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by ackalker 11y ago
> [...] will this start a race of scanning materials(i.e. combinatorial chemistry) to find catalysts ? It will be like the race to find high-temperature superconductors all over again :-)
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by ackalker 11y ago
A very inspiring story of perseverance and the ultimate payoff. I wonder if it will take off the way the discovery and subsequent development of the transistor (which had a similarly difficult birth process) did for electronics.
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by ackalker 11y ago
>I believe that we will need to make some structure that allows for people to work who want to earn more, and still support a considerable number of people who just aren't employable in the future. There don't have to be just w
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by ackalker 12y ago
Very interesting article. Minor nit (just a typo I think): in the definition of flatMapError, shouldn't mapError be fmapError?
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by ackalker 12y ago
That's why they're called unit tests. They are supposed to test precisely one unit of functionality, while assuming everything else works as specified (using mocks if necessary). Taking into account the effects of microcode execut
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by ackalker 12y ago
This piques my interest. When was the last time anyone read the source code of (g)libc "cover to cover" before using it? Does anyone know the precise implications of (not) defining any of the myriad sensible permutations of its &q
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by ackalker 12y ago
I read the article, then I clicked on the link concerning the lawsuit. Then my jaw dropped as this notice (in 24pt font) is thrown in my face: "Your activity looks suspicious to us. Please prove that you're human." I call dou
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by ackalker 12y ago
I very much doubt that just marking a partition as OpenBSD is the end of the architecture specific stuff. Somehow the firmware in your computer has to actually boot the OS. Unless things are setup in a way which is acceptable to the firmwar
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by ackalker 12y ago
From the article: "it’s a really good idea to go and read the UEFI specification. You can do this. It’s very easy. You don’t have to pay anyone any money. [...] You can find it [right here on the official UEFI site]. You have to check
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by ackalker 12y ago
...which can compile a(n older, preprocessed, but none the less) Linux kernel "on the fly", while booting: http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
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by ackalker 12y ago
>Being able to stream a collections of bytes (and collections of collections of bytes, recursively) is one case that I find myself wanting when sending data between programs at the command line. If you don't mind using JSON as inter
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by ackalker 12y ago
Well as for simply supporting Lua in browsers, aside from the obvious Emscripten/ASM.js way, which would work for practically all browsers which support JavaScript, Lua can run as a PNaCl app in Chrome/Chromium, see: https:/
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by ackalker 12y ago
afaict, work on grub2 started back in 2004, and a backport patch[1] of the 'paranoid' A20 checking for grub legacy was posted to the bug-grub mailing list back in 2006. In fact, the very first reply[2] to that patch makes exactly
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by ackalker 12y ago
Nice writeup, but[1] I'm wondering, could the author have saved himself from a lot of grief by not using an ancient, outdated bootloader in the first place? [1]: I don't want to spoil the fun, but look at [2] in the article and wo
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Docker, Containers, Systemd: A Wedge Through the Concept of Linux Distributions(thenewstack.io)
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by ackalker 12y ago
Nah, I use telnet to browse the Web. No, not using that newfangled Line Mode Browser thingy over at CERN, I mean straight to server port 80.
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by ackalker 12y ago
Ah the Covox[1] craze, sweet memories. BTW: I think you meant to say "parallel-port-to-DAC", where "DAC" all too often meant just a simple cobbled-together resistor ladder. Who cares about HiFi when you can have actual s
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by ackalker 12y ago
Thank you for a nice challenge, and thanks for the interesting link :-) As someone who is genuinely interested in AI, I'm very curious if lateral thinking like we demonstrated can ever be matched by a machine. I'm watching things
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by ackalker 12y ago
"EHS said No Upside-Down People. Period." Well, they didn't say anything about cows, did they? Hey guys, you're MIT hackers. Involve a cow, will you? Upside-down, if at all possible...
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by ackalker 12y ago
I'll see you and raise you a © . Which in my book is c, the speed of light in a vacuum, 299792458 m/s, a mere 9 digits, but inscribed in a circle using Steinhaus–Moser notation[1] is equivalent to a number so mindbogglingly big th
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by ackalker 12y ago
1. Bribe some politicians 2. Get some telecom / spectrum management laws repealed / rewritten 3. Replace the board of directors of the local equivalent of the FCC 4. Profit! Seriously, I think it is quite hard, next to impossible
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by ackalker 12y ago
Please try kbrock's fork at https://github.com/kbrock/c4 Check out his 'longs' branch.
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by ackalker 12y ago
This is a snippet of email I sent to a friend just a few days ago. Besides the slow startup, I think these numbers speak for themselves...: $ sudo ps_mem Private + Shared = RAM used Program [...] 412.0 KiB
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by ackalker 12y ago
'Was' obviously is in past tense. If there is high likelyhood of it being Ebola, the article should have made that clear in the very first (few) paragraphs, like stating that further tests are being done to strengthen the confirma
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by ackalker 12y ago
Headline: "First confirmed case of Ebola confirmed in the United States: CDC" Article: "[...] an unnamed patient was being tested for Ebola [...]" (emphasis mine) Besides the obvious pleonasm in the title ("confir
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by ackalker 12y ago
From what I gather from the article, the systems which RAM scrapers attack were running on general purpose computers, with very similar vulnerabilities. Why isn't sensitive software like this built and audited with the same concern for
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by ackalker 12y ago
The example [listen] link points to a .mid file which some browser setups don't know how to handle (for instance, my Chromium simply downloads the file whenever I click the link, then downloads it again when I click the file in the bot