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Re:Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018
on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:58AM (#15310403)
GPS, Relativity, and pop-Science Mythology
http://www.alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm
Re:Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes
on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:48PM (#6963592)
It's not permanent.
Google wants to make a point, they turn off the traffic faucet, Rap Genius repents, and things slowly return back to normal.
They don't even rank for "rap genius" right now. Their Facebook page does though.
Re:16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up
on Saturday November 23, 2013 @05:21PM (#6787672)
http://whois.domaintools.com/heavensgate.com
It has expired twice.
Re:Why I'm moving my clients to static blogging engines
on Saturday November 23, 2013 @04:11PM (#6787451)
For me it's out of necessity.
This is the third thing I tried to buy in the last few weeks, where my card was declined. All three were using Stripe to process payments.
The sellers all tell me they can't get any detailed errors from Stripe, and I should just check with my bank or try another card.
This is why I often choose Paypal when offered the choice. No bullshit errors about my card being declined or my address not being just right.
Why can't I make a buyer account at Stripe already?
I'll give you my credit card and address info once, I don't have to type all that again, you can verify me once and be done with it. You don't have to provide any wallet services, just let me give me damn money to all these businesses relying on you.
Re:Why don't metals bond when touched together?
on Friday November 22, 2013 @03:27PM (#6783491)
Another fun fact: there's a company using ultrasonic metal welding for 3D printing. They call it Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing.
Re:Internet Archive building damaged by fire
on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:23PM (#6691238)
"However, the fire did cause the loss of some materials that were being prepared for digitisation - the full extent of which is still being assessed."
The Mother of All Disruptions
I think you need to add a button. Same thing in level 4 with fireworks.
Re:Code Search API
on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:39PM (#6071652)
Malicious bots don't care if there is an API. They can screen scrape easily.
Re:What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?
on Thursday July 18, 2013 @03:58PM (#6066068)
Re:Automatic Summarization in Medium
on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @05:01AM (#6050661)
I was reading about various topics related to summarization recently, and I'm just wondering if your "modified keyword frequency" is some type of ConcGram.
http://www.lexically.net/downloads/version5/HTML/definition_...
Re:Update on Novena Open Laptop
on Saturday July 06, 2013 @04:44AM (#5998352)
I'd say the best exercise to start with, is to buy some bare PCBs from an open source project or two, and then try to source all the components yourself. I think I learned a lot about component types/specs/sizing/packaging doing this, even though I had zero EE experience.
I tried modifying some open source designs, as well as designing a board from scratch, using Eagle and Kicad last year. I found the software so cumbersome and maddening, I gave up rather quickly.
I've stumbled upon some better tools since then. I hope one of these will get me from idea to gerber with less heartburn.
* http://www.layouteditor.net/
Those are both free. On the commercial side, there are a lot of options, but I'm tempted to just buy Diptrace, which seems to have a good array of features and reasonably-priced licenses.