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by bfuclusion 6y ago
SSD volumetric capacity already exceeds spinning disk, and we're just waiting for the price to come down. The horse's dealer's competition wasn't more stables, it was the car.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
For any HN'ers in the bay area, if you're into this stuff you should pay a visit to the Hiller Aviation museum. It's right by EA on the San Carlos Airport. Hiller was a pioneer in helicopter design, and they have a ramjet tip
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Sweet. I'll monitor this an order a non-gpu version when it comes out. Most of my stuff just needs a serial console.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Yes, but the effect is magnified if they're in your country. You would collect local taxes, and the majority of money spent would circulate inside the economy, rather leaving.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
I feel this deserves an answer from the guy who made the comment. First, I'm nationalistic. I want my home to be the best possible place it can be. There is an undeniable benefit to the economy, culture, general education level, abili
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Yeah, I've done some python daemons in win, and registered with the service control manager, but I was wondering what the "magic" was there.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Omg, a promise based render chain? I'm in love.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
So how does this work in windows? Edit, as for some reason it's getting downvoted: In windows, do you have to do the double fork etc? Do you have to close FDs etc?
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
$5 says this is stuck in some bureaucratic sinkhole somewhere. Barring a _good_ reason, I'd much rather have Daniel's brain here in the US than anywhere else.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Very very high. What fuels a thunderstorm is large amounts of air rising, and falling very rapidly. When the aircraft encounters those air movements it can very quickly exceed the structural limits of the aircraft.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Question: Where do you see the FARs going with drones like this?
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
I'll have to go searching (been 13 years), but conceptually building a tornado encoder is a multi stage pipeline with input blocks and output blocks depending on how the bipart graph is set up. Once you have that you extend the bittore
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Take a look at tornado codes if you want a rated (instead of rateless) erasure code. It's related to fountain codes (and linked on the wikipedia article), and does basically the same thing as Reed-Solomon but with quasi linear encoding
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Yeah, but that's like 12 pages of text. 12 pages is a trivial amount to read for a step by step guide on how to own millions of machines.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
A few things I like to keep in mind about soviet spies of this era, especially in regard to nukes. 1) The USSR was the UKs and the USs ally in WWII, and all the propaganda was saying as such. 2) It would not be a stretch to think that havin
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
I hit this myself all the time with my product. I think the core problem is that we're too close. We know all the little things it can do, so it's hard to pull back and see what the BIG things really look like.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this, but if I have multiple vendors, why can't I compare the hashes of all of them before I ask for the binary? Then any one vendor is being held to account by the others before I install. N
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Is stat really something you want as an abstraction over all filesystems? You might not even have that information available in all of them.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
If you compute storage cost vs content creation rate, you would expect that not much would get saved.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Bring back the Zeppelins:) There's lots of missions they can do besides passenger carrying, and they do it better than aircraft.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Nice. I have an old Cordata 8088 around somewhere at my parents house. I'll have to boot it up and see if I can get a network card for it.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Ouch. There is _no_ excuse for that. With an a13 you should be able to use 5.1 surround as your ring tone if you want.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
A 386 w/5mb of ram. Or at least it was when I was doing so in 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
I always considered custom ringtone stores a gross abuse of the customer. MIDI existed YEARS earlier, so did MP3 and MOD. There's absolutely no reason why I shouldn't have been able to load my own on the phone and just play it. So
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Absolutely that's tech. Metallurgy, force maps, 3d models, computer controlled machining, etc is in fact HIGH technology. To previous generations that's just plain magic, even if the user doesn't spend more than 1/10th o
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
I tried writing this three times, and I'm probably going to screw it up anyways but here's my take on business models and "tech": If the entirety of your approach is an existing model but "on the internet" and
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Yeah, that one would indeed be "tech":). I meant 100ms of course.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Let me clarify. I absolutely, completely, think doing this would be painful and take years. But if it's line of business critical and someone has you by the throat, then you have to make the long term investments to survive. Even bette
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
Its an expression in (American) English that means that the amount of change (or number of significant events) in the week was equivalent to a decade in other times.
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by bfuclusion 6y ago
From it's own definitions this article is patently false. Quote: "applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes" You're doing that when you try to reduce time to display from 1 second to 1000ms, when trying to cho

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