turbohedgehog

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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
As a deaf person I am using Ava [0] which uses IBM's speech to text service [1] as its backend AFAIK. I am always impressed by how it picks up on context clues to make corrections in realtime and capitalizing proper nouns (Incredible P
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Ah, they don't use masks for the metal and via layers?
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Educated guess, one die will have many layers, requiring many masks for all the layers
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
For binocular vision, you can adjust the distance the object appears at virtually. Oculus gives a guideline of 0.75-3.5m for rendering objects that will have long term gaze (UI, etc). The screen itself is at a focal distance of about 1.3m,
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
To be clear, the Jones Act allows other countries to use their ships to go direct to PR, but they can't use their ships to ferry goods from the US mainland to PR.
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Can it do virtual desktops like a VNC server can?
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Absolutely. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexey_kljatov/11046723195/siz...
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
This reddit comment thread [1] explains the issue well. In short: most households get grid-tied solar power setups with no batteries. If the main grid is off, it creates islands of power where the units can't safely backfeed to the gri
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
the upper level winds are actually a high pressure area and thus flow clockwise, giving it a northerly boost at that level
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
1) No they're not harmless, updrafts and downdrafts exist https://www.wunderground.com/resources/education/hugo1.asp
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
I think this is what Valve does with Dota 2 replays by using protobuf
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Wolfenstein 3D source is here - https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
I believe one way is to generate a frequency similar to female wingbeat frequency that attracts male mosquitoes and separate them that way. I am unsure if there is a difference in the frequency between genders.
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Here's the reason for anyone wondering: _Thread_local is reserved in C99, so we don't need a -pedantic warning. (Quoting the standard: "All identifiers that begin with an underscore and either an uppercase letter or another u
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/correct-i... This is the one I use.
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
The water doesn't just disappear into thin air. It gets reused sometimes and then get treated and released or reused.
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
> * The classic, full version of Skype for Windows sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one. This is most likely due to one computer's time being out o
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
That's disconcerting that they still don't know for sure what caused this issue and if it could happen again.
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Did the author notify Intel about the bug they found?
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
What picture? http://i.imgur.com/srEiiD7.png
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by turbohedgehog 9y ago
Last time I read about CRISPR used to remove HIV from infected cells, the virus mutated to defeat the CRISPR attack - could this happen here?
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
That's a brainfuck
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
To be clear, it was mis-use of Ragel, not the fault of the Ragel module
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
The table basically says it's possible to pick a set of 4096 (2^12) different vectors of T/F combinations in a way that you only need flip up to 3 (R=3) of the T/F answers to cover all 2^23 (n=23) possible solutions to the qu
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
Nearly 2 a day at Renton: http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2014-10-02-Boeing-to-Increase-73...
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
Honestly I'd blame Namecheap, not ICANN. My registrar was much more relaxed - I did not need to take any action Please take a moment to view the WHOIS listing for each of the domain names you currently have registered through us. Pleas
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
At the time, there was a zero tolerance policy for volcanic ash with jet engines. However there are now upper bounds on the density of ash allowed, so if an Eyjafjallajökull-like eruption happened again today, not as much air traffic would
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
.mov files available here http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2017/01/13/3.1.... edit: Movies S4-6 say they're corrupt in Firefox, but VLC plays them fine (mp4v codec).
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
FCC regulations (afaik) only apply to the power output of the device, modifying the antenna like this shouldn't change the power output.
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by turbohedgehog 10y ago
I'm not sure it requires confirmation if it's filling a spot with an incomplete term.

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