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by Two9A 14y ago
That's because there are many edges of the solar system. The one you probably heard about was the termination shock, where the solar wind goes subsonic. I forget how far out that is, but it's closer than the heliopause. From the graphs of r
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by Two9A 14y ago
For 1, Reddit has a fuzzing algorithm on large vote counts, so voting bots don't know how much influence they're having. Refresh the page and you'd probably see a different number of up and down, but the same "net".
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by Two9A 14y ago
Radiation, such as cosmic rays and solar flare output. The Earth has a magnetic field which pulls such charged radiation to the poles; Mars has much less of that effect.
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by Two9A 14y ago
Remember that the images we have from Curiosity so far are from the navigational guidance cameras, though. The heavy equipment hasn't been fired up yet. If I recall, the Mastcam will take a panoramic colour view later today, and that'll tak
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by Two9A 14y ago
I was watching the Planetfest rebroadcast of Curiosity's landing, and mention was made of there needing to be two operating systems: one to deal with entry and landing, and the other to handle roving and research. The speaker went on to say
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by Two9A 14y ago
Esoteric languages are good fun, to be sure, but it's possible to take the concept a little far. Brainfuck, for example, is a great example of a minimalist Turing-complete language, expressed as an esoteric. Befunge and Piet are other good
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by Two9A 15y ago
I wouldn't go so far as "snake oil", just "pointless fun". As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, the idea behind this was "what if I could run an image file as a Brainfuck program?" It's not a rigorous academic study of the merits of Br
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by Two9A 15y ago
Mm, sounds like a plan. In taking the 8-bit greyscale image down to 4-bit, I've essentially introduced a margin of error of +/- 8, which explains why the message was able to fit into just the first ten or so rows of a 128-row image. A highe
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by Two9A 15y ago
You make a fine point. Amended the intro. The original idea that popped into my head was, "what if an image was a BF program?" With compression and/or palette reorganisation, of course more BF can be fit into an image, but it wouldn't be a
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Steganography with Brainfuck(imrannazar.com)
75 points by Two9A 15y ago|13 comments
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by Two9A 15y ago
Would you happen to know which bank is doing that at the moment? In the last year, I've had a debit or credit card from NatWest, Halifax, Lloyds, Santander, MBNA and Barclays; never had an "incorrect PIN" charge though. If it's a new policy
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by Two9A 15y ago
Yeah, it's not ideal for colour-sensitive graphic work like that. I'm a coder, so when I picked this up a few months ago it was wonderful. The only issue I have is that it locks up the entire computer while it fades gamma down at sunset, an
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How to write MS-DOS programs using only printable opcodes(imrannazar.com)
3 points by Two9A 15y ago|1 comments
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by Two9A 15y ago
It's figures like this that make me think I'm not doing very well with my articles site. 0.02% CTR on 50k page views a month; revenue under $1. I guess that's the compromise you make when your niche is involved articles for a technical audi
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by Two9A 15y ago
A question for you. I have a technical articles site, but I write something fresh around once a month, and my articles are massively long; would you recommend breaking them up and releasing parts more often?
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Augmented Reality in Android: Part 1(imrannazar.com)
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by Two9A 15y ago
$3-6k, you say? I've got a blog (well, an article site) that pulls in perhaps $5/month, so I'd love to know where and how you're getting traffic of that magnitude. Even $1k a month would be very welcome here ;)
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by Two9A 16y ago
Let's give this a blast. SEEKING WORK - REMOTE I'm a PHP/JS developer, with a background in the embedded field. You might know me from the DSemu and jsGB projects, building games console emulators in C++ and JavaScript respectively. If you
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by Two9A 16y ago
This gets said a lot, by many people, but: by checking their open-source / publically available work. If someone's managed to complete a significant task, and the code looks readable and reasonable, they're probably fair decent programmers.
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by Two9A 16y ago
Yeah, I've tried the whole stock market thing twice now. Put $1,000 in as a tracker against the market index, expected a decent return; of course, I put it in on Sep 10, 2001. Never got that money back. Thought I'd try again a couple of yea