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by eksith 13y ago
I'm nuts about tiny houses so this has an immediate appeal to me. The interior is a bit too Ikea-ish for my taste, but nothing a bit of veneer or maybe some paint wouldn't fix. I thought long and hard about what it takes to build
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Project Echo(en.wikipedia.org)
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by eksith 13y ago
"coming". Also sentences should begin with a capital letter. Sorry, my OCD wouldn't allow me to absorb your otherwise well thought out post.
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by eksith 13y ago
This is a "Blue Ribbon" school, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Magnet_Trinity_Colleg... And this is why test scores alone are pretty bloody poor measure of excellence if that's the onl
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How a Sci-Fi Stunt Turned Into the World's Biggest Earth Science Lab(motherboard.vice.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
This is the same procedure (or rather should be) in PHP. Also, better to switch to === or !== for exact comparisons since that also checks type. (I'll leave out the other warts of PHP since that's been discussed here and elsewhere
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by eksith 13y ago
That's applying technology to a, fundamentally, people problem and it may not yield predictable results. Such solutions aren't going to appeal to the vast majority of non-tech savvy people (and hosted solutions are arbitrary at be
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by eksith 13y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that OpenBSD similarly had some controversy a little while back. Allegedly, someone working in the IPSEC portion of the code may have been asked to do the same according to an email received by Theo : ht
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by eksith 13y ago
Arduino and other development boards are getting cheap enough that they should be part of school computer science curriculums. In lieu teaching Basic et al. (which is still the standard for BASIC microcontrollers from Parallax) they could i
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by eksith 13y ago
One could argue that the 'WTFs' themselves are a bit of a (completely unscientific) marker of just such anti-patterns etc...
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1/1 Scale F-16 Cockpit(arcair.com)
64 points by eksith 13y ago|44 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
This seems to be leveraging capabilities of modern browsers (hence the lack of dependencies) without any crufts, shims etc... for older browsers, which makes it very small. Compared to Raphael ( http://raphaeljs.com ) this seems
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by eksith 13y ago
A few sporadic, way out there, results and the rest are stats pages. Which is to be expected in the wake of people switching (and mentioning) that they're now using DDG as well as sites putting up links to referrers. I wonder if anyone
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by eksith 13y ago
Well, C++ already has a couple of web frameworks : http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt I'm not sure that's a good idea though. It's hard to fail s
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Sausalito Journal; Whole Earth State-of-Art Rapping (1989)(nytimes.com)
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How Linux defenders attack bad software patents before they’re approved(arstechnica.com)
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Setting up full-disk encryption in OpenBSD 5.3(ryanak.ca)
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by eksith 13y ago
I wouldn't doubt that either. We do use RAID 6 (I think) + tape backups and the backup server itself is a hot standby. If you're curious, this is the chassis : http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3
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by eksith 13y ago
That's totally understandable. Honestly, we haven't seen any appreciable difference in performance or failure rates between "enterprise" class drives and "consumer" drives (usually WD). Matching RPMs and cache
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by eksith 13y ago
"A 2 terabyte hard drive costs $94.99, 4 terabytes is $169.99. Buy one and stick it in a desktop computer or server. Then install Postgres on it." Done! Although with more drives and a backup server. Right now, we're pushing
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by eksith 13y ago
I'd like to see some actual hard data to backup those figures. The "facts" are just percentages in growth and (extremely) optimistic projections, but besides Front, there doesn't seem to be any other sources. This could
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by eksith 13y ago
This sounds an awful lot like Firepaste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise#Firepaste There seems to be a common trend among these types of inventors that border on paranoia, eccentricity and at the same time,
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by eksith 13y ago
I don't know if the article was edited after you made this post, but Lumen View was introduced further down the article. Lumen View is owned, at least in part, by Eileen Shapiro, a Boston executive who works at a company called
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by eksith 13y ago
Are you just planning to camp or do you plan to setup a small cabin? Can you dig a well there? Will you allow guests to visit? A tiny produce garden? Helipad? ...I have so many, I can't type fast enough!
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What happens when your coffee maker is designed by mechanical engineers(pandodaily.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
Yep. Which is why we took enormous risks and end up losing 3 astronauts in Apollo 1, which wasn't even a proper spaceflight, on our way to beat them to the Moon. Russians lost 4 cosmonauts as well on 2 separate missions. Like I said. P
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by eksith 13y ago
Whenever I visit the Tech(x) sites, I just disable JS. That helps with the loading. If it's really annoying, I use the web inspector in FF and remove the relevant HTML until it's comfortable to read. It's a bit of work, but i
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by eksith 13y ago
I wish these guys the best of luck and hope they get to do it quickly and safely. If anything, our drive for beating someone else into space for political or economic reasons has really poisoned the well, so to speak. Maybe it does take the
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by eksith 13y ago
I have a feeling, usage of this phrase is inversely proportional to the poster's age. I don't think I see this as much on Slashdot, but I do see it a whole lot on /r/programming[1] [1] Completely subjective assessment.
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by eksith 13y ago
Then I should stop using 'eh' on account of me not being Canadian, eh?

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