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04 Jul 14:35

July 03, 2014


Welp, that was the biggest project we've ever done. Thank you all so much for participating. I promise the next big thing will be a new SMBC book!
25 Jun 16:59

Einstein

Einstein was WRONG when he said that provisional patent #39561 represented a novel gravel-sorting technique and should be approved by the Patent Office.
21 May 02:57

Em teste inédito, computador quântico deixa PC na poeira

Pela primeira vez, um computador quântico competiu diretamente com um computador clássico, um PC comum.
18 May 02:28

Combination Vision Test

Pablo Almeida

This man is a genius! :D

If you see two numbers but they're both the same and you have to squint to read them, you have synesthesia, colorblindness, diplopia, and myopia.
01 May 11:42

Silicone aumenta chance de morte por câncer de mama, diz estudo

Pesquisa canadense sugere que prótese não causa tumor, mas dificulta diagnóstico de câncer de mama em seu estágio inicial.
13 Apr 04:27

Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal

by Matthew Inman
Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal

A comic about a glorious undersea creature.

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01 Apr 19:40

Presidente da Comissão de Direitos Humanos quer tirar FreeBSD dos servidores do Congresso

by Augusto Campos

Em mais um desafio ao conceito de Estado laico, o recém-eleito presidente da Comissão de Direitos Humanos do Senado voltou a provocar polêmica. Na manhã de hoje, ao discursar na abertura do IV Congresso Anual de Tecnologia Legislativa, o religioso ressaltou o aspecto moral dos sistemas informatizados.

Em sua mensagem aos presentes, o religioso exemplificou abordando “o sistema utilizado nos servidores de e-mail do Congresso, que não tem vergonha de assumir que tem parte com o Cão”, e cuja substituição ele deixou como desafio aos presentes. O servidor em questão, que na verdade é responsável pela filtragem de e-mail para evitar malwares, roda FreeBSD, cujo mascote (o popular Beastie, uma alusão aos daemons do Unix) pode ser visto acima.


Nota: Este post participa das comemorações mundiais realizadas imediatamente após o término do mês de março, quando jornais, emissoras, sites e outros meios de comunicação celebram com bom humor a tradição associada à data, e convidam seus leitores a fazer o mesmo. A notícia publicada no post é uma paródia sem base em fatos reais, e todas as marcas citadas pertencem a seus respectivos proprietários, que não têm participação no ato.



28 Mar 02:53

Reasons Why I Love Unity Previews #735

by Joey-Elijah Sneddon

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Prolific Unity Scopes developer David Callé has recently been showing off some interesting new features he’s built into Unity Previews.

Perhaps my favourite so far is this neat Preview for patterns fetched from ColorLovers.

Aside from giving a giant close-up view of the pattern you’re previewing, a link to the website, and some meta data, the preview also lets you instantly set the design as your desktop wallpaper – skipping the need to open your browser, download it, and then set it yourself!

Fantastic stuff.

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21 Mar 02:19

Processadores gráficos da nVIDIA quebram recorde de cálculo do (π) Pi

by noreply@blogger.com (Edigley Alexandre)
Pablo Almeida

Isso porque são necessários 39 dígitos do Pi para calcular a circunferência do Universo observável com uma margem de erro equivalente ao diâmetro de UM ÁTOMO de hidrogênio. :)

E a disputa continua. Umas das brincadeiras mais saudáveis e divertidas (risos) no mundo da Matemática e Informática, tem mais um recorde mundial. A constante circular π (Pi) foi computada com 8 quatrilhões de dígitos à direita. O recorde passado era de 5 trilhões de dígitos em 2010. O Yahoo calculou 2 trilhões, também em 2010.

Processadores gráficos da nVIDIA quebram recorde de cálculo do Pi
Imagem: Getty Images

O novo recorde foi calculado entre dezembro de 2012 e janeiro de 2013. Os 8 quatrilhões de casas decimais do π, foram computadas utilizando 26 computadores com 7 placas gráficas da NVIDIA (modelos diferentes). Foram 35 dias de intenso processamento. O responsável pelo projeto é o pesquisador Ed Karrels, afiliado à Universidade de Santa Clara, nos Estados Unidos.

Fonte: TecMundo.

