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by frankus 14y ago
One possible improvement (and maybe it's not feasible—you've obviously spent a lot more time thinking about this than I have) would be to accept any object that implements NSCoding, rather than strictly NSDictionary objects. Depending on ho
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by frankus 14y ago
It would be interesting news if intervening with blood-pressure-lowering drugs led to a reduction in brain aging against a control group. For now it's just an interesting correlation, and it's kind of disappointing to see the Heart Associat
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by frankus 14y ago
Have you considered a one-time-use (or limited-time) PIN for deliveries? You could also replace your PIN-free pizza-guy mode with a fixed pizza guy PIN (say, 74992) that's similarly only valid for an hour.
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by frankus 14y ago
I don't entirely agree with the reasoning, but I think it goes like this: Historically transportation in NYC has been pretty egalitarian (leaving aside car service). A 1-percenter pays the same cab fare, subway fare, or (heaven forfend) bus
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by frankus 14y ago
Probably not. The PIN never leaves a (unmodified) terminal unencrypted. However (as mentioned previously) it would be pretty straightforward to obtain an identical terminal, insert a logging circuit inside of it (connected directly to the k
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by frankus 14y ago
One gripe: The OP goes on about how energy required goes up with the cube of speed, but that's only true if the flights you're comparing take the same amount of time. Common sense says you should compare two flights covering the same distan
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by frankus 14y ago
I'm in Canada a lot, but I'm here (Bellingham) more, so I'm torn. Right now I'm trying to decide between sticking with AT&T's Nationwide plus Canada and a global data add-on ($110/month) and Verizon's cheapest Sharing is Caring option p
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by frankus 14y ago
Anyone know if VZW will let you use something other than the "Share Everything" plans with the iPhone 5? I'd like to switch (they're the only ones with LTE coverage in my city) but probably half of my calling is to/from/in Canada.
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by frankus 14y ago
I agree with your comments on the benefits of cooking as many meals as possible from scratch, and on the idea that it clearly was possible for people decades and centuries ago to avoid getting fat. So absent some pervasive non-dietary effec
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by frankus 14y ago
Since the motors are engaged full time (no freewheel) and are self-exciting, they're going to give some drag due to iron losses, which is magnified by the gearing of the belts, as well as some stored angular momentum. So I think it could wo
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by frankus 14y ago
Looks like they're toothed belts, so they should perform OK when wet. It also looks like they have a belt per wheel, so there's a good deal of redundancy. Because there's apparently no differential gearing it means you have to lift up the o
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by frankus 14y ago
Segways are actually pretty hard to ride if you've ever ridden a standard skateboard. The stability control gain needs to be super high because it's so tippy, so you can easily get it to oscillate if you're not used to riding a self-balanci
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by frankus 14y ago
My lab partner and I did something like this in our Microprocessors course (Hi Dan!). We wanted to do it with a laser and galvanometers but ended only having time for hooking it up to an oscilloscope. I still remember mapping out all 36 let
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by frankus 14y ago
I once had a co-worker whose side project was a little wireless weather station transmitter (back in the late 90s). He was getting reports of the batteries draining in a matter o days, when in testing (and in theory) they should last months
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by frankus 14y ago
That's right, but they wouldn't necessarily have to (strictly speaking) sell copies. They could instead license the right to make copies for a fee. My suspicion is that that fee would be set to extract as much money as possible from the r
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by frankus 14y ago
I'm curious as to why OP keeps insisting that current Thunderbolt ports can't support a QFHD (3840 x 2160) display. Thunderbolt layers a few lanes of PCIe with a DisplayPort 1.2 signal. DisplayPort 1.2 supports QFHD at 30 bits/pixel and 60H
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by frankus 14y ago
There's really the exact same copyright-induced inefficiency in traditional video rental places. It always struck me as bizarre that a video rental place could "run out" of copies of a particular film, when at trivial expense they could man
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by frankus 14y ago
I felt like it would make me responsible for monitoring it for abuse. It could be something as innocent as a cheapskate neighbor using enough bandwidth to run afoul of my cap, or someone using it for nefarious purposes either on a continuou
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by frankus 14y ago
My first question when considering outsourcing a task is this: is it a chore or a project? A project is some usually non-recurring task in a field that I enjoy and/or would like to get better at. A chore is some usually recurring task in a
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by frankus 14y ago
My strategy is to use a human-readable password for my guest network (which I actually considered leaving completely open), and a crazy-long random password that I copy and paste from my password manager for my internal network.
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by frankus 14y ago
Bike theft seems like one of those quality-of-life crimes (like graffiti and coercive squeegee-monkeys) that's begging for some kind of creative enforcement strategy. - If there's an open-air bike market at 7th and Market, it seems like you
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by frankus 14y ago
Wha? The UI needs to keep processing events to remain responsive. If you have a long-running (relatively speaking, say 10 milliseconds) process like uncompressing an image, you don't want your UI to lag for that long. You could have the ima
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by frankus 14y ago
The phrase I've heard is that being early is the same as being wrong. Trying to make Burner in 2003 would be like trying to make YouTube in 1996.
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by frankus 14y ago
This got a chilly reception when I proposed it almost a decade ago: ;) http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/One-time-use_20phone_20number...
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by frankus 14y ago
Should be able to, but I'm assuming there's some kind of Info.plist key that needs to be set (Checking iOS 6 springboard now…)
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by frankus 14y ago
Tried it, and there's apparently more to it than that. When I change the resolution that "Device" disappears from the Hardware submenu. Other changes to the plist, (e.g. the name of the device) leave it working.
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by frankus 14y ago
I often find myself wondering whether I should take the time to automate some little part of my daily work routine when it would be many times quicker (but less fun) to do it manually. If I do go ahead I often end up saying something like t
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by frankus 14y ago
I love how the keyboard is (by design) at perfect keyboard height and the monitor is likewise at a pretty ideal viewing height, since the spot it's in was designed to be looked at while using a keyboard.
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by frankus 14y ago
There's certainly some downside, but the compromise can be worth it for packaging reasons, and there are a few mitigating factors. For one motor torque scales with the square of radius, so a relatively light pancake motor can have quite hig
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by frankus 14y ago
If by "created" you mean "enhanced and renamed". By that standard UC Berkeley "created" BSD and Tim Berners-Lee "created" HTML.

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