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by xgbi 10y ago
> Donations often involve numerous conditions and strings attached, including restrictions on which patient populations and what geographic areas are allowed to receive the benefits. What?? Is it a "DONATION" or a "CONTR
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by xgbi 10y ago
I would guess battle testing some sensitive programs. Imagine running OpenSSL on this and seeing where the malloc() would fail and start garbaging the memory. But I guess you could also use a special malloc that randomly returns NULL to do
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by xgbi 10y ago
Because ULONGLONG is reminiscent of Windows, Visual Studio, and its flaky and outdated support for C. It does not remove the argument of C choosing to use the type of the operands to determine the width of the calculus, but it shown that th
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by xgbi 10y ago
I didn't read on, but my guesses: - batteries will die when cold, they can't reanimate the probe when it comes back from the large ellipse of its orbit - probe has orbited the comet for 2 years, and has seen the most important per
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by xgbi 10y ago
I'll know rosetta has "landed" when the XKCD has been updated: https://xkcd.com/1446/
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by xgbi 10y ago
Do you guys have the same rendering as me? Being: the font jumps size for each character. http://i.imgur.com/3ZABB1y.jpg Chrome / Ubuntu 16.04
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by xgbi 10y ago
> The Austrian company says its patented laser-welding and thermal-cooling techniques give them an edge over Tesla because the method preserves the full power of the lithium-ion cells. This is what they say their advantage is against tes
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by xgbi 10y ago
It is bad because it decorrelates the country you make a profit out of from the country you pay taxes on this profit. The people paying for your product are able to buy it because they live in a country that provides for them, through added
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by xgbi 10y ago
For those who (like me) don't quite like the 1/3 of screen banner asking you to login to view the article, here is the content: Unreal: The Backstory During the development of Tyrian, Jason, Robert allen, Daniel Cook and I visited
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by xgbi 10y ago
> For me, the competing product is vim. This sounds like a troll. I would expect that the guys at Jetbrains get screamed at quite often for their IDE's memory and CPU consumption (they even have a "low power" mode, which i
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by xgbi 10y ago
Yeah, you could probably modulate some CPU load and emit noise from the capacitors that are sitting on the power stage of the CPU. Scary stuff...
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by xgbi 10y ago
The actual paper is here: http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/139/6/10.1... With pictures of the apparatus.
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by xgbi 10y ago
I tried and it doesn't work on my MBA on El Capitan 11.6. There's kind of the same thing on my TV, and it sucks balls. The changes in brightness is extremely unnerving, especially for action scenes where the light intensity varies
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by xgbi 10y ago
> Eventually, quantum teleportation in space could even allow researchers to combine photons from satellites to make a distributed telescope with an effective aperture the size of Earth — and enormous resolution. “You could not just see
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by xgbi 10y ago
Do you know if there is the same thing in Gitlab?
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by xgbi 10y ago
I remember the shortness of breath during my chemo. It wasn't lung cancer so it might be linked to the effects of the chemicals you get every other week. The red blood cells being wiped over and over when the Chemo destroys everything
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by xgbi 10y ago
And as usual, Kindle edition is more expensive than paperback :(
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by xgbi 10y ago
Getting a Yubikey? What about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11690774
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by xgbi 10y ago
Are we going to see the same trend as Bitcoin? GPUs, then FPGAs, then ASICS?
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by xgbi 10y ago
A bit off-topic, but this is what my folder looks like after `npm install`: Dev du -h -d 1 VueReactPerf/ 1,2G VueReactPerf/node_modules 2,0M VueReactPerf/dist 52K VueReactPerf/src 1,7M Vue
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by xgbi 10y ago
I remember the chemo and it was exactly like this. 5 days of shit every 2 weeks, and a slow tumble up the next 9 days, waiting for the new round. I got the luck to have a "gentle" lymphoma, but the chemo is hard nonetheless. My 2
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by xgbi 10y ago
Let's just hope that it doesn't end up like all other subsidies: the car maker increasing price to include this rebate and munching all the benefits from the government's help.. I still remember how photovoltaic subsidies in
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by xgbi 10y ago
What if they simply don't want people to print the map and rather use google maps to actually perform the guidance?
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by xgbi 10y ago
I cannot stop thinking that soon they will announce a native implementation of Docker on top of all that.
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by xgbi 11y ago
I had this too, on Chrome on my MacbookAir 2012. Then I found this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihd... Google pushes his VP9 format so hard, it serves it to its chrome users on Ma
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by xgbi 11y ago
I just took a new job in a company that uses Dell and Linux for the main OS, coming back from 4 years in another company where macs were the thing. Let me tell you: it sucks. - Lockscreen disapears when my session is locked, I have to type
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by xgbi 11y ago
That competition between gitlab and github is starting to give good results: 3 weeks in a row with news from both, each time with long-awaited features. If this doesn't show that competition is good, I don't know what else could!
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by xgbi 11y ago
So, what is the point of this? Highlight that it is possible to do to Cargo what leftpad has made to NPM?
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by xgbi 11y ago
And on top of that, "refueling" wouldn't cost the 250k figure that usually gets thrown in comments. I imagine it being more in the space of a 1-2k$ ; in which case the reduced passenger capacity might still be worth the prem
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by xgbi 11y ago
As I said, software encoding. Hardware encoding is coming but not yet there.

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