ciaron

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by ciaron 2y ago
That sounds fascinating! I'd love to see the results when it's ready.
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by ciaron 4y ago
Agreed, but I find for even these simple tasks it's hit-and-miss for accuracy. My Google device will randomly not know what a "shopping list" is, or the interactions go something like this: "Hey Google, put dishwasher sa
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by ciaron 4y ago
I watched this video a couple of years ago and was blown away by what can be done with shaders.
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by ciaron 5y ago
> uses the outdated stats that claim nuclear kills less people than solar and wind. What's the latest data on this? I had also assumed this was still the case.
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by ciaron 5y ago
I used to work in aerospace. One of my projects involved running avionics bench tests at a customer facility, basically the avionic subsystem of the aircraft in a big room on shelves. We were using a laptop for data logging and started gett
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by ciaron 8y ago
However, the homepage claims "Our software was designed to answer most needs, from basic video editing to professional work."
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by ciaron 8y ago
Germany too.
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by ciaron 8y ago
Clifford Pickover has some great books, I can't recommend them enough if you're interested in the intersection between maths and art.
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by ciaron 9y ago
Not only that, but the pesticides permitted on organic crops are sometimes more harmful than synthetic pesticides. edit: https://risk-monger.blogactiv.eu/2015/11/12/the-risk-mongers...
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by ciaron 10y ago
I'm fascinated by this. The Conet Project has lots of audio recordings of numbers stations for download: https://archive.org/details/ird059
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by ciaron 13y ago
Just a heads up: Firefox doesn't load the whole article - just up to the first map image. Works in Chrome.
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by ciaron 13y ago
I can second this - Linode has always responded quickly and effectively in my experience.
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by ciaron 13y ago
I understand what you mean. I don't imagine I could work very long on a project like this with asking myself if it's the most important problem I could be solving. But we don't know these guys, they may feel the same and this is a means to
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by ciaron 14y ago
I started out with a Dragon 32 at around age 14, typing in programs from computer magazines. When I went to university (in 1989), I studied Aeronautical Engineering, which had no computer science or programming at all. I chose a final year
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by ciaron 15y ago
There's GoCardless ( https://gocardless.com ), currently UK only, but their FAQ says they're planning a European rollout by mid-2012.
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by ciaron 16y ago
This is very nice and simple, I like it a lot. One thing I would change is to make the "Select the thing to be added" pane disappear after I've selected something, or add a close button so I can get rid of it.