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by barbegal 6y ago
> It’s blindingly obvious that spaceflight makes sense to invest in. The issue is that the level of investment is large and the time horizon before a return is long. Sometimes government takes that role. Are you invested in spaceflight t
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by barbegal 6y ago
What sort of real world use case adds large numbers like this?
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by barbegal 6y ago
This looks like a good tool, but it took me a while to find the demo video to work out what the product actually is. It looks to me like a simplified version of Google Forms and Sheets for NGOs but your home page is not communicating that t
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by barbegal 6y ago
A DEQNA ethernet controller card can measure to an accuracy of 100ns which is around 20m at the speed of light. Shockwave velocities in the ground are in the order of 1000 to 10000 m/s or 1 to 10 m/ms so sampling at 1ms intervals
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by barbegal 6y ago
And the "missing dollar riddle" can be exploited as the "change raising scam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uaw88H0AmE
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by barbegal 6y ago
There is some truth to this account: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6t-wCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&lp... It's called CORRTEX. And I think you could probably set up a PDP-11 to sample roughly every millisecond so th
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by barbegal 6y ago
Whats the advantage of a flow battery over a fuel cell which has higher energy density?
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by barbegal 6y ago
> With DHCPv6, the network operator can force your device to obtain only single IP address. So if your network admin does that, surely they have good reason, they basically want to stop you using 464xlat. Any good network admin should a
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by barbegal 6y ago
Its easier to think about this using the water pressure analogy. Imagine a large barrel full of water connected to another identical barrel. The first barrel is filled to the top whilst the second is empty. A valve is opened between the two
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by barbegal 6y ago
I agree with you that acidity is the main cause of enamel erosion. The correlation between beverage acidity and tooth decay is such that I think we should highly discourage children from drinking any carbonated or acidified drink . I disagr
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by barbegal 6y ago
Thanks Ken, it's a great simulator. Is there any way others could write code for this simulator and play around with it as opposed to just running the original code? And what are the best and worst features of this hardware architectur
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by barbegal 6y ago
The patent https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0d/b2/87/7f219f3... for the chip this calculator was based on (the TMS080x) is a real work of art. If you know how to make a transistor and a seven segm
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by barbegal 6y ago
Ken Schirriff's blog has a much more detailed and interesting explanation including photos of the die that were used to reverse engineer it. http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul...
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by barbegal 6y ago
Is this the same information on the "built for mars" website? https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/ I think the summary is that the challenger banks are better because they have been built from the ground up to h
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by barbegal 6y ago
> Like all such problems the actual answer is obvious once you realize it or if you already know it. I believe this problem is really trying to get you to formulate an abstract problem mathematically. It's not a trick question, it c
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by barbegal 6y ago
Definitely cheating, it's not autopilot. It is just updating your co-ordinates every 500ms on a straight line. I would like to see a real autopilot written in javascript that you can paste into the console.
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by barbegal 6y ago
The best way to make money in this way is by finding items that have been incorrectly listed (and thus undervalued) and listing them with better keywords, accurate information etc. The tricky part is finding those listings in the first plac
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by barbegal 6y ago
As far as I can tell this isn't true. Mount Everest can be seen from Kathmandu but not from the city center as it is obscured by Kang Nachugo see this image: https://i.imgur.com/4N3gs5V.jpg If you got to the south of K
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by barbegal 6y ago
You're right you can't all hear each other. Some choirs use instructions like https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/resource/zoom-online-rehearsa... where everyone is on mute and can just hear themselves and the cho
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by barbegal 6y ago
But the reason you don't forget it is probably because you recall it all the time. You definitely recall your phone number for purposes other than calling yourself. This has given me a good idea for a study: find people who have change
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by barbegal 6y ago
I think that bug report is misleading. Raw sockets do bypass iptables but they still go through ebtables. They hook in at the ebtables NAT OUTPUT chain. See the diagram here https://erlerobotics.gitbooks.io/erle-robotics-int
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by barbegal 6y ago
Here's an article discussing that argument http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/what_if_copyright_d...
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by barbegal 6y ago
As a software engineer I understand these sort of bugs. A product manager in China asks: can we find a way to prevent people commenting on these videos with comments that contain the word 共匪. Engineer goes away and comes up with a plan to t
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by barbegal 6y ago
They won't tell us according to https://security.googleblog.com/2012/06/security-warnings-fo... And I doubt they display this warning any more, it seems like it was a bit of a publicity stunt back in 2012.
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by barbegal 6y ago
Has anyone got a citation for "U.S. intelligence agencies had closely studied electrical emissions when scouting Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan" Being very liberal with the truth, using a radio scanner could be classed as &
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by barbegal 6y ago
But it is more than 10x cheaper.
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by barbegal 6y ago
This app tracks users’locations using GPS data and according to the article "allows investigators—with permission—to look at whether those with a positive diagnosis are potentially spreading the disease" Without also being able to
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by barbegal 6y ago
I don't. In the past I have just used an XML and a zip library like this article explains https://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_data/xml/article.p...
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by barbegal 6y ago
You do realise that you are infringing on the registered mark of the Open Source Initiative https://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines
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by barbegal 6y ago
I think that stems from the fact that no software ever properly supported them, they are non-printable characters so you can't see them easily. Whereas with CSV you can fire up notepad.exe and explore the data. Given the inability to s

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