dedward

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by dedward 12y ago
It's naturally confusing, because a 4th spatial dimension isn't something we naturally experience. We can't really say what it represents because it's not real... it's not a model of reality. We see in 2 dimensions
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by dedward 12y ago
It's just to launch the editor from the command-line. IT's nothing new - sublime text 2 (at least on OS X) had the "subl" command so you could launch an edit session from the cli.. I assumed the rest had the same. It&#x2
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by dedward 12y ago
What you just described is pretty much universally handled by editor integration.... I can't imagine anyone actually develops lisp without this. The editor is hooked directly up to a running image.. a keypress (or two) causes an expres
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by dedward 12y ago
It's not odd... it's traditional touch-typing. It should be your ring-finger for ( and your pinky for ). Many people seem to type it the way you have just suggested (middle/ring) - myself included. I'm currently re-trai
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by dedward 12y ago
I seem to recall an article from some years back about someone using welding goggles with multiple layers of a specific blue filter on a very bright day and being able to see near-IR.. or something darn close to it.
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by dedward 12y ago
To your second point - I wondered about it to - as logically I think like you do here. Interestingly, though, when I read this the first time, I thought that last comma was there. It was only when I checked again that I realized it was not.
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by dedward 12y ago
Bitcoin doesn't let me withdraw US $ from one US bank account and deposit it in another US bank account in bulk. Bitcoin lets me transfer bitcoin around - which is fantastic and wonderful - but it doesn't address the problem at ha
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by dedward 12y ago
I have no doubt this is true of many organisations. As the client, though - we uploaded via SFTP, the connections were IP restricted and the files were PGP encrypted. I know that doesn't address what happens after we send the bank the
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by dedward 12y ago
Not FTP - Secure FTP - SFTP. When I was involved with this it was SFTP for the transfer, to a write-only folder (you couldn't list contents) and the file uploaded had to be PGP encrypted with a key the bank gave us and we verified over
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by dedward 13y ago
The concern isn't that they are producing nuclear fuel. It's that the plutonium needed for nuclear weapons is a by-product of those reactors. Plutonium isn't naturally occurring on earth - the only place to get it is from a
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by dedward 13y ago
Yup. The test partial test ban treaty was signed in 1963 by all the nuclear powers at the time - everything after then, US or otherwise, has been underground, with the exception of, I believe, India, who was not a nuclear power when the tre
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by dedward 13y ago
More likely it's just the issuer doing what they need to do... it doens't matter that nobody will use it again anyway; from an issuer point of view, the certificate should no longer be valid. time to revoke it.
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by dedward 13y ago
Well.... not really. Parimutuel betting, not sure - but there is always a house fee - that's how the house makes money. A traditional bookie would have at least 5 to 10 % built into his odds as well (like if you were betting on even o
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by dedward 13y ago
I wasn't aware there was any grey-area for domestic bookies... just because it's not sports doesn't mean it's not bookmaking. Online poker is grey-area because the poker outfit itself is generally outside the scope of US
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by dedward 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I recall hearing the NSA never lets anything leave their facilities intact when decomissioning or otherwise disposing. I've heard a story of brand new very expensive servers (big Sun machines I think) sitting in a
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by dedward 13y ago
The partition part is about how tolerant your system is to a partition situation. Having massively reliable communications between systems will reduce your MTBF, but it doesn't address how your system will actually handle a partition.
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by dedward 13y ago
Isn't there some kind of inverse square law affecting the force between the walls and capsule? The closer you get to contact, the harder it pushes back? It should be largely self-correcting.
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by dedward 13y ago
AS13949.com would likely be a reference to AS13949, owned by markmonitor I don't know what that has to do with google.. but it makes some sense.
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by dedward 13y ago
Possibly they came along with one of the numerous google acquisitions? It's not uncommon for companies to own a pile of relatively random domains registered by early staff. It's generally seen as easier to just leave them be than
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by dedward 13y ago
I use it as well. It does seem to have slowed in terms of new features.. but it's the absolutely no-hassle, reliable, functional service that I just love. It's cheap, it does what it does properly, you don't get spammed or t
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by dedward 13y ago
Out of the gate, Emacs feels clumsy and frustrating compared to ST or any other more standard text editor. Where emacs shines is when you start to micro-analyze your text editing process and learn how to optimize it with emacs. Until you ge
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by dedward 13y ago
While there was of course great variety... the most common would have been an email mailing list. Maintainers of a piece of software would run some kind of VC repository usually, although not usually a distributed one like GIT - they were n
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by dedward 13y ago
Call it beta or whatnot... but Google was very up-front that this was the initial release of the product, and that they wanted to select a limited size team to get them out in the world, to people who would give them perspective. He wrote t
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by dedward 13y ago
Can't we consider a fighter pilot's HUD augmented reality? That's not exactly new.
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by dedward 13y ago
Was that fact noted by google pre-purchase? Because if it was..... again, google did nothing wrong.
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by dedward 13y ago
The real question is were it's capabilities misrepresented - did they sell you something that didn't do what they told you it would do? Because if not.. and if it was only your personal assumptions that were off despite google bei
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by dedward 13y ago
From the consumer point of view, sure, sounds great. Why would the vendor be at all obliged to let them return the unit in the first place though? Outside of misrepresentation and fraud and things that are not fit for the purposes sold, sel
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by dedward 13y ago
Evidence introduced at trial, yes. Investigative materials and whatnot used to put the case together, things not directly used as evidence... perhaps not.
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by dedward 13y ago
Sure.. but you can't hijack it, redirect it to another location, then crash it into a populated area. You could perhaps... stop it? And if you really want to cause havoc messing with trains, you go for cargo trains filled with hundreds
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by dedward 13y ago
The pressure peaks in a sound wave don't really equate to a pressurized tunnel.. just a localized pressure gradient moving at the speed of sound.

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