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by emptybits 11y ago
Trivia questions, easily answered by programmers who appreciate the subtleties of time math: 1. If someone leaves Vancouver at 1 am and arrives in Seattle at 4 am on the same day, and you know the distance they travelled is 240 km, what was
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by emptybits 11y ago
The stock answers to "why raise?" reduce to 1) to achieve the same success faster, or 2) to achieve a larger scale of success, or 3) because raising money drops you into a new world of experience and learning and future networks.
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by emptybits 11y ago
Users buy Apple phones (++aapl_profit), they browse or search the app store, they find something , and they spend a few more bucks on an app (++aapl_profit). Users remain blissfully unaware of the full situation or lost potential. No maj
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by emptybits 11y ago
One word makes that easier. Canada.
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by emptybits 11y ago
It's a shame the headline stopped where it did. The article continues, "... or stop at the human-ability station." This makes for a much more interesting discussion (only because we're human). We all measure AI progress
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by emptybits 11y ago
“If anyone wants to make a living out of it, I don’t think it’s possible" ... challenge issued! (From a cardist, no less.)
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by emptybits 12y ago
You do not even need to be accused of a cyber crime to have assets seized under this order. If you make any contribution to or provide any services to someone accused of criminal hacking, you may have assets seized. Aside from innocent ind
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by emptybits 12y ago
Nice looking unit. I'm going to look seriously at it, instead of a MacBook Air 11, for a travel machine. Dell's claim of "a 13 inch display in the chassis of an 11 inch notebook" is reasonable: Dell 13: 304 mm x 200 mm
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by emptybits 12y ago
Interesting. You know "too much" (or think too much) about these terminals! :) Cheers!
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by emptybits 12y ago
What you say makes sense for Amex failures... I have heard merchants say "chips work with everything but Amex." But for the Visa chip failures I experience, it's generally happening at my regular haunts where chip cards work
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by emptybits 12y ago
Re/ "family business.." "Unlike in the U.S., where most adoptees are children, 98 percent of Japan’s adoptees are 25-to-30-year-old men." Why? "In Japan, a 2011 study found, businesses run by adopted heirs con
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by emptybits 12y ago
You're right, obviously, about having everything needed to clone a magstripe on the magstripe itself. > Any sane issuer will decline transactions made with the magstripe at a chip-capable terminal, so this doesn't help much. Re
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by emptybits 12y ago
The cracking scene, demo scene, and games industry were all built long before Windows. C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Atari. I think it's important we had a generation of instant-on machines that greeted a user with a command prompt and a p
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by emptybits 12y ago
The device and its software are based on assumptions. Fair enough. It makes for convenient measurement if it works. Does anyone know if some of the more radical/fringe diets might break the assumptions of such an approach? For examp
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by emptybits 12y ago
Somewhere, there's a vindicated coder shouting, "See! I told you that extra code and storage to allow for a schedule of arbitrary future insertions of leap seconds would pay off!"
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by emptybits 12y ago
Yay, more sleep! Wait... ( very briefly thinking about broken assumptions, date calculations, month-end assumptions, 0:59 versus 0:60 vs. 0:00, ...) dammit, I just lost more than I gained! Thanks, France!
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by emptybits 12y ago
There are quite a few studies that suggest the brain performs better when it's cooler. Three are discussed here. ("Cool room" was 19 C, "warm room" was 25 C.) http://www.scientificamerican.com/arti
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by emptybits 12y ago
If law enforcement has sufficient cause to arrest someone, then getting a search warrant after the arrest should be easy. If it wasn't easy to obtain such warrants then either that aspect of judiciary or policy needed changing, or el
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by emptybits 12y ago
I use a Kinesis Freestyle with wrist rests, split, tilted up toward the centre, with an Apple Magic Trackpad elevated and sitting tightly between the two halves. I enjoy this setup very much.
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by emptybits 12y ago
What hostility or ridiculousness did you see? I've been on Dyn forever, as a free user to keep a host entry for one remote, nonprofit dynamic-IP server. Starting exactly a year ago, once per month they sent me an email with a link I&#
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by emptybits 13y ago
You're living the dream for some of us. So thank you for sharing some of your secrets. Well, I'm hoping I get some secrets... I just paid $9.99. :)
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by emptybits 13y ago
The author's tool is excellent and achieves impressive ratios. But once you open the "I can accept information loss" door, it might be worthwhile to experiment with other image manipulations also. For example, consider dropp
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by emptybits 13y ago
Interesting but misleading. The author applied a blur filter which allowed the non-lossy PNG format to compress better. That's not lossy PNG. The information is lost in the blur (or other pre-process) before PNG gets ahold of it.
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by emptybits 13y ago
Thanks for the ID on the crater. Observation... Copernicus is 93 km in diameter. The crater in the old print is approximately 9.3 cm in diameter. So in 1850, that astrophotographer printed a detailed 1:1,000,000 scale lunar map of that r
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by emptybits 13y ago
Wow, from a quick browse, I think the moon crater image from the 1850s is what I find most technically impressive because it intersects telescope optics, negative chemistry, and printing chemistry. A 3683x2920 pixel image can be downloaded
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by emptybits 13y ago
Sigh. 7 minutes ago... browsers not working, multiple devices. Check "both" google.ca & google.com... fail, so from there I naturally assume the Internet is down or else it's a router problem. Reboot router. Then read th