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I was no longer on the scene when it happened, but I’ve been told it became very difficult to get ongoing funding from the National Science Foundation for bioinformatics software a…

Yeah, it is terrible. They have settings to modify resolution/refresh/latency mode, but those settings are always overridden if the TV's auto detection thinks it knows better. Abou…

I have a 3 month old Samsung TV with recent firmware. I am trying to use it as a dumb offline TV connected to an Apple TV (which is, of course, online). Short version is it does no…

It's called Distributed Propulsion, and it theoretically has advantages over normal aircraft propulsion. Presumably using dozens of piston or turbine engines has enough drawbacks t…

Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but after having recently done my taxes, it seems to me you'd generate a capital gain or loss that has to be captured on IRS Form 8949 every …

I have to the run all my node development in x86 emulation and it's the same speed (both subjectively and by timing) as my 6 year old mac I was replacing. Things that rely on disk …

If it is a rural area, drive around or use google maps to find empty land you are interested in, then look it up on the county tax site. If it hasn't changed hands in the last 20-3…

Percent change in sales from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019 Tesla -30% (90,700 to 63,000) (deliveries) Bolt -30% (6212 to 4316) (sold) Leaf -33% (4029 to 2685) (sold) Source: ir.tesla.com, ran…

On Safari on iOS, long press the reload icon in the url bar to bring up a menu to request the desktop version or reload the page with content blockers disabled. In this case, it do…

The primary advantage of airplane launch is that you can fly to into a launch window for an orbital rendezvous. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the target's orbit to be just right…

Related: MIT OpenCourseWare's 2005 Aircraft Systems Engineering is a lecture series with many of the Space Shuttle's various lead engineers. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-…

Yes, there are individual settings to turn off the 'Sense' features like the learning-schedule, auto-away. If you literally mean using it as an on/off switch... I don't think you c…