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The spinoff for lab and scientific equipment (Agilent, 1999) happened long before the HP/HPE split (2015).

You don't have to melt through that adhesive - it's incredibly weak and you can just pop it out with a sufficiently thin pry bar. This guide [1] does it with an iSesamo, but I just…

The only AF systems that use LIDAR are the one on the newest Hasselblad medium format mirrorless cameras (since DJI owns Hasselblad and can leverage the tech from drones/cinema cam…

Replacing the batteries on the Maxes is actually a fairly straightforward process (no adhesive melting required, just a screwdriver and a pry bar), and spare batteries can be purch…

It's nice to see some high-performance linear algebra code done in a modern lanugage! Would love to see more! Is your approach specific to the case where the matrix fits inside cac…

It's possible to use Tailscale with just a passkey [0], but it's a weird process because they don't let you create a tailnet and a passkey account at the same time. Instead, you ne…

What’s the function of the tower near the launch pad with a huge orange fire at its top?

Do you have a feel for how the maneuverability of a B-1 being controlled by the canards compares to that of a typical airliner? It seems like a system like this would need to respo…

Based on my recollection of a conversation with the authors after their STOC talk: the RAM scheme is not efficient enough to be competitive with circuit-based FHE schemes; for prob…

A few exist, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Compagnie

Yes, but it's very uncommon on pianos these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankó_keyboard Most button accordions and modern electronic instruments (Linnstrument, Soundplane, E…

In terms of trying to break free of dependence on hand optimized kernels: a few people, myself included, have been working on some theoretical approaches to generating cache-effici…

The author mentions that he would design a system with a continuously monitored pulse oximeter that could trigger the EPS descent mode automatically. Do wrist-mounted versions (fin…

Firefox doesn't deal with touchscreen and touchpad gestures very well. Take, for instance, the two-finger pinch-zoom-in gesture. Chrom(ium), Opera, Edge, Safari etc. all smoothly a…

Credit card data sharing has been around for a while. Fortunately, financial institutions appear to be marginally less pathological about allowing people to control how their perso…

Davis says the buried structure caused the drought-stricken plants above ground to ripen at different rates, because the earth was deeper in some places than in others. This create…

Something like this is already being done for made-to-measure apparel, e.g. https://www.mtailor.com/ for men's clothes and https://www.topologyeyewear.com/ for glasses (also - does…

Just curious - why is looking up yourself an offense?

I wonder how long it will take before somebody figures out how to jailbreak BMW infotainment systems to enable CarPlay. This kind of stuff is not exactly without precedent: https:/…

It's supposed to expire at the end of 2018: https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm Whether or not it will be extended again is an open question.

Quick note that the article is from 2015, and the MSS result dates back to 2013. There's a blog post by Nikhil here that explains the proof of the discrepancy result that implies K…

I imagine you could encode the problem as a CSP with each of the legal/contractual factors as a constraint. Despite NP-hardness of CSPs in general, CSP solvers are pretty efficient…

This is an awesome tool. Thanks! Only issue I've run into so far is that cross-references to theorem numbers don't seem to always work correctly, e.g. you'll see a lot of "Theorem …

One other interesting example: Mahler's first symphony, third movement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5A5tFyXQio ) which incorporates a minor-ized version of the classic (major…

...until people start dying and babies start getting born in space.