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by danjayh 11y ago
Um ... it doesn't work exactly like that. If you leave your phone's WiFi turned on, you and your friends will be using Nomi sometime soon (so exciting, amiright?)! You see, the store/eatery/prison/airline/cas
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by danjayh 11y ago
I just cannot believe what's on some of those slides. Here are some snippets -- imagine if you were to swap the races around, and replace every 'white' with 'people of color', every 'asian' with 'whit
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This is why the founders of the US intentionally tried to design the country to severely restrict the power of the federal government / allow the states to handle many issues that aren't explicitly national matters. I'm not
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by danjayh 11y ago
Totally agree. The current congress welcomes Obama's use of (likely illegal) executive orders to accomplish things, because it means they can avoid responsibility and accountability. They don't fight to retain their constitutional
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by danjayh 11y ago
Also the medical industry is phasing out the use of 2 year (Associate's RN) and LPNs, which makes the problem worse. They do not like to hire new grad nurses, which makes the problem worse. They haven't given significant raises, w
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by danjayh 11y ago
Problem is, many of the anti-combustion folks are also anti-dam, because of the habitat the reservoir destroys.
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by danjayh 11y ago
I also conserve where I can - I heat my home with renewable fuel, for instance, installed a whole-house energy monitor to reduce consumption, upgraded to a 95% efficient backup furnace (most alt fuel heat is not as reliable as lpgas, unfort
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by danjayh 11y ago
Renewable energy will have its time, when it is ready -- and that time is coming. By 'ready', I mean 'when it is cost competitive with other technologies'. I recently read that one Chinese solar manufacturer has achieved
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UX: How MSN went for beauty and got it dead wrong
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by danjayh 11y ago
Depends on the building. We bought a house from the 40's on the small side (1500sf) that needed plumbing, electric service, all flooring surfaces replaced, kitchen guttend/replaced, both baths guttened/replaced, all appliance
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by danjayh 11y ago
I think the key point that he's missing is that the chinese manufacturers are now manufacturing to the market's demand, and this is why China is growing rich. In the old system, the state may have ordered the (state owned) pen man
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by danjayh 11y ago
Where I work, we turn around releases of software that runs on airplanes faster than that, and trust me, every company that writes safety-critical software for airplanes a gigantic and also a bureaucracy. Six months for a ticketing system
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by danjayh 11y ago
Fun harsh environment: I reviewed software a few weeks ago that ran on one of our boards while it was irradiated by a neutron source (I work in aerospace). Radiation has interesting effects on electronics :).
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by danjayh 11y ago
Prior to the current (Tier 4) standards, the Tier 3 standards had already reduced NOx and particulate emissions to the the point that it's misleading to characterize those engines as "filling the air with pollution". Now that
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by danjayh 11y ago
> At what point does it become economical to just run gasoline instead of diesel then (that is, manufacturers selling gasoline models)? If we are talking about diesel still being economical instead of gasoline, but just not as economical
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by danjayh 11y ago
That's about the only good thing about the salt (aside from not dying on an ice patch :) ). My wife's 2005 Pontiac G6 with 120k on it is already starting to rust. I dumped my last car at ~9 years old with ~130k because it was st
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by danjayh 11y ago
Very true - regulation undeniably accelerates technological advancement for emissions technology ... I think that the key is just striking the right balance. I was just trying to express that in the case of Diesels, the EPA may have done to
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by danjayh 11y ago
While I'm certainly not making excuses for VW cheating, I think that maybe the EPA needs to revisit its diesel emission standards. The EPA standard is the strictest in the world, and they have successfully ruined many diesel powered de
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by danjayh 11y ago
Thought I was going to like the ad-free, but it turns out I actually like the 'before' shots better. Maybe there's a happy medium?
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by danjayh 11y ago
Truth on the kernel. I'm used to working in an environment where we own the OS, the board design, and the design of many of the chips ... which means we can make it do whatever we need (downside is, you have to maintain it all too). Ho
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by danjayh 11y ago
OK. So the issue is the GPU then. That same scenario with data that could use virtual memory would be a non-issue, since you could mash the available fragmented phsyical ram together into whatever size blocks were needed using the MMU.
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by danjayh 11y ago
you actually get 4 gigs per process, so you could have 64 spaces of 4 gigs each, with the 256mb of physical ram mapped into those spaces as needed.
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by danjayh 11y ago
Perhaps, but it's possible that it was actually the other way around since Virtual Memory and multicore came at about the same time. By running everything in a single process, they probably avoided forcing clean interfaces and dependen
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by danjayh 11y ago
Also of note is that fragmentation of physical RAM is completely irrelevant, aside from locality issues. They can map random physical pages into one nice, contiguous virtual space, and the only thing that matters is fragmentation in the vir
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by danjayh 11y ago
Not suggesting that everything go in separate regions, but let's say they have N major functions (where N < 10) .. maybe physics, AI, render, network, etc. that would each run in their own address space. If N were even, say, 20 this
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by danjayh 11y ago
OK. Maybe I just don't understand game development very well, but I don't get why some of the problems they had in the post-MMU era even existed. 1) Memory Fragmentation - why? This seems like it would only be a problem if they ra
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by danjayh 11y ago
Funny thing is, Microsoft did almost the same thing with Windows NT. However, unlike Netscape, they had the resources to keep iterating their old junk while they worked on the totally new version.
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by danjayh 11y ago
Looks like he's an employee at Pearson now, according to Linkedin.
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by danjayh 11y ago
That is not a picture of the actual device. That's an example of something else he had laying around. Here's what he actually brought to school: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/10BF6/
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by danjayh 11y ago
If you watch the video that pic was taken from, you will find that that is a device 'like' the one taken to the school. Here's an actual pic: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/10BF6&#x2

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