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Re:Theranos.World on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:10PM (#50013105)
The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.
Re:Run a script when police raid your house on Friday January 23, 2015 @11:33AM (#8935679)
Just curious, what is the root event (events?) of your PTSD?
Re:The rise of fake engine noise on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:13AM (#8929518)
>You know, deaf people have managed to survive by looking around before they step onto the road.

And what about blind people?

Re:A new way to lock your computers: just walk away on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:43PM (#8918162)
Android already does this. It's called Smart Lock. Just set your computer as a trusted device:

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922?hl=en-CA

Re:F.lux Privacy Policy on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:17AM (#8878443)
Just curious, why are you posting this? Is there a point you're trying to make?
Re:Farm 432 on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:25PM (#8859733)
>For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs.

Generally, we eat the innards, not the exoskeleton.

Re:Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @11:13AM (#8819840)
Rice does certainly work as a mild desiccant. Admittedly it is not a terribly effective desiccant, but it still has those properties.
> "Page even went as far as suggesting that everyone give their money to a corporation that was trying to accomplish big stuff."

We call that investing.

Re:Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid on Friday December 12, 2014 @12:58PM (#8741625)
Why not just use constants?
Former ActionScript developer here. Can confirm, it was actually pretty great. It's a hell of a lot more of a cleaner language than Javascript, for instance.

Don't forget that most game UIs are still built in ActionScript, and they're just fine.

Re:2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:37AM (#8557006)
It's a bit misleading of a conclusion to make, because most of those changes likely aren't non-compatible changes.

For instance, maybe a chip goes out of manufacturing, and they can no longer get it supplied, but a successor product from the same supplier meets all the same requirements.

Perhaps a bracket goes out of manufacture, but an almost identical bracket is sourced from a different supplier.

This would qualify as a hardware modification, but is a non-breaking change.

Re:Everything You Need to Know About Cooking with Blood on Saturday October 18, 2014 @08:29PM (#8476855)
I'm curious, where do you live? Do you make this observation coming from South Korea, or, for example, Los Angeles?
Re:Introducing GIFV on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:00PM (#8433174)
We have a format for something like that — WebP. As a bonus, it's less processor-intensive, which makes it suited for things like tiling backgrounds, or embedding many of them on a page — a huge problem for MP4s that anyone who's enabled the on their services has no doubt already discovered.
Re:Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @04:47PM (#8229443)
Microsoft didn't coin the term. It's been in use for at least the last few years.

See T&L's online Google Maps Hyperlapse tool, from 2012:

http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/hyperlapse

Re:Show HN: Album Release “8-bit” Raycaster in JavaScript on Thursday August 21, 2014 @05:20PM (#8209695)
Same. And if you escape the mouse, it allows you to look, but gets even more glitchy.
Re:Gulp.js: The streaming build system on Thursday August 21, 2014 @02:54PM (#8208991)
Adding gulp-plumber will fix this, but I agree, it should be available out of the box.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-plumber

Re:Gulp.js: The streaming build system on Thursday August 21, 2014 @01:05PM (#8208367)
"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel."

This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.

Re:Tesla's Infinite Mile Warranty on Friday August 15, 2014 @04:56PM (#8184157)
There are reports that this has already been solved.

http://transportevolved.com/2014/08/11/tesla-model-s-drivetr...

Moreover:

Speaking a few weeks ago at the Q2 earnings call, Tesla Motors [NASDAQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla’s approach — replacing the drivetrain of affected cars under warranty at an estimated cost of $15,000 per case — was more about customer satisfaction than anything else. “Our optimization was customer happiness. And so we knew exactly what to do. We just wanted to give people their car back right away,” he said.

Re:The Thermodynamic Ice Bag on Sunday July 20, 2014 @12:59PM (#8060827)
Extra awesome bonus point: When they were first testing their rockets, they used their submarine as a tow/tug for their launch platform. Yeah, these guys are crazy awesome.
Re:Adobe's New Pen and Ruler on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:38AM (#7914871)
Sure, but the public perception is that he was.
Re:The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:18AM (#7804889)
Can you address danieltillett's question regarding anaerobes?
Re:Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired on Monday May 26, 2014 @04:25PM (#7801438)
YES ALL INDIE POP
Re:OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:51AM (#7634758)
Oppo and OnePlus are actually not the same company.
Ten seconds seems like an incredibly liberal estimate. You need a pretty decent "margin of error" reserve. I'd wager we're looking at something more like 30-60s of fuel during the last stages of landing, at least. So let's call it something like 2-3% of the fuel.
Re:The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:31PM (#7562587)
Your first note is irrelevant, since all modern phones have a (hot) CPU running while the phone is active. It's why phones don't rely on their temperature sensors for ambient readings in the first place even if they have them.
Re:PopcornTime official website is back on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:14AM (#7522538)
This is a clone, not the official site.
Okay, any reason that would succeed where VRML failed? I just don't see it.
Re:Flappy Thirds on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @12:13PM (#7474394)
"Hey, what if we designed our entire core game mechanic around a pun?"
Re:Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO on Monday March 24, 2014 @01:42PM (#7459794)
That's somewhat disappointing. Has he ever made a public statement on this?
Re:Update on Julie Horvath's Departure on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:29PM (#7412785)
>Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

No, it isn't. It's standard operating procedure pretty much everywhere to put employees on leave while an investigation is conducted. It shouldn't be construed as an admission at all.

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