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I like it when someone can write up a serious experiment like that without having to use technobabble just to make themselves seem knowledgeable and ends up with a description you can understand without needing to know the theoretical math behind it (because that makes no sense to me at all these days and in extreme cases turns my brain off!)
It's a good description of a good experiment!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Could be a great benefit in first year of marriage after that it would be of minimal use.
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Nah. After the first year, you just upgrade to the glove version...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah, if you turn it on. This was in the Insider News aa couple of days ago: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4742935/Speech-recognition-hack-turns-Google-Chrome-into-a.aspx[^]
You have to actually give a website permission to listen, and then it isn't shut down properly.
My solution: unplug the microphone. Works fine...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I don't read Insider News often and I honestly didn't see it. I got the link from Facebook.
Unplugging the microphone may not be an option on all devices. On a laptop, you can disable the microphone, but on tablets and smartphone, I don't think there is an option.
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There is an "emergency" microphone reset, but it requires special tools:
Basic tool[^]
Precision tool[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep, it's lovely how they fuq it up directly, but disable NPAPI (without a replacement) just because is old. I wonder why they don't obsolete Win32 altogether. Or at least LoadLibrary.
Nuclear launch detected
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Looking for a home that comes with a sweet ride? Check out the video and pictures offering this house for sale in Sherwood, Ore. It comes complete with rideable scale railroad boasting a trainyard, both diesel and coal-fired engines, a tunnel and a railroad trestle. The video will make your day.[^] (Article, with embedded video, lots of pictures)
If I had $3.5 Million dollars to spare, I'd buy!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Must buy Lotto Ticket!
Become the coolest Grandpa EVER!
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An elderly couple had just learned how to send text messages on their cell phones. The wife was a romantic type and the husband was more of a no-nonsense guy. One afternoon the wife went out to meet a friend for coffee. She decided to send her husband a romantic text message and she wrote:
If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
If you are laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me a bite.
If you are drinking, send me a sip.
If you are crying, send me your tears.
I love you.
The husband texted back to her: "I'm on the toilet. Please advise!
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Now that's just taking the piss...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks for a good laugh Mike
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Glad you enjoyed it Espen.
It gave me a good chuckle when I read it and thought it would be a good share.
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Simplify (x & ~y) > (~x & y)
I quite liked how it just works out, and it's a nice little puzzle assuming you haven't seen it before, not so hard that it'll cost you your weekend, but good enough to tease your brain for a couple of minutes.
The comparison can be taken as signed or unsigned.
ps: I actually needed this thing today, but the other way around. I had to compute what this thing simplifies to, but only had x & ~y and ~x & y available.
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This[^] Becomes This[^]
Assuming the x and y are Chromosomes
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yes. Full points awarded.
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Let x = 10, y = 20
Then
~y = -21
~x = -11
(x & ~y) = 10 & -21
(~x & y) = -11 & 20
Then perform bitwise operation , Refer - Bit wise operations in C#[^]
Thanks,
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Ok, but that's not a simplification.
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True. Unfortunately you are shifting every bit of my brain nerves
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You could try picking values for x and y until you see a pattern..
Do you want a hint?
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You should have specified the field here. Mathematical ~ means a bit different. Where's the not impressed icon?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Since it doesn't make sense if interpreted that way, it's not really ambiguous.
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Yes, it does not make any sense when looked that way. It also may not make any sense in a rare programming language that treats ~ as declaration symbol and & as = symbol. It would be a really stupid language BTW.
Like you guys say, just my 2 cents.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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