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This seems like a win on a lot of fronts: less nuclear waste that makes entire sections of the globe uninhabitable for millions of years, a far shorter half-life for the waste that will be produced, and a way to produce power that doesn't involve creating new purified uranium.

#energy #nuclear

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#roofbreakup

A couple ran onto my roof and starting breaking up, right in front of a bunch of people who were just up there hanging out. I live tweeted the breakup.

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This is hilarious.

This is a pretty sweet app. I just cleaned out my photos, so I only had around 300 photos. It took about 5 minutes to go through all of them and sort them into albums. It sorts your pictures into the following albums (from their site): * Architecture * Babies * Beaches * Cars * Cats (sorry, no dogs) * Children * Food * Friends * Indoor * Men * Mountains * Outdoor * Party life * Sunsets and sunrises * Text * Women The albums are just in the app at first, but you can open an album and one tap will let the app create the album on your phone. It doesn’t send your pictures to a server - all of the processing is done on your phone. That’s great if you are concerned about privacy or data usage (or speed), but it could also limit the types of albums that the app can create in the future. But I think looking at the app as a photo management tool is a mistake - it’s really meant to showcase the underlying technology that can (apparently) run very fast on just a mobile phone and still identify (at a high level) objects that it may have never seen before. So, you don’t need to train it to look for Mom (like Picasa), because it just finds all pictures with women in them.

#apps #iOS #tools #technology

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My thoughts when reading this: First section - makes sense

Second section - Photoshop CS 6 has almost as many lines as Windows NT! What is all of the HD-DVD code actually doing? Is most of it copyright protection-related?

Third section - Yeah, I heard the 500k number thrown around a lot with Healthcare.gov.

Fourth section: I’m a little surprised that the F-35 has so much more code than the space shuttle. Maybe this is because it’s newer? How is it that the Mozilla Core (which is “at the heart of all Mozilla software”) has more lines of code than Firefox? Is this “core” really a “starting point” that is then whittled down?

Fifth section: Wow, Windows XP and Windows 7 have almost the same number of lines of code.

Sixth section: Man, MS cut a lot of code after Vista! Holy cow Facebook has a lot of lines of code! Wait, it includes back end code, so I guess this includes all of the code they wrote for projects like OpenCompute. That makes sense.

Seventh section: Cars have a lot more code than I thought. Wait, didn’t they have Healthcare.gov way up at the top? OK, that was just fixing it. Well, I guess this makes sense, since they are connecting with hundreds (I imagine, between government entities and insurance companies in all 50 states) of data sources, and you have to write code to both input and output data. I get they also modularized a lot of the site, which adds code, but also makes it easier to move bits around if requirements changed. OK, I just made up a lot of excuses, because GOOD GOD THAT’S A LOT OF CODE!

#healthcare #government #aca #technology #unitedstates #politics #thingsthatarepoliticalbutshouldntbe

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One more reason to love Russian dash cams: Here’s a gas station attendant break dancing on a car.

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America needs to capture the Velociraptor Bones title - for science!

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Fire breathing looks way cooler when you have 24 GoPro cameras.

Is It Possible To Fit the Civil War Into a Single Chart? Here's One Beautiful Attempt Rebecca Onion, slate.com

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Most excellent idea.