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pxndx··on Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
Roombas do, it would be weird if this new iteration didn't
pxndx··on Tesla Autopilot
Why is there a difference between sowtware and the car? Didn't you also pay for the software?
pxndx··on Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books
This is just a giant transparent png file. Am I missing anything?
pxndx··on 3D Comics
It was done a few years ago for April Fools': https://3d.xkcd.com/880/

Many of them were automatically generated, but some comics were manually converted (by xkcd fans!). You can browse them from the 3d.xkcd.com site.

pxndx··on Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record
Related what-if: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
pxndx··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
I understood that as "that's already a pretty good name".
pxndx··on 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats
I have an Asus mg279q with both a DP and a miniDP input. The provided cable is a DP to miniDP, so you can plug most devices with a single cable (just reverse it).

I guess other monitors from the same line have miniDP inputs too.

pxndx··on A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
>Lemke Oliver and Soundararajan’s first guess for why this bias occurs was a simple one: Maybe a prime ending in 3, say, is more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 7, 9 or 1 merely because it encounters numbers with those endings before it reaches another number ending in 3. For example, 43 is followed by 47, 49 and 51 before it hits 53, and one of those numbers, 47, is prime.
pxndx··on Vainglory vs. Clash Royale, and the future of “hardcore” games on mobile
But what's the name of the game?
pxndx··on A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests
The thing is, the value for these products is infinite. If people don't have them, they'll die.
pxndx··on NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
The second reference talks about the star, which is named Kepler-452.
pxndx··on Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again
This isn't WTF at all, that's exactly how regexes should work!
pxndx··on A Spanish activist found a tracking device on her car after a police check
No, it doesn't. If the activist were male, it would say "Un activista" vs "Una activista", so the gender of the person is also explicit.
pxndx··on The DaftPunKonsole
The ñ key works for me!
pxndx··on Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come
That's the reason why the test included a cheap lens and a $1700 one.
pxndx··on Urbit: a personal cloud computer
This is either a very elaborate joke or the future of computing.
pxndx··on A 16-Level XSS Challenge, held in summer 2014 (plus one hidden level)
On level 4, it is assumed that the attacker owns a domain name. Given solutions use 2 unicode characters for the domain name, totalling 6 bytes. The actual shortest domain name in use is 'uz' (http://uz/) which is a registrar for .uz, Uzbekistan's ccTLD, making the answer shorter by 4 bytes.
pxndx··on Homeless Fonts
I speak Catalan and Spanish, if anyone is interested I can translate parts of http://www.arrelsfundacio.org/ to English. Google Translate gives "good enough" translations though.

http://www.arrelsfundacio.org/que-fem/ (this translates to rootsfoundation.org/about-us)

> We help homeless people in Barcelona

> We focus on two tasks: Covering the needs of homeless people and supporting them in their personal itinerary.

> At Arrels we provide accommodation, food and health and social care to men and women living in poor conditions in the streets of Barcelona, and more importantly, "we are with them" accompanying them on the long road to regain autonomy.

pxndx··on Privacy Badger
I disabled third party cookies in Chrome. Doesn't this basically do the same?
pxndx··on Facebook can now read your texts
It has menu options to go directly to your news feed, the top of the page, notifications and preferences, so it makes browsing the mobile page easier. It also saves the facebook cookies so you don't have to type your user and password every time you want log in.
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