which would make the lower bound of the latency pretty low (comparable to cable or DSL).
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
From this tweet, it looks like it was the residual fuel: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555980855537975296
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
Gosh yeah. I use Linux as my primary OS now on a cheap-ish laptop (student), and even with the low-DPI screen, so-so keyboard and odd hardware compatibility issues, I love it. I'd pay quite a bit for some high quality hardware.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
It's not that they've been sitting in a hangar for decades so much as that we've gotten a lot better at building engines. Presumably modern designs have a lot lower catastrophic fault probability.
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
I haven't actually looked at the demographic information we've collected. Most of the work the group does has to do with memory and engagement, which varies enough person-to-person that their demographic doesn't matter so muc
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by ramidarigaz 12y ago
I'm doing a Master's thesis in the intersection between Cognitive Science and Machine Learning. The group I work with looooves Mechanical Turk. It's such a cheap way to do small validation studies.

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