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While reflecting on this--and ethical issues aside--it did occur to me that there's probably a lot more data you could collect from the audio gathered in the rainforest, i.e. what …

Have the creators of this project considered the privacy implications of capturing, recording, or analyzing audio from the rainforest? What happens if people are walking near a mic…

> There are many fraudulent USB sticks in circulation that report to have a high capacity (ex: 8GB) but are really only capable of storing a much smaller amount (ex: 1GB)... Intern…

Stop blaming my feelings on other people. Always take ownership of how you feel; I'm responsible for my feelings. For example, if I feel lonely because my friends didn't invite me …

Bilingualism in Canada is very common among French-English languages, and depending on what part of the country you live in, your exposure to both languages can be fairly even. My …

It's like having a BBS in my web browser. This does bring back a lot of memories of sitting in front of a 486 trying to get Commander Keen to load.

To me, obtaining bitcoin (or whatever crypto-currency) has been one of the most challenging aspects of using the currency. It's too hard to obtain. Mining these days isn't that fea…

> The purpose of the app is to teach others about low fee index fund investing. How does the app accomplish this goal?

I was enrolled in the French Immersion program. At my school, we had both English and French programs. One of my memories of being in French Immersion, which is likely of relevance…

I find this story pretty fascinating. First, it's interesting how a broad attack, such as putting malware into software used by a large number of people, suddenly becomes a targete…

I found the author posted this on Changelog: Hi, Rooby is a new object oriented language I created recently (written in Go). It looks just like Ruby for now because it's mainly ins…

When I read the part about "Order your air taxi to the nearby landing pad," I immediately thought of the old Commodore 64 game SpaceTaxi. `Pad 1 please` :)

I encountered "process as proxy" today dealing with Cisco. We were requesting a replacement for a defective part, they asked us for our serial number, which we provided, but then r…

I'm working on a check-in system for our reception using a Raspberry Pi, a RC522 reader and MIFARE RFID cards. Guests tap their card to check-in and the monitor displays their tabl…

The Innisfil city website mentioned that there will be flat rate pricing to certain major destinations in town.

The public entity subsidizing your fare can use that leverage to make sure the rules are fair.

Since the city is subsidizing fares, I imagine they would have some influence into the service being delivered. (You can voice your complaints to city hall)

From my experience using public transit, there is a code of conduct which all riders must follow, and my understanding is that if you violate that code of conduct, you could either…

I wonder if there's some way to apply this to coding. Besides annoying my co-workers, would verbally talking about what I'm coding improve the quality of my code, or productivity? …

I had a user once request that I add VoiceOver support to my app. I was surprised by how easy and simple it was to add it. If I recall correctly, it was just a few fields you have …

How do you go about colour coding your terminal?

This is the situation I am currently finding myself in. I work as a telephone switch administrator for an independent phone company in Canada. I've had this just for 13 years now, …

Interesting! Are there any implementations of this?

Just PCM g711u, and I sent the audio/RTP packets to a phone plugged into an ATA.