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by ringshall 7y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted. Sea level does indeed suck as a baseline. Traditional vertical datums like NAVD88 get their baseline zero elevation from an averaging of mean sea level at a small number (~5) of tidal stations aroun
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by ringshall 7y ago
Trimble has a similar service, called PP-RTX.[1] There are various online PPP services that can give up to CM accuracy in post-processing, but near-real-time CM accuracy is still a new (and unexpected, to me) thing. As for updates, the NGS
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by ringshall 7y ago
Not to be a grump, but surely this doesn’t qualify as news
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by ringshall 7y ago
Could you combine laser engraving with a jet of air, to blow away the molten glass?
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by ringshall 7y ago
And the world was connected long before the internet. Instant intercontinental comms have been around since intercontinental telegraph cables were laid in the late 19th century. The advent of radio, television, and telephone added more mod
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by ringshall 7y ago
"inappropriate and harassing behavior" What exactly are you claiming he did to harass people? What exactly did he do that was inappropriate?
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by ringshall 7y ago
And of course there’s the comment in ‘All good things’ by Dr. Crusher when she says she can’t believe how they got by with 2D controls in the old days, and how the current holographic controls were much easier to use. So, Star Fleet made th
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by ringshall 7y ago
I get what you are saying, but that analogy fails as well. There is a physical limit to how much one person can eat, while there is no limit to how much someone might take home. Whereas with data, there is no limit intrinsic to tethering vs
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by ringshall 7y ago
This talk by Sid Meier is a good description of the problem of true randomness, from a game perspective: https://youtu.be/MtzCLd93SyU?t=1166
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by ringshall 7y ago
" The file system wasn't hierarchical so there was path separator. " Do you mean the opposite?
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by ringshall 7y ago
At least in some places, local install permission may be available, but cross company install permission is much more difficult to get. As in, it is very difficult to get software installed in general images or on multiuser servers. There a
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Chernobyl comes back to life in Ukrainian computer game(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by ringshall 7y ago|1 comments
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by ringshall 8y ago
They could be more turbulent. I presume they aren’t, though.
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Delta Airbus A220 economy class review, inaugural flight(businessinsider.com)
2 points by ringshall 8y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 8y ago
The tag line was actually « Don’t be evil ». It was never an official motto afaik.
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by ringshall 8y ago
What is an ALT?
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by ringshall 8y ago
Credulous does, at least to me. I've always considered it a pejorative term.
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by ringshall 8y ago
I’ve always been curious about this. Who, if anyone, owns the shares that are held in reserve? Surely they can’t be used to vote, unless they are held as an asset by the company in the same way the company might hold shares in other compan
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by ringshall 8y ago
Ah, the ol' h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
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Modelling aerobraking in a spreadsheet (1995)(mars.nasa.gov)
2 points by ringshall 8y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 8y ago
Why are they trying to tank it? Short term profit or some conspiracy theory?
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by ringshall 8y ago
Gah, you're right. Their paid services and limits seem to be related to their SAS offerings.
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by ringshall 8y ago
To be precise, their base software is Free software, licensed under the AGPLv3. The also distribute non-Free (and non-Open Source, and non-gratis) software. Their base software has an artificial limit in terms of number of users and number
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by ringshall 8y ago
Given the 'P.Eng', probably Canada.
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by ringshall 8y ago
I don't see it as a question of whether the research uses AI, but rather what the subject of the research is. Putting all research under the 'AI' banner because it happens to use that technique in some of its data processing
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US government considers charging for popular Earth-observing data(nature.com)
2 points by ringshall 8y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 9y ago
This site seems to have been created by a company specializing in giving security exploits their own branding: "I want to brand my next vulnerability. Can you make a logo for me? Great idea! Please contact our sales department." I
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by ringshall 9y ago
Magnetic field reversals happen on a completely different timescale than solar minima/maxima. Reversals take a long time to happen: ~1 to 10 ky. Quick on a geological timescale, though.
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An ambitious project to map all the cells in the human body(nature.com)
53 points by ringshall 9y ago|13 comments
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by ringshall 9y ago
Which is why other projects that depend on Proj4, such as QGIS, also work with projections for various celestial bodies.

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