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akita-ken

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    All those use-cases you've described actually seem really practical, especially the fraud detection. Being able to detect things that would otherwise be invisible or require physic…

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    Part of what made Freespace 2 so immersive was its usage of actual stars as the locations for jump nodes - as a kid, being able to actually point to Gamma Draconis in the night sky…

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    Comment #13620351

    If you clone the repo (or download the .UFO files from the sources folder), you can find all the variations with different skeletons and terminals that you can play around with in …

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    Comment #13612881

    Get off your moral high horse, you can't possibly know the full circumstances of the OP to make such assumptions. This SJW mentality has to stop.

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    Comment #13049375

    This kind of summary is useful for students (like me) who're taking computer systems courses and have been taught in MIPS but want to get a primer into x86.

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    Comment #12110946

    I wonder how countries choose which colour to use for their passports. Black and purple seem to be the rarest colours, with generally no light colour (other than bright red) being …

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    Comment #11617548

    I've always been intrigued by the idea of aerostats on Venus. Certainly the idea seems sound (at least in theory), and the fact that an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere mix would be a li…

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    I wonder if it was intentionally implemented this way, would memory have been an issue with the amount of callback chaining required?

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    Comment #11586460

    Given the relative difficulty that privacy bills face in Congress, one wonders what kind of vested interests are at play here. Skeletons in the closet?

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    Comment #11586411

    As rst has mentioned, details on how the Red Dragon would return from the Martian surface have so far been quite sketchy. However, the basic outline for a proposed sample return mi…