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As a deaf person I am using Ava [0] which uses IBM's speech to text service [1] as its backend AFAIK. I am always impressed by how it picks up on context clues to make corrections …

Ah, they don't use masks for the metal and via layers?

Educated guess, one die will have many layers, requiring many masks for all the layers

For binocular vision, you can adjust the distance the object appears at virtually. Oculus gives a guideline of 0.75-3.5m for rendering objects that will have long term gaze (UI, et…

To be clear, the Jones Act allows other countries to use their ships to go direct to PR, but they can't use their ships to ferry goods from the US mainland to PR.

Can it do virtual desktops like a VNC server can?

Absolutely. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexey_kljatov/11046723195/siz...

This reddit comment thread [1] explains the issue well. In short: most households get grid-tied solar power setups with no batteries. If the main grid is off, it creates islands of…

the upper level winds are actually a high pressure area and thus flow clockwise, giving it a northerly boost at that level

1) No they're not harmless, updrafts and downdrafts exist https://www.wunderground.com/resources/education/hugo1.asp

I think this is what Valve does with Dota 2 replays by using protobuf

Wolfenstein 3D source is here - https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d

I believe one way is to generate a frequency similar to female wingbeat frequency that attracts male mosquitoes and separate them that way. I am unsure if there is a difference in …

Here's the reason for anyone wondering: _Thread_local is reserved in C99, so we don't need a -pedantic warning. (Quoting the standard: "All identifiers that begin with an underscor…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/correct-i... This is the one I use.

The water doesn't just disappear into thin air. It gets reused sometimes and then get treated and released or reused.

> * The classic, full version of Skype for Windows sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one. This i…

That's disconcerting that they still don't know for sure what caused this issue and if it could happen again.

Did the author notify Intel about the bug they found?

What picture? http://i.imgur.com/srEiiD7.png

Last time I read about CRISPR used to remove HIV from infected cells, the virus mutated to defeat the CRISPR attack - could this happen here?

That's a brainfuck

To be clear, it was mis-use of Ragel, not the fault of the Ragel module

The table basically says it's possible to pick a set of 4096 (2^12) different vectors of T/F combinations in a way that you only need flip up to 3 (R=3) of the T/F answers to cover…

Nearly 2 a day at Renton: http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2014-10-02-Boeing-to-Increase-73...