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by Luyt 13y ago
I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. The endless rep
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by Luyt 13y ago
I wonder whether this 'negativity' is really negativity, or just well-meant criticism, testing and validating the idea, maybe even playing advocate of the devil. From what I've seen in the past years, the HN community is unli
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by Luyt 13y ago
No problem, http://www.reocities.com/ to the rescue!
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by Luyt 13y ago
There exists a Skeptoid article about the Voynich manuscript: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252 The conclusion: "So let's wrap this up with my favorite theory, and the one that is perhaps best supported by a
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by Luyt 13y ago
Xcode 4 also requires Lion or Mountain Lion. I wonder what percentage of apple computers are still running Snow Leopard (or earlier).
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by Luyt 13y ago
I think certain countries will suspect that these balloons are used as spying devices, and probably shoot them when they enter their airspace.
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by Luyt 13y ago
There exist a Skeptoid episode about this: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4021 , the 'Living Stones of Death Valley': "When we reached the lake, we found to our great surprise that the entire lake was mov
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by Luyt 13y ago
"I never actually got around to learning -- or even thinking about!-- what exactly the GIL is" David Beazley does a good job on explaining the GIL. There are multiple videos of his GIL talks on YouTube. This one, for instance: http://www
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by Luyt 13y ago
Thank you very much for this tip.
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by Luyt 13y ago
This pisses me off, too. I really should patch the menu resource someday and change it to lowercase. I also don't understand that Microsoft violates its own HID guidelines; shouldn't they set a proper example?
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by Luyt 13y ago
Never leave home without your helmet and armored shoulder pads ;-)
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by Luyt 13y ago
There exists a Skeptoid episode about this: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108 an excerpt: "Here is my proposed explanation of what happened. It's wrong, of course, because it's done from my armchair 50 years after the fact and with no fi
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Screen vs. tmux faceoff(youtube.com)
7 points by Luyt 13y ago|0 comments
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by Luyt 13y ago
It looks like this is a monkeypatching mechanism for Objective C to graft some OSX 10.8 functionality on 10.7 concerning the indexing of arrays and maps. The author writes: "The Objective-C runtime is the beating heart of a Cocoa applicati
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by Luyt 13y ago
I made a transcription of a FLOSS interview with DHH about Rails, Ruby, and how he became a programmer. http://www.transcribed-interview.com/dhh-rails-david-heineme... From that interview: "The wonderful thing about the Web is that it di
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by Luyt 13y ago
You can do that with Python code, too. https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8
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by Luyt 13y ago
PDF with technical details and some nice pics at: http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Rasp.-Pi.pdf
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32-way Raspberry Pi cluster(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by Luyt 13y ago|2 comments
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by Luyt 13y ago
Whoah, that's a nice one. I wonder whether the original Arecibo data-set of the pulsar is still around somewhere. I tried to find it, but I didn't succeed.
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by Luyt 13y ago
If you want to see on which date you joined Hacker News, click your login name in the right top of the page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Username ) and note the 'created: 1397 days ago'. Then plug in this number into a date calcul
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by Luyt 13y ago
Oh, and about the wireless power, which the video clip is about: "Did Tesla plan to transmit power world-wide through the sky? It was his ultimate plan, but the farthest he ever got was the partial construction of his famous tower at Warde
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by Luyt 13y ago
There exist great myths around Tesla: "Hardly anything written about Nikola Tesla fails to exaggerate his inventions and deify the man. Factually wrong descriptions of his accomplishments are found all over the place. His name is broadly s
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by Luyt 13y ago
I once wrote a program in BASIC (on my C64) which would make such a display (it's straightforward). I lost that program, but recreated a lookalike in Python: -- -- ---
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by Luyt 13y ago
When I saw that ridiculous formatted for() in the article, I began suspecting the article was meant as a joke.
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by Luyt 13y ago
" Why are we forced to stick with a single fixed-width font " Not necessarily ;-) Since proportional fonts became available in programmers' editors, I've been using them. See http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/desksnap-20101013.pn...
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by Luyt 13y ago
Also, when you introduce a new variable in such a block of initialisers, and it is longer than the other variables, you have to pad all the other declarations with spaces just to keep them aligned... what a waste of time. Apart from that,
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by Luyt 13y ago
pretty soon the hard-drive is just thrashing like crazy, essentially freezing the entire system, for minutes at a time As a side note, this is why I never configure swap space in a server. If a server starts swapping, it's a fail. It shou
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by Luyt 13y ago
Would it possible to build a jammer to jam the remote control signals and make the drone crash? At what frequency do these things operate? Shouldn't be too hard ;-)
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by Luyt 13y ago
They are publishing there because the rules of the game demand that they publish somewhere. If I were in such a situation, I would rally up my peers and create some brand new open-access publisher specifically for ourselves (and other peo
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by Luyt 13y ago
It's rather focused on the Randstad.

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