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901.
by avian 10y ago
> Newton and Kelvin both "proved" that heavier-than-air flying machines were physically impossible. Can we please stop bringing this up? Same with the "faster than sound flight is impossible" quote. Kelvin was well aw
902.
by avian 10y ago
> Don't. Use. Userspace. Random. Number. Generators. I don't see how this flaw is connected to the fact that libgcrypt runs in user space. A similar bug could well be discovered in the mixing function behind /dev/uran
903.
by avian 10y ago
Isn't it interesting how all these gardens have been walled up with the (stated) purpose of providing a safe place, without the perils of viruses and malware that supposedly thrive on more open platforms.
904.
by avian 10y ago
Yes, it is a hack. I maintain the publicsuffix Python library ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/publicsuffix/ ). I had many long discussions with package and application maintainers on the topic of how to best provide
905.
by avian 10y ago
A while back I wrote jsonmerge, a Python library for merging series of JSON documents. The syntax it uses for specifying merging rules is based on JSON schema: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonmerge Blog post with some
906.
by avian 10y ago
The original article says that estimated probability of observed configuration of objects appearing by random chance without some unknown, common cause is 3.8 sigma (0.016%). For comparison (in an apples-to-oranges kind of a way), the recen
907.
by avian 10y ago
I have never seen an academic journal or conference that would accept submission of manuscripts typeset in Groff. Even LaTeX seems ever more often to be deprecated in favor of Word documents.
908.
High Speed Footage of Past Missions [video](youtube.com)
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909.
by avian 10y ago
Why limit your entropy? Use "pwgen -s".
910.
by avian 10y ago
"print (SECRET_KEY)" works just fine on Python 2.x with no special magic.
911.
by avian 10y ago
Wikipedia has some photos of hexagonally arranged fields, so apparently it is used in some places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation
912.
by avian 10y ago
> it was neigh impossible to get custom hardware into that computer (it had no expansion slots) This really does not do justice to the fact how incredibly frustrating it was to work with this hardware. Not only expanding it, also servici
913.
by avian 10y ago
From the original paper: > The group of all flight astronauts was comprised of 5 females and 37 males, of which the LEO astronaut subgroup contained 5 females and 30 males and the Apollo lunar astronaut subgroup was comprised of 7 males
914.
by avian 10y ago
I seem to remember that Windows had at one point something called "clipbook". I was under the impression at the time that it was about multi copy-paste, but I never figured out how it worked. Probably few people did.
915.
by avian 10y ago
He didn't say "bad definition". He said "unintuitive" and I agree. The video is obviously meant for an audience that is not intimately familiar with infinite series or their applications in string theory. I'm s
916.
by avian 10y ago
European research projects I know about get their expenses reimbursed after the fact. For example, you buy some (potentially very) expensive equipment, claim the expenses in the yearly financial report and (if the Commission accepts your cl
917.
by avian 10y ago
> decent test coverage You were indeed very lucky if all projects you've worked on had decent test coverage.
918.
by avian 10y ago
Considering that the binary was woven by hand using copper wire into the computer's core rope memory, I imagine the flight revision had to be finished months before the actual flight.
919.
by avian 10y ago
Here's a theory: Google kills Reader. Not because they hate RSS, but because they want to drive people to Google+ or some other unrelated reason. Web at large understands this move as a sign that Google doesn't see a future for RS
920.
by avian 10y ago
Years back I wore the Northpaw anklet for a few weeks. I found that it was certainly possible to determine north with it, but never got from feeling vibrations to some "sense of which was is north". In fact, I found that it someti
921.
by avian 10y ago
I have seen similarly weird results with flaky USB flash keys. A lot of those don't do any kind of hardware error detection. The behavior described here can be explained by block device cache: You write a file to a device and the devic
922.
by avian 10y ago
I remember attempting to read the Guide sometime in highschool and found it nonsensical and not fun at all. When I picked it up again several years later I enjoyed it immensely and read the entire series. I guess you need have a job and fir
923.
by avian 10y ago
Modified gravity theories might be second in popularity to dark matter. What should be added is that it is a very distant second place. Vast majority of researchers currently favor dark matter. Observations like those from the Bullet cluste
924.
by avian 10y ago
Europe, mostly flying to/from Slovenia.
925.
by avian 10y ago
As a settler that travels ocassionaly I am often required to open or even turn on my laptop at the security check.
926.
by avian 11y ago
"1 year/1000 posts" refers only to unread posts, which makes sense to me. If you have thousands of unread posts, chances are you don't care that much about them. I'm not sure what their policy on read posts is. I&#x
927.
by avian 11y ago
I wonder what plans they have for communicating with a probe light-years away. Consider New Horizons. It has a power budget and antenna gain way beyond something that can be crammed into a few grams. Yet, the bit rate is so low it's st
928.
by avian 11y ago
Many people have been using two factor authentication for some web pages through SSL, PKCS11 modules and client side certificates on USB cryptokeys or smartcards for ages. I always find it funny how each new browser and OS release makes it
929.
by avian 11y ago
Considering amount of expertise that went into making TeX and the fact that (in my experience at least) it far surpasses other solutions, it might simply be that mathematical notation typesetting doesn't lend itself to dynamic reflow,
930.
by avian 11y ago
> Does anyone recognise the architecture? At the first glance, assembly looks a bit like ETRAX CRIS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETRAX_CRIS

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