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Open BroodWar – free and open-source(openbw.com)
13 points by wamatt 9y ago|2 comments
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by wamatt 9y ago
>They are incredibly slow and energy inefficient; Human brains are energy inefficient? Well, thats a first ;) "In 1990, the legendary Caltech engineer Carver Mead correctly predicted that our present-day computers would use ten mil
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by wamatt 9y ago
What evidence is there to suggest this will always be the case, in light of continual improvements?
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by wamatt 9y ago
>Does Thiel not realize Of course he does. While not stated directly, the implied message from Thiel seems to be: monopolies are fantastic, for founders and early investors . Given his own history, is it that surprising he is a proponen
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Physicists create 'negative mass'(phys.org)
3 points by wamatt 9y ago|1 comments
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For half a century, neuroscientists thought they knew how memory worked(qz.com)
2 points by wamatt 9y ago|0 comments
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Experimental Breeder Reactor II(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by wamatt 9y ago|0 comments
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Using technology to address gender bias in film(google.com)
1 points by wamatt 9y ago|2 comments
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Designing a Safer Battery for Smartphones (That Won’t Catch Fire)(nytimes.com)
1 points by wamatt 9y ago|0 comments
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Self-sustaining bacteria-fueled power cell created(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by wamatt 10y ago|1 comments
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Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?(phys.org)
1 points by wamatt 10y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 10y ago
> And Sandro Skansi says No one knows who that is. Namedropping in an authoritative tone about a random person, seems kind of odd.
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The man with the golden blood(mosaicscience.com)
3 points by wamatt 10y ago|1 comments
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by wamatt 10y ago
> I have trouble understanding how we can want something, but some other part of us can seem to not want that thing Humans typically associate themselves (ie 'you'), as a distinct thing in reality, rather than a group of comp
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by wamatt 10y ago
Have you tried connecting through a VPN? That could potentially rule out ISP throttling.
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Webrecorder(webrecorder.io)
3 points by wamatt 10y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 10y ago
This all sounds really encouraging. I've become a vocal supporter of Firefox again since switching back a year ago. On that note, it may seem trivial to the average user, however it would be great if the powers that be could consider n
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by wamatt 10y ago
>LEDs being relatively bluer than incandescents or common fluorescent phosphors There is nothing inherently bluer about LED technology. LEDs are readily available in color temperatures down to 1600K.
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by wamatt 10y ago
Depends on whether one's utility function definition, includes the nostalgia parameter
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by wamatt 10y ago
Although considered somewhat non-traditional, aneutronic fusion[1] approaches may have interesting possibilities on significantly smaller budgets than ITER [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Current_res
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by wamatt 10y ago
It's kind of unfortunate that the label "nuclear power" seems to inevitably bundle both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion into the same public policy debate. Their respective safety profiles couldn't be further apa
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by wamatt 10y ago
> The odds of the U.S. changing its voting methodology are so infinitesimal, I'm having trouble conceptualizing it. You mean how Maine just passed Rank-Choice (Instant Runoff) voting as law? [1] "On November 8 [2016], Maine v
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by wamatt 10y ago
Good catch. All the quoted memory figures are for private memory. The shared memory figures in the session test (10 tabs and 15 extensions) were all at 0 in both Chrome 55 and 54.
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by wamatt 10y ago
For me the situation is perhaps not quite as clear cut. On the one hand I'm seeing nice improvements in the large memory hogging tabs. For example a typical reddit thread was reduced from 399 MB down to 295 MB. On the other hand, it ap
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SRI Hash Generator(srihash.org)
4 points by wamatt 10y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 10y ago
Here's one with a suprising comeback https://halite.io/game.php?replay=ar1478706105-405156479.hlt
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by wamatt 10y ago
Or do it with a one liner perl -pi -e 's/VACUUM/xxxxxx/g' /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify
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Subtracting large floating point numbers in different languages(geocar.sdf1.org)
35 points by wamatt 10y ago|23 comments
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Nim Programming Language(nim-lang.org)
5 points by wamatt 10y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 10y ago
Interix which later became, SFU (Windows Services for UNIX) and then finally SUA (Subsystem for Unix-based Applications) was initially developed in the 90's by Softway Systems, as an optional addon subsystem to the Windows family of OS

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