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   by batbomb 12y ago

   I remember browsing through this book once: http://www.amazon.com/Instrument-Engineers-Handbook-Vol-Meas... And I was utterly amazed at the instructions it had for building almost so many different things. I also have an ol
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   No, it doesn't definitively say the backing storage is not tape based. Only that: "Essentially you can see this as a replacement for tape," and: "inexpensive commodity hardware components" Nowhere
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   Okay, this is beyond silly. Still ignoring tape. Explain how BDXL, a new format, which has never proved itself beyond a few years, which costs $45 for a few hundred GB, which AFAIK has very little data on re-writability (which is probably t
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   Let's not conflate unit testing with integration testing. SQLite should, in most cases, work just fine for unit testing. First off, many people would argue unit testing should never really require a database. I'm not of that opini
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   > Oracle abomination Okay... PostgreSQL is great but it still has a bit of catching up to do. > ... run your MySQL Wait, Oracle is an abomination but MySQL is okay? > Before each test case, we do BEGIN TRANSACTION, and at the end o
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   It's unfortunate most of this was debated at the beginning of all the hype around NoSQL data stores. It would be some work, but still be relatively trivial to build a query spec, probably based off of SQL 92, and a basic type system sp
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   Do your eyes have zoom and both active and passive (near or far)-infrared detectors? Because you could easily put those on robotic (or even non-robotic) cars. You could even put several on a robotic car. Take this, for example: http:&#x2F
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   have you never seen a robotic tape library? Here's a video of a 40PB library at NERSC: http://distilleryvesper11-3.ak.instagram.com/17aa08ac8d3511e...
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   by batbomb 13y ago

   Were you using gold archival quality discs?
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    This is probably close, at least for launch. The problem with this theory, however, is that tape still would have been cheaper with roughly the same footprint, and tape has the benefit of often being forward-compatible too, as the drives im
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    You'll almost never get pulled over for doing exactly 11 over on any street with a speed limit of 50 or higher. Thanks to the law of cosines, a cop is likely to read you going 10 or less or less, and cops generally don't even both
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    Most big iron solutions are effectively commodity systems anymore anyways, occasionally with fancy interconnects and coprocessors.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    As someone who works with many French and Danish colleagues... If they didn't respond after 6pm ever, the turnaround for anything involving the west coast of the United States would be ridiculous. There would be no chance for any real-
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    I'm not sure if the author is even aware of the 202 status code, which seems to solve this and other asynchronous issues.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    That's easily detectable and mitigable via a MRU cache, or no caching at all.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    I wonder if running on systems with NV cache controllers experience the issues with the slow fsync.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    Or check out this for all sorts of info about NASA's probes: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-480/sp480.htm
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    I worked at Sorenson VRS with deaf people for six months while they were developing the mobile VRS app, as well as "BuzzCards", which was precisely a digital notepad with many saved notes of things you'd say often, like Starb
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    There is already a way to communicate imprecision of results. Error bars Error bars Error bars Error bars Got it?
20. 680.▲
    by batbomb 13y ago

    no sqrt(n) error bars?!?
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    Did you try Clustering with PG (aka index organized table in Oracle)
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    This is a good talk probably for most people with a decent amount of physics background. More technical than most articles, with some interesting discussion about the results in context of String Theory.
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    BICEP2 "Swirls From the Big Bang", Colloquium with Andrei Linde (video)(www6.slac.stanford.edu)

    1 points by batbomb 13y ago|1 comments
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    1. Make sure devices are calibrated to a few seconds with a radio wave (easy). 2. Give each like a specific t0 and a transmitting period for well-defined pulses. 3. Draw current. 4. Correlate.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    Funny, me too, given how I was just researching server side locking and sqlite yesterday.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    Sounds a lot like research to me
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    "Swirls From the Big Bang" special colloquium with Andrei Linde and BICEP2, 3PM(www6.slac.stanford.edu)

    1 points by batbomb 13y ago|0 comments
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    http://deep-com.ru/public/image/fluke_179.jpg https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/home_page_posts/1/4/2/8/DMM_... Red especially is used by many companies for DMMs, it&#x
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    I'm gonna play devil's advocate: That looks like a Fluke DMM knockoff. They could have easily gone with red, orange, green, or some other color I'm sure. It would be nice if they got a warning first though.
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    by batbomb 13y ago

    There's a good amount of preparation at Stanford astrophysics underway for discussion of the results from the BICEP2 collaboration tomorrow.