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by avian 11y ago
It's funny how each standard is made to "last as long as possible without needing to be redesigned". LTE stands for "long term evolution" - as in "we made this standard so that it will be possible to evolve it
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by avian 11y ago
Requirements for 5G are getting equally ridiculous [1]. 5 ms latency and 100 devices per square meter? Whenever I hear something like that, I like to outline a meter by meter of empty floor space and ask people what they imagine 100 devices
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by avian 11y ago
In fact no, I was not aware of Allwinner GPL violations when I was buying it (which was about 2 years ago). If I knew about them, it might have affected my decision. I publish most of my software under GPL (check my blog and GitHub accounts
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by avian 11y ago
It would also be interesting to know how eMMC compares to the SATA interface that used to be available on old Allwinner SoCs before they canned it. I bought a CubieTruck (Allwinner A20) and a SATA SSD drive simply because it seemed to be th
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by avian 11y ago
Whenever I hear about studies like that, I wonder what the control group was. As in, how many children that did not enter school exhibited creativity 6 years later?
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by avian 11y ago
For once I'm glad I didn't read the comments before reading the story. jimrandomh comment would have spoiled it.
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by avian 11y ago
I see your point. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this.
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by avian 11y ago
> functions f from R to C such that f(x + 1) = f(x) for all x) uses specifically cos(2πNx) and sin(2πNx) for integer N Define cos'(x) = cos(2πx/A) and sin'(x) = sin(2πx/A) (such functions could be defined without refe
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by avian 11y ago
You are correct and that point in the article caught my attention as well. Fourier transform works perfectly OK if you redefine sine and cosine functions to have different periods. That's basically equivalent to a variable substitution
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The problem with gmail.co(tablix.org)
4 points by avian 11y ago|1 comments
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by avian 11y ago
The "Minimum feature size" slide included in this article shows some feature sizes for existing technologies. I think names like "14 nm" and "7 nm" are mostly marketing at this point. http://www.anan
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by avian 11y ago
Imagine a state passing a law requiring stickers like that, but not outright banning items known to be produced by slave labour. The message would basically be that yes, we are fully aware that some products are made with slave labour and w
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by avian 11y ago
I used to be a heavy NoScript user. I dumped it some time ago when they started doing a ton of weird stuff in the name of "security". Take a look at their list of features: https://noscript.net/features NoScript i
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by avian 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the receiver can't be passive. If the receiver doesn't work due to power failure or malfunction, what good is a functioning transmitter? It would be interesting to know why they decided to go this way instead
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by avian 11y ago
There's a fascinating animated movie "Loving Vicent" coming up that is made in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Apparently the individual frames are actual oil paintings made by hand. http://www.thisiscolossal.com&#x
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by avian 11y ago
> couldn't the head read several tracks at once? The paper in fact suggests this and also cites an attempt by Conner to introduce multiple actuator drives: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/op/actMultiple
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by avian 11y ago
While this is interesting work, I would say it's going into the wrong direction. It is simplifying the devices at the cost of less efficient use of the already crowded radio spectrum (the plugged-in device must transmit the carrier wav
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by avian 11y ago
"x considered y" is such a common template for titles of articles in computer science that it in fact has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
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by avian 11y ago
Just to give a counter-anecdote: I still use a 1st gen Moto G. I previously had a mid-range HTC and a low-end Samsung phone. The Moto G is without doubt the best Android phone I owned so far.
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by avian 11y ago
Just remember it's not serverless. It's just someone else's server.
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by avian 11y ago
> It is time for the bimonthly Internet security meltdown. Time for the bimonthly Hacker News hour of C and C++ hate.
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by avian 11y ago
> The fire rate in the hobby is very low. As far as I know the percentage of hoverboards that catch fire can also be low. It may be just that RC hobbyists usually don't post pictures of their flaming batteries on Facebook with a com
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by avian 11y ago
It was not so much sound chip as a GPIO connected to a speaker.
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by avian 11y ago
Source is on GitHub if you want to study it: https://github.com/simtr/The-Powder-Toy
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by avian 11y ago
Another possibility would be to use the tarpit netfilter extension: http://www.netfilter.org/projects/patch-o-matic/pom-external...
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by avian 11y ago
More likely he is referring to the idea that AI is on the verge of destroying humanity itself. For instance: http://observer.com/2015/08/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-and-bi... Which makes sense. The opinion of everyo
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by avian 11y ago
There was a talk at 32c3 about that: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7336-3d_printing_on_the_moon
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by avian 11y ago
You have <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> tag on your pages. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en
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by avian 11y ago
I think the part that is hard to grasp for people without a technical background is the danger of automated attacks. It's hard to explain that even if nobody is interested specifically in their computer/email/Facebook, they c
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by avian 11y ago
> I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I'm drawing a blank. I wouldn't want to maintain any clever practical applications that break any time one of these web services subtly change the way they ma

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