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They are, sometimes. Google built this one in Finland in 2011 at the site of an old paper mill, which was already set up to draw water from the Baltic Sea (which isn't as salty as …

> Then there's plenty examples where a direct English equivalent exists even if it's not a literal translation of the original: nachäffen (de) = na-apen (nl) = mimicking (en), but …

My favorite "extremely compact C" style: if (*len * ("11124811248484"[*type 4) { ... } because naming lookup tables is clearly too verbose. Among other interesting decisions.

To first order, long exposures are probably less power-hungry - much of the sensor power is burned in the image readout, and longer exposures mean you're reading images less often.…

Mostly hardware. Shortest explanation: The sensor exposure time register has a maximum value. Next shortest: But it's actually in units of row readout time, on many sensors, which …

You can select a size for a given font by hovering over it to reveal the size slider and other options (desktop version at least), and then applying the size to all.

Once you have a list, there's a dropdown to filter by type of loan (defaults to 'All')

For those looking for a less-concise, but more comprehensive reference, The Art of Electronics was just released in its 3rd edition! http://artofelectronics.net/ With a lot of rele…

Eh, I mildly disagree on web site review. Perhaps not GitHub's pull request/review model, but big projects like Android and Chromium do all their review on web interfaces.

As a minor correction, the N5 front camera is a LIMITED, not a LEGACY device. It doesn't quite do the per-frame synchronized controls required for FULL like the main back-facing ca…

So does Android: http://developer.android.com/training/managing-audio/audio-f... http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/08/respecting-au...

Quite a lot; see for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_of_the_unive...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom) It's a grab bag of weird perceptual effects that can precede migrane attacks (and apparently epileptic seizures), and they can be very d…

Photon shot noise ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise#Optics ) is as fundamental as diffraction - it's a property of light, not a property of the sensor. If your sensor count…

I think Claude Shannon's (of information theory fame) master's thesis beats out all others in the field of computer science. "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits", …

The Poisson distribution is just one random number distribution; there are several others for situations where the events are correlated, or have other properties. Half the fun of …

No, there's no real worry of that, barring some serious revolution in deconvolution. Existing techniques can only deal with blurs of certain kinds, and theory suggests that the sta…