IvyMike

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by IvyMike 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago_Main_Post_Office
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Are you saying that laying down on a roller coaster would make it less nauseating? Admittedly I have not tried it but I don't think that would work.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
There is this thing you're told when you're in school in America: People want freedom and this desire has shaped history. But I am not so sure about this anymore. It might be that people just want a minimal level of comfort. Mayb
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by IvyMike 13y ago
DNSCrypt http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/ This works well for me. But I have found that this is the kind of thing where an expert can pop in and say "have you considered risk X with solution Y?&qu
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Sadly DNSSEC kinda sucks. Here's some earlier discussion on HN, with a lot of links. (Namedrop: tptacek is against DNSSEC and talks about it in the link.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5937004 TLDR: DNSSEC is
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Imagine the abuses of J. Edgar Hoover or Richard Nixon, except amplified with today's tech. "It always seemed like President Nixon's campaign was one step ahead of us, almost as if they were reading our email...but nobody eve
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It occurred to me that maybe this is just a marketing hack. Some people out there are just cheapskates, and need to feel they are getting a deal. I am related to several such people. This is a way to make those people feel happy.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I shave in the shower using nothing but water. I will report back to you if something goes wrong but so far so good. It's been five years.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
For those who think that nanotechnology is too mundane, what about machines made from nucleons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtotechnology Greg Egan speculates on femtotechnology in some of his sci-fi, mostly as ins
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by IvyMike 13y ago
To steal a great phrase, every time I hear a story like this, I know the guillotines are coming closer.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
They've all been replaced by hash tables.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
In the next release, "due to popular demand", he should remove the feature and add in an "only play nickleback" feature.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Time to whip out the hairy ball theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem Yes I heard what I just said.
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The apple guys (the fruit not the tech) have been able to market a variety of cultivars quite successfully. Even the tomato guys are doing good work with the whole "heirloom" thing. I don't get why the banana guys don't
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> The 5S is there so the compiler, app developers, and the overall ecosystem move to 64-bit and get the kinks out earlier rather than later. This is a good point, and it's the first time I'm hearing it stated so succinctly. Wit
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by IvyMike 13y ago
The car analogy was just a way to bring up the generic engineering principle that "everything is a tradeoff". It's been said many other times elsewhere in the comments, but to summarize: 1) One of the biggest benefits of a 64
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by IvyMike 13y ago
OK, let me state it without a metaphor: there is a tradeoff to be made when you optimize for raw horsepower no matter what the domain. So as far as "do 64-bit processors have tradeoffs that are not worth it in current cell phones"
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> What do you mean by "a phone?" How about a device with "physical memory of 1 or 2GB and tight power constraints"? To quote the article, "the new 64-bit A7 chip is the smartphone equivalent of a big V12 engine.&
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by IvyMike 13y ago
The fact that most credit card entry fields don't accept spaces gives me hope that most spambots can't turn " at " into "@".
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> We don't just throw lines of code randomly. I see you haven't met my coworkers. P.S. I'm self-employed right now.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Regarding #1: Even without the plugin you can drag a highlighted URL to a new tab and presto it opens. Regarding Video Resumer: I watch a lot of longer video lectures online, and being able to resume where I left off is a great feature. Wh
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by IvyMike 13y ago
One of my favorite Dilbert strips is Asok asking "Why is this document stamped CONFIDENTIAL? If I spent my entire life trying, I would not be able to find anyone who cared to read it."
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> So what's the reason for attributing so much power to these external "forces", none of which have ANY intrinsic power beyond what you give them? I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. Some of those &quot
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I think from the NSA's perspective this is both crude and unnecessary. They have better ways.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
This is sort of off-topic, but I think it's still HN relevant and might be helpful. The WOT (web-of-trust) plugin rates your site as untrustworthy. But the rating shows some crazy IP-based russian spam site from a year ago. I'm
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¡From hell's heart I stab at thee, lines beginning with the word "From".
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by IvyMike 13y ago
- David Foster Wallace's great essays fill 25 nights: http://tetw.org/David_Foster_Wallace - Billy Collins was on Stephen Colbert not too long ago, and when I looked him up, it turns out his poetry is awesome: http:&#
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The phone company already knows your location history, so I'm like why not. The annoyance with Google Now is the fickleness of what it decides to give you. "This would be the perfect time for card X" means it will probably b
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Yes, this story, at worst a pie-in-the-sky project of one company, that will fade into the background in a week, this is the thing we should be skeptical about. The consequences if I did "believe the hype" are terrible, I'm
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by IvyMike 13y ago
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