Nick_C

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by Nick_C 15y ago
> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isn't this quote Newton being typical Newton and using this well-known phrase to be particularly nasty to Hooke? (Hooke was a hunchback, so Newton is saying he
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Interesting that a format change such as in large print or braille is an allowable exception. My local lending library has a huge number of large print books and I've often wondered why, especially when it seems out of proportion to the siz
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Yes. I read the article, becoming more sceptical as I went. In my opinion, he underplays modern relationships (relegating them all to Facebook-like) and overplays classical relationships. It would be good to recognise that he is controver
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> although reliability is nice ... UDP Would you not use send() with MSG_DONTWAIT? You get the reliability of TCP and you get feedback if there is any potential blocking. (But I certainly am not a socket guru.)
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by Nick_C 15y ago
If you want one number that tells why Australian retail is more expensive than U.S., it is retail rents. Aust. retail rents are (among?) the highest in the world, higher than London and New York. This is mainly due to poor short-sighted pl
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> banks in Australia are massively overexposed to residential mortgages and small business loans underpinned by residential property As opposed to what, though? Historically housing and small business loans were the raison d'etre for b
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by Nick_C 15y ago
With the Qantas incident, they had something like 146 msgs appear on the screen spread over about 5 or 6 pages. So they were forcibly distracted from solving the problem from a top-down approach to having to investigate and cancel each of
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> how does a plane know it's stalling if the pitot tubes are frozen Angle of attack sensor. AoA is the actual definition of a stall as it measures the point at which airflow breaks away from the wing, reducing lift. Re your other point
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Perhaps it is looking for details of your music/CD/DVD. There is an option for it automatically fetch such details as a list of tracks, artist, etc, to display.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Not too much apart from some name calling. This was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution with the creation of the middle class and people had newspapers, travelled, and so on. IOW, beginning to be cosmopolitan. I think we might be
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> releasing or publishing my emails Has the copyright issue on emails been decided yet (and I missed it)? I thought you retain copyright on your emails and the recipient can't just release or publish them willy-nilly.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
You could try the OpenBSD man pages. One of OpenBSD's must-haves is good documentation. If I'm looking for an example and the Linux man doesn't have one, I'll often google for "openbsd man xxxx ". Of course, watch out for differences in
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The only solution I've seen is to start up gdb with the process and point the process's 0, 1 & 2 file descriptors to the shell's STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR, then detach the process and quit gdb. I can't remember the exact details, but tha
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by Nick_C 15y ago
As well as the other replies, another cost aspect is the ground network needed to track and communicate with the probes. I remember several years ago NASA was aiming to reduce the network, in line with all the rest of the cost-cutting goin
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by Nick_C 15y ago
For those reading this to pick up info, Slackware qualifies for all four points (depending on how big you mean for a lot), as does any of the BSDs.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Well, I don't know if I would say it's trivial. Geocentric is fairly easy, topocentric (which is what we want), not so much. Especially when you have to start factoring in local time. And then people start wanting to change the time to
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by Nick_C 15y ago
If your use-case is from ssh'ing in a remote box, this may be simpler: #!/bin/sh # example from `who - u`: #nick pts/0 2011-07-20 20:44 . 7856 (xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.internode.on.net) who -u | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[p.]"} /internode/ {
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> it was US innovations that led to cars Yes, Ford invented the production line, he did not invent cars. > From the Wright brothers' first flight Flight had been going on for decades. There is some evidence that a New Zealander di
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by Nick_C 15y ago
I'm sympathetic to the thrust of your argument, but you might like to rethink the airplane, the car, and the Web.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Since pocket calculators would not have been available to the typical student in 1967 Is a slide rule allowed? One of my eternal regrets is throwing out my set of slide rules in the 80s when I decided calculators were here to stay (ma
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The issue is how. It's the old 80/20 rule, although perhaps in this case it is more like the 93/07 rule. We've got the "easy" ones, but we infer there are others we haven't detected. How do we detect them? Space is really really big.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Is it based simply on sampling a volume of observed space and extrapolating Yes, that's pretty much it. It's not as bad as perhaps it sounds. The age of the solar system means that the asteroid belt is mostly stable, which means th
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by Nick_C 15y ago
As a counterpoint, the way VS does autocomplete drives me insane. In the middle of a frenzy of flow typing, I have to move my hands away from the keyboard to the mouse to select which autocomplete entry I want. Aargh. It breaks the flow.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The Russians have said nyet to that. Probably politics at play--no doubt they are enjoying the kudos from being the sole supplier--so it may change.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> Lawrence Block My favourite crime author, by a long way. Who else can write about a killer and make him a sympathetic character.
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by Nick_C 15y ago
The link to the article is: http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.h... yet Chrome tries to take me to: http://onlyvariance.comdavidtuite.com/define-custom-vim-tags... which is an invalid domain. Anyone know what
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by Nick_C 15y ago
Here's my crontab: # NJC 08/07/10 Remove Flash cookies and everything to do with Flash, including left-over Flash files in /tmp 01 13 * * Wed /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/nick/.macromedia/Flash_Player/* 02 13 * * Wed
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Particles Found to Break Speed of Light(reuters.com)
1 points by Nick_C 15y ago|0 comments
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by Nick_C 15y ago
> I haven't lived in any state for more than 6 months What do the grey nomads do? Here in Australia, you can specify an electorate where you are deemed to "live", even though you don't spend any time there. It ensures everyone can vot
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Gamers solve retrovirus structure puzzle(theage.com.au)
1 points by Nick_C 15y ago|0 comments

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