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by daeken 12y ago
Probably way too early to tell even that. There will be hundreds of possible causes that will have to be narrowed down; no one will know anything concrete for a good while most likely, even inside Orbital Sciences.
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by daeken 12y ago
Not to mention that FTDI's chips are not exactly known for their bug-free nature. If I had a dollar for every time I ran into a bug in their RS485 implementation, I would be a friggin' millionaire.
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by daeken 12y ago
They use it because it works for them and it's not worth upgrading and taking on that risk. That said, that in no way excuses using XP for new development.
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by daeken 12y ago
It's common for ATMs to be built on XP, there's no denying that. But the reason is because they were built on it initially, when it was still okay to do so. To using Windows XP for the base of an ATM (especially one that -- by d
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by daeken 12y ago
This is brand new. After Heartbleed, people realized that branding vulnerabilities is great for driving business. A year ago, this was unheard of.
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by daeken 12y ago
That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm not saying that employees of a company won't downvote negative comments, but they're a tiny, tiny, tiny minority. As in, I'd put any amount of money on <1% of downvotes relat
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by daeken 12y ago
Comments about downvoting are [almost always nearly] content-free. The way to battle bad downvoting is just to upvote content that deserves to be promoted.
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by daeken 12y ago
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." - Rebecca West There's nothing sexist about feminism; it's simply wanting equality for women -- that does not mean that women and men are the same (as is often clai
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by daeken 12y ago
If I were doing this, I would not use a VM for it. Running on bare metal has a significantly smaller (by several orders of magnitude) risk profile and is much simpler to do right. I'd have three boxes: webserver, Tor server, extern
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by daeken 12y ago
Just FYI, the Manhattan Project did not take place in Manhattan. It was done in Tennessee at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos research facility in New Mexico.
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by daeken 12y ago
Re: the edibility of plants. For this, you can substitute experience and knowledge for a simple algorithm, the universal edibility test. You can read about it here: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.p
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by daeken 12y ago
From your first link, the only study that attempted to show a causal link between gluten and schizophrenia had no control group, no placebo, and n=2. This isn't a study, it's a guess. There may well be something to this whole thi
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by daeken 12y ago
That's the single feature that the Apple Watch has that I'm interested in. Over the past year, I've been integrating NFC into a huge part of my daily life (from implants to door locks to smart tags all over my house) and havi
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by daeken 12y ago
I've been writing assembly and C since grade school, but yet this is immediately interesting to me. Rapid development of quick hacks is super useful both in my personal projects and when I'm doing embedded security testing. Woul
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by daeken 12y ago
I know I've beaten this drum on HN in the past, but one of the things I most love about Watsi is that you can set up a monthly automatic donation: https://watsi.org/monthly This makes it absolutely trivial to set it a
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by daeken 12y ago
All else being equal, it drops consumption. But generally when you go down in process, you increase what you pack on the die, bringing the power back up.
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by daeken 12y ago
From about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114188 Basic summary is that it's interesting, but almost definitely not doing what we think it is. Between the dummy thruster producing thrust, and the rea
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by daeken 12y ago
Last week, I switched banks. Rather than wiring the funds or spending money on an official check, I took out all my money in cash and brought it to the new bank. I could have been buying a kilo of coke, or funding terrorist activity, but I
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by daeken 12y ago
That's really, really cool. I want to make a gallery system for these, where people can submit theirs and others can modify from there. Btw, I just added a polar mode (the grid is treated as polar coordinates, and converted from ther
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by daeken 12y ago
That's really cool -- I love 'lattice' type patterns. This is my current favorite, because it seems to terminate (stabilize) and then does one last little bit. Runs for a good while before it 'terminates', as well
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by daeken 12y ago
I've been obsessed with Langton's ant for a good solid decade now. My latest creation is a few years old now, but occasionally I go back and add new commands. It's inspired by Langton's ant, but it operates in 45 degre
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by daeken 12y ago
Are you playing it on the submitted link or the player in the parent comment? I believe the submitted post is off by a key.
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by daeken 12y ago
Well, the cool thing is that the layout means that all chords are completely movable. Take the pattern for a C major chord: QSD. If you shift over one key for each finger, you get an F# major chord: EFG. You can move that same finger pat
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by daeken 12y ago
Song Of Storms from Zelda: Ocarina Of Time sounds awesome on here: 347 347 J8J8JYT T34FT T34FD
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by daeken 12y ago
I think that the 'bv's following 'yhgr' might be 'vc' instead -- sounds closer to me. I gotta say, I really like this layout, even if it's slightly less than intuitive for me.
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by daeken 12y ago
There won't be. If the self-destruct triggers, then the rocket is 1) already going to cause their deaths, and 2) going to potentially save the lives of people on the ground. Now, that said, this is why we have escape towers on pods (an
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by daeken 12y ago
Last comment: You're being intentionally dishonest here. You laid out an IF and a THEN with no relation whatsoever between the two. IF I can fly a plane, THEN I can make a sandwich. This is the equivalent statement. The virtual therapi
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by daeken 12y ago
I fail to see how this is logically sound. Let's look at this by way of analogy: I create a new pain reliever; let's call it SuperTylenol. Would it be logically sound for me to state that if it is sometimes more effective than reg
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by daeken 12y ago
I'm unsure whether we're talking past each other or if my point simply isn't coming across. My issue with your comments has nothing at all to do with your issues with therapy, most of which I agree with you on. The issue I ha
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by daeken 12y ago
>If a virtual therapist is as effective as a real one, this calls into question the value of a real therapist, as well as the school of thought to which he/she belongs. The point I'm making is that just because therapy is equal

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