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December 12, 2015

HHVM Beats Stable Version of PHP 7.0 In Recent Benchmark

campuscodi writes: PHP7 and HHVM have been exchanging punches for a while via benchmarks. While the PHP supporters were always saying, just wait until the stable version comes out, well… the stable version is out, and a recent benchmark reveals that "HHVM beats PHP7.0 hands down." Compared on: WordPress, Magento, Drupal8, Laravel, PyroCMS, and October CMS. You can still be a "PHP supporter" and favor HHVM, which "serves as an execution engine for the PHP and Hack programming languages."

Watch giant machines forge a gigantic steel roll

It’s weirdly enjoyable to see a giant block of steel get squished and shaped into a giant roll of steel by giant machines. Seeing the hot flakes fall off, seeing a square slowly get squeezed into a circle, it’s something I can watch for a very long time. These steel rolls were made by the Forging and Press Plant JSC-Ruse.

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December 11, 2015

Speed Up Your iPhone by Manually Clearing the RAM

Have you ever found yourself messing around with your iPhone, only to have it start to feel a little sluggish? It feels like everything you want to do takes longer than it should. Launching Twitter should happen in an instant, but it doesn’t! Maybe you need to flush your iPhone’s RAM. I’m not talking about manually quitting all of the apps running. Rather, I’m talking about a lesser-known technique that will get everything out of RAM and let you feel like the phone just turned on. The first thing you need to do is hold the power button until “Slide to Power…

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December 11, 2015

This Is How the Largest U.S. Military Airplane Gets Stripped Down

You need a large room to strip and reassemble an airplane—especially when it’s the biggest one in your fleet. In this panoramic photo you can see a half assembled Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy during a major inspection at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

All C-5 aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory undergo an eight-year scheduled maintenance timeline, with one of four inspections occurring at regular two-year intervals. Such a major inspection–which includes a complete disassembly and re-assembly–takes approximately 55 days, and more than 100 staff can be working on the aircraft at any given moment.

[Senior Airman William Johnson/U.S. Air Force]

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December 9, 2015

Dilbert 2015-12-09

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December 7, 2015

San Bernardino Shooting Gun Control Response

How is it anyone can look at the facts known about the San Bernardino terrorist attack and come to the conclusion that what we need is another law disarming American citizens?

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December 7, 2015

Unprecedented Image Shows a Dolphin’s Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human

Unprecedented Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human

In a world’s first, researchers from the US and UK have created an impression of a submerged human as recorded by a dolphin’s echolocation.

To do it, a team led by Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com used an imaging system known as a Cymascope. The system, developed by John Stuart Reid (who also assisted with the project), made it possible to record and isolate dolphin echolocation sounds directed onto specific objects, and then create 2D images from those sounds. A computer then converted those images into 3D, which allowed the researchers to 3D-print robust, real-world models.

“We’ve been working on dolphin communication for more than a decade,” noted Kassewitz in a release. “When we discovered that dolphins not exposed to the echolocation experiment could identify objects from recorded dolphin sounds with 92% accuracy, we began to look for a way for to see what was in those sounds.”

Unprecedented Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human

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For the experiment, a female dolphin named Amaya directed her sonar beams at a submerged diver, while a hydrophone captured the ensuing echos. To avoid added “noise,” the diver, Jim McDonough, swam without a breathing apparatus to make sure no bubbles would adversely affect the results. As Amaya scanned McDonough with her high frequency sound beam, the CymaScope imprinted sonic vibrations within the water medium.

In addition to the diver, the researchers also had Amaya direct her sonar at a flowerpot, a cube, and a plastic “+” symbol.

“We were thrilled by the first successful print of a cube by the brilliant team at 3D Systems,” said Kassewitz. “But seeing the 3D print of a human being left us all speechless. For the first time ever, we may be holding in our hands a glimpse into what cetaceans see with sound. Nearly every experiment is bringing us more images with more detail.”

Looking ahead, the team would like to determine if and how dolphins may be sharing these echolocation images as part of an intra-species sono-pictorial language.

[ SpeakDolphin.com | h/t Discovery News ]

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December 7, 2015

As Gun Sales Rise, Gun-Concealing Furniture Designs Proliferate

People cannot agree on gun control laws in America, but one point is not in doubt: Gun sales are on the rise. Following mass shootings, of which we have plenty, firearm manufacturers and retailers confirm that sales increase.

Which begs the question: Is there an attendant increase in the sales of firearm-storing furniture? When we looked at the stuff last year, it certainly seemed to be booming, and these days it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.

Absent the politics, the furniture itself is fascinating as it poses a unique storage design challenge: End users want the furniture to visually conceal their goods, yet they want lightning-quick access to it. This often means that end users are seeking to integrate gun storage into some very central pieces of furniture—like dining tables:

Or coffee tables:

Or buffets:

Or the couch:

Others feel the bed is the best place for them:

I desperately want to believe this is for storing documents or cash:

For still others, the bathroom (this has got to be a gag):

Or tucked away in dummy ceiling vents:

Or under the stairs:

Or behind mirrors:

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Or behind art:

In short, it seems these designers have collectively sought out every square inch of dead space and turned it into usable storage.

A lot of these ideas can, of course, be adapted to hold non-firearm-related items. So whether you’re pro- or anti-gun, perhaps some of these ideas will inspire you in designing your own storage-related pieces.

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As Gun Sales Rise, Gun-Concealing Furniture Designs Proliferate

December 7, 2015

67 Photos From Inside Disney’s Secret Star Wars Press Event

About two weeks ago, we got an email inviting us to an event. All it said: it was about Star Wars, and it would take place in Los Angeles.
Where in LA? They’d tell us right before it all went down. What was the actual event? They couldn’t really say, but we’d want to be there. No video allowed for most of it. No geotagging our location in pictures.
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December 7, 2015

The Army’s New Shooter Education Videos – “The Shooter’s Corner”

Capture Breaking from a long tradition of providing the most mundane and barely readable Training Manuals, the US Army is getting with the modern times with the release of their new “Shooter’s Corner” videos from the Army Marksmanship Unit. Production value is actually pretty good, especially for a basic training video though I do miss the old […]