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by kfury 12y ago
Thanks!
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by kfury 13y ago
The real Bender's eyes have square pupils.
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by kfury 13y ago
Though there's no Neopixel library at the level of the current one for Arduino, you could drive the whole system off of the Imp. Mozilla built two RGB LED tickers, driven by an Imp, and installed them on their blimp: http://
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by kfury 13y ago
It's spinning in the right direction if you're a satellite in a mid-altitude equatorial orbit.
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by kfury 13y ago
Their 'Mentors' page is... interesting: http://socraticlabs.com/Mentors.html
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by kfury 13y ago
The Kepler analysis team has only gone through the first two years worth of data. There are still two more years worth of exoplanets for us.
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by kfury 13y ago
Some Ekranoplans (like the Lun mentioned in the article) have the ability to fly above the ground effect zone, though less efficiently. If rogue waves (or other rough sea) can be spotted far enough ahead, the plane could increase altitude o
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by kfury 13y ago
Thank you! Wow, on a Retina display this looks just amazing.
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by kfury 13y ago
These seem to be very low resolution (~500px). Are there high resolutions available? I tried finding one for Van Gogh's 'Irises' and couldn't.
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by kfury 13y ago
Ahh, yes. A little digging shows that these tests are done at their McGregor, TX test site, and McGregor is well within hearing and visual range of the tests. https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=spacex&data=!1m4!
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by kfury 13y ago
A launch is completely different from a private short-range test on a closed site. You could watch a launch live, and they are very public about the timing, purpose, and location of launches before they happen. The Grasshopper tests (to my
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by kfury 13y ago
Does SpaceX document all their tests publicly? Or are we just seeing the successful ones? (If they've all been successful ones, will we see unsuccessful ones if they come in the future?)
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by kfury 13y ago
The spellchecker doesn't actually kick in all that often. The better solution is to give flags back differentiating between 'unlikely' and 'impossible' email addresses.
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by kfury 13y ago
Oh the edge cases will be so angry. There are a very few engineers at Google who have Gmail account names shorter than 6 characters. It's not the norm, but they exist. Their addresses can't be validated. I'm sure there are sp
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by kfury 13y ago
People have waited through so many failed attempts to record the drop that nobody wants to mention that they didn't 'really' record an unassisted drop. The bead is still connected when it hits bottom, and the tail doesn'
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Thank you for using Google Reader.(kfury.com)
5 points by kfury 13y ago|1 comments
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A modest Google Calendar proposal(kfury.com)
5 points by kfury 13y ago|1 comments
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by kfury 13y ago
I read his blog post and wondered why he didn't just OAuth in. You're absolutely right. I just assumed he was on a Gmail account.
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by kfury 13y ago
I really like the side-by-side comparison, buy why use a dark, non-default background for the iOS 6 home screen and a light one for the iOS 7 home screen? It looks like you're tossing objectivity to push a point.
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by kfury 13y ago
Yeah, "I am high as a kite" and "Finally" are two I like to put in when I can. Gruber defined the genre. I just like to visit it.
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by kfury 13y ago
You should. It's really good.
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Translation of National Intelligence Director’s 193-word statement about PRISM(kfury.com)
29 points by kfury 13y ago|7 comments
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by kfury 13y ago
This is a superb point. When the photo is supposed to document the interview the photographer can't be the interviewer. It would be like a news reporter filming themselves.
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by kfury 13y ago
An iPhone is never faster than a pro DSLR. From hip to eye, power on and shooting in under a second. There's a reason the power switch is part of the shutter.
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by kfury 13y ago
Read it again, and note that not all news photography is photojournalism.
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by kfury 13y ago
Take someone with a DSLR on their hip and someone with an iPhone in their pocket and see who can get the shots you want. Subjects don't stand still and they won't wait for you to be ready.
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by kfury 13y ago
And my comment wasn't about photojournalism. Thinking journalists can become photojournalists by telling them to snap pictures (with their phone or with professional glass) is even more ridiculous than the Sun-Times is being. Don't conflate
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by kfury 13y ago
I do joke, but with truth. As Al Franken popularized it, I was 'kidding on the square'.
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by kfury 13y ago
You think you're using hyperbole but many articles going out nowadays never get read by an editor who actually edits for tone, readability, spelling, or even accuracy. And the janitorial staff? You might be surprised to know how many of the
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by kfury 13y ago
Will they teach their journalists how to take shallow depth-of-field shots and long telephoto shots with their iPhones? Probably not, since you can't. Given the 'yes and' style of derivative news reporting commonplace today, the Sun-Times m

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