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That depends on the sensitivity of the film and the strength of the X-ray imager. 100 ISO through carry on once? Probably no issue. Instead of once, 8x? You'll see things. ISO 1600 through carry…
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While it is in the past, chasing links
( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/465068187/wild-gears-20... to https://www.facebook.com/WildGearsPlay to htt…
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> Buy this AWS IoT Button for $19.95 and receive a $20.00 credit in your AWS account within 24 hours of your first press. If you are paying for any AWS, it's free too.
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Rather than the hacked amazon dash button, have you seen the AWS IoT Button? https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ That might be easier to work into the system on a future refactori…
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> Compiles to binary which could bring benefits depending on your needs (compared to JS, Java, Scala..) While its not there _yet_, JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation ( http://openjdk.jav…
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They don't have swift in there yet, and it doesn't look like it supports a three way compare, but... http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/c-3/scala …
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Short version: * The steps to allow for censorship in the software and diminish the visibility of asshattery is a necessary thing.
* It is unfortunate that it wasn't done before.
* It is a patter…
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4.5) Central planning for various industries to reduce logistics costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myf_bJv20NE touches on it (26 minutes in). That you can order a chip you need.…
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There is wifi blocking paint and wallpaper. http://www.lessemf.com/paint.html for example. That said, this may not be desirable if you have a cellphone without a local nanocell or voi…
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There is wifi blocking paint and wallpaper. http://www.lessemf.com/paint.html for example. That said, this may not be desirable if you have a cellphone without a local nanocell or voi…
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Wired networking isn't an option with iDevices. And with disappearing ports on a laptop, a bit more challenging now.
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That minimum order is significantly higher than the price of the part from Germany... even with shipping. And with the gear, one spare isn't that useful... and the parts for the trike ( http:&#…
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The related question would be "what is your minimum order?' That's where a personal water cutter may work better for some. The occasional use is indeed a question - and how much additi…
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The "I wish I had that" recently was for some custom one off parts for a recumbent tandem trike. The part did exist as a standard manufactured part... in Germany. There is also an online bik…
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The article does generally reflect what I've seen - not only with outsourcing, but also reflects the general cultural predisposition of people that I've worked with, in the US, from those pl…
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To help support your position, corn has been modified to produce vitamin C. Vitamin A typically comes from genetically modified soy. Riboflavin mostly comes from genetically modified microorganisms. …
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A chemistry professor that I was acquainted with did this as one of his lecture demonstrations. Shakhashiri (and he's still doing it - http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/BZSPresentation…
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It should be pointed out that Gore wasn't contesting the count. Florida automatically has a recount if the difference is 0.5% or less for an office or issue ( http://www.ncsl.org&#x…
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You can. Just you need to go the route of a vacuum airship instead. Or go for a hot helium balloon. While admittedly science fiction, The Clouds of Saturn
by Michael McCollum explores this a bit.
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Pay to get SFW only gifs. :frown: Sure, if you're paying for slack already... but if its "just" a bunch of friends, the idea of shelling out money to make sure that NSFW images don…
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This setup certainly makes IDEs cry. That said, I'm willing to wait a revision or two of IntelliJ to see what they come out with while I enjoy the use of my 2014 MBP.
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The distinction I was trying to make was "facilitating illegal activities and snubbing those charged with enforcement is not a viable business model." The risk / reward of fines isn…
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As I read it, there's a point you made in the final paragraph that is kind of missed in the first paragraph. > the state of New York added teeth to the existing law > It basically invalidat…
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Most applicable to our profession is that of T43.616A: Underdosing of caffeine, initial encounter
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One can easily browse the patents and newly submitted inventions that are registered to the WARF: http://www.warf.org/technologies/new-patents.cmsx - the sidebar organizes them b…
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Having seen far too many questions on sites about software design where someone starts out with "How do I use a Factory to solve...", I would contend that the GoF had far too much influence …
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That incidentally is the idea behind Patterns... not this "pick a pattern to solve the problem" - or worse yet, "here's a Pattern, find the problem to solve." The shard langua…
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Elsewhere on the net, there are two sites that convention mandated a warning flag for fear of clicking the rest of the afternoon following interesting things. TVTropes... and C2.