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by zgramana 3y ago
The real takeaway is that researchers may have found a potential test for string theory. Its presumed lack of falsifiability has been one of its drawbacks and has been the source of some of the controversy around it. Finding a potential tes
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by zgramana 7y ago
You may be surprised to learn that your face is your least identifying trait online. You network of friends/followers/likes identifies you far more readily—even if you use a random username.[1] Managing your privacy is a lot like
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by zgramana 7y ago
Surprised to see the author suggest that the C64 keyboard did not include the graphics glyphs on the keys. Both the VIC-20 and the C64 both had them, albeit printed on the front vertical face instead of the horizontal face like the PET. Mor
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by zgramana 7y ago
Given than Mono-the first open source C# implementation-was used to build banshee going back 15+ years, C# on *nix deserves more credit than is given here.
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by zgramana 7y ago
There’s been a lot of promising work done on IEC by a startup called EMC2. Their reactor/fusor design is called Polywell. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
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by zgramana 7y ago
For a mature, non-Google open source _and_ open hardware option: https://solokeys.com/ Software: https://github.com/solokeys/solo Hardware: https://github.com/solokeys/solo-hw
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by zgramana 7y ago
The Community Edition is open source, though the Enterprise Edition has some proprietary extensions. It’s admittedly not at all obvious from the repo name, but the following is the top level repo for Couchbase Server (which uses Google’s `r
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by zgramana 7y ago
My first touchscreen Garmin unit, circa 2007, definitely suffered from reliability issues in FL summer heat. Just keeping it on the dash in direct sunlight while driving was enough to affect its operation. I’m guessing it didn’t effect thei
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by zgramana 7y ago
Xamarin and Microsoft alum Bryan Costanich got some friends together to rescue Netduino and “reboot” it. They wanted to maintain that same sense of delight for .NET devs, but also modernize the aging hardware platform and replace the restri
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by zgramana 7y ago
Love this! I just wish the Bill of Rights had been a pull request that was merged once the 11 ratifying states approved it.
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by zgramana 7y ago
JyNI* was created to bridge Jython to Numpy. I don’t have any personal experience with it, but one need not wait for a GraalVM solution. * https://www.jyni.org/
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by zgramana 7y ago
If you haven’t checked it out already, you should take a look at Jython . As the name suggests, it’s a Java implementation of Python. https://www.jython.org/
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by zgramana 7y ago
This sort of self-dealing has been going on since the 1940’s, and was just the kind of problem that President Eisenhower alerted us to in his prophetic speech* warning the country about the military-industrial complex: “In the councils of g
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by zgramana 7y ago
I think the essay would have been better served getting to what appears to be the point much more directly: - The VW scandal was so shocking because executives and engineers exploited a societal taboo against lying - Was sustained for so lo
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by zgramana 7y ago
I’m more than a little surprised nobody has chimed in advocating Openfire, which is Apache 2.0, standards based (XMPP et. al.), extensible, and also has some pretty nice browser clients out there (e.g. conversejs).
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by zgramana 8y ago
When I read this I thought it was sarcastically “proving the point” of the root comment. MSNBC’s programming in the US evenings is largely opinion/political talk, and isn’t presented as news but as editorial. One can object to opinions
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by zgramana 8y ago
The problem with that map is that the annual average obscures the wide seasonal variation, which was the main thrust of my comment. The high winds come during the dry season, then die down during the bulk of the wet season.
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by zgramana 8y ago
If you live on the East Coast then you take the wind for granted. On the Pacific Coast, the winds blow fast and furious, especially as you go up in altitude. Its very hard to control a burn here on most days, especially given the water cycl
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by zgramana 8y ago
Microsoft skeptics fail to realize that most of the mid- and upper-level executives increasingly spent their entire career using, creating, and contributing to F/OSS software. Many of them were involved with early MSFT OSS efforts back
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by zgramana 8y ago
You can explain Apple’s problems with a much simpler albeit banal reason: its sheer size. It has grown massive. They took over the old Sun campus in Sunnyvale while the UFO was under construction, and shortly thereafter the word was that th
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by zgramana 8y ago
Ironically, it’s the daily activities such as flying glorious ocean fish on aircraft which dump huge amounts of CO2 and water vapor into the stratosphere, or trucking them in refrigerated trucks all across the country, that led to this prob
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by zgramana 8y ago
Authoritarianism is antithetical to rule of law. It “forces people to act against their own self-interest because The Authority says so.” This is why the US has long described itself as a “nation of laws”: to set itself apart from (non-cons
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by zgramana 8y ago
Cite your sources. The whole concept of a legal system is predicated on that very idea.
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by zgramana 8y ago
That's a fair concern, and one they now will now have to adequately address in order to keep users content. But unless you are AWS or Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft isn't competing with you. They may have similar products/s
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by zgramana 8y ago
It works great on macOS. ;) Support for a tertiary platform (in terms of addressable market share) like Linux desktops comes much later in this kind of product’s maturation. Teams needs to first gain wider enterprise adoption on Windows and
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by zgramana 8y ago
SMH. I used to work for Nat at Xamarin before it was acquired by MSFT. GitHub and Xamarin have had a long and deep relationship going back to at least 2012 (that I’m aware of anyway). Xamarin was run on GitHub. We never used any other versi
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by zgramana 8y ago
Thanks for that clarification. I wish the popular literature on the topic took similar pains to point this out. I can’t help but wonder if this is the root of much of the misguided interest in epigenetics.
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by zgramana 8y ago
Regarding mechanisms, I was under the impression that DNA methylation was widely accepted as a primary mechanism for epigenetic inheritance. Not so much, or is that one of those artificial scenarios you referenced?
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No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by zgramana 9y ago|0 comments
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by zgramana 9y ago
From a hardware perspective, it’s an easy problem to solve. This is a wetware problem, however. Back when ME’s were discrete, you would inevitably have some with, some without. Someone would order a bunch of machines without them to “save m

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