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by ableal 12y ago
Clicky: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/band-releases-album-as-kerne... But the text was just a direct quote.
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by ableal 13y ago
> a procrustean bed of document folders, all set for you to lose your documents "I resemble that remark". Shudder. Such fun, a web implementation of a 1980s folder system, with no possible way of doing an "ls -lr". On
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by ableal 13y ago
Maybe the AI will be sufficiently intelligent to just become catatonic in short order. (I believe I'm filching this from Larry Niven, no precise quotation handy.)
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by ableal 13y ago
Er ... yes? http://imgur.com/omXommu (Except the "110,000 computers" bit, this is just one.)
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English Universities Losing International Students(nytimes.com)
6 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
Analog circuits are fairly big, this is taken with a regular microscope. You can see that the chip is a few millimeters square. Besides, electron microscope pictures are monochromatic.
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by ableal 13y ago
The trimmed resistors are the four brown rectangles with notches (one is shown in atomlib's pic). The silvery surfaces are aluminum - seems a single layer of metal process. Some large plates may be capacitors. In analog circuits, MOS t
578.
by ableal 13y ago
It's all very nice, but there's a very large elephant conspicuously absent from the room: encryption. Not present in any of the 114 comments here so far, either. Might be a problem.
579.
by ableal 13y ago
> unlimited backups (older versions of files). Versions are not backups. I wish I could find a simple web page that I read quite a few years ago. It very starkly explained why some things are commonly confused with, but just are not , b
580.
by ableal 13y ago
I did watch, thanks, but anyone in a hurry can get just the slides here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/_downloads/FOSDEM_2014.pdf I particularly appreciated the "QUEEN success example: SSC" (self-signed certificates,
581.
by ableal 13y ago
Aside from route optimization, something else that the tracking devices may allow is recording acceleration, braking and instant fuel consumption. This in turn makes possible to train and reward drivers for more efficient driving. It's
582.
by ableal 13y ago
> A bit meta Also, you'd often seen Linus Torvalds in the comments section at RWT.
583.
by ableal 13y ago
That's an intriguing thought, but I fear it would soon devolve into guided missiles ...
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by ableal 13y ago
Interesting bit near the end: "And even though they have incredible color-changing skills — going from beige to blood-red or striped in the blink of an eye — cuttlefish are totally colorblind." Which raises the question of how c
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How many people really own Bitcoins – and why does it matter?(bitscan.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
586.
by ableal 13y ago
It's the motto on the cover of some French humor/comics magazines. Sardonic, very iconoclastic, and definitely not safe-for-work in the USA ... One of the best artists was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Mar
587.
by ableal 13y ago
Eh, the "bête et méchante" school lives on ...
588.
by ableal 13y ago
The Register has a piece at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/windows_xp_atms/ , where they report this: "NCR – which supplies 60 per cent of the UK’s cash points – believes 95 per cent of B
589.
Killing Windows XP Wastes Billions(pcmag.com)
22 points by ableal 13y ago|18 comments
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More shell, less egg (2011, on McIlroy and Knuth)(leancrew.com)
13 points by ableal 13y ago|3 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
The CarPlay page ( http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/ ) is interesting. The manufacturer line-up at the bottom is impressive - the major absences are Volkswagen-Audi and FIAT-Chrysler. Renault is also missing, but
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PCell is only as good as the Linux it runs on(cringely.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
593.
by ableal 13y ago
[search saver :] Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment ... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment )
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by ableal 13y ago
> Can we call it the HN effect? We can, but a more general term would be more useful. Crowd crashed?
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SoylentNews – State of the Site: 2014/02/23(soylentnews.org)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
596.
by ableal 13y ago
> Nobody expected war in 1914 That's not the impression one gets from the popular literature (thriller romances, etc.) of the preceding years. For instance, it is obvious that the English were expecting a naval clash with Germany so
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by ableal 13y ago
Credit to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tommyd whose submission of the Gawker link made me look ;-)
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Eye of the Tiger – As played by a Dot Matrix Printer(hackaday.com)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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(Slashdot successor) What Have We Created? (soylentnews.org)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
> I'll have to remember that one :-) Also hilarialously wortwhile is the C. Northcotte Parkinson take "The Short List, or Principles of Selection" (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=c.+northcote+parkinso

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