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by zachrose 11y ago
Would it be possible to temporarily power your own artificial heart with skeletal muscle? For example, by turning a crank attached to an artificial heart?
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by zachrose 11y ago
"This one's actually kind of cool: you step on your laptop and it weighs you, it tells you how much you weigh, like a scale. Scale.com." http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4geRaM5dY
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Burgers (2012)(theageofmammals.com)
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by zachrose 11y ago
I would hope it's messing with the browser console. Most "learn to code" literature that I come across still seems focused on unixy input-output type programs. I think there's an underestimated market of people who would
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by zachrose 11y ago
Beyond the technical reasons mentioned here, I'd wager that the emphasis on front-end specific apps and toolchains also has to do with dividing developers up in to front-end developers (who don't touch the database) and back-end d
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by zachrose 11y ago
Neat, it looks like the spiritual successor to the Atari Portfolio.
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by zachrose 11y ago
How long until this has native support in CSS?
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Capability vs. Suitability (2012)(youtube.com)
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by zachrose 11y ago
When a call center person asks if I've had a particular problem that's causing me to cancel, I say no. When they suggest that they might be able to help, or in any stall with canceling, I tell them I've changed my mind and no
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by zachrose 11y ago
No, you can make do without it. ActiveRecord will connect to your database and learn about your tables at runtime, and if you want you can choose to think of the combination of all your migrations as the source of truth for your schema. Tha
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Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013)(phys.org)
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by zachrose 11y ago
"Single" probably means "not married," which doesn't mean celibacy (unless that's your thing).
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Perl and Linguistics (1995)(world.std.com)
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Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption(theguardian.com)
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by zachrose 11y ago
You might get over it! I feel I have, and now see callbacks as suggestions of where to break my code apart. For example, callbacks nested more more than a two deep are usually a remonder that I'm really trying to describe a series of s
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by zachrose 11y ago
For perspective, if could invest one cent in a fund that grew at 2% annually over the last 2000 years, you would have 1.58 quadrillion dollars today.
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by zachrose 11y ago
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker A man goes out to buy shoelaces and a cookie during his lunch break, but the story is packed with insane levels of detail about the objects around us and the narrator's imagination about how those detai
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by zachrose 11y ago
From what we've seen of car software (e.g. Toyota accelerator control), it wouldn't surprise me if the electronics system is tightly coupled to both critical functions and specific hardware. Looking forward, my hope is that electr
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by zachrose 11y ago
That sounds nice. At my shop we have all of that except the live validation, and schemas almost inevitably fall behind. What happens when the validation fails? Also, which end does the validation, providers or consumers?
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by zachrose 11y ago
Shuffle the deck?
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by zachrose 11y ago
Maybe my needs just aren't that exotic? I'm currently using daemontools at work and so far I have a slightly unfortunate handful of bash scripts that repeat in different projects with minor variations. I've also used launchd
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by zachrose 11y ago
I suspect art cataloging has a very specific taxonomy, or even deliberate examples of flaunting taxonomy for artistic reasons. Normalization risks equating Prince and the artist formerly known as Prince, which is a worse picture of reality
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by zachrose 11y ago
There are some academics who study functional fixedness in literature under the name "Thing Theory". In particular, Raymond Malewitz has a book of examples of "creative misuse" in recent American lit.[1] Some of his exam
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Is Software Art or Engineering? (1999)(spectacle.org)
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by zachrose 11y ago
I don't think the guns failed, but eventually Arnold got one for each arm and shot them both from the hip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLez2LmlKU&t=1m43s
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by zachrose 11y ago
Except for all the things that Github builds on top of git to keep users coming back (wiki, issues, stars, etc.) which seem to be working.
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by zachrose 11y ago
Or, if you want to match the harsh geometry of the lamp, a Rietvald Zig-Zag chair: https://www.google.com/search?q=rietveld+zigzag+chair
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by zachrose 11y ago
Is the location refered to, a million miles from Earth and orbiting the sun, a Lagrangian point?
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by zachrose 11y ago
Or maybe the ship "plans" are like a binary, and the "design" of the ship is more like source code and specs.
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California Ruling on LAPD License Plate Readers [pdf](courts.ca.gov)
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