ableal

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Microsoft Finally Has a Great Idea, but No One Cares(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
The RWT site is a gold mine of information and analysis of CPU history, for instance this 2006 piece: http://www.realworldtech.com/vax-cpu-economics/ Linus Torvalds used to drop in to comment, a few years ago.
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by ableal 11y ago
There's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling) , although it's not a verb, and would probably be rather weirded if verbed. (That page ends up referencing, among other things, http://en.wi
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by ableal 11y ago
"And Jacob served seven years for Rachel", a very old and instructive tale ...
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by ableal 11y ago
;-) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wheeler_Dealer_Bumper...
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by ableal 11y ago
(0.1 mm^2 is half the cross-section of AWG 24, getting close to hair thin.) I don't think you're correct here. For round numbers, let's take a 100 kW engine (134 hp), and suppose we feed 100 V. At full power, we'd be run
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by ableal 11y ago
Using liters/100 km, it's a tad easier, we just have to get the orders of magnitude right - liter = (100 mm)^3 = 1e6 mm^3 - 100 km = 1e8 mm So, 10L/100 km is 0.1 mm^2. (Note that we want low values, and this is on the high si
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Your PBX has been hacked(cringely.com)
44 points by ableal 11y ago|62 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
"[...] and there's somebody in charge if not in control." That's an interesting observation.
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by ableal 11y ago
Fixed URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl... . (your final dot was eaten by software ;-)
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by ableal 11y ago
Borges has a story for that ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Qu... - where a book now being rewritten identically word for word is, of course, a completely different book ...
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by ableal 11y ago
Wishful thinking, if not base motives, overpowers most common sense. This seems to be about "reaction-less drives" - I remember reading about how hard-headed SF editor J.W.Campbell had a weak spot for such devices, several decades
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by ableal 11y ago
Borges was not wrong about the endurance, and the reasons. I'd guess that few under-30 year olds, even here, know of the movie, and even fewer have seen it. But then, Borges' reasoning would apply to most anything not made recentl
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by ableal 11y ago
It may amuse, or bemuse, the authors that sticking the tongue out got an 11 year old tagged as 64, with a bonus sex change thrown in. The other, accidentally studious looking, 11 year old kid in the same photo was spot on.
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by ableal 11y ago
I was guessing, but looking it up ... Gartner are talking over 200 million tablets per year, of which only 50 or 60 are iPads (according to the Quartz charts), so I'd say it's in the ballpark. (I'd expect the Androids to deca
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by ableal 11y ago
(2004) Interesting idea and well informed presentation, but apparently not a convincingly mainstream view.
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by ableal 11y ago
John Gruber had a good observation about the charts published in Quartz (specifically the last one): "Apple has sold more iPads in its first 57 months than they sold iPhones in its first 57 months." http://daringfireb
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The kdbuswreck(lwn.net)
3 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
Forgive me, but to me what sounds like propaganda is the story itself, as in "Ah ah, those dumb liars got caught" in a lie they never told ...
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by ableal 11y ago
I find it strange that the shadow, or wake, of the 1960s Ralph Nader case ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed ) is not mentioned. Rather large elephant.
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by ableal 11y ago
> He implies that such things exist. This looks pretty damning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph (Don't email it to cstross, I already did ;-)
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by ableal 11y ago
Almost two weeks later, the news have this gruesome report of a young woman's death by dinitrophenol: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/woman-dies-af... """" She sa
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by ableal 12y ago
> And Hamkins shows it can go all the way down to eight-year-olds. At the bottom he mentions his previous visit - Math for seven-year-olds: graph coloring, chromatic numbers, and Eulerian paths and circuits http://jdh.hamkins
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H.L. Mencken’s Merry Days(theamericanconservative.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Rather good observation in the comments: """ Patrick Kelly April 16, 2015 at 9:03 am “Identity theft” is a lie. There is no such thing as “identity theft”, it’s all fraud. The term “identity theft” was created to put the bur
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by ableal 12y ago
To replace a broken wire, I once had to file a notch in a cheap plain screwdriver blade - the screw had a protruding center pin. It protected a clothes steam iron ...
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by ableal 12y ago
Unfortunately common outcome in Merger&Acquisition stories.
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by ableal 12y ago
"I'm pretty stoked... it isn't every day that a guy like me gets to find an honest-to-god hardware bug in a major cpu!" I find Matt Dillon's enthusiasm and humbleness admirable. He's been active for donkey&#x
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by ableal 12y ago
"His work has been hailed as proof that the rain forest once contained civilizations nearly as rich and complex as those of the Inca and the Maya and Europeans." I did read it through to that point, but you were right. Still a tou
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by ableal 12y ago
I was going for the shape similarities of the "Santos Droit" and another watch that went on sale this month. (Great artists, etc.) I think I was pointed that way by an innocent remark in a New Yorker piece posted here a couple of

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