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by aortega 13y ago
Check out this graphic http://atlas.media.mit.edu/explore/tree_map/export/chl/all/s...
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by aortega 13y ago
>Chile will probably stop being third-world soon enough Sorry, I don't think so. Chile is doing good nowadays but basically their only export is copper. Copper is a semi-precious metal right now and thats why that country suddenly h
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by aortega 13y ago
2013 Argentinian here. To buy a house right now you usually have to pay dollars cash because nobody accepts a currency that devaluates 25% per year. The political class here is crazy corrupt and rich like in every third world country, and t
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by aortega 13y ago
Something that always shocked me in my travels to USA is how much people smile at you. The most weird thing is that it doesn't seem that fake, it seems complete strangers are just not afraid of you and happy to see you. Contrast it wit
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by aortega 13y ago
I used it for a while as a desktop. Maybe it's because I have an old Thinkpad, and I know OpenBSD is being developed mainly in old Thinkpads, but everything works just a little better in OpenBSD. The video, sleep/resume, power, w
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by aortega 13y ago
Zynq, the Xilinx equivalent of this cost from 50 u$s up to u$s 4000. Also the Zynq was already available by the time Bunnie started his project, that's why I never like it.
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by aortega 13y ago
Inflation is a tax. Its the result of somebody creating money from nothing (usually it's the government). Also, it's a great way for an employer to lower your salary by actually increasing it, by doing it at a lower rate than infl
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by aortega 13y ago
Well this is a much better description, thanks you. Actually I like dumbed-down explanations as an introduction to something, but also I believe they should include a description like this one at the end, for the people that want to know mo
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by aortega 13y ago
Yet the basic premise of the video is still wrong. Gzip uses many algorithms internally, among them LZ77 and huffman. It's like doing a video about "this is how mysql works" and showing the quicksort algorithm.
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by aortega 13y ago
This is a demonstration of a simplified LZ77 algorithm, not Gzip. Gzip is a unix utility, LZ77 is an algorithm, this distinction is not pedantic. This is what happens when you go to "hacker school" before regular CS school.
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by aortega 13y ago
I always wondered how old Pinocchio was. In that Disney movie he exhibited this behaviour, so now I know he was the human equivalent of between 4 and 5 years old.
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by aortega 13y ago
He sounds like a 40 year old men. I don't think mature persons should need any extra motivation to do work.
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by aortega 13y ago
Everything emits black body radiation even yourself.
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by aortega 13y ago
>We used blackbody radiation to find it. Pardon my pedantry but that's another way to say "we used regular light to find it". If I remember my physics right, stars, like a candle or an incandescent light bulb emit light as
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by aortega 13y ago
Pluto is tiny and cold. Big planets emit lots of infrared from internal heat. Jupiter still radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun (source: wikipedia)
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by aortega 13y ago
"once prestigious prices"? Tell me of a more prestigious price in science, there is none. Maybe the field medal in mathematics comes close. Peace and Economics Nobels are non-scientific and only share the name with the original pr
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by aortega 13y ago
>I could go on. You should, and in the way cite some statistics or else you would be falling for this common logical fallacy: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
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by aortega 13y ago
I agree. It's hard to see the usefullness of a degree in a poor 3rd world country if you wasn't born in one. Nowadays it's possible to be an entrepeneur with somebody elses money, the internet, kickstater and the apple app-st
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by aortega 13y ago
Use pypy. At 10 GB the bottleneck will probably be the storage.
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by aortega 13y ago
>Having bandwidth is one thing, utilizing it to its fullest potential is anther thing. It's the same thing if you stop coding in javascript
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by aortega 13y ago
It's a fascinating glimpse into his old company design methodology, and according to linkedin that company is VIA and the chip may be an X86. Sorry for the stalking but you must realize you posted in a site called "hacker news&quo
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by aortega 13y ago
Spent the last 2 years doing high-speed comm designs on FPGAs. (I don't know if 5 Gbps currently count as high speed though). The tools are quite mature and will mostly prevent you from doing stupid things. Somewhere here I saw a comme
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by aortega 13y ago
What's impressive about this or zmap? they do not magically invent bandwidth. Zmap requires a 1 Gbps connection or more, this will require 10X the bandwidth. Those projects are basically dumb packet generators, what I find really impre
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by aortega 13y ago
I'm worried about privacy. Even scientific papers need to have reasonable privacy before publication, that you do not have by using somebody else's hosting. More useful would be using latex and some form of source-control like git
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by aortega 13y ago
Obviously hardware development looks hard and weird to software people, in the same way C++ looks weird to an EE. It's slow only because the synthesizer makes huge efforts in the optimization of the design, trying to pack the logic in
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by aortega 13y ago
I'm surely getting old, but I believe online editing of text documents is insane. I would forget about writing anything slightly more important than a pie recipe with this.
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by aortega 13y ago
PIC 16F84 is also non-von neumann
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by aortega 13y ago
Unlike Android, Apple needs 900000+ third-party apps binary compatibility so they can't tightly weave anything, except perhaps extract a little more power savings from the kernel/CPU interface.
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by aortega 13y ago
Also you could XOR the LFSR output with any number to get a different permutation each time.
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by aortega 13y ago
Indeed, but then he could go with a less scary title than "The Cryptopocalypse". "RSApocalypse" maybe.

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