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Loved this story! Also good timing as a lot of us are watching the HBO mini-series now. I especially liked this quote: "The reason it's so beautiful and so peaceful is precisely be…

I like the ambition, has some similarities to this project: http://freedomcontroller.com

I couldn’t afford the ATARI 800 but my 400 still works today. Just played some missile command, star raiders, and Miner 2049 on it a few months ago. I learned BASIC and 6502 on min…

Congrats! Long live {,g}awk !

On my 2016 MBP, I also map CapsLock -> Control and Left_Control to ESC. It's goofy having ESC down there but I need a physical key as I do not look at the keyboard while typing in …

When I first saw the headline I was thinking it was this Komet :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet Also an interesting aircraft.

One reason a small corporation might want a structure is to pursue industrial activities (building stuff, refining ore, etc.) that are either not available in the area or for a low…

I saved up money to buy one of these in college, was amazing, fast, sounded like a well tuned race car :-) Still have some CSCI homework and projects on paper printed on this from …

One option might be to use a hash of one's DNA sequence and be done with it. The name identifier can then just be an image with any markings made by the person. This would then mov…

My guess is no. Concrete fails under tension and with the irregular and natural assembly process the structure probably would have issues with tension and all the extra weight. The…

How to the skis they use differ from classic style cross country skis? In the image they look a little wider than any I've owned.

Thanks for this - with the release of the A12X Bionic, I've wanted to do something similar - i.e. build some specialized tools to leverage that CPU for atypical / non-mobile use ca…

Wow. This is good to know. As a TriMix SCUBA diver, we should keep our iPhones away from the fill station and away from us when we are venting / testing our mixes :-)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) I had to look that up.

I worked in the UofM CSCI department in those days. Vipin's parallel programming research brought in some cool hardware for the time including clusters of RS6000s, IRIX Challenge s…

enscript -2Gr yeah -). used to be my default mode as well!

I'd like to see version controlled text files used for important legal documents and many other government docs. Allow the presentation layer to be handled on the end points. Maybe…

As a long time emacs user, I've always had cap-locks mapped as my control key (plus the emacs key-bindings work in html forms and in anything using gnu deadline) which is a bonus. …

IMHO the touchbar requires more effort and distraction to control the brightness and volume. What previously was one key-press to dim/brighten or mute/volume - all without me havin…

It's interesting they didn't mention the high rates amongst veterans. According to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran... ), in 2012 there were…

Yes indeed! One of the advantages of diving underwater with a re-breather is that you lose less heat through respiration compared to open circuit SCUBA diving. Also the type of gas…

After reading some of the responses to the google demo, my first reaction was to assume this natural language processing magic was just a placeholder until the business had a prope…

Nice presentation. Is the hardenedbsd web site's security feature comparison table up to date? Edited to remove comment about my confusion that Carolinacon14 -> 2014; not the case.…

Nice play-by-play analysis of the problem; thanks! Apple's authentication is not simple nor clearly documented (at least not where I could easily find it), I learned a lot followin…

When reading a book about Alan Turing, I came across a reference to "Natural Wonders, 1928" by Edwin Tenney Brewster (free in iBooks and on the web) - where he refers to Chapter 38…