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I was no longer on the scene when it happened, but I’ve been told it became very difficult to get ongoing funding from the National Science Foundation for bioinformatics software around 10 years ago. You could get an initial grant to develop something, but ongoing support was difficult. So websites and ‘databases’ (curated datasets) that made it easy to run the tools faded away.

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Yeah, it is terrible. They have settings to modify resolution/refresh/latency mode, but those settings are always overridden if the TV's auto detection thinks it knows better.

About a third of the time it will insist my Xbox is a 1440p/60Hz input, and I can do nothing about it except reboot all the things.

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I have a 3 month old Samsung TV with recent firmware. I am trying to use it as a dumb offline TV connected to an Apple TV (which is, of course, online). Short version is it does not automatically connect to networks without user input, but it prompts people all the time and inevitably ended up back on the network.

It won't forget network passwords without a full reset. So if you connect to download firmware then disable the connection, it is one click away from someone re-enabling it. If there's an unsecured network available, you're only 2-3 clicks away from joining that.

With other people in the house using it, the only way to reliably keep it off the internet is to connect it to a network, allow it to verify the connection works, then block it from making any more outgoing connections at the router level. It seems to be ok with this situation and doesn't complain too much.

My original plan was to setup HDMI CEC and lock away the Samsung Remote to prevent people from getting into trouble. But when the TV is turned on vi HDMI CEC, half the time it wants to immediately run the OLED refresh cycle, and will automatically shut off and start doing that unless you actively prevent it from doing so with the remote. This is annoying because they have a setting to run the OLED refresh at night when not in use. It's almost like they sabotaged this use case on purpose to force people to interact with the Samsung UI.

I should have bought a projector, assuming one can still get projectors that aren't similarly infected.

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It's called Distributed Propulsion, and it theoretically has advantages over normal aircraft propulsion. Presumably using dozens of piston or turbine engines has enough drawbacks to make it not worth it, which is why it hasn't been a thing until electric planes became possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_propulsion

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Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but after having recently done my taxes, it seems to me you'd generate a capital gain or loss that has to be captured on IRS Form 8949 every time such a thing triggered bitcoin to be converted to USD, goods or services.

Or is it some nudge-nudge-wink-wink situation where everyone, including the IRS, ignores such a thing unless the sums involved are large.

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I have to the run all my node development in x86 emulation and it's the same speed (both subjectively and by timing) as my 6 year old mac I was replacing.

Things that rely on disk speed like npm install are much faster, though.

I tried upgrading some projects so they could run arm native, but it some cases it would have forced my colleagues to update their OS since such-and-such updated library dropped support for their OS version.

I briefly went down the path of having a patchwork of arm and x86 stuff running together (like having webpack be arm native but the rest of the project not) and it was lots of fiddling. If I wasn't careful to segregate x86 and arm into completely separate shell environments, I'd end up with ldd trying to link to shared libraries with the wrong arch during [brew, npm, bundle] install. It was more trouble than it was worth.

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If it is a rural area, drive around or use google maps to find empty land you are interested in, then look it up on the county tax site. If it hasn't changed hands in the last 20-30 years, call the owner.

People who've owned empty, vacant land for decades tend to have either inherited it or are long term real estate investors. Frequently they will have tried to sell it in the past and not gotten enough interest.

Obviously, doesn't work everywhere. Higher demand areas are going to be completely different.

But it worked for us when we decided to move to the boonies.

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Percent change in sales from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019

  Tesla -30% (90,700 to 63,000) (deliveries)
  Bolt -30%  (6212 to 4316) (sold)
  Leaf -33%  (4029 to 2685) (sold)

Source: ir.tesla.com, random news articles on quarterly automotive deliveries from google news.

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On Safari on iOS, long press the reload icon in the url bar to bring up a menu to request the desktop version or reload the page with content blockers disabled.

In this case, it does fix the formatting of the graphs.

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The primary advantage of airplane launch is that you can fly to into a launch window for an orbital rendezvous. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the target's orbit to be just right w/respect to the launch site, or do a long orbit matching process.

This is very useful if say you want to very quickly and quietly launch something towards another satellite.

People are making comparisons with the Spruce Goose, but the Glomar Explorer may be a better analogy.

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Related: MIT OpenCourseWare's 2005 Aircraft Systems Engineering is a lecture series with many of the Space Shuttle's various lead engineers.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-8...

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Yes, there are individual settings to turn off the 'Sense' features like the learning-schedule, auto-away.

If you literally mean using it as an on/off switch... I don't think you can do that without just cranking the temp between min and max. There is a function to run the furnace fan for X minutes, but you can't directly tell it to run the heating and AC for a period of time.

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