PopePompous

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by PopePompous 8y ago
Tasker can be combined with Termux, to allow scripts to be run in response to events like battery charging etc. The combo is very powerful.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
From the article: "The newly formed million-processor-core ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or ‘SpiNNaker’ machine is capable of completing more than 200 million million actions per second, with each of its chips having 100 millio
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Yes, I've switched to the HTML version permanently, and I hope others do the same. Maybe if Google sees enough people switching to HTML, they'll get an idea of how popular their new version is.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Yes, and fiber optic cables to the summit were cut.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
There is something to be said for having at least one 30 meter class telescope in the Northern hemisphere. There are parts of the sky which are never visible from Chile.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Your point about there being no universally recognized Native Hawaiian representative organization is a very good one. There's no group or finite set of groups, that the TMT could reach an agreement with (by providing scholarships, e
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by PopePompous 8y ago
I don't think this ruling changes much. The TMT project had permission to start construction 3 years ago. They could not even hold the ground-breaking ceremony, because protesters blocked the access road. Every time the TMT constr
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Actually, when I was a Fed worker, I was told that browsing porn sites was one of the very few things that could lead to immediate termination, without the usual Civil Service procedures (which take years to play out).
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by PopePompous 8y ago
I think characterizing the Challenger launch decision as murder is unfair. At worst it was manslaughter.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
There are things which are provably impossible. No amount of future cleverness will change that. It is, for example, impossible to find three nonzero positive integers A, B and C for which the cube of A plus the cube of B equals the cub
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Many, many things are impossible. Try solving the halting problem, for example.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
The article does not address what I think is the Achille's Heel of crypto currencies: Controlling the money supply is one of the most powerful rights that a government has. Why do you think the governments in the EU have not unified
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by PopePompous 8y ago
I agree with everything you said. But just as important as the technical leap was the business model improvement. Before the iPhone, at least in the US, carriers dictated what functions could and could not be present in the phones. Th
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by PopePompous 8y ago
"state machines" - nice pun in this context.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Perhaps the video should start at 01:59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA&t=1m59s
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Yes. If you report a spectacular result, and it is not proven wrong within ~5 years, its effect on your career is almost the same as if the result had been correct. The unfortunate thing for these folks is that their claim was shot down q
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by PopePompous 8y ago
I think your estimate of 99% is a wee bit high. At least in the field I'm familiar with, astronomy, the idea of using Excel for any serious computation or design would be met with laughter.
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Science publication is moving (very, very, very slowly) towards a model where instead of a final, polished traditional paper, the raw data along with the software tools and interpretation is published. In principle this should allow reade
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by PopePompous 8y ago
Also, the persons most comfortable with a radically different publishing model like PR are apt to be young researchers, but they are the ones most in need of establishing a reputation by publishing in established, prestigious journals.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
As far as I can tell, the only advantage Siri has over Google Assistant is its integration with Wolfram Alpha. If you ask Siri "What is the angular diameter of Mars?" it will tell you the current angular diameter of Mars. Go
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by PopePompous 9y ago
GNURoot Debian is broken in Android Oreo, and nobody seems to be in any hurry to fix that. Termux still works well, though.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
I grew up in Des Moines, 50ish years ago, and at that time the downtown area was a dirty, depressing dump that most people only ventured to if they had to go to court. Now the downtown area is one of the most fun parts of the city, and th
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by PopePompous 9y ago
Des Moines + its suburbs has a population of 400,000 to 600,000 depending on just where you stop counting suburbs . It's a really nice town.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
I cannot explain how I form the sentences I speak. I still find speaking useful.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
They might have trouble selling their chips. They optimize far more towards performance over price than Qualcomm does. Apple can afford to do that, because of its high profit margins. Potential buyers probably couldn't afford that
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by PopePompous 9y ago
Sorry - It was ignorance.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
The Ig Nobel Prize people really should honor this group.
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by PopePompous 9y ago
It's depressing to see adults participate in such a stupid publicity stunt. Their silly clock was at 7 minutes to midnight during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Does anyone think we're in a more dangerous moment now than we were
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by PopePompous 9y ago
Another big problem is that 401Ks have a "longevity risk". Saving as an individual, you must save enough to handle the very remote possibility that you will live past age 100. A pension fund, on the other hand, can safely assu
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by PopePompous 9y ago
Yes, there were many witchhunts. But they concerned (almost always false) accusations of child abuse , not child pornography. If you posted a picture that was purported to depict child abuse, but which was in no way sexual, I don&#x27

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