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by 2sk21 9y ago
Exactly the same for my 20 year old daughter. This is really going to restrict where she can live in the US. I wonder if this may have the effect of making cities compete with each other for improving public transit.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I loved that Apple Pay worked so well on the Underground. Especially from an Apple Watch it is very convenient.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I pay for pretty much everything with Apple Pay. All of the supermarkets here in NJ accept Apple Pay. The convenience of using my watch to pay is great - and much faster than the chip card readers. In London, I was able to use Apple Pay to
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Whats interesting about this car is that even if its not driven a mile, many parts have to be changed as per a timetable. Merely changing the tires on this car costs $50k! https://youtu.be/EsKDGdcb6BQ
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I was going to say there same thing - this just seems like java Applets have been reinvented
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This would also a good idea for countries like India where the sun mostly shines and the electricity grid is weak.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
A bit tangential but amusing: my PhD dissertation was 51 pages, all math. One of my committee members approved of the work but wanted the dissertation to be bulked up with a program listing- thankfully my advisor firmly rejected this sugges
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Yes - the fundamental limits to learning by induction
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Really impressive. One question though - back in 1985, when I first logged in to a real VAX 11/780 running BSD 4.2, it was on a VT220 terminal connected through a terminal on a DZ11 (I think). Is that also available in the simulation?
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Whenever I read car magazines they are always talking about the need to reduce unsprung weight. Supposedly, high unsprung weight causes a harsher ride - so this is not a given?
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by 2sk21 9y ago
So all of this processing happens for one frame? And this is going on at 60 Hz?
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This bird is just amazing!
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by 2sk21 9y ago
In the model train world, we use car brake light bulbs as current limiters for a reason similar to why they used one in this monitor. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/215408.aspx
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This appears to be a descendant of Duff's device ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device )
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Sometime, I think that this is the best reason for UBI - take a few months sabbatical every year to catch up on books and games :-)
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by 2sk21 9y ago
REAMDE was surprisingly good and I learned a lot about gold farming in the process.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Anathem > Cryptonomicon > Snow Crash > all the rest I have read through Anathem at least three times and still enjoy it with each reading.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Those are relay contacts selecting which field windings are getting power. As the locomotive accelerates, the number of enegerqzed coils is reduced in order to reduce back EMF (electro motive force)
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by 2sk21 9y ago
You are right - after reading this article, it just seemed to confirm my opinion the decentralized networks don't work but we ought not to give up.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I just discovered this trilogy and have just finished the first book. Truly what a great story
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Newspaper comments sections are almost uniformly unreadable. HackerNews is, I think, the only site I subscribe to read comments.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
You are right - I did mean display not frame buffer :-) Exactly as you say, most people used to run with "host +" at my university.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I agree entirely with this.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
One of the amazing things about X was how easy it was to snoop on others. There was one prof at my university who appeared to be working long hours until a grad student came up with the idea of dumping out the prof's frame buffer - and
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I'm just happy that somebody thought it worthwhile to post this article here. With all of the heard running towards ML, its great to see that not everyone has forgotten GOFAI inspired issues!
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This does anticipate the anxieties that we feel about cryptography in the modern age so closely!
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I live in New Jersey and just had solar panels installed on my roof. Peak power is about 7.8 KW. On clear days, power production in the summer is about 50 kWh I have been keeping daily logs this summer and find that my daily power consumpti
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by 2sk21 9y ago
This is my favorite - moving rocks uphill !
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by 2sk21 9y ago
I agree. I have been a subscriber for many years now and have really liked their writing.
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by 2sk21 9y ago
Yup - the back pages of Popular Science was a great place to see them

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