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91.
by brey 13y ago
If we had detected some non-zero change in G, that would be big news.
92.
by brey 13y ago
probably a minor and tedious point, but it bugs me when journalists do this: > (3) The universal force of gravity is very stable. Newton's gravitational constant G has changed less than 1 part in 100-billion since the laser experime
93.
by brey 13y ago
ignoring burnout completely - even for the medium term (anything more than a couple of days), I very much doubt that someone doing a 100 hour week is 2.5x as productive as someone doing a 40 hour week
94.
by brey 13y ago
and then ask 1000 Americans to name a city in Cambridgeshire other than Cambridge. what's your point?
95.
by brey 13y ago
if that includes backspace, not so very far off in my case ;-)
96.
by brey 13y ago
Posts from 2013 postulating what will be funny in 20 years.
97.
by brey 13y ago
While I'm with the tin-foil hat brigade on this whole debacle, I'm not quite sure that 'it wasn't from Snowden' necessarily means 'so it must be misinformation from the Government'. especially as it would
98.
by brey 13y ago
The gradual broadening of what 'terrorism' means is worrying. First 'terrorism' gets conflated with 'actions that help terrorism' Then 'actions which help terrorism' gets conflated with 'actions
99.
by brey 13y ago
I'd quite enjoy the day when 123456 is picked and everyone wins a $24 share in the grand prize
100.
by brey 13y ago
agreed it's not the same degree of risk - but I'd say that if a nation state was behind bitcoin, but purporting to be a lone engineer for some nefarious purpose, it's sure going to make leaking that classified fact a fairly s
101.
by brey 13y ago
counterexample: before Snowden revealed Prism, it had been in operation for years, with thousands of people knowing of its existence. the day before that leak you could have used exactly the same argument against the existence of a comprehe
102.
by brey 13y ago
what surprises me most is the high amount these cards sell for on ebay, when they presumably get electronically wiped pretty quickly once reported. the link from the article has many of these, eg currently a $10 card with 5 bids at $9.39 -
103.
by brey 13y ago
that's a bit like saying we may as well have a war, we've spent so much on all this military hardware ... ;-)
104.
by brey 13y ago
you've just described art.
105.
by brey 13y ago
saw that coming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
106.
by brey 13y ago
Vladimir Markov, who died at 25, probably isn't the brother most people would associate with the name. not to diminish Vladimir's contribution to mathematics at such a young age - but Andrey Markov, of the chains and processes, li
107.
by brey 13y ago
entirely in agreement with 3) I know you were answering the question as written, but IMO 1) and 2) are out of place in a discussion about 'value', with the implied context of 'and why are we spending public money on this useless rubbish?'.
108.
by brey 13y ago
of itself, probably nothing. asking this question is somewhat like driving to your mother's house, looking out the window on the way and asking, "Why the hell am I on a freeway onramp? I didn't want to be here, I want to be at my mother's h
109.
by brey 13y ago
still too close :( I love the concept, but I spent most of the time reading the page wondering when kickstarter had started offering projects hosted on your own domain, a la wordpress. it's the layout of the right column that's sailing a li
110.
by brey 14y ago
> Need more server resources? Maybe. AWS does this for (almost) free - load balancing includes optional SSL termination. really simple to set up, all HTTPS traffic just forwards to port 80 on your instance.
111.
by brey 14y ago
range is only important if it takes a significant time (more than the few minutes it takes to refuel gasoline) to charge, or if there aren't a critical mass of charging stations. refuel time may be subject to physical constraints, but you c
112.
by brey 14y ago
cute :) I have my doubts that shipping 8MB cards in this way when contracted to deliver 128MB would be accepted by a chinese court - it just probably wouldn't reach court most of the time, especially when dealing with a westerner who would
113.
by brey 14y ago
as described, the 'relatively common' providing under-specified cards with loopback tricks to make a user think it's full-sized - surely that's breaking an explicit part of the contract, not to mention wilful fraud?
114.
by brey 14y ago
heh, cute analogy, and I agree with the sentiment. but having just returned from an Iceland 4x4 trip in places you absolutely need 12 inches of ground clearance and a snorkel, four wheel drive gets turned on the moment you start on F-roads.
115.
by brey 14y ago
> Parse is a less evil PayPal. Stripe? Square? not sure you mean Parse.
116.
by brey 14y ago
my point is merely that as written, the article is confusing. to paraphrase: "hashtables are faster. here's some research showing b-trees are slower than hashtables. why would you ever use a tree? prefix matching, that's why." which misses
117.
by brey 14y ago
and so the article confusing B-trees with binary search trees doesn't exactly increase confidence here ...
118.
by brey 14y ago
third myth in the article compares B-trees to hash tables: "Trees are better In general, trees aren’t faster for searching for exact matches. They’re slower, and here’s peer-reviewed evidence that compares B-trees, splay trees, and hashing
119.
by brey 14y ago
Misses the point about B-trees. They're not just 'good for inexact matches' - they're optimised for things like database indexes, to reduce the number of seeks over a block-based device (eg a filesystem) required for a index lookup.
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by brey 14y ago
nope, example.com resolves just fine. apple's trying to test for non-existence. see .invalid - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid

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