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by brianolson 8y ago
ok, VxWorks exists. Is there something new and interesting?
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by brianolson 8y ago
tl,dr: chest freezer hacked with extra thermal mass and smarter control maintains temperature while only running when the sun shines on the solar panels.
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by brianolson 8y ago
I advocate STV with larger sets, 8 or more. The wasted vote is smaller, any constituency that can show up and get out the vote for 1/N of the total gets one of the N seats. 5 seats or fewer biases towards the major parties. Lots of 5 s
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by brianolson 8y ago
A State changing how it runs its State Legislature is a change to the State Constitution either way, whether taking away the map drawing authority from the Legislature itself or changing the structure of the Legislature to be non-districted
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by brianolson 8y ago
The abstract describes a system for achieving shoddy Proportional Representation through bipartisan (or multi-partisan) gerrymandering. If you want Proportional Representation, then just do that and don't try to gerrymander districts t
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by brianolson 8y ago
"Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control", by Errol Morris (and also probably other things by him). 4-way weirdly interleaved story of a lion tamer, a scientist studying the naked mole rat, a topiary gardener, and a roboticist.
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by brianolson 8y ago
'Technology' is kinda definitionally something that humans created to solve a problem. I suspect 'big business capitalism' is driving us to solve the wrong problems sometimes.
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by brianolson 8y ago
SiFive press release here: https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-core-ip-7-series-creates...
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by brianolson 8y ago
If you want a 320 MHz GPIO focused Arduino board for $60, this is great. Might be great for open-loop or encoder based motion control. This could probably be a good 3d printer control board.
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by brianolson 8y ago
Slightly creepy, they want to track users around your site to see if they go page to page like a human or like a bot. (Instead of just checking before form-submit or some other action.) But if you already have Google Analytics you're p
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by brianolson 8y ago
See also a more full working open source civ game, FreeCiv http://www.freeciv.org/
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by brianolson 8y ago
One feature that could achieve generics, eliminated `if err != nill{}` stutter, and allow for backwards compatibility: macros (borrowing the '@' prefix for macros from Julia) type ConcreteStruct @macroType(int64) val := @errReturn
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by brianolson 8y ago
s/released/has been tagged/ they're probably waiting for some packages to build and to write a nice announcement message
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by brianolson 8y ago
Because it's hard and non-obvious. Nothing in the real world works this way (including computers). It's mathy, it's hard like math, it's beautiful like a proof, but that only works for the small subset of the population
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by brianolson 8y ago
Julia! (see today's 1.0 release) looks a little like Python, all the language features you need to do OOP or functional, LLVM compiled back end for fast run speed.
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by brianolson 8y ago
No, but is often taken to relieve heartache.
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by brianolson 8y ago
Pretty happy with my System76 Galago Pro with high-dpi display. It's small and light and has a really crisp screen. That's my home machine. At work I have a 2015 MacBookPro. Comparing the two the only downside of the System76 is a
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Show HN: CPU Mflops in 6 languages(bolsonism.blogspot.com)
1 points by brianolson 8y ago|1 comments
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by brianolson 8y ago
So, this is all about HPET _as it is used by Windows_, right? They talk about 'forced on in the OS', they mean Windows. Anyone know how the various PC timers are used in Linux?
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by brianolson 8y ago
Where is the discussion of Go 2.0 happening? Are they still shutting down discussion of features they don't want to hear about like they did through all the Go 1.* years?
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by brianolson 9y ago
If you want a better JSON, try binary-json "Concise Binary Object Representation" RFC 7049 http://cbor.io/
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by brianolson 9y ago
It's just name/pass It would be much more interesting to me if it also did Oauth2 login with Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc.
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by brianolson 9y ago
Misleading title. The marginal tax rate would be 46%, but the net tax rate you pay on all your income would still be less than the 39.6% marginal rate. The article explains that it's equivalent to setting the marginal tax rate for a di
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by brianolson 9y ago
All it takes is an amendment to a state constitution to change how one of the houses of its legislature is elected. Sounds lovely. Can even do this by direct democracy ballot initiative in a handful of states, let's do it!
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AMD Ships $550 Threadripper 1900X(anandtech.com)
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by brianolson 9y ago
Inheritance and Generics: How's the discussion for Golang 2 going? Do we get _some_ code reuse mechanism? Macros? Anything?
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by brianolson 9y ago
This is a misleading partisan hit piece. The R party has decided they don't like Musk and this is part of their noise war. Some of the dollars are indeed shameful, but standard business practice that we need to shut down _everywhere_.
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by brianolson 9y ago
IRV is less wrong than pick-one; but more wrong than a dozen other election algorithms. If you want to read about one, read about Condorcet.
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by brianolson 9y ago
Instant Runoff Voting is severely flawed. It can solve basic problems like the Bush-Gore-Nader election where Nader voters probably would have preferred Gore, but it can also get the wrong answer and has in a real world election in 2009 in
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by brianolson 9y ago
I've been in online discussion forums for over a decade with theory nerds discussing the merits of dozens of possible algorithms for counting votes and picking a winner. There are lots of known shortcomings and advantages and tradeoffs

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