obel1x

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by obel1x 4y ago
When you are selecting an area you can hold option when dragging to move the top and left sides of the rectangle. This is useful to select exactly the right area.
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by obel1x 5y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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China's Tainted Cotton: Uighurs forced to pick cotton in Xinjiang(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by obel1x 6y ago|3 comments
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by obel1x 8y ago
sounds useful. i cd often. can you expand on your bookmarking system?
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by obel1x 8y ago
There is also Zipcar Flex in London. You can park the cars in on-street parking, even paid or residents bays. But they have only agreed it with some councils so far. Map: https://www.zipcar.co.uk/takethebluepin#zipzone-map
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by obel1x 9y ago
It doesn't say that all land is discovered. It only shows data about oceans; it's called "Unknown Oceans" and shows data from the Census of Marine Life.
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by obel1x 9y ago
why does allocating "pi^2 for a gold, pi for a silver and 1 for a bronze" mean "there could never be any tie in the total scores except when two countries had exactly the same medal counts in all three categories"?
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Amazon Rekognition Update – Estimated Age Range for Faces(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by obel1x 10y ago|0 comments
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by obel1x 11y ago
the linked filename says v2.9?
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by obel1x 11y ago
Initiative taken! :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alphabet-incs-goog...
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by obel1x 11y ago
There was a great talk on the topic of CRISPR-Cas9 at the Hacker News London meet up this month by Edward Perello. Video is here: https://vimeo.com/137001197 . It's a good introduction to the topic from a hacker's
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by obel1x 11y ago
This got me thinking about something. What's to stop an unscrupulous developer selling an app for, say, $1.99 with the (implied) promise that the app will work forever and then, once people have bought it, turning off the backend so it
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by obel1x 11y ago
In the bar I used to work in we used to give the change to customers on a tray to prompt the customer to give us a tip. So I always assume that's why they are being used.
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by obel1x 11y ago
Which part of the architecture causes the latency? The author says it's between 2 and 13 seconds and is faster the more users there are - why would that be the case?