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by sannee 7y ago
Bose apparently already does something like this. See Bose Hear.
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by sannee 7y ago
> small company iirc they have well over 200 employees at this point.
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by sannee 7y ago
The fact that you can repair your printer by using your printer is a big selling point imho.
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by sannee 7y ago
Too bad they don't have a proper kit version. If it was 100$ cheaper (same ratio as the MK3S), I would definitely consider buying it.
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by sannee 7y ago
I think it is safe to assume that the author is super good at reading comprehension. The SAT [1] scores of MIT students seem to be in the top 5% of population [2]. [1] https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges&#x2
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by sannee 7y ago
Being capable to extract precise logical meaning from text is something everyone with STEM education learns in their introductory mathematics courses. It has nothing to do with social ability. > visiting professor has a poor grasp of soc
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by sannee 7y ago
> There are two possibilities here. Either the author of the Medium post was not capable of correctly parsing the sentence, or she didn’t care about truth and was leveling as many accusations as possible in the hope that one would stick.
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by sannee 7y ago
Prusa did this way back: https://twitter.com/josefprusa/status/425772744777940992 Unfortunately the source code disappeared from thingiverse...
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by sannee 7y ago
You can literally buy prescription glasses (including the lenses) for like 20$ on AliExpress. How much cheaper would you want them to be?
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by sannee 7y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's great at avoiding the "benevolent aliens that are basically just weird humans" concept that most other sci-fi books seen to enjoy.
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by sannee 7y ago
If we consider Three Body Problem as hard sci-fi (see above), then Children of Time definitely clear that bar too.
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by sannee 7y ago
Because if the drone pilot loses control and you get hit by a falling drone, you are guaranteed a trip to the hospital [1] [2]? [1] https://robotics.stackexchange.com/a/2577 [2] https://www.bbc.com/news
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by sannee 7y ago
CloudFlare has strategic business partnership with Baidu [1]. They are very likely to cooperate with the chinese government to implement the great chinese firewall. Additionally, helping to block Wikipedia because China says so is much easi
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by sannee 7y ago
Wikipedia is blocked in China. It's politically undesirable for 1/8 of the human population...
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by sannee 7y ago
Interestingly, even the full speed spec (which is likely what the keyboard is running at) requires a shielded cable (which the one linked in the post isn't).
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by sannee 7y ago
> They're neat devices but not really used for anything critical. Well, they have to be used _somewhere_. It's not like Espressif is achieving the economy of scale for a 3$ module by selling to hobbyists...
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by sannee 7y ago
I am not a biologist, but I doubt that. If you want to do this to an embryo, then abortion is a much saner option option. Doing this a a living person would be pure madness, given the fact that we can't yet CRISPR even simple edits and
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by sannee 7y ago
Yeah, this makes it unusable on my terminal because I have a custom color scheme. The background of the borders matches my terminal while I can't get the background of the widgets to match because of this. EDIT: Hah, specifying "t
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by sannee 7y ago
I have changed my handwriting away from cursive during my mid-teens and I was surprised how easy it actually was. I literally just printed out a bunch of pages from [1], practiced for a few days and it was done. Now I can't really writ
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by sannee 7y ago
At least in Czechia, cursive was taught until very recently. These days kids mostly learn Comenia Script [1]. [1] - http://www.lencova.eu/cs/gal_ukazky_cs
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by sannee 7y ago
As a rule-of-thumb, I would stay away from any "linear algebra" textbook that does not even have definition of an abstract vector space in the first few chapters. In a sense, it's like programming without data types. When I w
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by sannee 7y ago
> If you have kids they play with turning the light switch on and off. So I can see the need not to reset by accident. These are "smart" light bulbs, so I am guessing you are not supposed to control them by cutting of their pow
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by sannee 7y ago
I live in a dorm room and keep an R610 about three meters from my bed. You can use some magical IPMI commands to disable the internal fan feedback loop and replace it with a custom one (usually the defaults cool the server to around 30C, wh
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by sannee 7y ago
The build I have seen was driving the electromagnetic steering coils directly, bypassing any original TV circuitry.
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by sannee 7y ago
Yeah - and if you believe Watsons autobiography, she was strongly opposed to the idea that DNA had a helical structure until Watson and Crick basically figured it out and presented her with some very convincing arguments. Franklins contribu
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by sannee 7y ago
You don't even have to use the PIN if you are using NFC and paying under 500 CZK.
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by sannee 7y ago
> I didn't have to sign anything Hmm, I guess you are american (with a magstripe card?) traveling in the EU? I never had to sign anything when paying with card here.
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by sannee 7y ago
You can't use nouveau for CUDA, which sort of negates the whole point of having a GPU in a server in the first place.
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by sannee 7y ago
> - DNS Hijack the victim. This is the trivial one. You can just set up a free Wi-Fi access point next to a restaurant that people from company-you-want-to-hack like to visit.
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by sannee 7y ago
Dell _laptops_ running Windows even. When I read the headline I freaked out a bit because I have Dell server...

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