DannyB2

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by DannyB2 9y ago
The PCB may be well designed, but the power supply may not be. I have witnessed what a cheap PC can do. Purchased from a Walmart some years ago. Windows 7 immediately replaced with Ubuntu. After a brownout, that machine was unbootable.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
A simple PRNG I used on programmable calculators back in the 1970's. Four steps: 1. Recall seed from register (a number between 0.0 and 1.0) 2. Take reciprocal 3. Chop off the part to left of decimal point (eg, "frac" key) 4
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Dead people have opinions about net neutrality too. Since ping times from the afterlife have such bad latency, they don't mind letting ISPs get away with whatever they want.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Voters in the US should seriously consider this for the office of US president.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
What about people who get stuck in Emacs and are unable to exit? They end up using Emacs lisp to create all other operations that they ever need on the computer. Emacs becomes their only environment.
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by DannyB2 9y ago
I am a strong believer in static typing. But I enjoy dynamic types in, for example, Lisp for solving certain problems. When working on a large codebase maintained over years and years, I appreciate static types -- especially when it comes
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by DannyB2 9y ago
Victory Coffee is for everyone! And the chocolate ration has been increased to 20g this week! (apologies to George Orwell)
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by DannyB2 10y ago
The site says Pi 3 only.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
The problem is human greed. Even if you burn everything down and rebuild, the problem of greed remains. Oh, and lust for power. See all of human history. Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. (Usually in summer school.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
In Lisp / Scheme, people may create a tiny language to express the problem. Steps: 1. Create a new language in which the problem is trivially expressed. 2. Solve the problem in the new language. Lisp / Scheme are ideal for this. E
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by DannyB2 10y ago
I have never been on FB. I email occasionally with far away friends. A phone call once in a while.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
I have never been on FaceTwit. Never missed it. (either of them) I've occasionally wondered if I should. Its amusing to read both about and from people (here in comments) being happier without it. There was a point I worried that o
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by DannyB2 10y ago
Those ordering drone strikes on their own citizens might discover that some significant fraction of drone operators are unwilling to carry out such orders.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
If their job was, say, picking cotton, then the hours they spent at work would directly correlate to their work output. So what is the difference? Maybe scientists are still thinking about difficult problems when they are away from work. L
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by DannyB2 10y ago
Frogpocalypse was one of the Biblical curses on Egypt in Exodus. But not a curse described anywhere in The Revelation.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
Practice decomposing problems in a way they can be solved on multiple processing elements in parallel. Identify problems that cannot be decomposed in this way and why. Good if you can make a certain problem run on eight processors. But w
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by DannyB2 10y ago
That is not one bit surprising considering that Google does everything online. Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to re
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by DannyB2 10y ago
If I have a happy fulfilled life and die with unspent money left to others I care about, that sounds great to me.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
On advice of lobbyists, lead will now be recognized as an important mineral. The FDA will issue new RDA guidelines for lead.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
They have assistants who do that for them. Paid for by the lobbyists.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
My retirement planning is to work on the Y10K problem. When the year 9997 comes along, everyone is going to start worrying about the rollover to five digit years. In about the year 9995 I will start seriously brushing up on my COBOL.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
But your honor! I was not texting while driving! I was using FaceTwit instead.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
Fewer people were able to tune to Animal Planet back then and see for themselves what an elephant looked like.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
The only thing sarcastic is the ripping a hole in space time continuum. Otherwise, it would be a tremendously amusing accomplishment if Wine could run the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Pointless, yes. But so is the 2048 game.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
There's nothing MORALLY wrong with defeating the system. But it's LEGALLY wrong. That is what will get you into trouble. In certain countries, it's not morally wrong to criticize The Dear Leader. But it is legally wrong and
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by DannyB2 10y ago
It's about more than security updates. And this may seem off topic, but bear with me for a moment. Smart devices, including but not limited to Smart TVs. The manufacturers need to be legally and financially liable for damages caused
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by DannyB2 10y ago
No need to abuse the C switch statement. #define while if // make code faster #define struct union // use less memory
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by DannyB2 10y ago
But it is so profitable (for some) that we just can't go back!
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by DannyB2 10y ago
Yes, that! 3D is and has always been a gimmic. It doesn't improve the story telling. It doesn't contribute to the plot in any way. But then, some movie makers remark, 'story' ? 'plot ? what strange words you use.
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by DannyB2 10y ago
If the USA is the Microsoft of nations, as the article says. Then would some current or future president be the Ballmer of the US?

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