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The suggestion from this source[1] is that an autoloader makes the tank much smaller (harder to hit). He also claims being smaller makes them cheaper to produce. The intended use c…

Not one mention of using a spellchecker, surely that's high leverage: quick and easy, increases the quality of your output.

Related to the website, not specifically the story: http://explosm.net/comics/3557/

Yes I concur. I thought about admitting that i'm only referencing the author's blog posts was a bit "narrow", but it's also probably the best source for authoritative information o…

I like Quantised Inertia[1] as an alternative to Dark Matter or MOND. The theory makes some testable predictions, matches existing data (for instance the flyby anomalies, EM drive)…

[project name] iteration scrum Actual update (with the random capitalisation of actual)

It's not just the design(s), it is the implementation too. At Chernobyl the powers at be (accountants?) got involved and decided to use flammable bitumen coverings on the roof of r…

The url seems to have a .pd on the end, in error. This is the correct link. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03355

The point when the black line on the graph goes below 0 http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg (from: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fus... )

^^ this. There's not too much more to it than just this.

Touche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Om1BIcNbY

"Yamaha YZ250 Dirt Bike sound effects library" I came here thinking, well what's news about this? Dirt bikes are really loud and libraries are meant to be pretty quiet places..

Just chipping in with my interesting reading about the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems. This piece about what the theorem means for developing "deep AI" and the hum…

Is this why I find myself awake at night reading papers about The Foundations of Mathematics, Quantised Inertia or Squeezed Light (for some random examples taken from my history). …

Turns out, living in an environment with as low as possible background radiation might not be such a great idea either. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/09/23/is-radiat…

AFAIK, type 1 diabetes is thought to be an autoimmune disease, where the immune system incorrectly identifies the beta cells as an infection/foreign body and destroys them. With th…

Now consider this approach with spam. To paraphrase you, there's always that remote chance that one of the Nigerian Princes could actually need your help. I used to do a similar th…

Something ironic; the page loads white text onto a creamy background when viewed from Chrome on android on my Note 3. This made me chuckle a bit.

But we've seen "soft" AR and it appears to be fairly popular - Pokemon Go and Ingress. If you ask players of either of those games, if they would like a "harder" - i guess this mea…