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by avian 9y ago
> mined blocks of bitcoin being sold at a premium Is this purely for sentimental reasons (“freshly mined bitcoins”) or are there any practical uses for that? I can imagine coins with no history on the blockchain can be useful somehow.
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by avian 9y ago
Which means it is in fact slowing down as it climbs out of the Sun's gravity well. It's just not the kind of slowing down that parent was hoping for.
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by avian 9y ago
I had to look that up. As unusual as that rule sounds at the first glance, they do explain the reasons behind it quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research... https://en.wikiped
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by avian 9y ago
Are you talking about analog computing? We tried that both with electronic and mechanical computers and it obviously didn’t work out since nobody uses them anymore. What benefits do optical computers have in that regard?
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by avian 9y ago
This is another small step to being depedent on GitHub for hosting your project. A “git clone” won’t clone images hosted in the issue tracker.
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by avian 9y ago
Feature. It allows, among other things, for a computer to be woken up via the (USB-connected) keyboard.
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by avian 9y ago
> Maybe the Unicode consortium made a mistake by specifying them as bright yellow I don't think Unicode consortium initially specified any color for these characters. For instance U+1F604 is defined as "SMILING FACE WITH OPEN M
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by avian 9y ago
They look very much like emojis from Wordpress so I would say the former is more likely.
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by avian 9y ago
Check the “Perl jam” series of talks given at CCC. They are quite inflammatory, but the author does have a few good points. Specifically, he shows that one of the examples in the documentation for the CGI.pm module had an exploitable vulner
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by avian 9y ago
It is a double-edged sword though. It makes it easier for people to use a module without understanding it fully (or at all). The CGI.pm fiasco is one example, where people were copy-pasting the one-liner in the synopsis and opened themselve
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by avian 9y ago
Your calculation makes sense. However, for those 20 MB in flight, how much data is stored in buffers? I think that could be approximated by comparing ping time with speed of light. e.g. if a 5000 km long link at 10 Gbit/s has latency o
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by avian 9y ago
I think very few bits here are actually stored in-flight on the copper/fiber/radio at any time. Most of them are probably stored in various buffers of networking equipment (which are ordinary semiconductor RAM). It would be intere
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by avian 9y ago
Why does it matter if Firefox ran as root or not? I agree it's terrible practice in principle. But most people will run Firefox as their ordinary user, which normally has full access to the files in their home directory. If someone get
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by avian 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201645
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by avian 9y ago
On several separate occasions I tried to use Tesseract to OCR base64 and similar text that was printed in a normal monospace font (i.e. not a special OCR font) and scanned. I never got even close to getting useful results. I tried limiting
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by avian 9y ago
I tried Style2Paints on a simple animation I did a while back. No manual color hints. I just played a bit with the references and settings in the web interface and used the provided models. The input were uncolored outlines. Considering it
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by avian 9y ago
Another example of a really small container that doesn't do much, but is made without using assembly directly is the Docker "hello-world". It's built from C without linking in libc: https://github.com/doc
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by avian 9y ago
As a long-time Android user, I'm genuinely curious what those calls home contain. Do you have any links with more information?
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by avian 9y ago
I found the title somewhat misleading. I was expecting some clever application of the nearest-neighbor interpolation. But this seems to involve neural nets and appears far from "simple" to me (I'm not in the image processing
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by avian 9y ago
They are producing a waveform that is constantly at the peak range of the digital-to-analog conversion. Most real-life audio recordings only very rarely, if ever, reach peak levels. Some (older?) Hi-Fi equipment was in fact designed with th
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by avian 9y ago
True, but the runnable code on that page is several levels of abstraction removed from the actual Game of life states. The page you linked runs the code in a Javascript implementation of their CPU. That's a significant shortcut. The CP
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by avian 9y ago
Here's a nice video showing OTCA metapixels in action, implementing Game of Life in Game of Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8 It would be amazing to see this Tetris computer rendered into a video like t
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by avian 9y ago
Slovenia is one of the few countries that has legislation against light pollution. For example, all outdoor lights must only emit towards the ground. It helps a lot with dark skies, but enforcing this kind of rules can be a problem in many
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by avian 9y ago
> For long-distance DC lines, it's a win; the system can use the power. Do you have a reference for that? They may be more resilient than AC lines, but I doubt these systems are designed to use power generated by solar events.
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by avian 9y ago
Every pitch I've heard for Scrum promised increased productivity. I've seen consultants come in and show slides like "10x increase in output per employee" (and then refuse to answer what exactly that means in terms of co
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A geostationary satellite suffering total loss [video](twitter.com)
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by avian 9y ago
I've spent some time in a lab with an optical table and what was probably a 10 mW helium-neon laser. Doors locked when the laser was on, warning signs, protective eyewear and strict procedures during experiments. And then you go out an
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by avian 9y ago
> most systems keep track of the creation data True, but often it makes sense to put date into the filename as well. For example, notes for an event that happened on a certain date. You might write the first draft at that date and then e
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by avian 9y ago
> avoid [...] accented characters It's certainly good advice and I definitely avoid using non-ASCII characters in filenames in practice. But I can't help thinking that advice like that is why support for Unicode is still buggy
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by avian 9y ago
A much better place for such a tag IMHO is in the EXIF block. In fact, such a "copyright" EXIF tag already exists, but isn't commonly used or recognized on the web. Verifiability question remains though. I wonder if some kind

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