Andys

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by Andys 15y ago
A paypal-style site can create a new bitcoin account on behalf of the new user. Then the payer can transfer funds to it, using a transaction that requires signing with keys that only the payer knows and can pass to the payee directly. Bitc
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by Andys 15y ago
ARM chips are priced an order of magnitude lower than Intel's chips. Their process advantage would only last one generation because the fat profit margins aren't there to pay for the next one. If ARM kills Intel, its because cheap chips ar
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by Andys 15y ago
I don't understand why he hasn't just quit
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by Andys 15y ago
Intel's having trouble because of the ASP.
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by Andys 15y ago
Summary: Secure boot will be turned on by default and will prevent booting alternative operating systems. But you will be able to turn it off if you know how to use a BIOS, unless your hardware vendor has disabled the ability to turn it off
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by Andys 15y ago
As a small-time miner, I don't care. I always thought the value should be stable at roughly $1 at this point in time. I am in it for the long haul, I am waiting to see where it goes in the next 5 years, not trying to cash out to dollars.
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by Andys 15y ago
Second half of 2012 is when the rate will be halved, not 2013.
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by Andys 15y ago
Ubuntu Server does not contain a GUI. There's no X11 unless you ask to install it.
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by Andys 15y ago
Yes, I would give alot to have known that I could have done that when I was 20, instead of waiting til much later when the stakes were much higher. Unless your father quit his job and successfully started a company, you can probably ignore
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by Andys 15y ago
Will Intel finally have some real competition?
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by Andys 15y ago
Raspberry Pi is doing a great job of keeping up buzz on their site while the hardware isn't ready yet. So many sites peddling vapourware could learn a thing or two here.
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by Andys 15y ago
I've been using Ruby for many years now, but I wish I had discovered it much earlier. Something like this would have made that more likely.
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by Andys 15y ago
If all climate research was as honest as this it might be harder to put a spin on it.
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by Andys 15y ago
Also known as a radix tree, I believe.
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by Andys 15y ago
I can't see what was wrong with the second graph. Regular bursts of writes for flushing leaves the disks more idle for low-latency reads. Optimising throughput doesn't mean you have to have a smooth, flat write graph. (For comparison, see
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by Andys 15y ago
Unfair comparison. Ethernet and TCP have checksums and can retry failed transmissions, so you could have a cheap, crappy cable and you wouldn't know except for a slower transfer rate.
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by Andys 15y ago
Which then, if I'm not mistaken, boils down to: Post.all.group_by {|post| post.name[0] }
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by Andys 15y ago
During the stall and plunge of Air France Flight 447 into the ocean, the plane's angle of attack "was not directly displayed to the pilots". Seems to me a fatal design flaw bordering on ridiculous, to create a user interface that is not dis
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by Andys 15y ago
Are you talking about the sort of people Apple likes to litigate against?
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by Andys 15y ago
Only because of modern farming processes.
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by Andys 15y ago
Perhaps you are also meticulous enough to not allow your laptop out of your sight in the first place.
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by Andys 15y ago
There's syslog the protocol, syslog the API, and syslog the daemon. There are syslog daemon and protocol replacements that are much better, but retain the API for wide-spread compatibility.
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by Andys 15y ago
When they said the system was free of chargebacks, that just meant due to people changing their mind. You still get the rug pulled from under your feet if there's fraud (I assume, stolen bank accounts).
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by Andys 15y ago
Point #1 is why we shouldn't be at war, why people in power shouldn't be always trying to control the populace, and why there shouldn't be so much poverty
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by Andys 15y ago
I was 17 at the time, and heavily into computers, programming, and the Internet as a hobby. Far from being novel I thought this idea falls into the "bleeding obvious" category.
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by Andys 15y ago
Its easy to do this when you have no strong competition, and don't care if you piss off your existing customers. The irony is they want to ride the new wave of public cloud computing, going so far as to sponsor development of a memory datab
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by Andys 15y ago
"The original IBM PC had a clock speed of 4.77 MHz. The 8088 processor inside was actually specified to run at 5 MHz, so how did IBM end up at 4.77?" " At some point an IBM hardware design engineer made a leap: The Color Graphics Adapter wo
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by Andys 15y ago
The reason Mt Gox needs to obsess over password database is because they don't seem experienced enough to secure the rest of their site. When it comes down to it, they are still a "PHP+mysql" site like all the others on the Internet. Would
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by Andys 15y ago
And of course, one on one bitcoin trading is already alive and well at http://bitcoin-otc.com/
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by Andys 15y ago
I believe the 13" MBA has a higher screen resolution than available in the 13" MBP.

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