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by riskable 8y ago
I don't usually get very excited about low-level microbiology stuff (actually, just kidding, haha) but this has enormous potential! If this works as well as it seems like it should then whole hosts of (technical) biology (leading t
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by riskable 8y ago
Ah, but if it were so simple! How many states can a selection of random, non-expert humans interacting with your code across a bevy of platforms encounter? The answer is always: Infinite . Hand your application to a bunch of people that ar
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by riskable 8y ago
I was going to say something similar but then I thought about it a moment... If I were going to write an article about maddening complexity in code that seems like it should be straightforward I too would choose JavaScript for my examples
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by riskable 8y ago
No. This is not true. Derivative works are a thing. If that were true Disney would never have been able to make their derivatives of Pinocchio or Snow White. After Steamboat Willie expires you bloody damned well can make your own Mickey
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by riskable 8y ago
This article is making a big legal mistake I think... You should be free to make a Mickey Mouse doll with modern colors and white gloves after Steamboat Willie enters the public domain because those would be derivative works (of the ori
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by riskable 8y ago
Not just the police department... Fire, ambulance, poison control, dig safely, local traffic control tower (they're about ~9 miles away from me), pharmacy, and suicide prevention (every fridge needs one of those magnets).
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by riskable 8y ago
Seems like the solution is "the Unix way": Use a lot of little, single-purpose applications for competing larger tasks. That way you can let the OS worry about the parallelization. Even if you're making a large, multi-purpose
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by riskable 8y ago
"Previously"? Mica powder is still used in a lot of glitter products. For example, glitter make-up is almost always made with mica powder. 3D printing filament with "glitter flake" is mica powder.
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by riskable 8y ago
I too was confused by this but it actually makes sense: They did all their testing from the US (and it's a US-based company). Which means they used part of the radio spectrum which is regulated by the FCC which gives the them regulator
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by riskable 8y ago
So if Swarm wasn't a US-based company they wouldn't have gotten this fine? They launched the satellites from India and tested them from Georgia (the state in the US or the country? The article isn't clear). Seems to me that f
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by riskable 8y ago
I'm really into 3D printing and have studied all sorts of plastics as part of my research into making perfect prints for various objects. One thing that astounds me is the complete lack of information/disclosure requirements
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by riskable 8y ago
Why would anchoring a debris collection platform be a bad idea? Water flows and currents in certain areas can be quite predictable. Something like one of those anemones that sits at the edges of of sea shelfs collecting organic matter as
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by riskable 8y ago
I thought the point of solar roads wasn't that they were more efficient than, "just putting them on buildings or the sides of roads" it was more of a way to utilize otherwise "wasted space". As in, when you're
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by riskable 8y ago
I asked a "C all the things!" developer a while back why he hated Python's enforced indentation and in a whole lot of words he basically said that it makes it difficult to visually track scope when you have long chains of con
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by riskable 8y ago
Not yet mentioned: Collectively, the human gut evolves . Over quite a short timespan! Climate is basically rock solid by comparison. For example, a new type of food may become quite popular over the course of like five to ten years. In tha
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by riskable 8y ago
> Most doctors know very little about what food does to the body. This is bullshit. "Most doctors" know very little about the electromechanical processes involved in a keystroke but they still know it results in a letter appear
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by riskable 8y ago
This article does a great job at pointing out just how needlessly difficult computer science makes itself when it doesn't have to. Example: !(a || b) == (!a && !b) `a` and `b`. They're meant to represent, well an
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by riskable 8y ago
This article is the definition of useless. It is nothing more than commentary on speculation... By not-really-experts. It cites no evidence of anything in particular! It's almost as if something has trained by brain to read articles li
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by riskable 8y ago
"Illegal in Australia!" Will become a great new marketing phrase for security products! Surely, if the product is illegal in Australia you can be assured that it's actually secure. Or at least, the company wasn't willi
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by riskable 8y ago
The solution to this problem is to solicit user feedback all the time . As in, the moment you get your code kinda sorta working you get some feedback from the ultimate end users (e.g. NOT the product manager, LOL)... "This rough imple
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by riskable 8y ago
The problem isn't that Microsoft implemented an unfinished API. It's that they implemented an unfinished API and didn't update it later to reflect the changes . When new APIs are in development (in a standards body) by all
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by riskable 8y ago
This is correct. Chrome handles updates via a completely separate .exe that runs via the Windows Task Scheduler. I know this because my company pushed out a Group Policy update a while back that removed the ability of users to add/remo
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by riskable 8y ago
Consider the complexity of supporting all the dozens of CPU instruction sets and a few dozen more built-into-the-CPU hardware peripherals/extensions (e.g. SSE, hardware random number generators, etc). There's probably a thousan
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by riskable 9y ago
The DMCA has explicit exceptions very clearly spelled out for service providers that do not store content and/or do not choose which content gets cached... https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512 As lon
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by riskable 9y ago
Privacy is not a feature of Etherium or "smart contracts". It's the opposite, in fact. All transactions are public. The only "private" aspect is your address used to make a transaction but it has the same problem
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by riskable 9y ago
Solution for the (much faster than Chrome now) Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-image-...
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by riskable 9y ago
No kidding! You used to be able to personalize your Google search results to blacklist pinterest.com but they removed that feature a while back. Now you have to type out -site:pinterest.com every single time you want to search for somethi
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by riskable 9y ago
I don't know what did it but something changed inside me a number of years ago where now I have this uncontrollable reaction of disgust whenever I see graphs and charts like this. Maybe I've viewed too many "reports" fr
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by riskable 9y ago
I think this article is interesting but it's really only skirting around the edges of the topic of "learning programming" or patterns or a new language or whatever. A good programming book is written from a an understanding
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by riskable 9y ago
This is highly dependent on personality. As an anecdote, I know a developer that does not like working with "the best" because they make him look bad (even though he's not a terrible developer). Given, he works at a compan

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