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by yew 15y ago
@PaulGAllen: Pressure at bottom is 16,285 Pounds per square inch at that depth. Design pressure was 16,500 ...Yikes/Amazing! Amazing that it is working. The engineering must be interesting. Edit: Apparently the DC weighs a tenth as much as
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by yew 15y ago
Which, alas, requires installing Calibre in the first place. The lack of command-line tools that avoid pulling in hundreds of QT dependencies that I do not need (not to mention Calibre itself) is rather annoying.
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by yew 15y ago
Personalized searches also render it difficult to gauge how 'pizza' relates to other data in the public (sub)conscious. Google results used to (and still do, to a certain extent) provide a very good picture of the semantic structure of the
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by yew 15y ago
Better can mean 'more liked' and 'more accurate' which are not necessarily equivalent. Accuracy being something of a fuzzy category, of course.
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by yew 15y ago
It looks reasonable enough to me. I suppose you could quibble with some of the details of how they assign hardware utilization to software components. Apps with heavy same-resource utilization independent of ad serving might face some misch
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by yew 15y ago
My Kindle Keyboard is rooted. It runs a hand-rolled Linux framework rather than Android, however. The rooting process is actually rather trivial, as platform security is minimal.
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by yew 15y ago
If the definition of sustainability that you are using is "sustainably living" then it isn't [insert ideas associated with the sustainability movement here]. Not automatically, anyway. If all we care about is continuing to live (excepting
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by yew 15y ago
I fixed it for myself by using a password manager. I only have to worry about securing the (encrypted) database, which is comparatively trivial. I'm still vulnerable to the "supercomputer cracks your encryption" attack but that's orders of
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by yew 15y ago
It's the right solution for anyone who actually cares about security. No amount of indignation (and no amount of concern for security in your own work) will prevent third parties that don't care about security from leaking your data whereve
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by yew 15y ago
Though most inhabited spaces aren't strictly temperature regulated, so there is still some potential for energy subsidization. There might be some applications in solid-state heat pump technology as well. Actually I would think that the mor
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by yew 15y ago
Of course, in practice no one is responsible for misuse of the DMCA. Google would have a better incentive to control misuse of any "correction" feature, but it would still probably end up being used to censor things occasionally. It's a dif
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by yew 15y ago
I believe Google does track "click through - click back" timing, specifically to limit the impact of this effect. Whether or not it's effective is another question.
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by yew 15y ago
It doesn't look like LEGO. Probably a few metal brackets and some pins from a hardware store. I'd be interesting in the mathematical details myself. Computer-reliant optimizations are so interesting. . .
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by yew 15y ago
> What is the underlying reason to preserve a random state of nature? Change is natural, things come and go, so do species - nothing out of the ordinary about it. I can't speak for the OP, obviously, but I'm in favor of preserving parti
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by yew 15y ago
I suspect they used US customary units because that's what's used in the video. Anyway, if we're only going to talk about readability then I'll note that the text is imminently comprehensible to anyone with an intuitive grasp of said units.
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by yew 15y ago
Thanks!
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by yew 15y ago
Would you mind expounding on that use of decorators? I'm not making the connection and it sounds like an interesting one.
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by yew 15y ago
The problem with considering the typical 13-year-old as innocent is that you end up making decisions based on inaccurate data. The primary point of this film isn't to be entertaining or pleasing, but to help force people to confront the fac
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by yew 15y ago
True. On the other hand, we aren't talking about a thoroughly developed community here. This sort of exacting law enforcement has its costs, and the balance of those costs should be evaluated in context. Given the limited industrial resourc
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by yew 15y ago
The problem is actually a mutually reinforcing feedback cycle between culture and corporation that gives rise to addictive superstimuli. But I suppose "the problem is us" is an equally useful observation.
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by yew 15y ago
Sure. Efficiency is important, not to mention cheaper in the long run. And if nothing else, we should at least be saving the hydrocarbons for industrial chemistry where they're actually hard to replace. Convincing people to pay for the swit
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by yew 15y ago
Reading their analysis of nuclear power (which is, by the by, about as renewable as solar power; we'll run out of fissionables around the time the Sun goes out), I'm not seeing any reason you couldn't run things just on that if you solved t
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by yew 15y ago
I think the real issue is how to respond to my wearing a camera that records everything I do and, incidentally, everything that everyone around me does. Even if the data's never sent to a third party, there are still privacy concerns. They'
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by yew 15y ago
If they're lightweight enough you could have the lenses replaced and just wear the digital pair. That's what I'm planning on looking into, once the technology matures a little.
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by yew 15y ago
> What constitutes research? Gathering experimental evidence by having many different people from many different demographics read many different things, preferably under controlled conditions. Comparing the resulting statistics to comp
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by yew 15y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware. I wouldn't necessarily trust him to give an honest answer if it were art, though. As I said, I've seen stranger.
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by yew 15y ago
The ease of memorizing 26 letters is as irrelevant as the age of the Latin alphabet, really. This thing doesn't appear to have the least bit of intersection with any research. I suspect it's an art installation or something though. I've see
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by yew 15y ago
The big problem with LCD screens is that they give some people headaches. I can't do any serious reading on one. The attendant battery life problems are also a pretty serious issue.
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by yew 15y ago
Having some structure is useful when you don't know what you're looking for, or even what kind of thing you're looking for. And I find that's true of a lot of the technical documents I read. I also quite enjoy reading a physical book with
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by yew 15y ago
They are, aren't they. A town all in one place versus a few dozen spread far enough apart and suddenly nobody notices the disparity. Ah well.

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