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Not yet. Only 20 or so of the full frames of the descent have been downloaded so far. Will probably be a day or more before they are all down. You can see the frames that are down …

Interesting. I wonder if instead of dedicated hardware controllers, the touch screens on phones could be used as a substitute.

It certainly seems to be the focus of their long term R&D spending. The ML part, of course, has always been a central part of their business due to its importance for search and ad…

Except the nicest feature of Mosh is it makes the remote session feel more responsive. Is there anything out there (not just local echo) that does this?

Chrome's dominance over Firefox (~65% vs ~30%) surprised me a little. I figured they would have a more equal standing.

Same here. Although I liked your post enough that I spent a couple minutes and signed up using a temporary email address. Sign-ups like that irk me.

Living Under a Rock Question: What is up with all the startups using .ly domain or "ly" in their name? I can understand using a foreign top level domain in order to find available …

The sheer amount of obvious non-innovations that the patent office accepts is staggering. Anecdotal personal experience being part of patent applications has showed me that almost …

Note that two out of eight (25%) cars saw a decrease in mpg when using premium gasoline. Not a statistically strong correlation for using premium gas. Probably a combination of var…

Very impressive! The only issue I've run into is it having trouble discerning lower-case and upper-case letters. Training with my own writing style should be able to correct this h…

You are correct that radiation exposure does statically increase the risk for cancer. A handful of emergency workers did receive exposures above the level where the increased risk …

I completely agree. Fifteen thousand people died in the Japan earthquakes with not a single death due to the Fukushima meltdown. Yet when one asks the average American about it, al…

Maybe we just visit different sub-reddits. I tend to stay away from the front page ones because they remind me to much of the culture Digg used to have when it was popular. But the…

The killer feature that reddit has is subreddits. I disagree with the article; there is no one reddit culture. One can go to r/politics, r/gardening, r/fitness, or r/askscience for…