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Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre(wired.com)
1 points by bcl 14y ago|0 comments
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Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal?(wired.com)
1 points by bcl 14y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 14y ago
As with anything else, a balance of these is most useful. If there is nothing to clean up, error checks and early exit. But only if it is one nested level deep. Any more and someone reading your code may miss it. When there is a stack of th
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by bcl 14y ago
How long did it take to notice these results? Are you normally an active person or is standing your primary form of 'exercise'?
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by bcl 14y ago
Depending on how hard you drive it heat dissipation may be an issue. It sure looks nice though.
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by bcl 14y ago
Seems like a good way to make your code harder to read and harder to debug.
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by bcl 15y ago
A friend of mine beat a speeding ticket once by demonstrating that it was physically impossible for him to have slowed down from the claimed speed and stopped in the location where the officer wrote the ticket.
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by bcl 15y ago
The training sequence sounds like 56k to me ;)
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Why Magicians Are a Scientist’s Best Friend(wired.com)
1 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
Because not everyone is writing code for the web. And because this poll is about your favorite language, not the language you use the most.
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by bcl 15y ago
You should link directly to the Viper site, not a linkbait blog. https://sites.google.com/site/mf2012theviper/
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SpaceX Prepares For April 30 Launch To Space Station(wired.com)
113 points by bcl 15y ago|24 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
atop is what I use these days, very flexible.
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by bcl 15y ago
The AIS transmissions are VHF (162MHz) so they are fairly short range, although with high gain antennas you can extend it a bit (with a corner reflector I once had intermittent data from a ship 600nm away).
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by bcl 15y ago
If you want to parse the AIS serial data you can use my AISparser project - https://github.com/bcl/aisparser
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Stumped by a problem? This technique unsticks you(medicalxpress.com)
1 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
I tried them out for a bit, mostly because of their always-on claim but it didn't work for my sites for some reason so I switched to Amazon. Their interface is nice, but I don't like the fact that you have to switch your DNS over to them an
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HN Blocks Logins from Tor?
1 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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The Humble Hacker Keyboard(geekhack.org)
8 points by bcl 15y ago|4 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
This really doesn't need a new thread.
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Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia(wired.com)
2 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
I trid out CloudFlare for a few months for a couple of my sites. I was primarily interested in their 'no downtime' feature but could never get it to work for me. I ended up swtiching to S3 and CloudFront, paying a little each month but it a
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Pinewood Derby Instant Replay System(raisinggeeks.com)
7 points by bcl 15y ago|1 comments
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Fractal viewer can zoom and enhance like on CSI(hackaday.com)
1 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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Lark Wristband Reveals the Best Lifestyle Choices For a Good Night’s Sleep(wired.com)
1 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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The Case for the /usr Merge(0pointer.de)
3 points by bcl 15y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
Same here. And I haven't touched my linkedin settings in a very long while.
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by bcl 15y ago
I read it and you're right. I'm puzzled as to why they would think this 'scuppers' all of quantum cryptography. They also mention imperfect hardware, but hardware always improves.
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Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter(hackaday.com)
125 points by bcl 15y ago|27 comments
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by bcl 15y ago
I wonder if it is because I'm using xmonad.

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