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EwanG

1,378karma·583submissions·November 21, 2010
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Writer, Photographer, Programmer - Not necessarily in that order
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Presuming you are given free access to a USB port on the computer - and as we all know once you have physical control security is somewhat out the window anyway.
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Link to a page about their special issue, though it does have a TL;DR of each article. Seems that they are almost equally split between utopia (energy is free and we can make everything) and dystopia …
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I would certainly throw money at such a tool, but the question then becomes scope. Autodesk has their Character Generator and Adobe bought out Fuse that has a competing product. But there is still not…
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Key quotes from the article: "This method can enable the simultaneous emission of two photons that are “entangled,” meaning they share the same quantum state even when separated. Such generation …
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In case there's anyone out there who doesn't get the context that Charlie is alluding to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co …
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But can you tell me when the Stone Oak area of San Antonio will get fiber? Sorry, but living with TWC is a bear, and am hoping an actual date that I can add to the calendar of when to cancel would mak…
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OK, so will any of these programs let me give a quick character description, a setting, a general outline of the story, and then give me a couple hundred pages that I need to lightly edit? Because at …
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From the article: "Fly with me now, on a tour through the world of elevation data" Basically a nice article talking about how the data is gathered, stored, and sometimes used.
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Which takes me to a google search page with the article as the top link, and when I click it I still get the paywall. Something I'm missing?
10y ago·view thread
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A five part series trying to translate the statistics of the upcoming Portland quake into understandable "speculative fiction".
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Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL - this discusses what that means and some of the decisions that went into it's design and implementation.
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Was just in there.
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If you need an explanation of how Go might help your organization, this discusses how Uber does GeoFencing using the language.
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History of A2 milk, and a bit of discussion as to what little science there is behind the difference in A1 protein inclusive milk and A2 only milk.
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Yeah, I should probably program a bot to do this eventually. It's more that I get tired (personally) of seeing an article on the front page with no discussion, and from some of the titles wonderi…
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Case study of building a website. Feels a bit more like an ad for the website than a real case study, but that may be me.
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From the article - "WebThemis works in Google Chrome as PNaCl module; it can be loaded during regular web session, or used as a library within Chrome App" - "Directly calling cryptograp…
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Quick Summary - Not having enough data to access won't affect your results as much as you might think, and so shouldn't prevent you from trying out Deep Learning.
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Basically the poster suggests that because SongFlip was created by a former Google employee that it's getting special treatment.
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Overview direct from the article - "CacheBleed is a side-channel attack that exploits information leaks through cache-bank conflicts in Intel processors. By detecting cache-bank conflicts via min…
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One particular approach to Climate Studies - "Coexistance Approach" - is being criticized by folks following the other approaches. And it appears that the controversy is heating up (sorry...…
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Possibly no one (according to this account), but the rumors that Charles I may have been involved made it much easier to behead him 20 years later.
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Short version - The fellow responsible for licensing the $1K Hepatitis C treatment to generic companies in poorer countries talks about the challenges in getting them out there, and making sure they d…
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Short version - If you tend to use a USB-A to USB-C cable it's probably worth a second or third look. USB-C straight through is probably less of a concern after some research.
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Reader's Digest Version - Rotten teeth weren't really much of a problem until we started living from agriculture in earnest. By then we had already mastered stone arrow tips, which scrape aw…
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Great discussion of the cohort studies in the UK, and what results are coming out from the late 40s, 80s, and Millennial cohorts.
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If I may add, putting a title on the videos in your promo might help as well. I saw a couple interesting shots in the "trailer" but couldn't figure out which programs those may have com…
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Has been going on for a while. As I wrote about a couple years ago with my own experience: http://a1.blogspot.com/2014/08/zoes-secret-is-3-at-amazon.ht... …
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