bd_at_rivenhill

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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
Is verilog design small enough to put on an FPGA?
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
I had to take my old T60 apart last summer to clean out all the fans and apply more heatsink compound. Runs smooth now, but had an annoying habit of crashing during heat waves before I did this.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
How about a "drone pony express" where carrier has a bunch of intermediate stations within range of each other based on the drone's capability; the package is handed off from the "tired" drone to the the "fresh
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
Why? I don't see sellers on Alibaba advertising the number of units that they can produce per month. Aliexpress is much more like ebay if you always filtered search with "buy it now" (except that the prices are generally lo
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
It might be interesting if it were possible to declare war against an organization, as opposed to a sovereign nation. The conflict between Western nations and Al Qaeda is complicated by the fact that it doesn't fit into previous model
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
"Civilian" targets can become valid military targets. For example, if an enemy force forms a line of resistance within an urban or suburban area, then it is legitimate to attack and destroy that area. A civilian area that is not
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
Actually, it is (at least partially) like the Kinect 1; it includes a PrimeSense chip. See steps 9 and 10 of the Project Tango teardown at ifixit: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Project+Tango+Teardown/23835
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by bd_at_rivenhill 12y ago
They make plenty of money, but that is then invested back into expanding the business, so it's more accurate to say that they don't make much profit at this time.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Absolutely agree, having a single worldwide standard would put ALL US residents in the 'wealthy' category when compared to places like Haiti.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Regarding the second point, failure to deliver is an insurable risk, and would probably spawn a related market in derivatives. Anyone trading the contract on the shares that the employee wishes to sell will probably go over the employment
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
They can't cause any trouble until the employee shares have been delivered, which would be at the same point that the employee could unload the stock via other means; until that point, all they have is a contract with the employee.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
I've never really understood the point of most of the Spring usage I've seen; seems like most people want to replace Java code that is type-checked and can throw exceptions at reasonable places when something goes wrong with XML &
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Hmm, looks like Suarez wasn't arrested either.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
This all seems to indicate that the intel compiler emits multiple, cpu-dependant code paths for a given binary, which seems insane to me due to the amount of extra memory that this would require. Am I missing something here?
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Why not just stick with a stable version for a while? Updating every month sounds like a huge headache.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
SO has critical mass which would be difficult to replicate in a new site; remember that it was started by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, who were already established bloggers. "Make your own SO for subjective discussions" would be
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
As for how companies work in the meantime, there are packages out there that can do the basics; in the CAD space, I've been able to achieve a fair bit with OpenSCAD, believe it or not. I chose this package because it feels more like p
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
To me, the problem of free riders is irrelevant if you end up spending less on quality software; hopefully others will step up and help pay for improvements but it seems unlikely that this will become an issue that significantly tilts the c
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
This, but for businesses. Companies should try to avoid e.g. paying something like $5000 per seat to license AutoCAD; instead the consumers of that particular type of software should work cooperatively to fund developers who will build a p
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Probably not, all of the developed countries went through a sweatshop phase at some point in their past.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
They didn't tell Madoff's banker probably because they couldn't as a result of Chinese wall requirements between the two businesses. They didn't tell the SEC because they were in London, but they did tell the UK authori
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
One important thing to remember, not that it justifies these actions, was that the US faced a much more dangerous enemy at the time. The amount of damage that Al Qaeda can do is orders of magnitude lower than Soviet Russia.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Actually, my understanding is that the tolerances, at least for implosion-type weapons, are extreme and required scientific advances to achieve during the Manhattan Project, not to mention the fact that Uranium and Plutonium are much, much
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Would you start shopping at Amazon again if they replace all of the workers with robots from Kiva?
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
A sane legal system would then require the plaintiff to post a bond in this case.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
In thinking about the t_stack allocator, I think I can see some cases for which you might want to use this instead of the alloca function, but there is not enough information to be sure if I am going down the correct mental path. Can you p
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
This is no indication that he would violently resist arrest, which is the only reasonable justification for these types of raids. Military tactics should be confined to the cases where there is a risk of violence; intimidation should not b
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Actually, I think you need some sort of tightly fitting metal tube as well, otherwise the cartridge case will just split.
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
Ask the Koreans who had to defend their property from looting when the police didn't respond during the LA riots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Riots_an...
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by bd_at_rivenhill 13y ago
I thought it was the case that you could never sell it, only keep it for personal use. The entry at the ATF FAQ page ( http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/general.html ) is unclear, and I haven't actually gotten around to reading the statute.

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