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HP supercomputer in orbit is ready for researchers(spacenews.com)
1 points by tshannon 8y ago|1 comments
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NASA to soon end active efforts to restore contact with Opportunity(spacenews.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
I believe it defaults to the account you sign into first, so you can log out of all of your gmail accounts, and log into what your want your "default" to be first. If you're using chrome and logged into your google account on
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Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant(scientificamerican.com)
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Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent as Tax Cuts Eat into Government Revenue(npr.org)
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by tshannon 8y ago
I disagree. Without diligence, that number could skyrocket as high as 8 out of 20. Where would we be then?
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How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code(scientificamerican.com)
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Diverse Forests Capture More Carbon(scientificamerican.com)
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Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
221 points by tshannon 8y ago|166 comments
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by tshannon 8y ago
Yeah as a species we're accomplishing much bigger things now than an acre or two of crops. I like to think that we're working towards a bigger goal than simply surviving.
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by tshannon 8y ago
> This innovative system uses four ultra wide-angle sensors and computer vision algorithms to track your exact position in real time without any external sensors. I'd be really curious at what FPS they are able to accomplish that a
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by tshannon 8y ago
I wonder if this would fall under protections for satire.
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by tshannon 8y ago
I agree, but just don't wander into the comments. The community is very on sided, which is to be expected I suppose.
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by tshannon 8y ago
True, but we get to "outsource" those worries to a marketing department, who hopefully have a better handle on audiences than we do.
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Detroit Public School District Shuts Off Drinking Water Citing Lead, Copper Risk(npr.org)
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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible(cockroachlabs.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
Yep, which really explains why Go went with it. The Go authors have stated that it's designed for code to be read more than it's written, so they add verbosity in favor of clarity.
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by tshannon 8y ago
The obvious answer is that one or more of the assumptions in those statements is incorrect.
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When Naming Is Important, and When It's Not(tech.townsourced.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
You can self host mattermost, which has been working well for us so far. https://mattermost.com/
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by tshannon 8y ago
I'm excited for the day this gets merged and can drop jquery: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586
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by tshannon 8y ago
And get 3 times the does of radiation? Seems impractical, but possibly true.
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by tshannon 8y ago
I've always wondered if it makes any sense (if you have the property) to setup a windmill instead of solar panels. I don't think there's much market in smaller / single home windmill installations and so the costs are p
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by tshannon 8y ago
Same, and for accessing it over the web (for when I'm not on my own machine) I use keeweb ( https://keeweb.info/ )
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by tshannon 8y ago
I was going to say the same. The conclusion I came to personally was always Accuracy > Maintainability > Performance in that order
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by tshannon 8y ago
Wow, it's even in Tom's https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/titanium...
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by tshannon 8y ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but don't most libraries do connection pooling on their own? Why is something like pgbouncer necessary?
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by tshannon 8y ago
I don't know about other people, but I have a home gym and catch up on my youtube watch later during workouts. So that's about 4 hours of youtube a week.
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by tshannon 8y ago
I never said I thought it was BS. I was curious what the physical mechanism to change the braking characteristics was. If there was no physical mechanism that I assume it's BS.
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by tshannon 8y ago
This part really intrigued me about the stopping distance: The Tesla spokeswoman says the company has the ability to update its vehicles over the air. “Unlike other vehicles, Tesla is uniquely positioned to address more corner cases over t

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