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Quote: The TSA will now require “all electronics larger than a cell phone” to be removed from carry-on bags and placed in their own separate bin for X-ray screening with nothing on top or below, similar to how laptops have been screened for years.
Hmmm. Don't see the big deal.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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/shrug. We're just the news, we don't judge.
Mind you, I used to know a guy that had to travel with multiple laptops and devices (around a dozen or so) for presentations. Sucks to be him now.
TTFN - Kent
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Just commenting on the article.Kent Sharkey wrote: Sucks to be him now.
Forsooth.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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How could Microsoft’s Windows Phone licensing business model stand a chance against Google’s free and open Android? None of the Redmond giant’s complicated countermeasures worked—its smartphone platform is dead. And yet, inexplicably, Microsoft failed to use a very simple move, one we’ll explore today. "Hindsight is always 20/20"
How anyone looks from their hind is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How anyone looks from their hind is left as an exercise for the reader.
Speaking from it seems to be pretty easy though.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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http://yedlin.net/ResDemo/#[^]
This is a video demo in 2 parts (10 and 66min) comparing a half dozen cameras ranging from 3-6 megapixel digital models and 35 and 69mm (iMax) film. It demonstrates that more megapixels have stopped mattering (unlike the SD to HD transition) for perceived quality; and that other camera implementation details, sensor noise, levels of compression, and post-processing dominate the outcome.
Part 1's a number of scenes shot with each of the test cameras to demonstrate that at the macro level they all look the same. Part 2 is zooming in to show where and how the sources actually differ and that the megapixel count isn't an indicator of which are better under any given circumstance.
I've watched the first and half of the second before work and will finish this evening; it's definitely an eye opening demo for anyone who things that more is always better.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Is the video in high enough quality to display those differences? And do you have enough resolution on your monitor to see such differences? In my case, the limiting factor is my screen and (if I'm streaming it) the internet connection
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Part 1 is encoded at 4k and I watched at 2.5k. Part 2 is 1080p and shows zooms at a minimum of 1:1 pixel scaling (and frequently significantly higher) so that your displays resolution shouldn't be the limiting factor.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fascinating, Dan; thanks !
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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USB-C has long been touted as the universal standard that will save us all, a single port that can charge your phone, your laptop, your tablet, your Bluetooth speaker, and even your Nintendo console, all through a single common port. "And now you have 15 standards"
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in 3.3, it'll have lambdas.
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Software developers have almost no interest in creating applications for wearables or smart TVs, but they're keen on web and hybrid apps, so much so that native-only developers are dwindling. Code for five people, or five billion? Oh, decisions, decisions.
How to get a dev interested in your platform:
step 0 - Show how they can make money writing for it.
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Maybe I'm naive, and I'm definitely not interested in the niche market of mobile games, but in my very small work with things like Bootstrap, I have no reason to write a native app. And while I appreciate native apps like Slack, I never use them -- Slack, because who the heck wants to type on a tiny virtual keyboard. Video calls on a phone? Nope, again not interested, again because of the UX.
That said, I write my web apps so that they look decent on mobile devices -- still learning the nuances of that! My latest work displays very nicely the status messages of 60+ SBC's: alarms, motion, door access, comm issues, etc., and it blows my mind what that "media" css stuff can do -- I can fit my the status graphs on a desktop screen and mobile devices in both portrait and landscape mode, and the display updates are near realtime.
Native apps? Meh. I'll leave that to the WSOP, WWF, chess and Backgammon devs. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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So what you're really saying here is :
Marc Clifton says: I love JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks!!!
It's okay, <whisper> I like JavaScript too.</whisper> 
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raddevus wrote: I love JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks!!!
I did not say that!!!
But yeah, though it's not "love", it's more like "accept and tolerate." I guess that's what you call "mature love".
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: it's more like "accept and tolerate." I guess that's what you call "mature love
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Google says Canadian order is “repugnant” to the First Amendment. Yeah! Don't let those Canadian bullies push you around, eh.
I mean, if you don't mind. It would be kind of nice, anyway, but it's up to you.
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It can plan future actions and even decide how it wants to imagine. "Will I dream?"
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A chatbot built by the American software giant has gone off-script, insulting Microsoft's Windows and calling the operating system "spyware." And if a chatbot says it, you know it's true
Plenty of 'A', little of 'I'
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A common scenario: Some hackers have influenced the AI database. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions. And by "may", they mean :eyeroll: "may"
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Alexa will then answer their queries with the information provided by UBS’s chief investment office
Garbage in, garbage out, as the saying goes.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The cost cutting in the banking industry has left to some "innovative results"
Do you remember Eliza?
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Once the rising star of web development, Ruby on Rails has fallen into a secondary role in the corporate world. Sucks to be last year's cool kid
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Ruby & RoR can't fall fast enough for me. And yes, I have a very honed ax to grind regarding Ruby.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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