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by epaulson 9y ago
I haven't upgraded anything to an iOS 11 beta so I haven't been able to try this myself - but how effective is ARKit if the camera loses a view for a little bit?
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by epaulson 9y ago
DRM-free epubs are at least supposed to be available from Google Books (though Kleppmann says when he tried with his book it wasn't DRM-free) - the ebook.com folks say that they have DRM-free epub and PDFs, but I don't know if the
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by epaulson 9y ago
One of the things that I think is missing from your documentation is better explanation of what happens if things fail. For example, if one of the async functions fails, do you re-run it? The async functions can have externally-visible invo
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by epaulson 10y ago
Bummer that it's all webhooks. They're pretty fragile. It'd be much nicer if Twitter had some kind of streaming API that you could connect to with a sequence number and get any messages that you might have missed, or at least
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by epaulson 10y ago
Is there a standard protocol/wireless/IR standard to call elevators that robots can use?
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by epaulson 10y ago
Whitehouse.gov was archived to https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ at noon. It looks like they've done a reasonable job with redirects from old URLs to the archives sites. (Hopefully forever) Not quite the mantra of
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by epaulson 10y ago
Dave Steele's blog: https://davesteele.github.io/gpg/2014/09/20/anatomy-of-a-gpg... https://davesteele.github.io/gpg/2015/08/01/intermediate-gpg...
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by epaulson 10y ago
Seminars are often about current topics. If you look at his 2015 and 2016 lists they're entirely different papers.
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by epaulson 10y ago
Are there any good hackable e-ink tablets? I love the feel of my Nook but the software is terrible. I want to be able to wirelessly sync content from my own document management system without much fuss. I periodically poke around on Alibaba
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by epaulson 10y ago
For comparison, the first supercomputer that was in the Teraflops range and that was available outside of the nuclear labs was the Pittsburgh Terascale machine. http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2001/terascal
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by epaulson 10y ago
If you look at the history of the README.md, he used to have a bit in there: "Note: Things may be a bit of a mess here while I de-jekyll all the previous posts. This may all go away if I find that jekyll actually did something valuable
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by epaulson 10y ago
I would gladly sign up for this service. Actually, I'd love a good SMTP service that had a good reputation, but most of what's out there is more bulk-mail oriented. I just want to own my own domain and send email but not be behold
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by epaulson 10y ago
Are any of these algorithms suited for PGP signing replacements? I'm interested in being able to make long term claims based on web-of-trust models, and I've been nervous about basing it around RSA/DSA key pairs. In that sort
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by epaulson 10y ago
The relevant blog post: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/vitaly/gone-in-six-charac...
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by epaulson 10y ago
Weather, kitchen timer/alarm to start something at a specific time, control a few LIFX bulbs, the common household shopping list, a bluetooth speaker. Occasional sports scores. The microphone is really good and I can talk to it from a
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by epaulson 10y ago
As someone who deals with sensor data, the tricky part is really not the write-rate, but rather dealing with messy data. There's a lot of parallelism in sensor network streams, and for many domains you never look at the sensors from on
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by epaulson 10y ago
I'd follow along with what the IndieWeb folks are doing. They've got a pretty good principle of reusing existing infrastructure in new ways to build interesting things without needing coordinated upgrades. As an example, getting w
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by epaulson 11y ago
It'd be really great if conda knew how to fall back to pip, or if the conda skeleton -recursive / conda build / conda install cycle could be collapsed into one command
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by epaulson 11y ago
Mathieu's got his code up for review! https://camlistore-review.googlesource.com/#/c/5416/
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by epaulson 11y ago
Pinboard is fantastic, but it doesn't look like it exposes the archived pages through the API. If you ever wanted to leave Pinboard and do a data export, you might not be able to take everything with you.
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by epaulson 11y ago
Very. Expensive, and many states have legal restrictions on what you can use it for and who can get it. Nationbuilder, a sorta-competitor to NGP, has put together a national voter file and it's reasonably priced. https://el
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by epaulson 11y ago
Here's a good list: http://nationbuilder.com/voterdata
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by epaulson 11y ago
Camlistore is where I'm expecting to go. They've got some basic things modeled in their world, and the rest I'll fill in using inspiration from schema.org. My plan is to land PDFs of research papers, web bookmarks (and archiv
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by epaulson 11y ago
So where does the Homekit database for a home live? Is this even a valid question - is there a single database or does each iOS device maintain its own database and they sync between themselves? Semi-related - what does the new AppleTV have
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by epaulson 11y ago
I've used this as an outsider to do some work with Microsoft and it's really slick. I wish the Visual Studio Online team would look a little harder at Github and steal more of its Issues experience, and have something more lightwe
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by epaulson 11y ago
The Arpaci-Dusseaus are some of my favorite professors at the UW - they're not only first-rate researchers but fantastic teachers. Remzi in particular has a very dry but hilarious sense of humor. His exams are a hoot (but are also grea
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by epaulson 11y ago
What about the entries in /dev? Is mknod not a thing anymore, or do I not need to have /dev entries in my container root filesystem?
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by epaulson 12y ago
I won't sign Apache/Google-style CLAs either, because there's no way to terminate the agreement for any future contribution. Once you've signed, you're bound forever that anything you "submit" is a contrib
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by epaulson 12y ago
It wouldn't be too hard to extend the SSH protocol to include something like the HTTP Host-request header. In the protocol exchange section of the SSH RFC ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4253#section-4.2 ) the fo
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by epaulson 12y ago
Even if we wipe ourselves out tomorrow, that still means that a civilization was able to broadcast its existence for about 80 years. If the Great Filter is now or ahead of us, that at least implies that pre-filter civilizations can be advan

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