DrStalker

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by DrStalker 12y ago
In a few years from now it's going to be really interesting to see what lessons from Valve turned out to be helpful in the real world.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Same problem here; Stalker is my surname and I had to send in a scan of my drivers license to create an account.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
These snippets should all be fine to go straight into a directory block, so it's still a really good resource,
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by DrStalker 12y ago
You can only do that if you find a person with bitcoins that wants to exchange then for yuan located in China. Not an impossible scenario, but it might not be the most reliable.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I've heard (no source sorry) that in early testing in a simulator flying an F-16 over the international date line resulted in a 180 degree roll that was fast enough to render unconscious or kill the pilot, as the software got confused
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Their goal is to help themselves, not to help the greater phone-using community.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I've gotten the impression they get a bit annoyed when people do stupid things and need rescuing but have no problems with rescuing people that encountered problems doing something that is normally safe and common.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Sounds like the immune system version of "turn it off and back on again."
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by DrStalker 12y ago
So the 50,000 "basket" relates to buying and selling bitcoins with the trust, not for end users buying shares in the ETF?
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Are there any smartphones/tablets that have the light hit the display surface from the front and then bounce off like the kindle does? I thought they all either used a backlight shining through the display from behind or were an array
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Of the people that need this service how many are willing to pay money for it?
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by DrStalker 12y ago
That's how Amazon Web Services got started; Amazon made something for internal use, figured they could market it to external clients and now AWS is massive. This is a different situation in the way it scales, but still the same core id
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Rotate your monitor and work in 1200x1920.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
If you're willing to use a typewriter you're willing to use a computer with no network connection, so all you need to do is block radio transmissions. A faraday cage can't cost that much compared to the other costs involved
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I'd assume that ribbons get securely disposed of, just like old documents/backup tapes/etc.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a highly moderated (i.e.: nothing like most of Reddit) subreddit that has a lot of historians happy to answer random questions about anything that happened more than 20 years ag
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by DrStalker 12y ago
How is the data "worth billions"? That may have been the original cost, but the original cost isn't the same as the value today.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
They also know the volume of data being moved and the times it occurred, which could be useful information.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Our pet foxes ate one once, does that count?
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I remember disks where load * ,8,1 would load a list of addresses to load other programs from; I think this was done by making the default program do nothing but print the addresses of other things on the disk.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
You probably did see it, but didn't realize that the image would update every hour. You would have had to watch for months to see the whole story as it was released.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Pathfinding was the other big CPU problem; better fortress design means better pathfindning means longer playtime before death by slowness.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I keep my inbox empty so I don't have to spend mental energy going over the same messages every time I look at my inbox; mail should be read and then deleted, moved to "Action required" or moved to the archive. My "Actio
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by DrStalker 12y ago
“take a step back” is also the right thing to say in a lot of situations; it's very easy for people to get lost in the details of one proposed solution instead of deciding which solution is best or even what the exact goal is.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
"Circumstantial evidence" is any evidence other than a direct eyewitness of the crime; if your fingerprints are at the crime scene, your shirt is covered in the victims blood, you're carrying a gun that matches the bullets pu
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by DrStalker 12y ago
I meant can the NSA force you to keep publishing "we have not worked with the NSA" when you have worked with them.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Add the ability to filter to show utopian/sydtopian/all and then include a trend graph showing how many utopian predictions have come to pass vs. how many dystopian ones.
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by DrStalker 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that it's possible to get below absolute zero: http://www.mpg.de/6776082/negative_absolute_temperature It's a bit of a definitional thing; once you get that cold measuring how fas
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Do agencies like the NSA/FBI/etc have the power to make a company publicly lie against their will?
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by DrStalker 12y ago
Wouldn't two people pulling in opposite directions generate more tension than one person pulling a rope with the end anchored? (Assuming all people are equal)

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