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by etatoby 10y ago
I expected some actual 3D fractals (or rather, some shapes with 3 < dimensions < 4) such as a Sperpinski or Menger Sponge: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
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by etatoby 10y ago
> in that mode Intel Network Cards will poweroff every 3 minutes This is ridiculous. This is not a rootkit waiting to happen, it's already an operational rootkit! What is this company trying to achieve? Is this a military asset desi
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by etatoby 10y ago
Yes. What on earth would be the non-malicious purpose of this feature?
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by etatoby 10y ago
I can second the use of eBay to get cheap component kits, or even single bags of a specific component, usually for $0.99 posted.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I bought Make: Electronics in paper format and have had absolutely no trouble acquiring all the components separately. The trick is to order from $0.99 Chinese eBay sellers and have patience to wait a few months for all the mail to arrive.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Wow, just wow. I guess it's time to rewrite some backends...
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by etatoby 10y ago
Ask the celebrities who were the targets of "fappening"
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by etatoby 10y ago
LOL that's called having your cake and eating it too, AKA impossible.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I think Firefox is a great example here. It has a simple UI to guide the user into finding and setting the most common options. That UI must be as simple as possible for new users and can be changed regularly, according to the changing need
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by etatoby 10y ago
Just a quick note about dependency management: we use "go get" to download / update dependencies, integrate / test, and then just include them all in the project's git repo. Never had an issue.
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by etatoby 10y ago
> This is part 1/2 of a brief description/demo of a CPU I have designed in my spare time, and an OS which I have written for it. He claims to have designed his own CPU, not physically built it. VHDL/Verilog is the corr
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by etatoby 10y ago
Holy cr*p on a cracker! 150 layers? It boggles the mind. How do you even start propagating over 150 layers? Do you assign specific functions / targets to some of the inner layers?
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by etatoby 10y ago
Someone should write a virus that replaces the ASUS logo with Goatse, if the damnable thing really is upgradable from within the OS. That should be enough to make them take security seriously (and not really hurt anybody.)
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by etatoby 10y ago
This is ridiculous. Here in Europe we have been taking mortgages to buy property long before the USA was born, in fact since the Renaissance. It certainly is a long-term contract, but nobody really considers it a "yolk." After a n
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by etatoby 10y ago
It's very simple actually. Consider, for brevity, a mortgage where the monthly or yearly payment, including taxes, is equal to the rent you would be paying for the same place. Then live in the place and go about your life for several y
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by etatoby 10y ago
I think even in the US nobody really buys a house (with land) in the city, but in the suburbs. Big difference and much more similar to the 1 hour drive discussed above.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Free software is pretty much the opposite of proprietary software, yes, and GPL is the single license that enabled the free software revolution we are all benefiting from. Sure, the battle against greed is far from over, but the benefits ar
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by etatoby 10y ago
If you consider how much money is embezzled / stolen by (most) corporations by avoiding paying taxes for all the services they benefit from, in the countries they operate in, this seems a very good feature.
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by etatoby 10y ago
You only need to put in the app an obscure functionality that makes use of the mic, and then explain what it is in the app description, for the 1% of people who will even bother to ask why Super Candy Smash Tournament is asking for permissi
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by etatoby 10y ago
I'm pretty sure most apps use the default OS services, which just send the compressed voice data over to a server, where the actual recognition is performed (and your voice data stored forever, for "research and development"
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by etatoby 10y ago
Both, of course. The point of Creationism (the non-laughable variety, at least) is that some transcendental being designed this Universe with all its fundamental laws and specific constants, including Evolution, with the express intent to h
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by etatoby 10y ago
I'm happy and grateful for any and all open source software, because it enriches everybody, well beyond the scope of its creators. But someone has to say it: Electron is the cancer that is killing desktop computing. It all started year
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by etatoby 10y ago
Sublime (3) is incredibly fast, both at handling huge files, indexing file names in huge directory trees, files with huge lines, complicated syntax highlighting... you name it. In my experience it felt faster than MacVim (which it supplante
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by etatoby 10y ago
I would like to mention that most, if not all, of the Go compiler and related utilities is written in Go itself, with high quality, open source code that can be found in the "go" package of the standard library: https:/&#x2F
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by etatoby 10y ago
The article's author does not seem to understand what React is for and why people use it. The article is full of sentences like: it's true React is fast, but basic Javascript is even faster. Duh? It's true React is quite smal
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by etatoby 10y ago
> interesting challenge Understatement of the year. You'd need to either re-implement an entire browser stack or run a headless version of gecko of webkit server-side. The former entails millions of man-hours of work. The latter ope
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by etatoby 10y ago
It has begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
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by etatoby 11y ago
I tried proxying through a server in Germany (in a big, well known hosting provider) and I got the same message, both with ssh -D and pptpd. So they're either reading signatures left on the packets by various VPN / proxy technolog
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by etatoby 11y ago
The Italian selection leaves much to be desired as well. What proxies do you use?
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by etatoby 11y ago
This. It's clearly important to treat people with respect, even when they find themselves in a job position whose description goes against your interests. But you wouldn't be lying to them, as I can assure you the customer service

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