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by 3chelon 10y ago
The EVF lag is the primary reason I've stuck with DSLR over micro-4/3 until now. Every one I've tried, no matter how fast it's purported to be, has just enough lag to make me feel slightly queasy. Another reason is that
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Interesting to know - 100th of an inch is extremely small - certainly not visible with my eyesight! Seems odd to need that for surveying.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
> it's also a little silly to have a prefixed base unit I somewhat agree with that - I had the exact same conversation with my kids very recently. Re. physical object: well, whatever physical reference artefact is used, to all inten
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Reminds me of the old joke. If it was a hardware failure, the hardware guys will spend months building models and testing them for stresses and strains and running simulations to find the point of failure. The software engineers will just a
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Plus the very real and difficult problem of any system being literally shaken apart under the launch forces. AFAIK, they like to pot all circuitry in epoxy to stop the solder joints breaking.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
That seems exceedingly unlikely. No-one in Europe would even consider using anything other than metric units even for buying their groceries, let alone a critical engineering task. That said, _if_ there were any US companies involved then p
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Thanks for that - I feel much more knowledgeable about flash memory now. I'd never even heard of NOR flash (although I understand what a NOR gate is). One question though: why is NAND flash so much more resilient?
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Strange... that slider feature wasn't visible the first time I viewed the site. Maybe it got added in later, or maybe it was a browser issue. Thanks for clearing that up, it's now a very good comparison.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
"In most situations, I’d rather have the Pixel camera... One reason is the phone’s superior screen. The AMOLED display makes photos look better; even ones taken on an iPhone." What? How does a better screen make the camera better?
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Is "wearing down the flash" really still an issue? Hard drives these days are flash-based - surely the read/write cycles modern flash memory can withstand are high enough to manage a few breakpoints?
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by 3chelon 10y ago
But evolution would be part of the process. The programmer (or god) just sets the thing in motion. From an evolutionary biology perspective, evolution might be the main deal, the whole point of the simulation. It would make some sense, to
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by 3chelon 10y ago
A cursory reading of most religious texts would certainly indicate a degree of sadism and lack of empathy with our human feelings. Human sacrifice? Plagues? Genocide? As an experiment, they would make sense. Virtual vivisection. The old God
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by 3chelon 10y ago
On a semi-serious note, I've always had this nagging feeling ever since I first heard of Planck time and Planck length. Why would there be a lower limit to the resolution of the universe, unless there was something spooky going on? (I
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Let's all just think, very hard, of the number 42 and see if the simulation ends.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
QED. It's not nature, just a cubic simulation of nature. Otherwise known as The Matrix :)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Freaky coincidence. Today I just happened to twice edit some PHP, for two separate tasks... but it's the first time I've touched PHP for about 10 years! What goes around comes around. I'm editing my LinkedIn and dusting o
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I'm talking per year. A historical exchange rate calculator tells me 3000 CAD was approx 1000 GBP in 1960. According to my father, in 1970 he earned 600 GBP per annum. That was before overtime, which employers pretty much made mandator
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by 3chelon 10y ago
That is a fair point, well made. I guess the bristling got the better of me. And in those days, Burberry was actually an upper-class brand without the downmarket associations it has these days.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
First off, I've always been a huge fan of Cohen. But the opening paragraph made me bristle slightly: "He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. This was 1960..." I'm assuming that&#
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Spot on about machine learning. That's something that never worked all my life, but it seems like some of these young turks might be onto something there... I should probably sit up and pay attention to that one.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Another (very) late forties dev here too. Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest". As I've said before on this subject, if you're careful what shiny new thing you bother to le
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Clear and concise, and a thing of beauty! Unless the data is user-generated, in which case you might have a security issue on your hands... :)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
At least one of those links - brainpickings.org - felt like a trojan with its modal popups demanding I update Flash player. Felt like one to avoid.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I use the terminal a lot in that I always have several sessions open whether I'm using Mac or Linux. Generally I'm running `git` commands or python scripts, or else just testing my rubbish internet status with `ping`, `traceroute`
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Google Search Terms Can Predict the Stock Market (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)
30 points by 3chelon 10y ago|18 comments
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by 3chelon 10y ago
This entire class of technology was universally known as "vacuum tubes" for a good reason.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yes, but there's a fairly high risk the computer or its power supply will malfunction on impact.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
And of course, they can't turn it off after they've touched down because they will likely no longer have a comm link!
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Useful info, thanks. So it's more of slo-mo crash landing then - that makes much more sense now. And the bit about the directional antenna also makes total sense.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Good call about the batteries - of course they will become totally useless after discharging and freezing.

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