IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
They have the one killer feature that Enterprise loves more than any other: glacially slow change. Last I heard, IE8 lives until 2016, which is amazing (although not necessarily in a good way :)
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by IvyMike 12y ago
That was my concern, too. There's a precedent for a radiation-emitting machine failing in a very bad way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 Of course these new machines cannot fail the exact same way as the
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I had a discussion with a friend, and he pointed out that Malaria infects something like 200 million people a year in Africa, and kills around half a million. It's brutal. So this new paper is projecting that Ebola deaths in Africa wi
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> decipher TV by watching the flickering on the wall. Off topic, but... this has been done. Amazes me to this day. "Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays" http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/i
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by IvyMike 12y ago
yarchive is pretty good. http://www.yarchive.net/comp/index.html
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by IvyMike 12y ago
That would be an awesome item in the quarterly SEC filing: REDACTED $23M
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Interesting. In Windows-land, the default copy is pretty anemic, so probably most people avoid it for serious work. I'd probably use robocopy from the command line. And if I was being lazy, I'd use the Teracopy GUI. I think my lim
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Facebook is racist against fat bald guys with beards and assumes we all look the same, because it's always suggesting I'm one of the other random fat bald guy with a beard I know. (Actually, after going through a lot of bogus sugg
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Why does seemingly every article about cycling, even if overall in favor of it, end up sprinkled with appeals for the minority to behave? The answer is, whether most people admit it or not, people resent cyclists. Before I continue: I&
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Is failing to comply with the DMCA and taking grave financial harm a reasonable thing for them to do? I cannot see how that would work.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Your freedom of speech is not a right on private websites Do we think that the principle of freedom of speech is a good thing? And if so, shouldn't we attempt to make it available even in situations in which we are not compelled
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by IvyMike 12y ago
There are a lot of assholes on the internet, but in general I'm unwilling to hastily put limits on freedom of speech, even when those assholes use it to be assholes. I am not sure what people are asking for: Do they want reddit to star
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I've been wondering if any agency in the US government has been using DNA databases to do "genetic triangulation"--and if not, when they'll start. I'm in 23andme, and I get messages saying "someone who is your
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by IvyMike 12y ago
They are claiming "it contradicts previous results", but certainly the savings must depend on the athlete's pre-shave hirsuteness. Unless they controlled for that, the previous results could have just been because of a relat
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Whoa. Now of course the question becomes is the warning genuine, or is it an attempt to cause Satoshi to do something hasty?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> what does it mean for more widespread IPv6 adoption? If I were a security hacker (whatever shade), I'd be spending all of my time looking at IPv6, from device drivers through kernels and routers up to user-level programs. IPv6 is
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> A warrant entitles you to search a specific place for a specific thing. Not all warrants are the same, but I've seen them do a lot of damage (broken-down doors, torn up mattresses, general mayhem) in the course of executing a warr
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Did you check out the SVG comparing telescope sizes that batbomb posted? The short answer is "you can build 'em a lot bigger" (or maybe "you can build 'em a lot cheaper" if you prefer). These telescopes are gi
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by IvyMike 12y ago
They have been a way to try to raise morale without making any meaningful change, addressing root causes, or spending a significant amount of money. If management does address the actual problems and they add plants, that would probably
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Funny enough, when the plants show up, in my experience it's a bad sign. I have no proof this conversation happened at the last two places I worked... but I'm pretty sure it did happen. Upper-level manager #1: "The results o
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Reaction time reflects a person's mental processing speed, and so is considered an indication of general intelligence. I reject this premise.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Have you looked over the other responses to the same question? Were any of them what you were looking for? http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'm actually kind of being a dick when I answer "human". In theory, the data is used to answer questions about "how racist/inequitable is America these days", and given some of the uglier bits of our history,
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Yet so entrenched is our essentialist mind-set, American official forms require everyone to tick one race/ethnicity box or another: no room for intermediates. On both the 2000 and 2010 census forms, I put "Other" and fil
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Guess what? http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/most-...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> I'd guess the average miles per year is significantly lower for people living in major cities. I'll agree, with the exception of Los Angeles, which is atypical in how spread out it is. 13.5k is perfectly believable. http:&#x
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by IvyMike 12y ago
At least one of the scientists comes from a xenometeorology background. Figuring out strange phenomenon on our own planet will hopefully help us understand what's happening on other planets, too. > In 2006, Ralph Lorenz, a NASA sci
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The rocks are on the ground, not the ice. They are surrounded by floating ice sheets. But the ice sheets are gigantic and I assume the massive surface area combined with the right amount of wind friction generates enough force to push the
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Lorenz (one of the co-authors of this piece) has disproven his previous theory--that the rocks were temporarily embedded in a slab of ice which then floated. [1] I mean, I know that's how science is supposed to work, but in these days
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Someone else mentioned this the last time this was posted, but the 99% and the 99.99% stats are in some ways scarier than the 50% and 0% sites.

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