angusp

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by angusp 7y ago
You say worse, but these discrepancies are by design, both in the US and EU. They’re there to stop much larger interests from steamrollering smaller but different interests that they might not care about or understand
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by angusp 8y ago
Not really, before you could firewall it off from the rest of your network - though now you can just masquerade 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to your DNS server of choice
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by angusp 8y ago
One of the advantages, though, is per-user config for the same program, e.g. the .bash files. It's pretty common to have separate /home and / partitions too, and less common but doable to dual-boot different distros but share
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by angusp 8y ago
> If you use websocket for short lived connections, you are doing something wrong. Pretty-much true, but I remember a funny story from Dropbox where their websocket service couldn't come back up after a crash because their normal us
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by angusp 8y ago
> for example, have been found by MIT and Microsoft researchers to misidentify dark-skinned people at vastly higher rates than light-skinned people. That’s a near-perfect analogue of white people’s tendency to misidentify people of color
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by angusp 8y ago
One assumes that "3D Glasses" was meant to mean a VR headset
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by angusp 9y ago
You ain't seen nothing yet - /r/Libertarian
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by angusp 10y ago
Depends how you define toxicity - a toxic idea or toxic wording. The Hitler comment is obviously toxic in meaning but is 'eloquently' worded (or, at least as much as it could be given it is literally Nazism.) I am at least relieve
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by angusp 10y ago
It's a well known C pattern that you should never trust a user supplied format string, E.g. printf(arg) vs printf("%s", arg). The same applies here
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by angusp 10y ago
can't speak for all CS students but we certainly have an ethics course. Unfortunately a lot of people see it as an insult to their intelligence yet need reminding of many of their professional obligations and that their 'cool hack
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by angusp 10y ago
as mentioned in a comment above, the choice to take 2.7 behaviour when 3 behaves differently means this wannabe-python '2.8' is neither backward nor forward compatible
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by angusp 10y ago
> I mean, let's be honest: if we really cared about security we wouldn't be writing in C. How so? C is low level, so to be secure you must be fully aware of the behaviours and side effects of what you're doing. In another,
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by angusp 10y ago
they're being 'forced' insofar as they're usually locked in to continuing to occupying their current office.
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by angusp 10y ago
Write it out 100 times before morning
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by angusp 10y ago
Not really, earth is waaaay closer to the sun, so goes faster in its orbit but has a lot less energy (when normalised for mass) than any of the voyagers. They are going way faster than Earth in the sense that we're they to suddenly to
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by angusp 10y ago
I can get behind some of that, I do hate the argument "it doesn't matter if it's inefficient, modern computers are fast" because everyone taking that stance results in things staying the same speed. When you do encounter
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by angusp 10y ago
Jekyll also has the (perhaps unfair) advantage of being baked into GitHub pages, making it's workflow super easy
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by angusp 10y ago
Even with this rapid decay, I'd still be concerned about the probability of a collision with something - depends how congested that part of LEO is
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by angusp 10y ago
If it is as they claim well academically supported, you'd assume they'd be easily able to get a subhuman on someone's .edu or.ac.uk or whatever
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by angusp 10y ago
Hey, just to follow up, we've added a graphic to our indiegogo page with a render of the control board that's currently in development, if you want an idea of what it'll probably look like.
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by angusp 10y ago
Well I like the sound of getting another one... By side-side motion I'm guessing you mean a tipping force - and the the answer would be that he's pretty hard to shove over, at the limit of his lean he's stable, 10 degrees til
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by angusp 10y ago
It's fine with a reasonable amount of weight - I'd have to ask Sandy how much weight Marty can take before he physically can't move, but a touchscreen should be fine, and won't disrupt his walking ability much. Of course
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by angusp 10y ago
I wrote a bit more detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903939 but Still very alpha, specs currently are STM32F446RE (ARM M4), ESP8266 (WiFi, for control from a computer, phone...) and an accelerometer on-boar
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by angusp 10y ago
Hey, another Robotical engineer here, thanks for your support! We're planning (read: really want to but might not have time to do everything initially) to target a wide range of programming environments, with Scratch as a really basi