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by avian 11y ago
From the point of view of C, it seems that NULL is indeed always defined as 0. At least according to the C FAQ: http://c-faq.com/null/machnon0.html It might be that the internal representation used by the compiler is d
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by avian 11y ago
> Zeroing memory often means that buggy code will have consistent behavior; by definition it will not have correct behavior. And consistently incorrect behavior can be more difficult to track down. I agree that using calloc should not be
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by avian 11y ago
This appears to be about adding support for Kernel Mode Setting on bcm2835/bcm2836 chips in 4.4 This is probably the relevant commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/commit/?id=1f4371...
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by avian 11y ago
I don't know anything about Docker, but to use iPython Notebook, you need to open it in a browser. The command line starts a local web server. It says it is running at " http://0.0.0.0:8888/" in your case (whi
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by avian 11y ago
Yes, such wonderful sites that must put annoying bouncing "Click here to see more" and "Join our newsletter" things around everything. By the way, this particular note appears to be taken from "Biscuits of Number Th
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by avian 11y ago
I can't find a good reference, but as far as I know, this theory is no longer seriously considered. One problem right from the start was the observed difference between the quantity of electrons and anti-electrons in the universe. Prev
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by avian 11y ago
> The point being, of course, that the ergonomics of smartphones as reading devices are not only kind of rad, but historically so. You can also turn this around and say that smartphones throw away three centuries worth of ergonomic impro
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by avian 11y ago
> I'm not sure why physicists think gravity is a force and Pauling exclusion principle isn't. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/44712/is-pauli-re... http://physics.stackexchange.co
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by avian 11y ago
Strictly speaking, they verify that server controls x.com according to the CA's ISP/DNS server/any other parties in the middle instead of the user's ISP/DNS server/any other parties in the middle.
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by avian 11y ago
Here is another home-built CPU made from 74HC (TTL-compatible CMOS) integrated circuits: http://www.mycpu.eu/ The author gave a talk about it in our local hackerspace back in 2009. Fascinating stuff. http://video
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by avian 11y ago
I'm not sure what was the intended message of the table of examples. It is possible in many languages to get both types of ASCII representations for floating point: a nice human-readable 0.3 and the technically correct 0.30000000000000
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by avian 11y ago
> The transducers used appear to be of the piezo-electric type, those have a fairly high internal resistance and the voltages produced by those devices would be relatively high, the currents correspondingly tiny. Exactly. These transduce
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by avian 11y ago
I guess the "speaking piano" could also classify as black MIDI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
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by avian 11y ago
Because as the article says, it is as good as a CA-signed one, is easier to make and can have a long validity period. StartSSL limits you to one year and Let's Encrypt is really focused on certificates for HTTPS (their ACME protocol AF
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by avian 11y ago
Let's see. The webm video of the car door shot is 30 fps, with each frame repeated 4 times. This suggests that original was shot at 30 fps and then reduced to 1/4 speed. The delay between the first flash from the gun and the entry
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by avian 11y ago
On a related note, I was recently surprised when I learned that the Euribor is also currently negative: http://www.euribor-rates.eu/ Euribor is the basic interest rate that European banks use to determine interest rates on
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by avian 11y ago
Author of Python port of Unidecode here. I wrote a comment previously, pointing out that Unidecode does the reverse of Mimic. But then I actually checked the tables of characters that Mimic uses and deleted my comment. Mimic chooses replace
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by avian 11y ago
Probably not a good example. I've heard that gluten-intolerant people can no longer trust a label "gluten free" these days. It is now used as a marketing device for healthy people and not meaning that it is safe for those wit
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by avian 11y ago
It depends. This is the first material I have heard of that would allow you to have structural elements lighter than air. Just an empty envelope is not very rigid.
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by avian 11y ago
Putting problems with containing hydrogen aside, it seems this would actually work. A structure made with 99.99% hydrogen (0.09 kg/m3) and 0.01% aluminum (2700 kg/m3) by volume would have an average density of 0.36 kg/m3. Thi
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by avian 11y ago
The technology used to record images from these early landings is quite interesting as well. It's pretty exotic if all you're used to are modern CCD sensors. More on Viking Lander Camera System: http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.
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by avian 11y ago
To paste X clipboard into vim: "+y (if you are using gvim) or i and then ctrl-shift-v (if you are using vim in gnome-terminal). I used to be a heavy user of select-middle-click copy & paste. But this method of interaction seems to
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by avian 11y ago
IrDA is a much more recent and relevant example of a similar concept than Bell's photophone. It had a short run before being largely replaced by a radio-frequency technology - Bluetooth.
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by avian 11y ago
> There's no protection against magnetic fields I agree that floppies were all but reliable in practice. But I suspect sensitivity to magnetic fields was largely a myth. I did some experiments back in the day with some permanent mag
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by avian 11y ago
> Yet it was required decades of security exploits for developers start grasping the major flaw it was to adopt C. Can we please stop with the C bashing already? Each time there's a story about a buffer overflow, the top comment say
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by avian 11y ago
Amazon Kindle 3 has an ARM CPU that claims to support this, so this has been in production as recently as 2010. Not sure if it's actually used with the stock firmware.
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by avian 11y ago
Interesting. I didn't know they had a replacement after they dumped the POSIX kernel personality in Windows XP. Wikipedia says that "Interix will not be included in Windows versions after Windows 8" though. https:/&#x2F
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by avian 11y ago
To be honest, I was thinking more about art, science and technology content that is primarily published on the web rather than traditional journalism like you would find in New York Times. I can't speak for on-the-ground or wide-rangin
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by avian 11y ago
> no one wants to give away money from their own pockets in order to sustain their website. Interestingly, some of the best content on the web (in my opinion) can be found on websites that do not have ads. They are maintained by people g
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by avian 11y ago
I use The Old Reader to follow around 500 feeds. Basically all of them are blogs and sites that update less than once per week. I get a few new items per day into my reading list this way. I newer use feeds of news sites that have a lot of

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