deadairspace

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by deadairspace 14y ago
Thanks! That was really well-written.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Nice, this will be good combined with this Chrome extension [1] to set a custom URL for new tabs. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/i...
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Analogy-making is an important part of perception.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Why not?
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by deadairspace 14y ago
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5zig5-minztgSzm1g...
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by deadairspace 14y ago
It's not really an inherent design flaw - it's an implementation problem. If everyone was running 0.8 this wouldn't have happened.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
This impressive video from Armadillo is three years old. I wonder what they are up to now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0qlIoSSkQ
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Yeah well, that's just like, your opinion piece, man.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Great video! Scalability is the obvious issue though.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Why? The pdf is what I'm interested in. I don't particularly care where it's hosted.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
I don't see much of a difference. Is that the point? Are you saying that JPEGMini are just compressing to ~83% quality?
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by deadairspace 14y ago
>Energy-wise, we’re talking about 1.36 milliwatt-hours per cm3, about twice the density of activated carbon, and comparable to a high-power lithium-ion battery. That's not really comparable to any "high-power lithium-ion battery" at all
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by deadairspace 14y ago
>The hard realization was that the stuff in my head just couldn't be expressed by any real world media, even of my own design. Reality sucks like that. There is a term for this: Weltschmerz.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Freebasic [1] is a modern cross-platform BASIC compiler and it's really rather good with lots of ported libraries. I often use it when I need to knock up a little graphics demo or something really quickly. I'm starting to use Python more fo
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by deadairspace 14y ago
I've come to really dislike websites and services that don't tell you what they're about straight away.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
It says in the sidebar "a community for 2 years".
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Wow. There is at least one printer on there in a US governmental department, and on one of the settings pages is a huge list of emails of employees. And now I'm probably on some kind of list.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
The crime in question was accessing a computer system in an unauthorized fashion Via a URL accessible to anybody? If I poke around on your website and find your /hiddenstuff directory, am I guilty of a crime?
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by deadairspace 14y ago
That was a great talk, and an impressive demo of feature generation.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Things must have changed then - I find security is very lax at Imperial, especially in the EEE department.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Chrome. There is an image at the top of the page, but the 'App' section has a light blue background. In fact, the following sections (support, operations, social, etc.) don't render at all for me - just a background with no text. Is the pag
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by deadairspace 14y ago
White text on a light blue background is not what I would call beautiful.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
I'm upset as well. It just all seems so absurd and unnecessary, like a cruel game. >We live in a very unfair world. I thought I already understood this. Today puts it in even sharper focus.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
"The English rule provides that the party who loses in court pays the other party's attorney's fees. Nearly every Western democracy, other than the United States, follows the English rule." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule
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by deadairspace 14y ago
What exactly are you referring to?
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by deadairspace 14y ago
I still think this is a very interesting idea, but haven't seen any attempt at implementation yet. http://www.10gui.com/
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by deadairspace 14y ago
>One cannot just look back at all the things that have happened and conclude they are right because you have prospered. Absolutely. This is the just world fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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by deadairspace 14y ago
I would probably use this if PHP were enabled.
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by deadairspace 14y ago
Exactly. This is why I like 10/GUI as a compromise. http://www.10gui.com/video/