friendcomputer

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by friendcomputer 11y ago
If this was originally filed on an open bug tracker in July 2015, what were the glibc team doing in the mean time? The Google post indicates they were "working on it" when Google got in touch. How much work was going on, exactly
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by friendcomputer 11y ago
I think the difference is in one case you are talking about specific properties of specific programs, and in the other you are talking about a universal question about any program.
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by friendcomputer 11y ago
"Evans plans to create an online recruiting process that will help him select applicants who fit into the community." Gotta be careful of those discrimination laws.
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by friendcomputer 12y ago
If you want a full featured local linux command line, you can switch to developer mode and install one in a chroot via something like https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton This does sidestep some of the security feature
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by friendcomputer 12y ago
If you're wondering which tab is making a random key click sound in the background every couple of minutes, it's this one.
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by friendcomputer 12y ago
I wonder why he didn't donate the shares directly, isn't that simpler for tax reasons?
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by friendcomputer 12y ago
The article lists 1.8P for a brain with 75 million neurons. Unless I've misplaced my zeroes, that's over ~20M per neuron, which seems much higher than I'd expect.
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
Its worth pointing out that due to Sarbanes-Oxley, some of this will not happen on the stock market this time. So if you are just looking at P/E of publicly traded stocks you are going to miss the signs.
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
Yeah, this is not news to anyone who looks beyond the surface level income figures. Unfortunately, journalists fail us comprehensively in this regard. It's a shame because there are some very interesting things to talk about once you
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
From TFA: "Working with funding from the Yale Provost’s office, Cowen and post doctoral researcher Brice Kuhl, now an assistant professor at New York University, showed six subjects 300 different “training” faces while undergoing fMRI
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
Hmm. I'd like to say I'm excited but I really don't see how they will capture that story effectively in film.
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
I highly recommend Ted Chiang. I really enjoyed "Story of your Life" available in this short story collection of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/193... Some of t
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
Please show me the spec. Or even a high level discussion of the protocol.
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
I can't find any information on the "newly developed dark mail protocol." Is this public anywhere? I need more information before I know if I want to donate to support it.
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
He was explicit in that he was demonstrating 1:1 legacy mouse support, presumably there are other options for non-legacy games (and perhaps legacy games too?) For example, my macbook track pad takes velocity into account. Something like th
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
That's from http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf There's some more from the author here: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
This should help. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
Leaving aside the question of whether evading a law through a technicality is alright (and surely the court will decide whether they were successful at that or not), but the indictment indicates they misled financial regulators, submitted a
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
It's really hard to claim that the LR guys are innocent. The comparison with Ford is completely out. If you read the indictment itself it's fairly clear that they were knowingly building a system to work around money laundering laws (incl
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by friendcomputer 13y ago
From my reading of the included proposal.txt, it uses steganography to have side-channel communications that look like other wifi communication near you.
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by friendcomputer 14y ago
I'm curious how this performs with fast motion and if it's a general-purpose sensor or only suitable for low light. Anyone know?