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I wonder if this could be used to increase the effectiveness of LIDAR in vision applications. Rather than continuously scanning the entire FOV, prioritize areas with more brightnes…

The US did try to annex the province of Quebec in 1775 but retreated after failing to take Quebec city (which was the biggest city at the time and controlled access to the saint La…

By default lineageOS comes with neither Google play services nor microg. The choice of what to install is left to the user. MicroG is a bit more complicated to install since it req…

You have to click 'Request full-text PDF' then enter an email address

Nowadays it seems to mostly be a way for "ethical" fund managers to justify the higher fees compared to simpler index funds.

Two of my relatives had Nexus 5 and the power buttons on both devices stopped functioning shortly after the warranty expired

That's one of the main plot elements of The Ministry for the Future.

That's a bit of a tautology isn't it?

That's how it's supposed to work in Canada. Most of the land is crown land managed by the government who should carefully manage it but in practice lease it to anyone as long as it…

Southern Ontario has forests?

I was under the impression that western suppliers stopped exporting to Turkey after the Artsakh "conflict" so that they now manufacture most parts themselves (reverse-engineered or…

You could argue that 2 of these wars (as well as the standoffs in the Mediterranean with the Greek navy) are aiming to remediate the oil/gas problem.

By the time you experience symptoms you've already been contagious for a few days. It's like trying to detect fires by looking for piles of ash.

I'm curious, what type of application would require printing strings over 2GB in size?

I like to think that most readers don't get instantly alienated as soon as they read something criticizing them a bit too harshly

I used the word culture but I really meant population in the sense that the original commenter used it (i.e. a group of people replacing or displacing another, rather than imposing…

>I wonder can it instead of "transmission" be that the fire-capable just out-competed the rest and dominantly spread all over the place as a result One argument against that is tha…

About half the time in my experience

That neighborhood is hip _because_ rent is cheap

If I read the abstract correctly they found an inverse correlation between coffee consumption and brain volume, but since it was not a longitudinal study it doesn't prove that coff…

The Israeli defense ministry has to approve sales contracts. I'm assuming they'd like to avoid spying on citizens of states they depend on militarily/politically or that have the c…

The building the Supertree Grove sits on was designed by Moshe Safdie. A lot of his works feature similar green and open spaces (jewel changi airport, eling park)

Also known as a donkey-powered roller

Those countries have other sources of fresh water besides the Nile

And more importantly: Crimea's population was favorable to annexation by Russia