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by sxp 7y ago
Other than carbon footprint, there are good reasons to give up meat. 90% of Amazon deforestation is due to cattle ranching[1]. Raising cattle also uses a large amount of water [2]. So if you're concerned about these two aspects of the
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by sxp 7y ago
>The biggest drawback of vertical farming is the high cost of the electricity required to run the large number of LEDS...One way of saving electricity is to use LED s that generate only the colours that plants require, instead of the ful
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Hands-free communication without saying a word(tech.fb.com)
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by sxp 7y ago
>Krafcik went on to say that the auto industry might never produce a car capable of driving at any time of year, in any weather, under any conditions. “Autonomy will always have some constraints,” he added. This is an out-of-context quot
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by sxp 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a competitor of FB. Opinions are my own, etc. There is an aspect of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect when hearing stories about FB. I've heard similar stories about var
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by sxp 8y ago
https://blog.usejournal.com/rethinking-how-we-interview-in-m... is the original post by a PM at Microsoft. It doesn't have any useful information about a pure technical interview for software engineering. >(Note: I
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by sxp 8y ago
The other interesting raytracer is http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/ which is a path tracer in 100 lines of 80 column width C.
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Pico-8 Advent Calendar for 2018(lexaloffle.com)
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by sxp 8y ago
The PDF copy of the presentation is better: https://rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf
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MRI disabled every iOS device in facility(reddit.com)
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by sxp 8y ago
The "Commandos, Infantry, and Police" metaphor is from t Robert X. Cringely: https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/ It's a good description of any high-risk human endeavour like a s
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by sxp 8y ago
When reading APL for the first time, how does one determine what the characters mean? E.g, the first example is (+⌿÷≢) x I can look up the '+' '⌿' '÷' characters at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by sxp 9y ago
> thanks in part to the growing demand of Nvidia’s Tesla cards in those markets but also because cryptocurrency miners who can’t afford to etch their own ASICs are creating a huge demand for the company’s top-end GPUs. This part is incor
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Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game(arstechnica.com)
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by sxp 9y ago
Very nice. I really like your chiptunes on days 15 & 17.
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by sxp 9y ago
The episodes are on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/groups/96331/videos/80799353 It's definitely worth watching for anyone interesting in the history of early Silicon Valley.
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by sxp 9y ago
I'm wary of anyone who tries to explain complex numbers without pictures. The best explanation of complex numbers that I've ever seen is http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ . I wish that exp
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Turn the Raspberry Pi Zero into a $5 USB Computer(n-o-d-e.net)
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by sxp 9y ago
I wouldn't trust it on high-speed high-traffic roads, but it's good in high-speed & low-traffic (cruise control on long trips) and low-speed & high-traffic (traffic jams).
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by sxp 9y ago
The nice thing about a car with Autopilot is that it makes driving in heavy traffic less stressful. You still lose the time, but the trip is almost as relaxing as being a passenger during heavy traffic.
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World's best Go player flummoxed by Google’s ‘godlike’ AlphaGo AI(theguardian.com)
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The Californian Ideology (1995)(imaginaryfutures.net)
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by sxp 9y ago
I wonder if the sudden increase in price over April is related to to Coinbase buying up LTC to fill their reserves: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/
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No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car(nytimes.com)
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Is It Age Discrimination If You Don’t Know You’re Being Discriminated Against?(propublica.org)
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by sxp 10y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/is-it-age-discrimination-... covers the same set of discrimination lawsuits as this WSJ article without the paywall. It also goes into more depth about the legal precedents involved.
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by sxp 10y ago
For comparison, the 1080Ti is ~11.3TFLOPS + 11GB RAM @ $700 vs the Titan at ~12.1TFLOPS + 12GB RAM @ $1200. ~9% more performance for 70% more money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series#GeForce_10_....
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by sxp 10y ago
This is either a clickbait article or a weak April Fools' joke.
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by sxp 10y ago
> Until displays reach 1/60th of an arc minute from standard viewing distances (roughly the discerning power of the human eye under assumptions on contrast), I will always want higher resolution. The human eye is normally rated at 1
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by sxp 10y ago
Another good option if you want to write Android apps in Lisp is lein-droid [1] which allows you to use Clojure on Android. This means you can use any standard Android API, library or SDK in your app without additional bridge components. Th

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