Lesser known input methods: Edgewrite and my own findings

Lesser known input methods: Edgewrite and my own findings

Lobste.rs user minimax gave me the tip of two input systems that provided me with a lot of interesting input. As you’d might expect I have some ideas of my own regarding text input. Other things that made a whole lot of sense was highlighting symbols by the probability predicted by the prediction engine.

Source: tbf-rnd.life

Huawei has reportedly stopped its smartphone production after US blacklist

Huawei has reportedly stopped its smartphone production after US blacklist

The South China Morning Post reported that Zhao Ming, president of Honor, one of Huawei’s smartphone brands, said it was “too early” to comment on the goal. The company previously revved up efforts to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor in response to President Donald Trump’s administration adding the company to a trade blacklist. Read more: Trump’s Huawei ban escalates the US-China trade war into a tech Cold War
The technology giant previously acknowledged that it is speeding up efforts to develop its own smartphone operating system and app store in response to President Donald Trump’s administration adding the company to a trade blacklist.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

No Brainer. (2015)

No Brainer. (2015)

The image hails from a 1980 review article in Science: Roger Lewin, the author, reports that the patient in question had “virtually no brain”. This Forsdyke guy over in Biological Theory argues that such cases open the possibility that the brain might utilize some kind of extracorporeal storage, which sounds awfully woo both to me and to the anonymous neuroskeptic over at Discovery.com; but even Neuroskeptic, while dismissing Forsdyke’s wilder speculations, doesn’t really argue with the neurological facts on the ground. Three decades after Lewin’s paper, we have “Revisiting hydrocephalus as a model to study brain resilience” by de Oliveira et al. (actually published in 2012, although I didn’t read it until last spring).

Source: www.rifters.com

Scraping Reddit Data Using PRAW (Python)

Scraping Reddit Data Using PRAW (Python)

Get comments from a specific post
You can get the comments for a post/submission by creating/obtaining a Submission object and looping through the comments attribute. This will work for some submission, but for others that have more comments this code will throw an AttributeError saying:
AttributeError: ‘MoreComments’ object has no attribute ‘body’These MoreComments object represent the “load more comments” and “continue this thread” links encountered on the websites, as described in more detail in the comment documentation. The above code will first of output all the top-level comments, followed by the second-level comments and so on until there are no comments left.

Source: towardsdatascience.com

Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)

Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)

But this tree would have been unparalleled in height — six stories taller than what is widely considered the tallest “officially” recorded Douglas fir, the now-fallen “Mineral Tree” from Washington’s Wind River drainage. But Ewers points out that even a measuring error by as much as 50 feet would leave the Nooksack tree as the tallest fir ever. Standing on the riverbank there atop another dead, hulking tree — a spruce also toppled by the river, Devine looks upstream and shakes his head, trying to imagine the immensity of the giant fir.

Source: www.seattletimes.com

DDoS Protection With IPtables

DDoS Protection With IPtables

You’ll find that most if not all guides on how to block DDoS attacks using iptables use the filter table and the INPUT chain for anti-DDoS rules. The best solution to dramatically increase the performance of your iptables rules and therefore the amount of (TCP) DDoS attack traffic they can filter is to use the mangle table and the PREROUTING chain! Considering you now know that you need to use the mangle table and the PREROUTING chain as well as optimized kernel settings to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks, we’ll now move on to a couple of example rules to mitigate most TCP DDoS attacks.

Source: javapipe.com

What we think we know – but might not – pushes us to learn more

What we think we know – but might not – pushes us to learn more

If you think you know the farm animal most closely related to T-Rex, or the American president who inspired the creation of blueberry jelly beans — but aren’t quite sure — you’re more likely to bone up on the chicken-dinosaur connection or Ronald Reagan’s predilection for glazed, gel-filled candies. “It’s very in vogue to talk about curiosity as a strategy to increase learning, but it’s unclear how to engage people’s curiosity,” said study senior author Celeste Kidd, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. In the learning phase of the experiment, each study participant gave their best guess in response to each trivia question, and whether they thought their answer was correct.

Source: news.berkeley.edu

Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems

Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems

Each winter, frigid air transforms much of the Bering between Russia and Alaska into sea ice. Beyond the immediate impacts on people and infrastructure, less ice in the Bering and in the neighboring Chukchi Sea to the north have far-reaching atmospheric effects in Alaska. Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers south of the Bering, the balmy winter contributed to above-average sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Alaska.

Source: www.smithsonianmag.com

A home microhydro plant (2009)

A home microhydro plant (2009)

I don’t know yet how to make the distribution box that has to connect to 250mm PVC pipe on one side, and to four 4″ brass valves on the other side, with a pressure gauge on top. Gabriel acting as center point, his son as end load, and I as the controlling factor on the front of the pipe section.This piece of pipe had to be bent in three places, to give enough curving without too much weakening. The water flowed nicely along the channel, but it was clear that the slope was not constant, so I asked Gabriel to deepen both the second half of the channel, and the trench for the first two sections of tube.

Source: ludens.cl