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by fhars 16y ago
At $149, it is more expensive than many Mini-ITX boards with a 1.66MHz dual core Atom, which come with quite a bit more on board peripherals (SATA, 7.1 audio and the like). Once you add RAM the price difference narrows (or even reverses if
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by fhars 16y ago
That is probably what he meant when he gave his own, strogly non-rhotic pronounciation of "err" as an example for how people might pronounce "her". But without everybody knowing how to read and type IPA, you can't be to sure about anything
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by fhars 16y ago
What biology will be able to to that computers aren't is to directly kill people, without detours over miscalculated radiation doses or decompression times for divers. Well meaning hobbyists in their basement will probably not endanger mo
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by fhars 16y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_Number
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by fhars 16y ago
But then, it is not announced as an earthshaking announcement, but as an "earthshaking announcement." The quotes make it sufficiently vague that it could be anything from "there was a typo in a comment in the metafont source", to "Vol. 4 is
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by fhars 16y ago
i've seen a review of the guru plug that claimed that for network workload, this 1.2GHz ARM is not really faster than an ALIX board with a 500MHz AMD Geode and two 100MBit ethernet iterfaces, while running so hot that you cannot touch the e
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by fhars 16y ago
And not to forget that today's referee errors are tomorrow's legends. I mean, people are still agonizing about the "Wembley Goal", a referee error that made England win a world cup game against Germany (in 1966). So in the long run, the law
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by fhars 16y ago
The wikipedia page says that it dates from the 90ies and is modeled after the PDP11. Main differences to AVRs seem to be that they are designed for lower power consumption and are von Neumann instead of Harvard architecture, otherwise it de
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by fhars 16y ago
The 2313 should be similar in power, it has up to 18 I/O lines instead of 10 and an additional 128B of EEPROM and 2 ADCs, which is two more than the MSP430G2211 and six less than the 2231 [edit: and the TI ADCs might be faster]. But at $2.8
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by fhars 16y ago
What irks me most about the AI debates is that a machine that thinks like a human would actually be artificially delusional, not artificially intelligent. For true, strong AI all the SETI argumants apply: would such an intelligence resemble
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by fhars 16y ago
If you ask google for mplayer sinesuppress you get a whole page of command lines that remove vuvuzela sounds from broadcasts, for example: http://verbo.se/open-source-vuvuzela-killers [edit: fixed link, this supid cell phone doesn't suppo
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by fhars 16y ago
That has already happend in the 70ies when the unexplained zoo of hundreds of elemenary particles has been reduced to a handful of more elementary particles (12, called quarsks and leptons) and a set of dynamic theories that use even fewer
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by fhars 16y ago
Your early history of relativity isn't quite correct. The experimental results posed no convincing challenge to the established theory. After all, Lorentz' theory of ether contraction in the vicinity of moving bodies (the exact same mathema
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by fhars 16y ago
For what it is worth: here is an example of a non-uniform random variate: a = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] 1000.times do a[5 *(rand + rand)] += 1 end results in (actual numbers may vary randomly): irb(main):020:0> a =>
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by fhars 16y ago
Of course not. There are whole books on the subject: http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/rnbookindex.html
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by fhars 16y ago
Yes, show is over, the falcon is behind the horizon.
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by fhars 16y ago
I wouldn't hope for too much, some of these companies just don't get free software at all. Samsung for example manages to pull off the trick of installing a pirated copy of linux on every consumer electronics device they sell by illegally
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by fhars 16y ago
I think the bottleneck is the problem he is trying to solve: forward messages from one producer to one consumer in order. This is an inherently sequential problem, all it requires is a FIFO and a select on two file descriptors. The only thi
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by fhars 16y ago
I think you misunderstood the list. It is not a list of normative criteria for the definition of disease, but of descriptive criteria, and not even a list of descriptive criteria for disease, but for uses of the word disease. That is twi
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by fhars 16y ago
That, or restrict the maximum number of comments at a given level to a large, but fixed number that you can express as a fixed size number, say two digits in base 62 (digits are 0-9a-zA-Z). Or, if you use postgres, make the index column a l
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by fhars 16y ago
And it is actually mostly correct, unlike the one in the article. (Has anyone tested it with the new tld for egypt?)
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by fhars 16y ago
Your recommendation is almost as wrong as the regexp in the article, as both will reject the perfectly valid postmaster@ai address (check it out, "dig -t mx ai" will return a result, so that address must exist). The only thing you can be
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by fhars 16y ago
It was. That's why this bug hasn't been caught before: the buggy code was never actually compiled as part of a production build. Real builds always use the version optimized for the actual hardware platform.
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by fhars 16y ago
His first example for tail recursion is grossly wrong, it is an almost canonical example for a fuction that is not tail recursive, as the last thing it does is consing somthing with the result of calling itself recursively.
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by fhars 16y ago
The whole point of using POST is to remove the queries from the URL, though.
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by fhars 16y ago
You might want to take a look at sbt http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/ , which is a build tool targeted at scala that can also build java code. Cf. http://zegoggl.es/2009/12/building-android-apps-in-scala-wit... http://blog.re
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by fhars 16y ago
If you were interesting to them, they would just have copied the disks while they were in the mail system. An OTP transmitted over a vulnerable channel like the postal service is not that strong, you have to exchange it in person.
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by fhars 16y ago
The resposible registrar does actually use exactly that image to advertise its domain services: http://www.denic.de/domains.html So while not exactly a brilliant joke, it is not a -4
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by fhars 16y ago
It's not the term I'm objecting to, it is the writeup that sounds like it is inferior to the unsafe alternative.
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by fhars 16y ago
What he calls yoda conditions is actually considered best practice in C-like languages, as it will result in a compile time error instead of wrong run time behaviour if you forget to type the second equals sign. The name is still funny, but

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