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by symmetricsaurus 10y ago
No, Rosetta is already in orbit around the comet. By the principle of conservation of momentum the impact will not change the total momentum of the system (comet plus spacecraft). The changes in trajectory happens when the engines are used
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by symmetricsaurus 10y ago
Dark matter can explain: the large scale evolution of the universe (together with dark energy but whatever), rotational velocities of galaxies, gravitational lensing and other phenomena. No other theory explains all of these things as well
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by symmetricsaurus 10y ago
Except that the text gets cut off on a 4 inch iPhone in portrait mode.
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by symmetricsaurus 10y ago
These videos by Tom7 are indeed great. They don't display the use of deep learning though; the method is something quite different [1]. Maybe you could use the objective functions of Tom7 to determine which moves are good or bad in ord
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
All the lowercase letters 't' on your page looks weird for me. They're a little bit smaller than all other letters. Using Firefox on Win10.
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
I don't agree at all with the new Thinkpad keyboards being garbage. The old ones were nice (maybe even nicer than the new ones) but the new ones are still the best laptop keyboards in the market at the moment. The keyboard has no flex
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
I got a login screen that popped up after a while. Pressing ESC got rid of it.
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
Killed a laptop when plugging in my phone (with the old 30 pin connector). Turns out a bit of foil from a wrapper had become stuck in the slot on the phone. Since this was in the bad old day the laptop was fixable for under $200 so it wasn&
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
If you'd like to try out radio astronomy you can use SALSA: http://vale.oso.chalmers.se/salsa/welcome You get access to a 2.3 m radio telescope for free, you just need to book a time slot.
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
I know that this isn't what you asked for but one way to dramatically reduce the attack surface is to not upload your passwords anywhere and not sync them between devices. Just keep the passwords on your phone (in a password manager) a
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
I think that now it is time for other European countries to step up and take their responsibility. Many countries seem focused on keeping all migrants/refugees out and in that way shuffling the responsibility to some other country. It
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
Swedish migration minister Morgan Johansson now says that Sweden can no longer guarantee housing for refugees [1][2]. This is a new development as the previous official line has been that the situation is strained but under control. [1]: h
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
There should be errata to the errata since the OPERA result of neutrinos traveling faster than c has since been refuted [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
Add an instruction that drops or picks up a parachute(i. e. it flips the state). Then you should get something that is equivalent to boolfuck (1-bit brainfuck) which is Turing complete.
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
Blurring or mosaicing is not very secure at all [1]. To be more safe block out sensitive information with solid black. (Just remember to not leak any information in the metadata, like an embedded thumbnail.) [1]: https://dheera.n
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
Why not link to the original source[1] instead? [1] http://woodgears.ca/toys/slinky.html
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by symmetricsaurus 11y ago
I agree that most of these pictures are not of fractals. I would add the lily pad, thinking cactus, cabbage and fern to the list of fractals. There are only a couple of octaves/iterations in each but there is some self similarity there
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Main points from http://www.apple.com/macbook/ : * Dimensions * Keyboard size * Screen resolution * Trackpad features * Wireless capabilities * No fan * Battery design and battery life * Operating system * Apps ... Seem
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
If I could put the glass into the liquid it would be fairly easy. But, isn't the glass stuck to the top of a flatbed scanner in this case? Makes it a bit hard to put it into a liquid without breaking the scanner.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
If the scratches are on the glass it could work even better to use a liquid with the same refractive index as the glass. That should make the scratches go away completely. One option is glycerin as can be seen in this video: https:/&#
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
A similar thing was done with Siri and a garage door a while ago: http://delian.io/siri-open-the-garage It's curious that in both cases you actually have to create a special app to enable any custom behavior from your
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Why not create a mesh network using the planes themselves. Surely most planes must be in line of sight with several other planes even over the ocean. That way they could broadcast their position among other things.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Feynman explains it well [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Sure. Add an extra dimension with coordinate w to 3d space. Then just rotate around the (x,y)-plane until z -> -z and w -> -w. Everything in the (x,y)-plane stays the same and z has been inverted.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
I think you are mostly right. Some corrections and further explanations (no time limit): 1. A mirror flips the direction perpendicular to the mirror. Left is still left and right is still right, e. g., your left hand will still be on your l
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
In case you missed it they are also shutting down. [1] It's unfortunate, I think, since the model for a publication was interesting. [1]: http://glog.glennf.com/blog/2014/10/8/the-magazine-is-making.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Really intereresting photos. It is a bit unfortunate that many of the captions and the sequence of photos are inaccurate. There are many misses regarding which bomb was which and on which plane it was loaded and on which city it was felled.
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
Is there any separate write-up of this? Trying to read the slides to a presentation is just frustrating. (And if you can actually read the slides by themselves the presentation is probably not very good).
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
The resulting balls always travel at a 45 degree angle from the direction of the shot. So shooting diagonally should keep all resulting balls travelling up-down or left-right. This would keep all balls in a rough cross shape on the playing
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by symmetricsaurus 12y ago
'Insex' actually. But you were pretty close.

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