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901.
by diydsp 13y ago
Maybe people could run a local app/filter that extracts keywords from our own mail and shares them with google. Leave the power completely in our hands to give to google what we feel like giving them.
902.
by diydsp 13y ago
>The fact of the matter is JS can run on more "things" than anything else. I think you mean more "things that one can superficially observe in a coffeeshop." :)
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by diydsp 13y ago
I am glad to see your justified skepticism of 3-d printer mania. The real breakthroughs will come when people stop fixating on "printing" (extrusion) and realize it's the 3-d (4-d, 5-d, etc.) gantry that's the super-usef
904.
by diydsp 13y ago
The egg on the police's face is nothing compared to their opportunity to scare the world with their fear-quote about "organized crime inventing the next generation of weapons with 3-d printers." ...As if 3-d printers are the
905.
by diydsp 13y ago
Yes I agree with the empathy part. Bruce is getting deservedly high profile views nowadays. A little empathy would lubricate the gears of his cause yet wouldn't violate his principles at all. It's got to have been a headache fo
906.
by diydsp 13y ago
Um, rah rah USB? okay... This whole article can be summed up with the one sentence: >The big change next year will be a new USB PD (Power Delivery) standard, which brings much more flexibility and ten times as much oomph: up to 100 wat
907.
by diydsp 13y ago
Some of the clearest articulation on the matter I have ever read. I'm proud to see Bruce in such a high-profile magazine. "Third, this assertion leads to absurd conclusions. Mandatory cameras in bedrooms could become okay, as lon
908.
by diydsp 13y ago
And I would add that switching power supply tech has been around for decades (hello, desktop PC tower cases!). It just wasn't used as often in consumer devices because they were more complex (more parts, trickier to design) and there
909.
by diydsp 13y ago
>What's wrong with the word amazed? Amazement (dopamine rushes) confuses us. Biologically, we respond to amazement as part of the learning process. But all too often, we receive these dopamine rushes simply as a consequence of the
910.
by diydsp 13y ago
Ah, is that why http://famo.us just looks like a blurry pile of laundry to me? But most importantly: didn't Intel release around this time last year JIT compilation of Javascript to run on their HID (GPU onboard CPU)? (wo
911.
by diydsp 13y ago
Fascinating! but I would add that not only DC motors use permanent magnets, but also many synchronous motors, including stepper motors.
912.
by diydsp 13y ago
lol speaking of this, one day I was looking for hotel reviews on the interwebs. At the top of the list were 4 and 5-star hotels. Toward the middle, 3-star ones I might consider, then down lower a bunch of sleazy-sounding ones with hourly
913.
by diydsp 13y ago
re: market. I've been waiting for this "fair phone" with baited breath. it's supposed in ship pre-orders in December now! http://buy-a-phone-start-a-movement.fairphone.com/en/fairpho... but can an
914.
by diydsp 13y ago
Upvoted for this critical insight: >But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in
915.
by diydsp 13y ago
Some people have an intense desire to be guardians/protectors, but it doesn't come from a place of experience, wisdom and empathy, but fear of change and the unknown. Experienced and evil leaders keep these "panicked protecto
916.
by diydsp 13y ago
Apple is in the position Sun Microsystems was 20 years ago. They supplied finished, working solutions, which were really "just" high-quality versions of what the other guys did. Eventually, services got so widespread (Lintel) th
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by diydsp 13y ago
If it's any kind of audio/music/instrument project, you can post it to one of the groups on: http://www.reddit.com/user/diydsp/m/digi_instruments
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by diydsp 13y ago
IIUC, the diff b/t go and most languages is that go spawns threads through a slicing mechanism to leverage multiple cores, right?! That's why the go version speeds up when run on multiple-core systems...right? So, I added pthread
919.
by diydsp 13y ago
Umm... talk about missing the point. The C++ version fits onto a business card. it's 35 lines by 37 characters wide. (1295 bytes) The Go version is 229 lines (6.5x as long) and 4255 bytes long (3.2x as long). Fit that on a business
920.
by diydsp 13y ago
At this time last year, AMD was preparing for a lay off in November (2012) in which they let a bunch of their open source GPU devs go. [1][2] [3] My projection is that this is an attempt to draw in the unpaid open source community. Both a
921.
by diydsp 13y ago
'tis the season to justify wire-snooping. Congress closes session in a month or so.
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by diydsp 13y ago
A-hem. "NSA is not borderline-rogue" ? They are in flagrant, publicized violation of the Fourth Amendment (rogue) with only a subtle, borderling rationalization keeping them from being wiped out by congress "we won't us
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by diydsp 13y ago
and check it out... Wired has changed the headline... Just like the Guardian did two weeks ago on that "let herself be gang-raped" headline. [1][2] It's now "Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference befo
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by diydsp 13y ago
Codebreaker for M16 murdered after undergoing TSA Search! Codebreaker for M16 murdered after visiting legal prostitution state! Seriously, this is (yet another) bit of irresponsible journalism headlines (titulars = British?) from Wired. Th
925.
by diydsp 13y ago
probably faster bootup time and smaller too. also RPi has no analog inputs. the cortex M3 has decent analog in. I'm with the 1% of EEs who have no major issues with Tessel... except that I'll be facing 1000s of friends who want
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by diydsp 13y ago
I second the Century of the Self. Also, a book was published in 2002 on Bernays . I found it extraordinarily interesting. [1] When Bernays was hired to get more books sold, he persuaded architects to design houses with bookshelves built
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by diydsp 13y ago
As someone working close with tech writers, I suggest (project) that the thing that precipitated this article is the realization that the JVM can run multiple languages. That's the kind of thing that is just science-fiction-y and just
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, and I have a feeling that in a few hours, when the general internet is made aware of this, they, too, are going to go the website under the lens of >themselves< getting defrauded and the S will really H T F. Thisgonebegood.gif
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes I am very relived they published this. I assumed this was possible acoustically many years ago, but never told anyone ahahha. When I saw this headline, I feared seismic (accelerometers) might do an even better job at it, but fortunate
930.
by diydsp 13y ago
Handpower delivers about max 20W per hand to a bike with both hands. With electromechanical efficiency, 20W per hand comes out to around 1-10W per hand, depending on hand speed and generator efficiency. [1] http://www.amazon.co

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