TomasSedovic

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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
Having read the title, I thought "hey, all you need is 2 measures". So the final constraint (not mentioned in the title) is to find out whether the anomalous ball is heavier or lighter than the rest. That's where the third measure comes in.
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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
I didn't know that you couldn't arrange mass in any way to get a wormhole. I've never been able to figure out in my (broken, I'm sure) mental model how you could create a wormhole but I suspected that the people who actually understood phys
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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
Can you please expand on that last line? I read it two ways and I'm not sure which one you mean. Does the "you can't do that" refer to getting a how-to-build-a-wormhole recipe from general relativity, i.e. "I can't tell you how to build one
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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
Experiments that show that you can communicate faster than light using quantum entanglement? The great misunderstanding about quantum entanglement is that while it seems like the two parties at the other ends can get the same information ab
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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
Also, there's a difference between "using quantum entanglement to communicate faster than light" and "communicating faster than light". If I understand it correctly, it's theoretically feasible to achieve the the latter (in effect). While i
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by TomasSedovic 15y ago
Kudos for bundling a simple BCrypt-based authentication.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Speaking of FPS, I honestly don't understand this: why is it that 25 frames per second is okay for movies but not for games?
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Plus pretty much every Android app. That's not JVM, just Java, but still. Answers the question and nothing to sneeze at either, I would think.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I don't think the "many clients" argument holds. If done properly, Dropbox would (deterministically) generate the keys from your username and password on the client every time you log in and encrypt/decrypt stuff there. You're right that sh
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
You must encode it properly: http://graph.facebook.com/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2F%23... Note that encoding '#' as %23 is sufficient. However, it doesn't show any shares and I'm not sure if that means nobody shared your twitter URL on
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I don't think that's a very strong counterargument. Most people probably aren't really watching these things. They either process it with their peripheral vision or glance at it for a while when they're really bored and there's nothing else
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I'm posting this to add a continuation to the story about Red Hat having changed the way they release their RHEL 6 kernel: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2272535 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283188 If anyone actually c
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Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusations(press.redhat.com)
71 points by TomasSedovic 16y ago|75 comments
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Yes, that's an old optical trick that magicians use. However, it also makes it easier to pick up from the table, right?
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
How about replacing "Found" with "Presumed", "May Be" or "Possibly Discovered", then? That should fit easily into 80 characters. The current title is simply wrong. And why not stick with the original title? It's much more precise and takes
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
While on that topic, can you please use bold for emphasis and underline the links? Links on the web should be underlined unless you really make a big effort to distinguish them from the text in some other way. Bold font just doesn't cut i
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
When I'm writing this, most of the articles on the top HN page are from today or yesterday. The rest are a few days old, a month tops. And then there is this one and some other that's from 2007. I think that's pretty much a good ratio. I'm
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I love and use this idea, but the OP missed the Shift key. At least Firefox and Chromium use Shift+click to open the link in a new window and I'm pretty sure IE does that as well but I can't test that now. This is what I use: $('.some-s
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
If you manage to get it working, would you help a fellow Arch user and submit it to AUR?
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I am very disappointed with the browser demonstration. Contrary to the video commentary, it didn't look smooth at all and the zoom was horrible compared to how it works on my HTC Desire and to on Apple devices. It's a shame, because otherwi
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"SMS of Death" Could Crash Many Mobile Phones(technologyreview.com)
2 points by TomasSedovic 16y ago|0 comments
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A Better Text Find & Replace User Interface(blog.latenightsw.com)
1 points by TomasSedovic 16y ago|0 comments
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Yes. This works on the DNS level, so it doesn't matter what technology your site uses. But as others pointed out, decent DNS registrars will let you do this in your DNS administration account. Which is much safer.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I guess Google Reader uses a database of feeds that other people subscribed to. For one thing, it shows you the whole history of the feed -- even when the XML itself contains just the few most recent items.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Fair enough, but it's got much better performance on Windows than on Linux.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Have you somehow got Flash working correctly or don't they use it? I've never seen a Linux system running Flash as "smoothly" as Windows do. That's on Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu on fairly modern computers with decent specs. 32bit seems to be b
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
I'm afraid that's not correct. You can use arbitrary number of spaces to indent a block in YAML[1]. It does't matter if it's 2 of 4 or 17. The only limitations are that it must be greater than the indentation of the parent node (obviously),
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
Well, that's a pretty broad statement. Do you mean that it's evil when called with untrusted input by a trusting program or evil in general and not to be used under any or most circumstances? The article suggests the former but your comment
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
The code is on github, they link to it from the page. And personally, I do have the problem this attempts to solve. Whether this is the right solution to it I don't know. But the problem does exist.
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by TomasSedovic 16y ago
It would be considered old if it was an article in today's New York Times that was originally published three months ago. This site is called Hacker News and a lot of the submissions here are in fact new or at least news-y. I welcome older

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