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18 days ago
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on: Lost Doctor Who episodes found
There are production stills that are used like a slide show and combined with the recorded audio.
Certain episodes have been reconstructed using animation such that the basic scene blocking and events are played out alongside the recorded audio.
TetOn
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1 year ago
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on: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
>(2) Given the complexity of the problem and the involvement of hundreds of research groups and dozens of national and international funding agencies, why give a Nobel Prize to just a couple of research group heads for this new understanding?
Because these two were directly responsible for the discovery and the initial understanding of the mechanism of what was going on. The depth and quantity of the resulting research, funding, and all the other streams of new jobs or additional lines of research are follow-on results from the finding, which to me is a metric that highlights the enormity of their achievement and the richly deserved nature of this award.
TetOn
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2 years ago
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on: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.
TetOn
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3 years ago
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on: Google’s Android Automotive OS is coming to BMW cars next year
Correct. Poorly named, but Android Automotive is the equivalent of the iDrive software that runs in the BMW center panel (in the absence of any other user device)...CarPlay or Android Auto could still overlay that assuming the carmaker supports it.
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
Apple Watch is not required; it is a convenience option that can be used to unlock the phone if you are masked.
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: Why Hypercard had to die (2011)
> You have to learn web programming to do anything.
Sorry, but I don't see how that is at all different than "you have to learn the Hypercard scripting language to do anything."
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data
I see this so routinely with USPS delivery that I now assume "ah, this will arrive some time tomorrow" when I get the "Delivered" notification.
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: Federal law enforcement agents to Chicago, Albuquerque
The police union requested this. To my knowledge, they don't have any authority whatsoever to call out state national guard or federal troops into a state. Would be as meaningless as me declaring my private property an independent nation state.
TetOn
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5 years ago
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on: Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
The developer kit is in a Mac Mini. It has a full complement of the usual Mac Mini ports and, unless they've made major internal changes, a fan.
TetOn
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6 years ago
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on: Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?
I'd say it's more indicative of the randomness of contestant inclusion than anything else. Are the rates of "regular watcher" contestants decreasing? Have the producers changed the type of contestant they decide to include?
To be truly effective at these games, you needed to be watching what the accepted show price of items were...you never could assume your local store price or dealership price.
TetOn
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6 years ago
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on: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions
I've always taken it as the power of your point of view to color how you perceive your own reality. We're caught up in what we see as the "modern world" to the degree that we cannot understand the fact that the dolphins, who, to us, seemingly waste all their time frolicking in the oceans and eating our free fish offerings, are in fact a deeply evolved and space-faring race, sitting there right in front of our eyes (and, not coincidentally, similarly judging us for how we go about our lives).
TetOn
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7 years ago
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on: On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
I'd say the problem is an outdated method of judging a hardware design's "age." Saying the iMac Pro is "neutral" in terms of modern-ness 6 months out from introduction strikes me as particularly nonsensical. Exactly what should have been updated there? I don't see any advance in Intel's relevant line of Xeons in the interim (and AFAIK Xeon development is itself measured in years).
Obviously, the Macbook Air and Mini are extreme (and genuinely embarrassing) examples, but generally speaking a ~1yr update cycle (everything else on that page) seems entirely reasonable, especially given Intel's more, uh, deliberate pace in recent years.
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: Late to Bed, Early to Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner
Also seems to hinge on whether the participants "consider themselves" to be a night-owl. If the effect is there, you should be able to stratify by, say, regularly going to bed after 1am (or whatever). This doesn't seem to be that.
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: Apple previews iOS 11.3
I see Animoji as a fun thing you can do that also demonstrates all the face recognition hardware in there that's present for FaceID, which to me, is the real killer feature of the X (and, presumably, future iPhones). Really is so much more convenient; like the good old days of using a phone that has no passcode at all.
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: Plex’s DVR Now Auto-Removes Commercials from Your Recordings
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: Apple Power Macintosh G5: Flame On
Geneticist in a large academic lab here, I'd say 99% of all computers in use are Macs. Some instrument-tied PCs, a couple of Windows laptops, and that's it. Any data analysis (and these are predominantly sequencing scale datasets) that isn't running on the institutionally provided cluster is also being done on Macs.
In my ~20 years on the job in various places, OSX really changed everything; labs used to have a few Macs around for non-analytic tasks where the old MacOS was just easier. Post OSX, it's nearly all Macs unless it ships with an instrument of some kind (and then it's likely Windows). The analytic tool chain is/was massively unix based, so adapting to OSX was easy and came with a very nice GUI that also did the aforementioned easy non-analytic tasks.
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: 14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
And minimum seven years experience with existing factory dog.
TetOn
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8 years ago
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on: The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure
This article from 2011 (
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2011/more-b...) makes a compelling case that, after decades of cutting government jobs and creeping privatization, we simply don't have enough bureaucrats to organize and run large, complex projects anymore. These other countries having success with infra projects still do. Thus the issue.
TetOn
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9 years ago
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on: The story of Heady Topper, Americas most loved craft beer