Diário Escolar 2013
16 Mar 03:34

You can tell a lot about a country by the porn it searches for on the Internet

by Rob Bricken
Pablo Almeida

Very useful. xD

In an achievement that takes our "Map Porn" tag to its ultimate limit, the scholars/gentlemen of Porn MD have composed a completely SFW interactive map that displays the top 10 pornographic search terms of many, many countries. The results are both informative, terrifying and hilarious.

For instance:

• USA's #1 term is "MILF," which I think says a lot about us.

• Russia is oddly fixed on ex-porn star Sasha Grey, whose name ranks #5 on their list.

• Spain's #4 term is "cumlouder," which I absolutely refuse to Google myself.

• India keeps it in the family and keeps it extremely specific with their #4, "Indian Aunty."

• Libya's #1 is "Silver Daddies" and #3 is "American anal sluts," proving that the U.S. is still producing the world's best anal sluts, at least.

• The #1 search term in China is "Japanese," which is its own political nightmare, I think.

And that's not all! If you aren't feeling international, they also have the Top 10 XXX search terms for each U.S. state! I have to warn you, though, it's mostly "Teen" and "MILF" until you get to my home state of Kentucky, whose #1 is "Free Gay Porn," possibly the only geographic area on the planet that requests for its porn be free. Are we cheap? Or are we just savvy economists? Time will tell.

You check out the full map here at (again, the totally SFW) PornMD.



14 Mar 06:28

A second spring of cleaning

by Emily Wood
Pablo Almeida

"by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on building great products that really help in their lives."

By discontinuing Google Reader, you just contradicted yourselves. Bad move, Google.

We’re living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It’s been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn’t happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago. To make the most of these opportunities, we need to focus—otherwise we spread ourselves too thin and lack impact. So today we’re announcing some more closures, bringing the total to 70 features or services closed since our spring cleaning began in 2011:

  • Apps Script will be deprecating the GUI Builder and five UiApp widgets in order to focus efforts on Html Service. The rest of the Ui Service will not be affected. The GUI Builder will continue to be available until September 16, 2013. For more information see our post on the Google Apps Developer Blog.
  • CalDAV API will become available for whitelisted developers, and will be shut down for other developers on September 16, 2013. Most developers’ use cases are handled well by Google Calendar API, which we recommend using instead. If you’re a developer and the Calendar API won’t work for you, please fill out this form to tell us about your use case and request access to whitelisted-only CalDAV API.
  • Google Building Maker helped people to make three-dimensional building models for Google Earth and Maps. It will be retired on June 1, but users are still able to access and export their models from the 3D Warehouse. We’ll continue to expand the availability of comprehensive and accurate new 3D imagery on Google Earth, and people can still use Google Map Maker to add building information such as outlines and heights to Google Maps.
  • Google Cloud Connect is a plug-in to help people work in the cloud by automatically saving Microsoft Office files from Windows PCs in Google Drive. But installing Google Drive on your desktop achieves the same thing more effectively—and Drive works not only on Windows, but also on Mac, Android and iOS devices. Existing users will no longer be able to use Cloud Connect as of April 30.
  • We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.
  • Beginning next week, we're ending support for the Google Voice App for Blackberry. For Blackberry users who want to continue using Google Voice, we recommend they use our HTML5 app, which is more secure and easier for us to keep up to date. Our HTML5 site is compatible with users with Blackberry version 6 and newer.
  • We’re deprecating our Search API for Shopping, which has enabled developers to create shopping apps based on Google’s Product Search data. While we believe in the value this offering provided, we’re shifting our focus to concentrate on creating a better shopping experience for users through Google Shopping. We’ll shut the API down completely on September 16, 2013.
  • Beginning today we’ll no longer sell or provide updates for Snapseed Desktop for Macintosh and Windows. Existing customers will continue to be able to download the software and can contact us for support. We’ll continue to offer the Snapseed mobile app on iOS and Android for free.

These changes are never easy. But by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on building great products that really help in their lives.

Update March 15, 2013: We worked with the developers who provide 98 percent of our current CalDAV traffic to assure access to the CalDAV API, which means many popular products will not be impacted. We remain committed to supporting open protocols like CalDAV.

Posted by Urs Hölzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow
14 Mar 05:45

Ineffective Sorts

Pablo Almeida

"Portability"

lol

StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.