bdonlan

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by bdonlan 16y ago
They do indeed have some conversion stations, but these stations are already working at full capacity trying to support the kantou area grid (which is having rolling blackouts due to power plant shutdowns). They're also probably not very po
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The problem would be that of matching frequency and phase with the mainland grid. The Kantou, Touhoku, and Hokkaidou area grids run at 50hz, unlike the North American standard of 60hz - so if the ship is using 60hz they'd have to convert to
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by bdonlan 16y ago
It looks to me like, on the wikipedia article at least, it's an "or" condition - probably the "Minor release of radioactive material unlikely to result in implementation of planned countermeasures other than local food controls." is what's
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Compiling Java to JavaScript is far from impossible - GWT manages to do it, for example. I don't know if Adobe is willing to go that far, though...
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by bdonlan 16y ago
It would also have been quite impractical before the development of affordable solid state drives - GCs tend to involve quite a lot of random access, after all... That said, I'm far from convinced allowing cycles in a directory structure wo
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by bdonlan 16y ago
They say you'll be able to earn cards in single-player mode and sell them in in-game auctions; but how would this possibly be secured...?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The hard part is backing up that kind of volume of data frequently enough that you always have a recent backup :)
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I would suspect the real reason is something along the lines of "We download the entire contact list in JS in the client to do autocompletion, so if it gets too big your browser runs out of memory and crashes." They might also be storing th
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by bdonlan 16y ago
You do have to be a bit careful not to introduce broken revisions as a part of your history-rewriting there, of course. Generally if you only use squash (which is sufficient to clean up "sync to laptop"-like changes) it won't be a problem t
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by bdonlan 16y ago
git repack won't delete any files until it finishes creating a new packfile. You might end up with a window in which the deletions are synced but not the upload of the new pack - this means git operations from other hosts may error out, but
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The thing about non-statistically-significant tests is you can't, in fact, say "it is still more likely to make you money." You can say that the B set did in fact make you more money this time, but you can't rule out that being luck of the
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The point isn't to delete bad content. The point is to delete content that is known by so few people that it is unlikely to get the attention needed to become a good article. To put it another way, even if someone writes a really, really go
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by bdonlan 16y ago
What makes you think understanding of radiation is necessary to dig? Even if they had that understanding, why would they bother using a geiger counter on an archaeological dig? And plants can adapt - chernobyl is quite hazardous, but plant
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by bdonlan 16y ago
We don't have the technology to build a video player that'll last 10,000 years, nor a power source that will last that long either. Leaving data media is fine, but anyone with the technology to play such media will probably understand the d
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by bdonlan 16y ago
It takes a _long_ time to get back from Mars. I think the trip itself would count as sufficient quarantine that any symptoms would become apparent.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Where exactly is the option to enable this? I can't seem to find it in my google accounts page - is it being rolled out gradually?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
These days there are 'pooled' mining systems in which you can receive payment for working on fractions of a block.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
To be fair, that's 1244 _lines_, not bytes :)
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I'm studying in Japan, and amazon's _free_ shipping (with no minimum!) here is about as fast as Amazon Prime in the US, in my experience. Of course, it helps that it's a small country, and I'm fairly close to Tokyo.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
They can't do #4, as they don't have the old password. They'd either end up having to reverse the hash (with the same problems as #3), in which case why keep the crypt() hash? Or they could use the crypt() output as the input to the new has
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Don't enter a discussion with them. As andyn said, send them a letter; if they argue, don't bother arguing back, just ignore them to the best of your ability. If you have no binding contract, you are under no obligation to continue working
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by bdonlan 16y ago
That just means we need to move to a three-dimensional process. Speaking of which, aren't memristors supposed to be layerable?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Governments can just take control of the ground stations - much easier that way.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Other jurisdictions can certainly make similar exceptions for themselves.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Strictly speaking there's no need for a DNS-like system to use domain _names_ - you could use domain keys instead (locating the authoritative servers could then be done with a DHT of some sort). The problem then is that it becomes hard to t
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Although others have explained things a bit, I'll try making an analogy to win32: Section 2 ("system calls") contains functions which are traditionally serviced directly by the kernel. In win32, this would mean that they (historically) corr
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The definition of exactly what is a system call and what is not varies by platform. For example, some OSes may implement sleep() as a system call; others may implement it using nanosleep() or even alarm() and sigwait(). Even fork() has been
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by bdonlan 16y ago
If this is the case, the only solution is for competition in search to return - it's much easier to exploit one ranking algorithm than it is to simultaneously exploit multiple algorithms. It's not really a problem in Google so much as a res
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by bdonlan 16y ago
> And then we have wikipedia's budget priorities, which indicate that Wales et al seem to value creating cushy jobs for people who don't add much to wikipedia much more than just keeping the site running for as long as possible, by a ra
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I believe there are ways to hide portions of the edit history as well - they usually don't bother to do this if it's only part of a larger article, but if necessary, it can be done.

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