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by fhars 13y ago
If you need a datapoint on how noisy those signals are: some people have combined a 144.6Mhz Raspberry Pi output with a narrow passive bandpass filter to generate a relatively clean and powerful 433MHz signal (the third harmonic, which is q
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by fhars 13y ago
And the dead tree version: http://www.mishkahenner.com/Astronomical
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by fhars 13y ago
It is actually far too fast, several times the speed of light. If you really wanted to realize how vast and empty space is, you should make it scroll slower.
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by fhars 13y ago
You are probably thinking of Lenovo laying off the employees in the server division they bought from IBM.
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by fhars 13y ago
VMS file versions solved that problem in the late 70ies. We are not learning anything from out history as a profession.
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by fhars 13y ago
If you look at the screenshot, it looks like it is from mid-december 2011.
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by fhars 13y ago
That will solve itself once all the B players retire.
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by fhars 13y ago
It depends on whom you trust: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-inte...
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by fhars 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobol_sequence
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by fhars 13y ago
If you actually expect your language to be used (and not only write it because it is fun), you should probably also consider this checklist: http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html It isn't quite serious, but it can
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by fhars 13y ago
Kids these days... :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_M24
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by fhars 13y ago
Are you talking about this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUl1DFBKdv8
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by fhars 13y ago
And there was no July in 1000 BC as the month is named after some Julius Ceasar who lived quite a bit later. The whole argument is a silly, ahistoric play on calendar definitions.
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by fhars 13y ago
It should be renamed "cargo" as it encourages cargo cult programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
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by fhars 13y ago
Well, blubb obviously.
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by fhars 13y ago
Submitting credentials "only once to our server" is a classical fishing attack. There is no way for the user to verify what happen with them.
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by fhars 13y ago
Coincidence or synchronicity? I posted a link to the very same paper one day ago without knowing about the other submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043915 Why does everyone remember that paper now :-)?.
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by fhars 13y ago
You forgot an important episode of Viking rulership in Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great [Edit:] Actually, that should be England, not Britain in the previous sentence, Cnut already had "king of
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by fhars 13y ago
The Goths settled in the Black Sea region until the late 18th century, but they certainly did not originate there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths#Migration_to_the_Black_Se...
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by fhars 13y ago
The Goths were a germanic tribe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths , speaking a germanic language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_language , and unlike the huns, they did not move out of the ste
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by fhars 13y ago
When he started to write about writing (military) simulations in a functional style, I really expected a reference to this paper http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=366 which is one of the rare examples
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by fhars 13y ago
Well, then starting to read at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravel... may be dangerous to your health.
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by fhars 13y ago
75% to 80% of the killed victims were women, though, so it was mostly terrorism against women, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Execution_statistics
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by fhars 13y ago
Not to distract from the core of your argument, but "simply tagging words" is still a hard AI problem in general, with all those pesky "time flies like an arrow" vs. "fruit flies like an apple" cases. Of course
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by fhars 13y ago
No, your first sentence is wrong. The following definition stores the ranks as unboxed integers, but prints them differently: case class Rank private (val rank : Int) extends AnyVal { override def toString() = { rank mat
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by fhars 13y ago
Writing planners can be fun. If you are interested in the topic (and the advances in the 40 years since STRIPS), you might enjoy the corsera course which starts in a month: https://www.coursera.org/course/aiplan I wrot
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by fhars 13y ago
You can serialize it to a hex string, put it in a json request that you send off to some cloud service, and then an hour later parse it back out of the json reply, with nothing left in RAM that looks like that pointer for the time inbetween
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by fhars 13y ago
Procedural generation along similar lines has been used successfully for most of the vegetation in Pixar's "Brave", see http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Issue-4-J... for some
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by fhars 13y ago
But in the western (roman catholic) parts of europe, the latin vulgata was about the only relevant version of the bible during most of the middle ages. So for practical purposes, the argument is correct.
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by fhars 13y ago
Badly. I've always envied english for its almost complete lack of grammatical gender.

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