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by fl0wenol 11y ago
We do? He's certainly a force of personality, but he's more of an ideas and money guy. A backer. Eberhard was the guy who actually thought sporty electric cars would work, took a shot, and was right. It's too bad he got force
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
Right there with ya, the release of the TV show and never hearing adults pronounce alternate spellings as a kid cemented it in my mind. Looking at artwork and pictures of it, you'll notice the lowercase 'a' is used in the tit
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
It's not like the Wolfram Language examples you see are independent of the Wolfram KnowledgeBase or their other cloud services, and you have to leverage it from some deployed product (like Mathematica) you're paying for. This deta
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
Thanks, this is pretty cool; I think the NWS qualifies as a stable source.
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
Whenever I see a weather "app" I always think: "This is really a weather display utility" and then wonder about the quality / longevity of the service it depends on and how the information is provided. What would
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
This is a cute hack, but why? (Mostly because it doesn't take into consideration using text glyphs _inside_ each cell and a second color to add texture) Come on, let's go full libaa!
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
There's really only two versions here for people buying it for themselves. One for mobile, and one for non-mobile. Everything else is variations for the hows and wheres. The list is really for the IT pro getting ready to figure out wha
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
The specific vulnerability and the fix: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/e907746266721f305d67bc07...
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
The console was broken for a long time primarily to make it possible to do full-screen VGA text modes for NTVDM-requiring apps. Enabling either or both required elevated hardware privileges so they shoved the whole rendering thing into CSRS
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
But that's not how they marketed themselves from the get go. It was more about enabling the end user to come up with stuff (I remember reading they were basically targeting other software developers who had a hardware itch they wanted
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
Should have focused on a specific sub-market at first, used it to proof-out internal tools and design->front door delivery processes, show the potential. Something boutique-ish but simple, maybe a few internal configurables, that could u
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
It's misleading to say that they don't use Fourier. The theory around any family of functions useful for compression/feature detection (like wavelets) is going to have the property that they define a Hilbert basis. And the id
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by fl0wenol 11y ago
A key insight for someone interested in this sort of thing not touched on in the article is the relationship between the fourier transform and a discrete consine transform. JPEG uses DCT in particular because it has the nice property that t
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
With bits like schedulers and device drivers in an interrupt-based system a lot of ideas we'd like to about runtime state as modeled by your language of choice (the stack, lexical scope, memory, thread context, reference counts) become
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
"The only problem is that rust was built with the idea that it will be used with a malloc style memory allocator. This kind of allocator is rather hard to implement using slab allocators since malloc must be able to allocate buffers of
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
1) Userspace sleeps until audio data is available because there's an eternity of clock cycles between each sample; do you want to be woken up after every sample if you're done doing work or a handful? You could also busy wait but
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
A better argument for per-user, randomly-chosen-at-password-change-time salts is so that you can't determine that two users (currently or historically from a password history) are using the same password by comparing the hashes. If you
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
That is interesting as hell and I hope it works out; I had a vague sense VTOL wasn't a practical power/weight option for something battery powered.
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
This is how you know it's just as much investor marketing as it is to get early adopters excited; they want their overseas investors to know that they're not just sitting on their laurels this quarter.
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
Those kind of drones are not the kind of drone that can deliver a package, unless that package can survive a ballistic delivery to the ground. Sure, by shaping the drone into a winged vehicle you can get the payload capacity up and make it
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
If you're spending that much time analyzing what food to get when you're out to avoid getting "ripped off", I think maybe you should just learn to cook for yourself because it's a lot cheaper and rewarding in the lo
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
I wouldn't call it the best packaging in the world across all metrics. It might be the sexiest. I find it more satisfying when you free a cleverly suspended gadget from an anti-static bag suspended in a molded/origami fiberboard n
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
Get your designer eyewear or sunglasses from a competitor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safilo ) It's not really any cheaper, but at least you can go with the "underdog", as it were.
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
The most interesting tidbit in the article was this: About 90 percent of the fluoride that is added to the water takes the form not of pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride but ... fluorosilicic acid ... This material is a byproduct of phos
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
Or you know, NEVER PLAY IT EVER, and probably come out ahead. There are games on your phone, even free ones. Play those at a bar, there's no excuse.
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
It's because it's a protocol, not a search engine. It's designed to exist independently of any one entity. How the hell were they expecting anyone to pay for the very idea of P2P/DHT file sync? Sort of like wondering why
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
A bit like how Second Life has now pretty much become a fetish site for furries. I think many of us realized that SL had little potential beyond that even in its infancy. Minecraft soaked up the remaining interest in the potential of the
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
In this scenario, is gamma a single server making requests of Beta under a single authorization? Or is it a stand in for multiple remote resource consumers with potentially different things happening under different authorizations/iden
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
What's curious is that VMkernel's "personality" for ESXi userworlds (which are analogous to sessions IIRC) is it implements the x64 Linux ABI, with some signal/syscalls masked. I don't know if this was to make
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by fl0wenol 12y ago
I want to be mad that a high-profile public servant created and used an email capability that allowed her to skirt record laws if ever challenged. But... it's a really good idea. Hell, I used to run my own back in the day before my ISP

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