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Yes, TPE in Taiwan has the same setup. At Taipei Main Station in the city center, there are airline checkin kiosks and bag drops. You take the train to the airport, and your bags a…

Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Within the west coast Technologies: Kotlin, Java, Python, Scala, Bash, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes Résumé/CV: https://linkedin…

Random digression, but if you're having problems with GPS reception on your S3, try tightening all the screws on the back of the device with an eyeglasses screwdriver or similar. T…

I don't think the OC was referring to multitouch, but rather how resistive touchscreens can measure different levels of pressure applied to them. For example, I have a Nokia N900 w…

They are already (in certain states) via the point system.[0] Getting a point tells your insurance company, and your premiums skyrocket. Insurance companies also pull your driving …

What if you manually go to the GApps URL? ( https://mail.google.com/a/your.school.mail.domain.here ) I assume that's what your school's website is probably linking to, but it's wor…

Actually, yes! *For enterprise-grade APs generally deployed at university campuses...[0] Moreover, such APs usually have methods to prevent communication between peers on the same …

Ah, iodine. I've used it in airports, hotels, cafes - it's great. The only drawback is that it's slower than dialup and latency is off the charts. But when you're stuck on a cruise…

Google Voice? Sure it'd require two phone plans, but I guess it's either that or swapping SIM cards around.

Yeah, it really bothers me. Part of it feels like a betrayal to the users - whom, without them, the company would have never gotten to a position where it could be acquired. It's j…

It gets worse: attackers don't even need the paper invoices - at least in 2012, they were social engineering them directly out of Amazon CSRs [0]. [0] http://www.htmlist.com/rants/…

I thought that at first, but the length of the hole is dependent on the width of the hole. The wider the hole, the shorter, because wider holes remove bigger caps. With a sufficien…

That's a bit different. Court stenographers, along with the people who do real-time TV captions, use specialized chording keyboards (stenographs, they look like this [0]) that allo…

In the linked paper [0], they actually tested that point: after applying Gaussian noise to samples, the model could still recognize them half the time[1], despite being nearly unre…

Yup, that's the trick. I stopped using shampoo last year - my hair was greasy as all hell for around a month, then one day I noticed that it just stopped. Now, I just go into the s…

This is fantastic. Love the art style! Looks like I'm going to be spending the next few hours reading through this now...

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/486caea6cc41f13dca76 The robot goes down unless its x-coordinate is between 20 and 33, in which case it goes up. Kinda cheesy, but it works...

The traffic analysis case seems to be a lot like the way Google aggregates smartphone GPS data to do real-time traffic for Google Maps [0] [0] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/0…

There's other versions [0] of the same idea that uses a Raspberry Pi and a USB video grabber to do the same thing with any HDMI signal (you only need an HDMI splitter and an HDMI t…

I have the DIY version [0] of this on the back of my monitor right now, and the effect is quite nice, especially when playing games. The total DIY cost was $30 in components, namel…

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