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by fudgie 2mo ago
There's a blast from the past. At 16 years old I created Multi-Ripper with a friend, using AsmOne, and smartly included my phone-number in the mods it converted. My parents really appreciated random strangers calling years later.
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by fudgie 7y ago
One factor is that the price of gas is about $1.6/L (~$6/gallon), while electricity still is very cheap. Most people also don't generally need to drive all that far, so a shorter-range electric car is perfect for daily drivin
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by fudgie 7y ago
There absolutely are PEDs that increase your maximum ability when it comes to endurance sports, like EPO. A reporter tried microdosing EPO ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32983932 ) and experienced a 7% increase i
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by fudgie 9y ago
All countries in NATO have promised to spend 2% of GDP by 2024, yes.
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by fudgie 9y ago
According to Michael E. Mann, in 2100 it's +4.5C with no action, +3.5C with just the Paris Accord, and +1.8C with ratcheting up. ( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBQpulkWAAE2mrc.jpg )
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by fudgie 10y ago
You can watch a timelapse of the whole inauguration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdantUf5tXg which shows that the image shared was correct.
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by fudgie 10y ago
I'm guessing he was referring to the Macedonian teenagers from https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
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by fudgie 10y ago
They do - http://store.steampowered.com/curators/recommendedcurators/
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by fudgie 10y ago
Sorry? That article doesn't contain your quote and has no information that was given off the record as far as I can see? Claiming that an interview done by NYT vs something leaked to the media requires the same protocol is also quite a
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by fudgie 10y ago
From the facebook statement about the percent fake news, they state Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic. which isn't the same as 1% of the news items being fake, since they don&#
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by fudgie 10y ago
http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ is a good demonstration of this effect. Quite eyeopening.
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by fudgie 10y ago
Are you talking about the nimble navigator thingie he tried running on reddit/The_Donald?
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by fudgie 10y ago
I've only seen these sites being accused of being leftist, so shouldn't there be a market for a right-leaning one?
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by fudgie 10y ago
How is asking for permission to use off the record statements in an article creating fake news?
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by fudgie 10y ago
It's a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKH6PAoUuD0 (swearing and loud noices) and they've adopted it as an internal name for themselves.
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by fudgie 10y ago
A paper called Precomputed Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04382 ) uses a different approach with similar results and runs about 500 times faster giv
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by fudgie 11y ago
All know motors for race bikes rotate the cranks when engaged, and his are stationary. You can also see another example here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TWDNhWDlY#t=41
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by fudgie 11y ago
Something like https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style which applies the style from one image to another.
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by fudgie 11y ago
Mythbusters had a go at testing plane boarding time and customer statisfaction: http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding
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by fudgie 11y ago
Trusted devices/wifi networks in Android feels smooth too. As long as my phone is close to my smartwatch or home network it's unlocked already.
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by fudgie 12y ago
Isn't the Pebble using E-Paper and not E-Ink? Wikipedia says the original Pebble used an 144×168 pixel Sharp Memory LCD ( http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html )
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by fudgie 12y ago
Don't you mean caller pays? Otherwise I could make someone else spend money just by calling them.
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by fudgie 16y ago
Remember that it's currently not possible to actually buy apps a lot of places in the world. Android has a pretty high market share here in Norway, but we can only use free apps. I have no idea what's taking Google so long. Anyone know the
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by fudgie 16y ago
One great reason for me to get a Kindle is that my kids are completely uninterested in it. If I try to read something on the iPad while they're awake, they jump all over me until I let them play games on it.
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by fudgie 16y ago
It's never bothered me. After a short while you learn to start turning the page a bit before you're done reading the current page, and the actual page turn happens just as you're ready for it.
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by fudgie 16y ago
Or you could just install glTail - http://www.fudgie.org which I wrote to do exactly this, with multiple parsers and OpenGL display.
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by fudgie 16y ago
Might want to have a look at glTail for that purpose as well. It also helps with showing management why you need that shiny new server. :-)
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by fudgie 16y ago
Norway here as well.
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by fudgie 17y ago
Several companies offer this here in Norway. We used to live in a building with 140 apartments, and it shocked me that we had to work for close to 6 months to find more than 10 people interested in getting a true 1Gbps link installed. The r
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by fudgie 17y ago
Way back in 2000, when we launched Planetarion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarion ), we used C++ with a custom webframework, and CORBA for communicating with the database. At our peak late in 2002, we served about 320 million dynami

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