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by boxfire 7y ago
Yeah what percent of that 24 percent is actually commuters? I have no idea but I'd wager single digits. I honestly stopped right at the start of the article because reading this told me this was an agenda piece likely the outcome of a
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by boxfire 7y ago
As I read the article which hit a lot of my favorite stretches of measure and the assumptions underlying inference I couldn't help but notice the only instance of "trans" is transcendence in a footnote. One can't help b
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by boxfire 7y ago
Not sure why you think it's easier to take that on faith than complete the square, but I'm sure you never tutored new students to mathematics. At this point we are taking all of abstract algebra and some number theory for granted
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by boxfire 7y ago
The flight dynamics document is actually quite a useful summary: http://marekcel.pl/docs/mscsim_doc.pdf
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by boxfire 7y ago
Funny, that missed me. I FAFSA'd out of support due to my parents income and didn't get a dime from my parents. I suppose they supported me with the clothes on my back, but that is about it. I'm pretty sure I sit with a major
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by boxfire 7y ago
The Mars 2020 mission is taking core samples and caching them for a follow on sample return mission to pick up and send back to earth.
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by boxfire 7y ago
If systemd were a gstreamer plugin it would be in gstreamer-plugins-bad
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by boxfire 7y ago
There's an opensparc 1000 running proprietary firmware, much like the Intel Management Engine and company. There's a small effort to replace that in open software. If I had oodles of free time I might contribute, but I've got
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by boxfire 8y ago
Interesting juxtaposition with the article [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19421612] Pilots trained for Boeing’s 737 Max airplane with “an iPad lesson for an hour” (qz.com)
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by boxfire 8y ago
Sensitivity analysis is the next data science buzzword rewrite of classically important skills in model building.
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by boxfire 8y ago
For many researchers MCMC is described in very specific terms very differently in many places. This paper offers a single view of how to understand the idea and how you can use it to derive specializations for your field. Of course if you h
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by boxfire 8y ago
Here is the github, where the first paragraph of the README.md had everything I ever cared to know without the blog: https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino > Neutrino is an experimental Bitcoin light client writt
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by boxfire 8y ago
That is some "think of the children" legislation away from a rubber stamp subpoena system. Oh well, I don't assume privacy outside my bedroom anyway. Maybe not even in it soon enough.
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by boxfire 9y ago
This might work but then what is Neo's power?
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by boxfire 9y ago
That's correct, while taking away the entropy inequality as well. The thing is that very inequality is one of these laws of thermodynamics we so love, so I kind of see this as hot air.
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by boxfire 9y ago
To me the fact that the data was hacked represents no real change, as I've viewed the organizations that had access to this information just as adversarial as the crooks who stole it. At least now anybody can pay the price to see, and
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by boxfire 9y ago
The pinebook (aarch64 machine) has an opensparc1000 in exactly the same capacity as the intel ME. The firmware blob is out and people have poked at it, but the functionality has yet to be reproduced in open software.
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by boxfire 9y ago
^C as copy is an example of breaking well established patterns that screw new users. Its THE canonical example in fact.
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by boxfire 10y ago
And hence the coding quality separation of gstreamer plugins. There is a reason the plugin ended up in gstreamer-plugins-bad, and most of them it is due to code quality or lack of maintainers or both.
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by boxfire 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by boxfire 10y ago
1) How about read the script. 2) How about read the subject 3) How about understanding it.
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by boxfire 10y ago
This is a new result published yesterday, with no revisions. A direct link is extremely preferable to those of us who are interested in actually reading the paper. If you are doing homework, you can search the paper title.
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by boxfire 10y ago
instead of letting the browser grab the dns abstractly all the way down through the os, use your ISP's standard DNS for the exact address in the address bar and/or a white list, and their DNS for implicit requests. Still leaks a p
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by boxfire 10y ago
Software defined radio such as hackrf can use this.
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by boxfire 10y ago
All I can think of is my Wife's photography collection. She has terabytes of photos. Imagine the day "iPhoto" works like this (which is probably not too far off). We have her do a manual backup periodically, but now I am goin
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by boxfire 10y ago
RTFM? Release versions are on pip. Unfortunately most distros think they have the one holy package management solution. pip IS a release and distribution system. With the current popularity of Python, it is only going to be a matter of time
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by boxfire 11y ago
See Also: Agile Software Development
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by boxfire 11y ago
And with this I am thoroughly convinced Hacker News is Slashdot with significantly fewer of the troll comments. This is obviously pure marketing. Congrats to Apple, I am sure this does in fact win them both sales and talent.
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by boxfire 11y ago
Actually absolute time SINCE an epoch (event and frame of reference) is meaningful. You can convert between times in different epochs. E.G. if we consider the epoch of a particular event on mars (Curiosity snapped a photo) we could convert
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by boxfire 11y ago
You can make the further out zooms look better (not salt and pepper like) by using a sinc filter with a 5 or more lobes when to generate those layers. It looks like there is just some simple nearest neighbor or bilinear filtering happening,

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