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by bmohlenhoff 13y ago
In my experience, 90% of the time the clerk will swipe their own loyalty card if you claim you don't have one, so you get the benefit of any available discounts while remaining anonymous.
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by bmohlenhoff 13y ago
This type of analysis is commonly used in tons of things, like communications systems, image processing, radar, etc. I used a similar technique when trying to identify an underutilized wifi channel in the vicinity of my apartment.
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by bmohlenhoff 13y ago
I was confused why the submission title specifically mentioned that the laptop belonged to an activist, but the end of the article indicates the persons life might be endangered as a result. I can't decide if this is sensationalized or not.
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by bmohlenhoff 13y ago
I'm wondering if they bound the fingerprint search to human audible frequencies. MP3 compression, as a lossy codec, works by discarding information in the input signal that corresponds to inaudible frequencies. I believe this could be mirro
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by bmohlenhoff 13y ago
After using Shazam, I was kind of hoping there was more to it than just a time windowed frequency domain peak-pick algorithm. The algorithm itself is pretty basic from a signal processing perspective, but I think the key insight here was th
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Correct, this matches my observations as well. I'd trade an increase in mean latency for a decrease in worst-case latency anytime. It makes it so much easier to reason about how many resources are needed for a given workload when your laten
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Top engineers probably wouldn't be content merely sitting around, twiddling their thumbs. They want to build things.
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Something Awful (~1999) was around way before 4chan (2003) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Awful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
The date in the last screenshot (19/3/2012) doesn't match the date in the rest of the images (7/1/2013).
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
So you have two females, 0 males, and 2...aliens?
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
You only need a single bit to keep track of whether or not a door was blown open. I'd imagine the missiles worked the same way, and they just computed the total as the number of missile bits set times 5.
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
I'm skeptical anything will come from this. It's not like a Stack Exchange username is legitimate proof of identity. The professor called out the student for cheating but unless the guy actually turns in the form along with the exam, there'
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
This just strikes me as a case of "garbage in, garbage out." Of course the SNR of this new feature is going to be low if people don't answer it honestly.
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Re: 2: A thousand times this. Stocking the pond with something easy for the first thing next morning is a great productivity hack. Usually I'll do the same sort of thing and leave a failing test case or a dangling compiler error to get my b
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Yes, but how many of those 360 sales were actually repeat sales because the owner's previous 360 decided to red-ring? answer: At least one.
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
I found the analogy to be pretty accurate. It's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with both goto and inheritance, it's common to see both of them abused, and in either case there are alternatives that generally equivalent but result i
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
This is true, and it isn't just holidays. They usually start surge pricing on weekends after the T (subway for non-Bostonians) shuts down for the evening (around 12:30-1AM) and it continues until demand drops. That being said, if you try to
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
I agree. The temptation to roll over existing changes when inheriting a new codebase can be overwhelming at times, and the only sensible way that I've found to deal with it is to consider the impact to the schedule and how that ties into th
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Also by Marshall Brain, a somewhat-related thought-provoking short story about a theoretical future where robots displace the minimum wage workforce: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
The injected code disables error logging and allows remote users to execute arbitrary code on the server by submitting the 'g' and 's' parameters as part of a GET query string. It then looks for a file called 'lic.log' and aborts if it exis
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
My first thought at seeing the submission title was that YC was offering a program teaching people about how to be VCs. Then I realized that this was simultaneously awesome and nonsensical, since Joe Random probably isn't going to have the
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Security including obscurity works fine. There's nothing wrong with using it as a component, it just can't be the sole defense.
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
You don't need a wizard for every task. There's nothing wrong with taking someone from the left side of the matrix. You just have to consider what they'll be working on and what resources are available to them (ie. mentors, etc.) Hiring dec
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Whoa now, ad hominem much? Let's keep the mudslinging to a minimum, please. The point he's (admittedly somewhat poorly) attempting to make is that the article doesn't have enough context to draw conclusions about the greater state of factor
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by bmohlenhoff 14y ago
Anything is acceptable, it's all a function of the domain.
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by bmohlenhoff 15y ago
I've had a lot of success keeping my hands and wrists in shape by doing a couple of fingertip pushups every day. If you can't support your bodyweight on your fingers, do them against a wall or put your weight on your knees instead of your f
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by bmohlenhoff 15y ago
This actually made me laugh a little bit as it brought me back to my college days. The first week of February every year was when the yearly OS class covered fork(), and as a result the compute clusters all over campus were basically unusab
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by bmohlenhoff 15y ago
> We’re not talking about a molecular computer that’s comparable to the CPU in your PC, though; rather, the scientists created a simple Turing machine-like finite state automaton. This part made me laugh a little. The reporter knows wha
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by bmohlenhoff 15y ago
In a typical real-time system you don't have to deal with random processes screwing things up. Resources are meticulously allocated to individual tasks, and the tasks aren't allowed to randomly grab resources in the scenario you describe. I
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by bmohlenhoff 15y ago
Once a federal judge tells you to do something, you pretty much have to do it, no matter who you are.

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