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by tjl 10y ago
Older projectors have this resolution, but 1024x768 is more common. Some of the projectors at my university are 800x600 and I've run into them at conferences where the hotel conference facilities are older and haven't kept up.
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by tjl 10y ago
You can turn off signing checks for kernel extensions. Zinio has released a version of their iOS app for iOS 5 outside the app store. You went to their site on your iOS device and it downloaded and installed the app. I think it was done usi
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by tjl 10y ago
I've consistently used PDF for my slides simply because it's portable. Most of the places I've presented all have had a dedicated computer connected to the projector along with a second cable for laptops. If for some reason I
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by tjl 10y ago
I saved my money and bought a copy of Turbo C. Before that, I used both Basic (first on the TI 99/4A then on QBasic) and Pascal (on computers in schools) with some Logo, Icon, and later AutoLisp (for AutoCAD). I really liked Pascal and
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by tjl 10y ago
I agree that the user controlling which were "acceptable" is a good idea, but that's basically whitelisting. My first thought was to have a crowd-sourced list of acceptable ads, but that's pretty easily gamed. Then, it b
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by tjl 10y ago
They're not exactly long term, though. In my city, they're turned over every 4 months or possibly 8 months. The biggest university has 4 month terms and their co-op programs alternate 4 months on 4 months off.
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by tjl 10y ago
I'm in Canada and we've declined people from attaching anything to their balcony's railing. If they want to put a dish on the balcony, it has to be on a stand. My upstairs neighbour has one like this. We've done this rul
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by tjl 10y ago
While I don't use Kodi, I'll download videos like the ones from WWDC so I can play them back as many times as I want without worrying about the plays counting towards my bandwidth cap. In my case, I've added them to iTunes (a
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by tjl 10y ago
I know that near the major universities in my region properly values are far lower because they're often rented to groups of students who are rowdy so their neighbours property values are lower since people are reluctant to buy a house
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by tjl 10y ago
When I was in grade 7 I moved to a new town and therefore a new school. They actually had a requirement that everybody take both home economics and shop class. It was actually a combined course, for the first half the year you did one and t
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by tjl 10y ago
One problem I've seen is the reduction in the variety of high school courses. If you don't spend the time doing work in shop, you might not know that you really enjoy it and make the decision to try and get an apprenticeship. It&#
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by tjl 10y ago
In the engineering faculty at my university there's actually a machine shop with people of various specialities. If you go there you can get things made as long as you have a CAD drawing for them to work from. They'll also point o
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by tjl 10y ago
I know that I was looking for answers on specific Lucene problems and found multiple questions that were basically the same. There were some good answers on there, but the questions were closed. My main issue is that there's a lot of c
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by tjl 10y ago
No they don't. They use and license various pieces of software that's under BSD and other similar licenses. For instance, they released Swift at the end of 2015. It's on GitHub and has an open development process. Plus, they
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by tjl 10y ago
I don't think BTRFS has all the features they want. One thing you can do with APFS is do an upgrade of an HFS+ partition to APFS. That might be difficult with BTRFS. You don't necessarily need snapshots on a watch, but I can see i
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by tjl 10y ago
For one, you're not going to put ZFS on a watch. They want a file system that can scale to all their devices.
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by tjl 10y ago
LabView is node-based. It's extremely popular (and quite old). http://www.ni.com/labview/ Matlab's Simulink is also node-based (probably because of LabView). It's also widely used. http://www.
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by tjl 10y ago
I think it's because of the shutter. The camera is capturing the image over a period of time so the photons for those trails will be additive. It certainly does have that effect, but you're right in that it's not quite that p
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by tjl 10y ago
I repaired a few TVs back in the 80s with my father. He worked as an electrical technician so he'd had all the equipment so when one of our TVs died, he'd open it up, find the fault, and fix it. I had smaller hands so I'd be
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by tjl 10y ago
How many NLE software packages have you used? I find it interesting that it seems that for a some people, Blender is their first experience with a node-based editor. They've been around for years. While I haven't used Nuke (or Sha
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by tjl 10y ago
With the exception of things I bought at IKEA (and my desk chair), all my furniture is either things I took with me when I left home (e.g., my bed, dresser) or was given to me used from a friend or family member. My things from when I left
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by tjl 10y ago
One big problem with ML is that it's highly based on your training set. There's been a few papers published in computational linguistics that discuss how poorly ML based sentiment analysis is if you try and apply the data to domai
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by tjl 10y ago
I grew up in Canada in the 80s and I remember being very afraid of the possibility of a nuclear war simply because it seemed like it was always about to happen. One thing could go wrong and suddenly we'd be in a nuclear war. I think th
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by tjl 10y ago
I agree that these are all problems, but the one that bothers me most is the use of "x master race" such as PC master race. Considering the association with the Nazis and genocide, I keep hoping that it will finally die.
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by tjl 10y ago
I really wish Adobe didn't screwup FrameMaker. It was on all the major platforms and did its job. Then, they went and dropped it from everything except Windows and it's basically languishing ever since. I wrote a number of documen
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by tjl 10y ago
One problem is that if you live in an apartment building where someone is renting out their apartment using AirBnB, your safety is now decreased as non-tenants now have access to the building where they wouldn't have had it before.
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by tjl 10y ago
Technically, I don't think they're doing a unique credit card # for every transaction, it's just per retailer.
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They talk like that because it's actually true in one sense. There are a lot of side-effects of capitalism that aren't accounted for in a business' costs. It's the tragedy of the commons. We all share a common environmen
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by tjl 10y ago
Thanks for the info. I'm not worried about software. I've done enough low-level programming for that to be not a problem. I'm knowledgeable enough about electronics, what I need most of all is a good reference which is why I
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by tjl 10y ago
Thanks!

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