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by deeviant 12y ago
I worked at a solar SCADA company that rolled there own APT packages. In the pre and post install deb package scripts there was all kinds of crazy shit, like upgrading grub to grub 2 and manually messing with boot sectors. All this stuff in
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by deeviant 12y ago
I worked at a solar SCADA company that rolled there own APT packages. In the pre and post install deb package scripts there was all kinds of crazy shit, like upgrading grub to grub 2 and manually messing with boot sectors. All this stuff in
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by deeviant 12y ago
Reminds me of a bug with the Myth II uninstaller immortalized by the following Penny Arcade cartoon: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/01/06 Basically, they called delete tree. If the user installed or m
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by deeviant 12y ago
I would say math is necessary but not sufficient to be successful in physics. Also, if somebody has the aptitude but not the drive, failure can certainly be an option.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Good grief, I think some people are just addicted to debating or creating "moral dilemma." On one side, you have scientists that want to bring back the wolly mammoth. They have some pretty convincing arguments in terms of bringing
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by deeviant 12y ago
Actually, your statement is not too far off. Google's self driving is far less dynamic as they would have you believe. Areas are extremely heavily analysed with a massive array of sensors, analysis and even human input/sanity chec
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yes, part of the plan is for miners to transition from mining-based activity to focusing on transaction fees. This would probably mean transaction fees will trend upward. I think it remains to be seen if this will be a profitable enterprise
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by deeviant 12y ago
Backed by what? Faith? Confidence? You can't trade your US dollar in for gold. The note literally just says, "You must accept this for any debt(Because)". Are we really going to go down to that intrinsic value of the paper i
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by deeviant 12y ago
US Dollars have no intrinsic value either, this does not stop anybody from using them. Talking about rice is silly, we are talking about currency. No major economies currencies are based on anything with intrinsic value.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Eh, I can trade a bitcoin for +/- 200$ bucks, currently. That seems like a example of "good for something". I can also transfer currency of any type, via the internet, without interacting with a financial institution(buy bitc
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty bad idea to let a 8-pound cat make all the important decisions as well...
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by deeviant 12y ago
dild.io?
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by deeviant 12y ago
Trending has little or no correlation with content quality (See: Linkbait) and as far as I can tell after reading about half the article and all of the comments, they seem spot on, it's a bad article. I think that is pretty valuable fe
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by deeviant 12y ago
Finally. My irrational hate for wireless keyboards is vindicated!
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by deeviant 12y ago
"It's generally accepted that modern day commercial practices are sub optimal." Modern day agriculture techniques feed billions of people. It's on a scale that's hard to imagine. "Is there something I'm mi
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by deeviant 12y ago
You do realize that there is a difference between "a study suggesting something" and actual reality, right? Studies have conflicting findings all the time. I, for one, believe there can be benefits of fasting, but I don't m
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by deeviant 12y ago
Those are just a few of a great array of costs and it mentions nothing of the levelized cost difference. That's not even taking into account that numbers are often treated with a certain amount of... optimism, in these types of early s
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by deeviant 12y ago
A 100 times more productive and what, 1000 times more expensive?
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by deeviant 12y ago
Because you eventually have to eat. And also eating and hunger are heavily linked to all sort of hormonal/psychological impulses(ask anybody that has tried and failed to lose weight), staving yourself out for a few days is a great way
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Earth has a very big magnetic field, but not a very strong one.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Misses or hashed over many relevant facts. Claims of major scientific break-through, yet is describing something at a very early stage of development Nothing odd here, just the current state of scientific reporting.
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by deeviant 12y ago
I don't think we're pretty far off down the road from mass AI/Robotic created unemployment, but I do think it will happen. Perhaps in 50 years, maybe 100, but I see the writing on the walls. Humans seem almost universally hav
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by deeviant 12y ago
I agree. Also, if Uber doesn't introduce robotic cars, some other company surely will. Uber seems to be the cool company to hate, but when I talk to Uber drivers that unanimously seemed to think it was a good gig. The talked about th
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by deeviant 12y ago
The first link is interesting, it does say the saw signs of activity in the same brain region of a blind echo-locating person as a sighted person who is activity looking at something, but it is hardly a smoking gun. Perhaps if you are defin
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by deeviant 12y ago
I'm not so sure. The brain's ability to process and interpret visual information and form an intricate understanding of 3d space seems to me a "hard-wired" process. Sure, you could convert information encoding 3d space a
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by deeviant 12y ago
Well, to be honest, they also managed to pull off another feat: They overcosted initial price PLUS insanely costed consumables. Truly, a gadget fit for a king(or people that don't like money).
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by deeviant 12y ago
Right it would only work if they happen to start looking at you type after you started typing, in which case they wouldn't have your full password any ways. But in the case they see the full thing, they would write in down, go to try i
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by deeviant 12y ago
Actually, ever since the string handling was moved from erlang strings to binary strings in ejabberd community edition, ejabberd's memory performance is equal or better than other offerings. Source: Last company I worked for used XMPP
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by deeviant 12y ago
Actually, you are not required to use yaml, there is a flag somewhere you can switch this. We current still run the erlang style config files.
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by deeviant 12y ago
I have worked pretty extensively with XMPP(specially, ejabberd) in a IoT/SCADA context. Setting up your own ejabberd server is fairly painless. Download ProcessOne's ejabberd community edition, and you should be running in an hour

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