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The end of the article > This axiom is especially important in a “post-truth world” where we must work even harder to question our assumptions, whether in science, medicine, justice or any other field of problem solving. tied in perfectl
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This bug is about Chrome 57, not Chromium. Have you actually been manually disabling widevine all along? Because I use Chromium on Arch and I have to manually enable widevine to play Netflix. If you don't like Google's vision of
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> Trump doesn't "hate Muslims." He started his campaign with a pledge to "ban all muslims entering the US".[1] He has lied about seeing thousands of New Jerseyans celebrating 911. He has also said he "would
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I have been using Google Voice/Hangouts for all my daily phone calls and SMS for 7 years now. Since switching from the Google Voice app to the Hangouts App, I have not had any major issues or complaints. Did you you try the Google Hang
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A centrally managed app permissions system would go a long way to improving Linux’s desktop experience. For example in Wayland, there's a huge tug-of-war going on between security minded people who don’t want keyloggers and screen capt
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> One of my largest gripes making the switch, is the OO paradigm. C++ supports object-oriented programming, but OO is not intrinsic to the language. OO is just one of the many tools. You can write good functional and procedural C++. If y
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> reek of quantum spirituality... particles as being controlled by fairies who are locked up in hidden dimensions With the cellular automaton interpretation everything could be calculated and is deterministic. More importantly, there ar
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The way biological neurons self-organize into a neural network could correctly be described as swarm behavior. In fact there is quite a bit of research into this and it's amazing how during development you can move a neuron from one pa
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Self-organizing has a very clear definition. Wikipedia has an entire article on it. I suggest you look it up. None of the many self-healing claims of the past, including this one have ever been self-organizing. As a result, have no programm
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I've been reading about these "self-healing" materials for years. They have always been overhyped and never made it out of the lab. The only way to have truly a "self-healing" material, it to make it with nano techn
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> you can almost always find a free version of a published and potentially pay-walled paper. On personal research, I've used it for exactly this, but since what I've seen was only preprints, I've often wondered about the f
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I guess you haven't built it a decade or so(if ever). It's literally this easy to build: $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core $ apt-get build-dep libreoffice $ ./autogen.sh &&
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As the article stated, LLVM 5.0 should really be called LLVM 5, and isn't it easier to remember and write than 17.09. And IF you do care about the patch level, then it's LLVM 5.1 vs 17.09.1, again I'll take 5.1 any day.
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Good supplementary material to the C++ Core Guidelines.[1] If you haven't checked it out yet, both VS 2015 and clang offer checkers[2] [1] https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines [2] https://reviews
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> "Monsanto pitched them as a way to curb the use of its pesticides. “We’re certainly not encouraging farmers to use more chemicals,” a company executive told The LA Times in 1994..."Figures from the United States Department of
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As long as the touch sensor is extents past the display, the bezel can be a very useful feature for touch-screen based devices. Having swipes that begin off screen for OS-level commands like pulling down the notification bar or switching ap
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> The graphics libraries of my operating system handle gamma correctly. (Only if your operating system is Mac OS X 10.6 or higher) Not just OS X. The majority of Linux games from the past 2 decades including all SDL and id tech 1-3 games
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One of the first Americans to successfully import domestic foxes was video game artist, Kay Fedewa. There's a fascinating interview of her experience here: https://www.flayrah.com/3998/interview-kay-fedewa-domestic
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The combination of reduced spending on fusion researcher and increased demands of ITER, has resulted in a slowing of progress funneling funds aways from other designs and projects. So if we stay on the same underfunded trajectory, I agree.
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I'm am not a physicist, but interested in QM. Photons behavior cannot be completely explained by treating them solely as particles. The simples counter example (one you can perform yourself with a laser pointer), is the double-slit exp
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This wouldn't do any noticeable damage. Modern CPUs have excellent thermal management. As far a wear goes, a hot spot in chip would in theory slightly decrease the long life span of a CPU. If you expanded your question to hardware in t
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I don't know who's in the minority, but he's not alone. I hate the ribbon element. I'm all for context aware UIs, but in today's world of 16:9 monitors, a huge ribbon wasting all that precious vertical real estate i
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How about "The Fourth"? The name denotes privacy and won't scare off people by sounding illegal.
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The point is any anti-collision system should be smart enough to tell the difference between a car and a bag. It should NEVER let you plow into another car just because you tapped the brake. It shouldn't even matter if autopilot is o
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>If man made it, don't eat it I think a better heuristic, is "Just eat what your great-grandma ate". Or avoid the middle of the supermarket as much as possible. Simply eating more fat and less sugar/carbs, I have lost
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Seems like there have been a lot of cool projects like this lately. Have new tools sparked a renaissance in reverse engineering old apps so they can be built on any modern architecture? For example we have had the port of SGI ElectroPaint s
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Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video](youtube.com)
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It's nearly 2016 and Firefox can still only using 1 of my 8 CPU cores, and I can still bog down the UI with heavy web apps. My favorite email client is no longer supported, and now a potentially great privacy tool is being dropped. Mea
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Has the core guidelines Checker tool been released yet? For those that haven't studied the guideline intensely, I'd assume it's necessary to do any kind of real world comparison.
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> huge impact? I disbelieve. Of course he could have. Every debate has a huge impact on the news coverage and national discourse for days afterward. Bernie is forcing Hillary outside of her establishment comfort zone, just today saying

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