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by Calcite 6mo ago
And if they switched their phone’s locale to a non-US country, then the distance would show up with 1-kilometre precision. Nearly 40% more accurate!
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In the ChatGPT Age, Prompting Is the Language to Learn(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by Calcite 3y ago|0 comments
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by Calcite 3y ago
Meanwhile Europe is having morning tea and APAC evening news catch up...
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Making the Grade(verticallifemag.com.au)
14 points by Calcite 6y ago|1 comments
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A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. and Russia’s Undersea Agenda(nytimes.com)
3 points by Calcite 6y ago|0 comments
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by Calcite 6y ago
This is just Amazon’s first move. They definitely have most of Zapier’s use cases on their roadmap at this point.
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NZ considering $100M contact tracing ‘CovidCard’(newsroom.co.nz)
37 points by Calcite 6y ago|34 comments
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by Calcite 7y ago
In the MONA museum in Tasmania, they have real life versions of the “renders”. It was amazing to see the inoperable bicycles in front of me.
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by Calcite 7y ago
Link: https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/
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by Calcite 8y ago
I like how they’ve compared ML clusters to US cities. Fundamentally, it’s still a continuous distribution between the five variables with four “hot spots”. >>>Revelle likened the types to the location and population of cities. More
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Time to rethink the meaning of work?(weforum.org)
20 points by Calcite 9y ago|11 comments
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by Calcite 9y ago
I've been baking a variant of this recipe for several years now. It's the best bread I've made at home hands down. If you have a dutch oven (even a large cookie tray and upside down stainless steel bowl will do the trick), do
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by Calcite 10y ago
Likely anti money laundering legislation.
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by Calcite 10y ago
The average salary is 73k£. 84k£ is adjusted to the cost of living in SF.
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Clash of the Titans: Blockchain Meets Quantum Computing(manage.kmail-lists.com)
2 points by Calcite 10y ago|0 comments
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by Calcite 10y ago
Direct PDF link: https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?I...
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by Calcite 10y ago
There's some serious head scratching going on when you watch the video. If you can, wait a day before watching the explanation. I'm not even sure what's going on after watching that!
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by Calcite 11y ago
I found out they have great Q&A videos on their YouTube channel. They answer here why golf ball dimples are unnecessary for a fin-like shape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXpZy_A7mMk
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by Calcite 11y ago
I've seen a few octopus while scuba diving in tropical waters. They are the most interesting species underwater. You can look at them for five minutes and it's absolutely fascinating. The way their skin changes texture and color i
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Flatbook: We pay your rent while you're away, guaranteed(producthunt.com)
2 points by Calcite 11y ago|0 comments
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by Calcite 11y ago
That's incorrect. The seconds hand moves 6 times in one second on my 7S26 movement (21,600 bph). On a modern Rolex, it would move 8 times in one second. You can check this with a high speed camera (such as the one in the iPhone 6). Non
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by Calcite 12y ago
The competition between Apple Pay, Facebook payments and Google Wallet will be fierce. Although, I don't see Coin or Plastc wildly succeeding, but they will set the tone for what's to come with mobile payments (flexibility and con
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by Calcite 12y ago
Aren't the machines in use today using the same technology? Instead of showing the full image, they are applying pattern matching and only showing suspect regions to the operators. Supposedly to protect privacy...
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by Calcite 12y ago
I wonder if these kind of initiatives slow the adoption of chip and pin credit cards in the US. If Amazon is willing to lower the fees for swipes, pin entered transactions could be even lower.
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by Calcite 12y ago
I can't believe this is still online. We used to do mini competition amongst friends when this was released. There was also a huge repository of designs made by others you could try out.
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by Calcite 12y ago
There is no detail of how this actually works. They are keeping everything secret. Easy to wonder if this is vaporware. "In order for this to work, however, the data is coded and decoded with the patented technology. [...] The company
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by Calcite 12y ago
Washington Post has a very bad mobile experience. How am I supposed to read this? http://imgur.com/DyePAYJ
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The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host(narrative.ly)
148 points by Calcite 12y ago|30 comments
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by Calcite 12y ago
This makes it much easier to relate climate for overseas countries. Ocean currents and other effects excluded, the weather in Japan can be similar to California. Another example, Cuba is directly aligned with Western Sahara.
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We wear Samsung’s Gear 2 and Gear Fit so you don’t have to(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Calcite 12y ago|0 comments

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