tarice
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Chemical engineer turned C++ programmer.
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Comment · 11 years ago
"What's inside there?"
"One moment of perfect Javascript."
Comment · 11 years ago
If you're wondering why the wolves weren't given the impossible food challenge at 5 months, the author notes in the comments:
> @K9TrainerTina: they were, actually. however, the 5 month old wolf pups mostly just went to sleep after initially failing to get the food, so they were excluded from the analysis.
Comment · 12 years ago
Also of note, and linked in the article, is the subject of Myxomatosis, a virus created to curb the population of rabbits in Australia.
Comment · 13 years ago
Noting that the experiments described in the article were performed on yeast, can anybody better versed in biology convey a better idea on how applicable to humans these results are?
As described in the article, we both have telomeres, but as far as I know the comparison ends there.
Comment · 13 years ago
You should consider checking out the game "Space, Pirates, And Zombies" (aka SPAZ), which is a more recent iteration on the top-down space shooter. Plus, it's also made by a two-man team.
Comment · 13 years ago
I look at it this way:
Plan #1: $30 for 100 minutes, with $0.10 a minute afterwards.
Plan #2: $40 for unlimited minutes with MetroPCS.
So, if I manage to talk less than 100min + ($50 - $40)/$0.10 = 200 minutes per month, then I end up spending less than I would on the MetroPCS plan.
Comment · 13 years ago
Another glitch that was found relatively recently (not shown in linked run):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mp0uHr2X6U&t=19m20s
A more complete explanation of the glitch occurs earlier in the video, but he explains the basics of it after he performs the glitch (unfortunately dying in the process). Apparently three different exploiters found three exploits that, when combined, enabled this glitch. Quite fascinating.
Comment · 13 years ago
Since the article itself only linked to it:
"Each of the discovered vulnerabilities allowed any @yahoo.com email account to be compromised simply by sending a specially crafted link to a logged-in Yahoo user and making him/her clicking on it."[1]
[1] https://www.htbridge.com/news/what_s_your_email_security_wor...
Comment · 13 years ago
The part about http://aem1k.com/world/ begins approximately 18 minutes in.
Comment · 13 years ago
And in Dallas with a new(ish) building:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Tower_%28Dallas%29#Confl...
Has yet to be fixed.
Comment · 13 years ago
I've recently been using white sticky notes, which are quite easy to remove and cover a 3x3 square grid almost exactly, to great effect in a pen and paper RPG I run.
Comment · 13 years ago
Listening to the video, I believe one of the lords mentioned they had done just that - pardon all the people convicted by that law who were still alive today. I'll try to find a news reference.
The question, now, is whether to posthumously pardon the others.
Update: Found an article. Turns out they haven't been pardoned, but their convictions are now "disregarded" and no longer appear on their criminal record[1].
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/historic-convictions-for-...
Comment · 13 years ago
In space, the atmosphere can't filter out any of the sunlight, nor can clouds/water absorb some of its energy, which results in about 30% more energy[1].
Plus, if you're not near any objects that can block the sun (i.e. Earth/Moon), you get full, intense sunlight 24-hours a day.
And you can use some of that sunlight to just directly heat the water, which makes it easier to split.
Given all that, I'd say that it's very likely you could get enough energy to split water in space.