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by gh02t 8y ago
> It saddens me, that the core development path in BSD was not able to sustain being the "reference" model for a wider community. Could you explain? FreeBSD was not the reference implementation of ZFS, illumos was. ZoL is still
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by gh02t 8y ago
I think the prevalence of recursion might be attributable to mathematics. A lot of mathematical analysis of algorithms is more natural to express in terms of recursion (partially because of proof by induction), so you often see algorithms s
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by gh02t 8y ago
I actually like QGIS more than ArcGIS. It's not without some rough edges, but I found it way easier to use than ArcGIS (which is a bit of a UI disaster, IMO).
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by gh02t 8y ago
"High temperature" is relative, they still have to be cryogenically cooled to temperatures around -100C. So no SMD superconductors yet.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Indeed, I suspect it has to do with manufacturer's wanting control over prices and supply. E.g. a manufacturer thinks they can charge a higher base price in China because they are a luxury foreign brand.
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by gh02t 8y ago
LoRa is probably the way to go for farmers, given the range requirements. No need to connect to the Internet regardless.
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by gh02t 8y ago
You'd use a laboratory test source. It appears to be a miniaturized radiation detector, which trips when the gamma and/or neutron fluence exceeds a certain level. "Nuclear event detector" does not necessarily mean anythi
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by gh02t 8y ago
Honestly, farming is probably the place where IoT makes the most sense. Especially for very environmentally sensitive processes like winemaking, large sensor networks and data analytics offer a lot of value to the farmer.
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by gh02t 8y ago
There are some editor plugins that do something like this. I know for Vim there is tex-conceal ( https://github.com/KeitaNakamura/tex-conceal.vim ), which collapses a lot of LaTeX symbols to their Unicode equivalent on l
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by gh02t 8y ago
There's a lot to the question of morality. Can an AI exercise the same moral judgement a human would make, or is it just an imperfect copy doomed to eventually commit an immoral act? I think the latter is obviously true, given that hum
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by gh02t 8y ago
Some of my favorites, apart from the obvious ones like Vim/Emacs and common Unix utils... notmuch - email database ncmpcpp - MPD frontend (music player) taskwarrior - task and time management mutt - email ranger
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by gh02t 8y ago
You know, I think that's a pretty wise point that I haven't really heard put into words before - a good teacher's goal is to prepare their students to be able to debate the merits of the teacher's own opinions on equal g
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by gh02t 8y ago
I'd argue exactly the opposite, the reason there are so many is that it's really hard to write a good data visualization framework. Data visualization encompasses a vast range of different tasks that are often only loosely relat
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by gh02t 8y ago
Ooh, that's a really good point. I have a Pi2 running Klipper and Octoprint driving my printer, this would be a good upgrade...
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by gh02t 8y ago
Ditto, I went to NCSU and they have an extensive steam heating system. I believe chilled water is also used for cooling. We (semi-)famously have an extensive underground tunnel network across campus that people have broken into and explored
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by gh02t 8y ago
This is interesting, there has been research work on doing something similar in Monte Carlo particle transport, which is the same idea as ray tracing but with different physics (higher energies, different types of particles, more complex ph
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by gh02t 8y ago
Depends on your taste. Personally, I hate Eagle and find it really painful to use. KiCAD has rough spots, but I like its workflow a lot more. Plus Eagle's free version restrictions are pretty tight, 80 cm^2 and 2 schematic sheets are
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's not just cheap boards, there aren't that many embedded platforms with mainline support at any price level (and many of the ones that are are community-driven, not by the OEM). Part of it is a deeply ingrained culture of indus
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by gh02t 8y ago
To be clear too, I'm just speculating about that part. The only thing this document says is that "This disconnect is implemented in hardware alone, and therefore prevents any software, even with root or kernel privileges in macOS,
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by gh02t 8y ago
Oh, I didn't know that existed. I'm not sure if I'd trust it, but glad to know it exists. It's not really a big issue for me, though, as I have a home NAS. Really more important to me than Windows support is support on B
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by gh02t 8y ago
I have. I didn't have any trouble out of it.
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by gh02t 8y ago
The description makes it sound like Apple is using a hardware interlock that I'd assume cuts power to the microphone via a MOSFET when the lid is closed. That's pretty much the same thing, just with a solid state switch instead of
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by gh02t 8y ago
I've been using BTRFS for at least 5 years on my primary workstation and various other machines and have had no issues whatsoever. Being able to format the root of a drive with BTRFS and then work with subvolumes instead of partitions
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by gh02t 8y ago
Worth noting for those who may not know, Pólya was himself an extremely prolific mathematician with many major contributions to mathematics.
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by gh02t 8y ago
Strictly speaking, diplomatic immunity (if granted) would at least allow this hypothetical country's designated diplomats to ignore the consequences, but their diplomatic status would likely simply be revoked.
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by gh02t 8y ago
There actually is another company doing something similar to that called Wi-Charge, except they use an IR laser beam. It's still got quite a few fundamental physical limitations on safety and efficiency, but it's more practical th
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by gh02t 8y ago
Various active suspension systems have been played with in F1 since the 80's, but they are limited pretty severely by regulations. The justification for the ban is for sporting reasons, same as a lot of other innovations like CVTs or t
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by gh02t 8y ago
The Hue strips aren't addressable so all the LEDs are set to the same color.
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by gh02t 8y ago
It's not so much the decoding and memory as it is that the timing of the HDMI signal waveform at 4K/60fps is a bit too fast to read any portion of with an affordable FPGA. There are FPGAs with specialized DSP hardware that can p
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by gh02t 8y ago
I have a bunch of Hue devices myself, but I wouldn't exactly call it "cheap" considering how much the colored bulbs cost. You can build your own with a cheap Arduino clone and some addressable RGB LEDs for well under $20. In

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