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by bradyd 13y ago
As FYI (you may already know this @morganherlocker, so this is for the n00bs) there is a controllable LED built into the UNO (and similar boards) attached to pin 13, so this is possible without any additional parts. In addition to LEDs and
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by bradyd 13y ago
Actually it was a comment about how attractive the female founder was. The comment you are referring to is still there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458282 .
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by bradyd 13y ago
Thursday games are broadcast on local networks in the cities where the teams playing are from, so you don't have to have NFL network to watch your local team.
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by bradyd 13y ago
> Once it's booted, you can physically disconnect the write pin of your storage device. Does this mean it requires someone on site to boot the machine? I could see that might not be an issue for ATMs, as they are usually located nea
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by bradyd 13y ago
During my freshman year at Georgia Tech I had two classes with text books written by the instructor. My chemistry teacher was one of the authors of textbook we used. The other was my CS1311 class, but instead of a traditional textbook it ha
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by bradyd 13y ago
Having personally experienced the floor mat issue in a Toyota 4Runner, I definitely didn't hit the wrong pedal. I intentionally hit the gas pedal. I had floored it for about a second or two, lifted my foot and the pedal didn't com
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by bradyd 13y ago
Interestingly, Call of Duty is available in the Mac App Store. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/call-of-duty/id416666678?mt=...
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by bradyd 13y ago
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun was available on the GameCube, where you fight the Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor%3A_Rising_Sun
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by bradyd 13y ago
"How can Bob and Marie say that AT&T's records about them are "their . . . papers, and effects . . ." when they didn't record that information, they aren't storing that information, and they don't even
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by bradyd 13y ago
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmat
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by bradyd 13y ago
For a safer method of interfacing with AC voltage you can use something like the PowerSwitch Tail[1]. It is a little pricy (~$26 at Adafruit.com) and only works with one plug, but it means that you don't have to mess with AC voltage di
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by bradyd 13y ago
But in another part of the statement it says "We stole no bitcoins. There were none to steal.", which seems to contradict them having ~1 million BTC.
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by bradyd 13y ago
>But suppose that you are the manager of an organisation with just over 1 million PCs running XP, and those PCs are used to access hundreds of applications that are only guaranteed/certified to work with XP. Then you've had yea
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by bradyd 13y ago
There is a technique that might actually be able to do this called compressed sensing[1] that I first heard about it in a Wired article from several years ago[2]. The technique allows reconstructing images, music, etc. by sampling a portion
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by bradyd 13y ago
He worked on the Kinect project at Microsoft as well. In fact he put up the prize money for the Open Kinect contest run by Adafruit to develop drivers for the Kinect. http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/02/wi
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by bradyd 13y ago
FTA: "There will also be third-party applications for Treasure Tag to support Android and iOS devices."
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by bradyd 13y ago
"There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined."[1] From a genetic perspective there is basically no basis fo
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by bradyd 13y ago
The article mentions that they use them for aerospace components, including landing gear. I wonder what the strength of these parts are compared to traditional manufacturing techniques. Can these parts be used for actual structural elements
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Well, they did by Boston Dynamics, so they actually are a defense contractor now.
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I too did something similar in high school. We were running Novel on either Windows 98 or 95 (Can't recall now the specific version). I started the Visual Basic program using the autorun.bat like you, except instead of presenting a f
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by bradyd 13y ago
I picked myself up an Auria EQ276W earlier this year and couldn't be happier. It is a 27" 2560x1440 IPS (16:9), same as the Asus, but it can be found for $399. I did replaced the stock stand with an HP branded Ergotron LX stand ($
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by bradyd 13y ago
> You drive the rear wheel drive V8 that weighs 2x my car's weight Actually, a lot of newer cars weigh more, not the other way around. I believe that this is mostly due to additional safety devices. For example a 1967 Mustang weighs
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by bradyd 13y ago
Open hardware cars already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Fighter
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by bradyd 13y ago
I wouldn't completely trust the WordPress Codex for everything. It has a lot of missing/out of date information, and the function descriptions don't always jive with the actual code. That function is still in use and in this case it appear
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by bradyd 13y ago
WordPress uses phpass since 2.5.[1]. You can reset you password using an md5 generator, but that is due to the backwards compatibility in WordPress. In order to provide seamless upgrades to the new hashing mechanism, they hash is not updat