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saboot

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    Comment #47787005

    I use wired headphones, and I'll get an electric discharge from my inner ear and through my earbuds when I get up from my chair. It's not painful, but feels like pop rocks in my ea…

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    Comment #47547897

    Reminds me of the days when you could look up public camera feeds with a specific string in a google search. Some of the camera pages had controls! Spent a day with friends in a co…

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    Comment #46052134

    And below that, FORTRAN :)

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    Comment #46039914

    It goes far beyond smells, in ways I find deeply unsettling We can induce religious experience, see "The God Helmet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet or deep depression & s…

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    Comment #45976651

    Symplectic integrators are the approach I used for some old galaxy simulations. Page 5 on the attached paper was my main reference, eq 22 https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0110585 I b…

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    Comment #44419258

    This looks really cool. An application I would use this for is to generate code for FPGAs, as finite state machines are very common. This is an example, https://terostechnology.git…

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    Comment #43958820

    ctrl+f "national lab" = 0 results Hello? We have 17(!) federally funded national labs, full of scientists doing the work this article waxes nostalgic about. Through the Laboratory …

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    Comment #43687792

    This has piqued my interest, which vendors are using an open source stack?

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    Comment #42850937

    The article is from January 13 .. why post it now?

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    Comment #41802491

    I recently made the switch to linux full time as well. Even small things, like my computer taking three seconds from clicking Shutdown to turning off, is such a relief compared to …

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    Comment #41421407

    That's very cool! Here's another cool application for nuclear arms control, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13457

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    Comment #40861343

    attrs looks interesting, can it be used in workflows for processing GBs of data? I don't see any Cython compatibility or other Python to compiled code options. I typically just get…

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    Comment #40853080

    Hurry up, not much time left for that either.

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    Comment #40823538

    It's not even years of precedent, they contradicted themselves on this decision today in their separate ruling on allowing public sleeping bans. Roberts said "Why would you think t…

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    Comment #40630287

    Can this be used to help design math functions for FPGA designs, using VHDL or Verilog?

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    Comment #40560344

    Thank you for this comment. I also had a prolactinoma, but haven't been disciplined about taking my cabergoline .. been stuck in a rut as well. Now I'm motivated to get this sorted…

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    Comment #40423605

    I have similar thoughts in my mind while reading this. In that vein, I'd be interested to know what the 'worst case' prediction for sea level rise is, including the effects listed …

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    Comment #40167077

    "Osama Bin Laden Found Inside Each Of Us" https://www.theonion.com/osama-bin-laden-found-inside-each-o...

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    Comment #39986167

    More C stuff, I really enjoy learning these fundamentals using C. I did your game physics course in C and really enjoyed it. I'll be taking this course to learn more about 3D graph…

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    Yep, I develop several applications that use CUDA. I see AMD/Radeon powered computers for sale and want to buy one, but I am not going to risk not being able to run those applicati…

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    Comment #38889439

    Very nice. I'll list a feature I've always wanted but haven't seen on timezone converters. A map of timezones, which will either highlight the location entered, or allow you to sel…

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    Comment #37816257

    > or simply don't care Bingo

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    Comment #37815390

    Would you be comfortable with testing being done near where you live? Why not? And where would you propose instead?

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