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by bhassel 5y ago
A few quotes from that document (from 2018): Each time a phone connects to a cell site, it generates a time-stamped record known as cell-site location information (CSLI). Wireless carriers collect and store this information for their own
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by bhassel 5y ago
The google TV chromecast does support wired ethernet, but you need to buy the separate adapter for it.
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by bhassel 6y ago
ArsTechnica article discussing this paper (and one other), with a bit of background information: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/two-ways-of-performi...
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by bhassel 6y ago
According to their visitor stats [1], April is busier than the five months preceding it, so I suppose it's relative. 1: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/visitation.htm
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by bhassel 7y ago
> In another break with industry practice, the chip won’t be sold on its own, but will be packaged into a computer “appliance” that Cerebras has designed. One reason is the need for a complex system of water-cooling, a kind of irrigation
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by bhassel 7y ago
That was briefly touched on in the article: > One approach that has been discussed recently is to create a pointcloud using stereo cameras (similar to how our eyes use parallax to judge distance). So far this hasn’t proved to be a great
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by bhassel 7y ago
From https://www.bostondynamics.com/handle : Handle is a robot that combines the rough-terrain capability of legs with the efficiency of wheels. It uses many of the same principles for dynamics, balance, and mobile manipula
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by bhassel 8y ago
It sounds like 170,000 is every possible combination of actions that might ever be valid. They stated that usually around 1000 are valid at any point in time. Based on the examples under the "Model structure" section, I'm gue
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by bhassel 9y ago
One that was certainly cool at the time, but has since burned up and was superseded by a collaborative effort. :p
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by bhassel 9y ago
I'm curious how? This FAQ page on their site claims you cannot search email contents, although they plan to support that in their upcoming Protonmail Bridge (which works with a desktop client to search locally): https://pro
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by bhassel 11y ago
If you stood on something acting as a lever that reduced the weight on your phone, you could probably make it work...
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by bhassel 11y ago
Yeah, I noticed that blocking the microsoft-int.com domain lets the page load just fine, without the hang. (I'm using the RequestPolicy addon in Firefox.)
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by bhassel 11y ago
That's a serious disappointment for me. I had my wallet in hand ready to buy, but I don't think I can go back to dealing with a charging cable. Wireless is so much easier... being able to grab my phone off its charge pad and retur
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by bhassel 12y ago
From some quick searching, apparently it's closed-source, but built on top of Chromium's rendering engine (Blink).
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by bhassel 12y ago
The newest (2015) X1 Carbon brought back those buttons: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8821/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...
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by bhassel 12y ago
This isn't really meant to compete with economy parking though, it is? Parking nearer the terminal at LAX is apparently $30 a day.
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by bhassel 12y ago
Disliking patents doesn't mean I think ideas (and this idea in particular) are worthless -- the opposite, ideas like this are hugely valuable, and as you say, they can become even more valuable when they are shared and improved upon. A
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by bhassel 12y ago
Palmer responded to some of the criticisms on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of... : ---- "I am sorry that you are disappointed. To be honest, if I were you, I would
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by bhassel 13y ago
You can add special characters to your address bar search to restrict it to only browsing history, or bookmarks, etc. There is a list of them here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...
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by bhassel 13y ago
Right click -> Inspect element (in FF / Chrome)? All sorts of ways to "cheat" there, but not sure what that would accomplish.
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by bhassel 13y ago
That link seems to only work if you are signed in to Google...
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by bhassel 13y ago
quick fix to make it readable on firefox, I right-clicked on the paragraph -> Inspect Element, selected the div.single-content and removed the "float:left" CSS rule.
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by bhassel 13y ago
That article is specifically about using your phone as a GPS while it's in your hand. Using it hands-free in a car dock is a different matter (and much closer to the Glass scenario). From the article you linked: Had Spriggs’s cell
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by bhassel 13y ago
AMD had been releasing documentation for their Radeon GPUs, as well as supporting development of the open source radeon driver for linux ( http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ and http://www.x.org/docs&#x2
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by bhassel 14y ago
I agree that people without a clue have no business voting. But be careful making the assumption that someone who "can't be bothered to vote" is less informed. Even the well-informed can end up thinking "my vote doesn't matter anyway, so w
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by bhassel 14y ago
Clicking the top corner of the page works for me, as well arrow keys (on Firefox + Linux). It did take me a bit too long to figure out though...
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by bhassel 14y ago
Doesn't have a countdown timer, but the Spaceflight Now mission page has a pre- and post-launch timeline, as well as status updates: http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/status.html Here is a countdown timer until 3:44:38 EDT (the sched
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by bhassel 15y ago
I admit I know very little about how cell phone networks work, but why would the phone need to transmit anything to determine network congestion? Surely it could figure this out just by listening, right? Maybe with the help of the towers
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by bhassel 15y ago
I am guessing he is referring to this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/8147...
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by bhassel 15y ago
Yeah, I just tried it, and apparently typing a protocol in front replaces the hidden ' http:// . As long as you can assume that the protocol is always http:// when hidden, I think I'm ok with this.

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