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by chronomex 15y ago
The very GNU GPL itself explicitly allows code licensed under it to be sold for money. What makes you think that code transferred for money cannot possibly be Free?
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by chronomex 15y ago
It's funny, even in an empty room the headphones help signal that I'm focusing. Headphones-off-speakers-on is Youtube-and-farting-around-online time, headphones-on is coding time.
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by chronomex 15y ago
Thingiverse has a very similar thing, though they chose three vertical bars that change color.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I've toured an older apartment building (3-4 stories, 1920s, quarter city block) that had a ramp instead of stairs + elevator. It worked surprisingly well.
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by chronomex 15y ago
You're not alone. I've had good luck treating circuits as modules that are connected together. Analysis of complex analogue circuits escapes me, though.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I like to call Arduino "electronics duct tape".
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by chronomex 15y ago
Everything fails, if given enough chances to do so.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I believe that Centurylink (formerly Qwest of Washington State, formerly US West) still provides 9-track magnetic tape CDR delivery as a tariffed service.
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by chronomex 15y ago
The TV show Breaking Bad uses phone numbers like 1 (575) 147-8092. Since the local part of a phone number can never start with a 0 or a 1, it avoids the "555 problem" of obviously fake phone numbers catching the viewer's attention, while
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by chronomex 15y ago
I put Java in /opt/java/, and embedded toolchains in /opt/[platform]/. Not exactly Windows ports, but they're the sort of thing that can get out of hand easily. :)
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by chronomex 15y ago
Mobile phone base stations aren't free either.
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by chronomex 15y ago
My name on Google+ is a Hangul transliteration of my very clearly Anglo-Saxon name. I haven't had any problems with it. (Shortly after the beginning of the #nymwars, I changed my "real name" on Google+ and Facebook to a transliteration.)
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by chronomex 15y ago
Hmmm, interesting. What's the intended focus of this site?
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by chronomex 15y ago
He who controls the bits ... controls the Internet!
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by chronomex 15y ago
Are you referring to equipment manufacturers or data communications carriers? There are successful equipment manufacturers; my favorite is Ubiquiti Networks. They're competing (directly) with Cisco's wifi business. Cisco's carrier-switch
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by chronomex 15y ago
This piece ignores a fundamental distinction between AT&T and Twilio. Twilio doesn't actually move any data from here to there, physically. AT&T will actually pick up your data here and take it over there . They're the ones who
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by chronomex 15y ago
OSM imported the TIGER data from 2000 several years ago. They chose not to update it with 2010 data because of the difficulty of properly updating.
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by chronomex 15y ago
Please, provide citations for your figures.
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by chronomex 15y ago
The original RepRap design (Darwin) moved the print head in X and Y, and moved the build surface in Z only (downward as the print progresses). The Ultimaker machine is based off the Darwin design, and works similarly. Ultimaker has a very
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by chronomex 15y ago
I thought mail forwarding was done at the initial address scan, not the final address scan. I did a bunch of research on this a few months ago, but unfortunately I can't find a source right now.
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by chronomex 15y ago
The tones used in DTMF were chosen to minimize accidental talk-off. They're relatively widely separated, with no harmonic relationship between any given pair.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I'm getting very similar numbers at ticalc.org, which skews hard toward high-school students.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I do a similar thing, but I live a few miles away and walk to work. A bonus: Crossing the grid diagonally allows me to vary my route frequently without any additional time penalty.
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by chronomex 15y ago
I suspect it has to do with the exchange of money. Are you paying for Hulu?
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by chronomex 15y ago
That would be a sphere of water with radius <0.25AU: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.3+billion+cubic+kilom... (Ocean volume figure is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean )
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by chronomex 15y ago
> A question like "Who was the U.S. President in 1993-2001" has a better chance of going uncracked. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Who+was+the+U.S.+Presid...
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Nissan Leaf leaks your current position to RSS feed providers(seattlewireless.net)
121 points by chronomex 15y ago|27 comments
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by chronomex 15y ago
It's certainly better than breaking all the currently-valid URLs.
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by chronomex 15y ago
By no means is 400,000 cells a "big dataset". I would put the dividing line somewhere near 2 million rows.
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by chronomex 15y ago
Archiveteam member here. Robots.txt is useful for a site to avoid having search-engine spiders to blindly wander down an infinite hallway. Archiveteam projects are different because we run closely-monitored, highly targeted crawls. If a s

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