Nick_C

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by Nick_C 15y ago
Perhaps. If the French school hadn't tried to use quantum mechanics in completely bizarre ways, leading many people to label them as wankers and thereby staining the entire profession, I might agree. The fact that the French view still
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The issue is that the FAA has a procedure for anyone who wants to launch a pilotless balloon (or rockets, etc) that involves getting pre-approval, then clearance on the day. It is to allow them time to issue the appropriate NOTAMs.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Well, commercial airliners don't have radar that would necessarily pick it up. I must admit, I'm a little gob-smacked that he just launched without a clearance from the FAA, but I don't have a map of the airways there so perhaps it was outs
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I took away the message that I would need to be quite careful about being called as an expert witness, viz what exactly my brief was. He thought it was about something, the prosecutor asked him about something else. Good on him for having
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> this is how wars will be fought in the future See the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enders_Game
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People trust "pretty" websites(theage.com.au)
2 points by Nick_C 15y ago|2 comments
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I use claws-mail for email and it comes with an RSS plugin. It's very useful because the RSS feeds are treated like email. You can mark individual items as read, important, tagged, and so on. As well, you can use the email client's normal
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'm not so sure. For one, most of us know the dangers of extrapolating past the end of data points, so we shouldn't base longevity changes on an extrapolated graph. Secondly, there are signs that longevity has peaked. There was an article
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Slackware. As usual, takes the good bits out of both RedHat's and Debian's run-parts. It allows .{whatever} but ignores obvious, well-known suffixes like .bak etc. From man run-parts: run-parts automatically skips files with certain s
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by Nick_C 15y ago
If you do that, I would change && to ; on the basis you want the halt no matter whether the umount succeeds or not.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'm the OP. All fixed, I can reply now. Re: the maths on avg karma, I was trying to remove the automatic +1 vote that I get for making a comment from the avg, so somehow came up with 2 out of 3 instead of 1 out of 2. I must admit I didn't
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Ask HN: Suddenly I can't comment on threads
11 points by Nick_C 15y ago|13 comments
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Putting the CPU+memory into 'standby' mode > The solution was to ensure that all the code...was in the CPU cache, Can you give some details for the idly curious (i.e. me). My naive implementation would be something like: ; do
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> ~120kph (a typo?) ~120mph, about 200kph. Cruise is supposedly 110 knots, although I've yet to fly one that was happy at that; more often about 105 knots IME.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I've noticed more and more over the last decade a confusion between race and culture. Race != culture. Perhaps youngsters are being taught that criticising a culture is racism. It is not. I'm perfectly comfortable with criticising a cult
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by Nick_C 15y ago
And also the incredibly over-mastered bass in the last 15 years. I believe it started because people wanted their car stereo to sound like their home CD, so sound engineers started to over-emphasise the bass, to bias it for radio, which led
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I wonder if AusCERT will be held in Queensland ever again. If I was one of the organisers, I would be having a long hard think about that.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
JS was turned off. Thanks.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Looks good, but are all the $ signs around the variable names intentional? Makes it hard to read imo. [edit] Actually, it looks like a borked latex doc, perhaps?
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Just for general information, since it's appeared a couple of times, I'll just mention that to make someone out to be a saint is "beatify".
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Can I email you? I moved to Perth and don't know the local scene. I'm looking for work.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Same industry for me, but in the trading area. It was standard for pretty much all firms that we were escorted off the premises immediately. I was touched that they let me stay for half-an-hour to say goodbye to people ;). Like you, it w
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> In some cultures (Asian I think, anyone have a reference? ) laughter and smiling can be a sign of fear. I remember Australians were outraged when one of the Bali bombers was shown in court laughing and smiling as the charges were rea
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by Nick_C 16y ago
(I have to make some assumptions about your understanding of relativity.) The big breakthrough that Einstein made in general relativity was the 'relative' bit. There is no absolute thing of 'time', no universal tick of a clock. There is
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Are you asking to learn, or to provoke others to think? If you were asking, reply and I'll dig up some links about how c is the speed of the universe and equals 1, spacetime and mass, and how velocity changes the relationship of time in spa
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Which shell? (@ is not in my bash version, nor spaces around the = sign.)
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Review of New Bio of Feynman by Krauss(asunews.asu.edu)
1 points by Nick_C 16y ago|0 comments
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Well, there are plenty of studies that show high contrast makes for readability issues. For example, I get faint after-images that flick around the page when reading black text on white. It's very distracting. I get your point about differ
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I'd reached a plateau with vim and I was good with it, but knew I didn't have the full power. Then I started doing other things with it than just coding, and it moved me to a whole new level. I started writing text, stuff like my blog and
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I chose Slackware because that's my main machine, but I also run NetBSD on an old iMac G4. I chose NetBSD because it will run on a huge range of hardware, and it works very well on the G4. So you want to know why? Well, because it is stil

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