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  1. Heme is not a protein on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Heme is not a protein, is it a coordination complex. It can be part of a protein called a hemoprotein or hemeprotein.

  2. Re:the meaning of "fully new digitized payloads"? on Satellite Internet Is Driving the Global Space Economy (infoq.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that is awkward phrasing, I think they are referring to older communications satellites being mostly analog repeaters, limiting their signal processing capabilities, as opposed to new satellites using fully digital signal formats.

  3. Just tried three of the most basic code questions I could think of, wrong answers every time:

    "C++ opengl draw triangle" returned:
    float c = -1.0 + 2.0*desiredPixel/pixelWidth

    "C++ opengl set vertex shader" returned:
    // (Vertex buffer must be bound at this point)
      glEnableVertexAttribArray( a ); // 'a' would be 0 if you did the latter
      glVertexAttribPointer( a, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof( your vertex ), nullptr );

    "C++ directx 11 create 3d texture" returned:
    desc.BindFlags = D3D11_BIND_SHADER_RESOURCE;
    ComPtr<ID3D11Texture2D> tex;
    HRESULT hr = mDevice->CreateTexture2D( &desc, &initData, tex.GetAddressOf() );
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
      D3D11_SHADER_RESOURCE_VIEW_DESC SRVDesc = {};...

    Nope, nope, nope...

  4. Antithrust violations? on Micron, Samsung, Hynix Investigated By China Over Antitrust Violations (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds serious.

  5. Motivational Poster on Gmail's 'Smart Compose' Feature Will Write Emails For You (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a poster I used to have- "If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon." I think that should be updated to, "If an AI can write your emails for you, you probably have a very easy job. The kinds robots are already doing." https://despair.com/products/m...

  6. There is, but only from reaction products that are charged particles, not from neutrons. It's called direct energy conversion- you extract the energy from charged particles. It only works for some fission and fusion reactions since different reactions produce different products. Proton-boron fusion is especially promising, it is aneutronic (which has benefits for radioactivity and reactor housing damage) and lends itself to direct energy conversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. 3001: The Final Odyssey on Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the start of the Pico Vault from Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, which was a vault on the moon built to store samples of biological and computer viruses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:Yay! on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    They already do that with the warranties (on cars and anything else for that matter). Most, even "lifetime" warranties, are non-transferable.

  9. How to submit prior art on Apple Wants Patent On Video Game-Based iBooks · · Score: 1

    My video game Wild Earth, published a few years ago, did almost exactly this. Players took photos and then a story was generated after the game using their content. Does anyone know the best way to submit prior art to the USPTO?

  10. Misleading Headline on Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    The headline is a bit misleading - I've heard several interviews with Bigelow on Coast to Coast AM and AFAIK this habitat is not going to be "Manned", rather "Manned-capable". They are not sending up any people, not have any plans (or even launch vehicle) to do so. That said, I fully support what they're doing! We'll have the egg, now all we need is the creamy yolk stuff (i.e. people) to go inside. Not sure where the chicken fits in...