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by ejr 12y ago
This bit is amazing. I could have sworn this was in a game already. https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/the-sounds-of-malloc#t=7:18 https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/the-sounds-of-malloc#t=8:40 https:&#x
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by ejr 12y ago
The remote control bit worries me. Anything that can be wirelessly controlled can have a weakness that can be exploited at worst or monitored at best. It's not infeasible to have detectors to monitor emanations yielding a whole new swa
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by ejr 12y ago
Have you considered VPS? There are quite a lot of hosts these days that are reasonably priced - Digital Ocean and Linode come to mind first. Initial setup is usually all about trying new things and testing and starting small may be more cos
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by ejr 12y ago
I've been lurking here for quite a while before I started posting and I strongly suspect it's the ratio of upvotes to comments that trigger this. There may be a "recalculation" at 40 comments for performance or other rea
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by ejr 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there are swarms of bots doing this job already. In effect, they're like the stock market robo-traders.
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Hoverbike(kickstarter.com)
16 points by ejr 12y ago|2 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
Would it be feasible to launch a sealed biome into space and have it function autonomously? A bit like this fellow's terrarium linked here a while ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The
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The worst-ever Ebola outbreak(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
That's very cool. Brian Cox did a variation on his programme with an added hot water bottle on top : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxfliNAI3U
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by ejr 12y ago
It's the same feeling I had while visiting New York. Madame Tussauds and MOMA were wonderful and yes, it has some other very nice parts like Grand Central Station. I didn't feel ill enough to leave America, but I did feel let down
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Paris syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
74 points by ejr 12y ago|70 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
Censorshop by Google : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google In addition to "Right to be forgotten" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
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by ejr 12y ago
That's a very bleak and, unfortunately, accurate observation. Our curiosity that has given rise to such greatness may well be the double-edged sword of our undoing. As horrible as this may sound, the best we can hope for is the radiati
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by ejr 12y ago
It's on YouTube for anyone curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sqFyCHcbg
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by ejr 12y ago
I wonder if we can apply the same lines to map English as we do other languages. English, largely through conquest and trade, has become the de facto language of technology and science, much as Latin was in its heyday. But we know Latin was
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Live feed from the International Space Station(ustream.tv)
2 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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The Large Scale Structure of the Universe (1992)(ned.ipac.caltech.edu)
1 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
I don't believe these people should be marginalised to menial or tedious jobs with little appreciation and a pittance as pay. Essentially to render them invisible to the larger operation of society. This might be hopelessly naïve on my
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by ejr 12y ago
A human would need to enter the vehicle, which some may not comfortable with. Also, the system may be more reliable than some of the valets I've seen.
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by ejr 12y ago
"Eli the Computer guy" does some pretty interesting video tutorials on YouTube. He tends to go on and on a bit, but overall he does a nice job of explaining networking basics, how to run cables, use RJ45 connectors - this is very
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by ejr 12y ago
The key measure we should all be paying attention is "Confidence". Ex: Some of the hotels in New York show very high speeds, but also "Confidence: 9.2%". Confidence value shows how thoroughly the WiFi has been tested
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by ejr 12y ago
I can corroborate this. I did a network setup at a B&B that hadn't had any wi-fi since the place got internet. We bumped up their ISP plan to proper business class and got an upgraded router to boot. I ran wire from it to each floo
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by ejr 12y ago
The main body of the text was extremely difficult to read. There's nothing wrong with the font itself, but the size is far too small and colour too faint. I had to turn off the font stylesheet to get to the text. It's too bad the
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“Magic Helmet” for F-35 ready for delivery(arstechnica.com)
6 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
As far as I can decipher - because like most news posts, it contains a lot of words without a matching volume of content - the core of the content can be boiled down to: * Silicon Valley CEOs and the government had meetings on protectin
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by ejr 12y ago
I wonder if contracting other diseases along the way had somehow contributed toward his resistance, as long as the immune system has recovered since. The plague stopped rather abruptly in the Middle Ages either due to sudden herd immunity o
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by ejr 12y ago
I took this as a quick intro to snippets of Bootstrap features. Ex: Logins and stuff. It does say "pre" bootstrap so I'm sure that was the intended purpose for this.
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by ejr 12y ago
Their website has been changed quite a bit and old linked videos are hard to find. I found a copy uploaded to YouTube in 2011 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSF81yjVbJE Edit: Found the original copy on the Web Archive h
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by ejr 12y ago
Indeed. Combined, these all burn quite a large volume, but #1 is the most costly in terms of fuel, I think. It's essentially a reversal of the flight path.
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by ejr 12y ago
There's deceleration involved as well. Here's a very nice video of the shuttle boosters on their way down to give you an idea of the velocities involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c An enormous amo

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