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by bubuga 10y ago
> Or you can just purchase an Ampy Move (www.getampy), an external battery pack powered by kinetic motion. That gadget is way expensive for what it does (around $90) and the reviews are less than stellar. Furthermore, some reviews state
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by bubuga 10y ago
> I don't understand the real value in this. They take a bunch of BGA parts + passives and put the dies in a bigger BGA that approaches the same PCB area? > (...) > Only thing it seems to do is enable quicker prototyping by av
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Or get a phone charger that runs on AA batteries This. There are cellphone chargers on ebay that cost $1 and take AA batteries, which are quite capable of charging any phone that supports the USB charging interface. I bought one to us
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by bubuga 10y ago
From TFA: > After evaluating the Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin F-35 as Denmark’s next primary fighter jet, the country’s government is recommending the F-35 “unequivocally” as superior in “strat
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by bubuga 10y ago
> The problem to me seem to be that Git is too powerful. It has many features built in and my guess is that the average dev uses a tiny fraction of them. I don't understand why that is supposed to be considered a problem. Everyone h
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by bubuga 10y ago
> What we need is a GUI app for controlling git. Why? I mean, I don't oppose anyone investing his own time developing yet another GUI interface for git. But the thing is, a command line gives you much more control and is actually qu
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Etc. Why did I have to Google around for it? Googling for something is more convenient than going through the man pages, and Google is awesome at providing you with the best content associated with your query. The highest voted questio
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by bubuga 10y ago
That blogger really hates subversion with a passion.
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Can someone please tell me why are they calling it a coup? “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell” They are
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by bubuga 10y ago
Calling Dilma Rousseff's impeachment a coup is more than enough to acknowledge that the analysis lacks any semblance accuracy and boils down to partisan rhetoric. If both houses of the national congress of Brazil, whose members were de
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by bubuga 10y ago
> It's sad to see that AMD could compete in single core performance until Sandy Bridge (i7 3930) came along. Well, an AMD FX 8320E sells for less than 110€, while the Intel Core i7 3930 sells for over 500€. Sounds like AMD has a ve
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by bubuga 10y ago
> But on a decent quality XLR, you can re-solder 20 times, drive a truck over, yank on it until the cable snaps, ... and it will still work beautifully ;-). Same for a humble headphone jack, if we're dealing with one which has been
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by bubuga 10y ago
> These days it is all plastic, so he had to go out of his way to get tools and parts the last time they did anything to their home. The main difference between plumbing and other de-facto standards like the mini jack is that plastic com
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by bubuga 10y ago
William Shakespear didn't saved as many lives as any physician of the time. Yet here we are, 400 years after his death, commemorating the man and his work. Different people contribute differently to the betterment of mankind. That do
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Is this not the thundering herd problem? There's a wikipedia article on the thundering herd problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem The article needs a little love, though.
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by bubuga 10y ago
You clearly have no clue about what you're talking about. You obviously don't understand what a model is, let alone how and why it's used, and you clearly don't understand the role models play in decision-making process
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by bubuga 10y ago
> I agree that everyone in power today is Keynesian. I also agree that "Keynesian" is not what Keynes wrote. You hit the proverbial nail in the head. Sometimes it appears that the people in power picked up Keynes' book and
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Only significant if you ignore 1933 to 1978. You do know that between 1933 and 1978 there were a couple of incidents that ended up influencing the world's economy more than basic economic models, don't you? I mean, I'm s
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by bubuga 10y ago
> With big data you don't need models, you have actual real time information about the entire system. Your comment makes absolutely no sense. Models are just means to predict the future based on observations made in the present and&
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by bubuga 10y ago
Making a presence does influence the tactical decisions made by the enemy. Here's a simplistic example. If the enemy isn't aware that your side has CAS, he may believe that it's a good idea to attack your side in a certain w
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by bubuga 10y ago
>Actually, the A-10 is "broke" in the sense that it can no longer perform its mission in a modern air defense environment. I'm sure that the A-10 can still perform its mission in a modern air defense environment, mainly du
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by bubuga 10y ago
> On the opposite end of the spectrum you can get an AC-208 'combat caravan' for $150k in non-sequential bills and a late-model hyundai sonata (KBB value $15k). Even considering that hypothetical scenario, there's also th
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by bubuga 10y ago
> losing 10 soldiers isn't cheap. It's cheaper than losing the plane, the pilot, the resources spent in training, maintenance, and preparation of the whole logistic structure. Not to mention the asset and its capabilities. Af
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Con: you'll have to use vendor chargers. > > Pro: you won't be able to use these: The con (which is really a con) represents a restriction to your freedom of choice and, ultimately, the creation of a monopoly. The pro,
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by bubuga 10y ago
> In other news, the next firefox release is going to have W^X That's nice and all, but if the people behind firefox keep on taking away the features that convince people to use it (Panorama, for starters) then these little accompli
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by bubuga 10y ago
> The article does not mention the cost of these houses which would seem to be the major point of information. I don't know if it's possible to provide an accurate number. Although it's possible to specify material costs,
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by bubuga 10y ago
> Still beats AMD's high-end FX-8350 processor in all cases, amusingly enough. A brand-new AMD FX-8350 costs around $160, while a Intel Xeon e5 2670 is sold for $1560 (newegg prices) The Xeon isn't 10x the processor that the AM
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by bubuga 11y ago
I upvoted the submission, mainly because Debian doesn't get the publicity and the recognition it deserves. Debian deserves a little love once in a while.
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by bubuga 11y ago
I wouldn't read too much into the article. It's just a blog post of a dude reporting what he saw when he recompiled his code with a different compiler.
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by bubuga 11y ago
> The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic. Qt has nothing to do with laziness. It's simply a well thought-out GUI toolkit which looks good and doesn't require tons of boilerplate code to get a he

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