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by cyanoacry 13y ago
I used to hold the same opinion, that code should be expressive, so we shouldn't need comments. However, I've found this to be false for a number of reasons: 1) Proper comments allow you to explain the reasoning behind the code, n
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by cyanoacry 13y ago
An anti-static bag (even the metallized type) probably won't be the best idea. Faraday cages depend on the conductivity of the outer shield to exclude electric fields from the inside, but anti-static bags aren't very conductive (1
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by cyanoacry 13y ago
I find this pretty unlikely, for the same reason that nanobots have difficulty communicating: it's hard to make an antenna at those size scales that can receive a signal, much less contribute to chemical-level energy changes. At the point w
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
A similarly described SABRE outage in 1989 seems to have caused minimum trouble, because they had the real capability to work off-line with paper: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/13/us/computer-chaos-for-air-... > Apparently, no inform
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
I think the best thing to do would be to provide periodic asteroids or rocks that go across the screen every now and then---it's very difficult to get a sense of speed with a repeating star field, not even including the fact that this would
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
I've had to deal with one scenario where ZFS fsck would have been very useful, though it comes up rarely: corruption leading to valid checksums, but bad ZFS data. In my case[1], our setup died due to some power problems, and somehow, NULL
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
This is definitely true, but I've been hard-pressed to find a similar environment in the States, even in labs and hackathons. There's an almost oppressive social pressure to getting the job done in Japan, because you _must_ work as hard as
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
Last summer, I finished a 3-month internship in Japan, and it was the most productive 3 months of my life. I'm currently a college student, so my work ethic is a little poor. Procrastination and "seeming busy" is standard fare for my day. I
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
I went to my first hackathon last weekend, and I'll agree, it definitely is a treat! It's a lot of fun to practice something you don't normally do, but I definitely think it's not something to do for the result. The process and crunch time
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
Powerstream ( http://www.powerstream.com/thin-primary-lithium.htm ) makes a number of paper-thin primary and rechargable cells. I haven't personally worked with them, but the specs look incredible.
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
The funny thing is, I'm not sure that the hot-swap circuitry is even necessary in the first place due to the connector design. The SATA spec defines "pre-charge" voltage pins that are connected after ground, but before any of the other volt
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
We actually used to use Samsung EcoGreen drives in order to get more storage for cheaper, since our main use was backup: write once, read maybe. Unfortunately there don't exist 5400RPM 3TB drives; if they were as cheap as the 3TB Seagates,
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
The FETs blew as soon as we turned on the case, oddly enough, and even if we had a single drive plugged in, that FET would blow by itself. This is even the case when we took the backplanes out and started testing them individually in free a
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
Er, I should say "tested at 0.6A" MOSFETs. If they have thin bond wires or something, it's plausible that excess current just vaporized them. If they never tested them at 6A, and skimped on the gauge... I also saw a couple instances where t
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by cyanoacry 14y ago
Yes, we've had 2T drives in our cases for about a year now, with no issues. Our 2T drives are rated at 0.5A on +5/+12, while the 3T drives are rated at 0.75A, so we're suspicious of this difference. (For what it's worth, the datasheet for t
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How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data(wsyntax.com)
84 points by cyanoacry 14y ago|47 comments