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by gh02t 9y ago
Yeah, I mean I really don't like Trump, but it's hard to believe this follow-up is anything but a joke, unless there were some more tweets I didn't see. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869
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by gh02t 9y ago
Want to, sure. But you usually sign a contract, you can't just change.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I disagree. I'm talking about an inventor talking to a manufacturer (or engineering firm), the manufacturer saying "thanks for the idea, don't mind if we do" and then ripping the inventor off and not sharing the profit.
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by gh02t 9y ago
On the other hand, it can be hard to take an idea into production without some of the protection granted by a patent. Look at all the people who try to get their inventions manufactured in China, only to be beaten to market by a clone (not
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by gh02t 9y ago
[Probably] not enough to cause any harm. RF isn't dangerous until it is powerful enough to cause local heating and obviously this wasn't that powerful. I can't really find much info on how much power Theremin's bug too
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by gh02t 9y ago
This looks like it doesn't share any context between cells, am I right? So I can't use functions defined in one cell in another.
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by gh02t 9y ago
Plus that bug was a backscatter radio. It didn't actually emit radio waves on its own, it just resonated in response to a carrier wave. The Soviets had to illuminate it with a 330 MHz radio signal from outside, but that's not ioni
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by gh02t 9y ago
> Tbh the only thing I really miss is having ~/bin in PATH by default (and ~/lib, ~/share etc similarly picked up where necessary), since installing software in personal userspace is still pretty common in real multiuser e
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by gh02t 9y ago
Yeah long ago it was not to be the case and rm would happily gobble /, but it started with Sun adding protection. It's been the default in GNU coreutils (hence the vast majority of Linux distros) since 2006.
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by gh02t 9y ago
> Undefined means : the compiler can omit this case and assume it never happens. That's not the whole picture though. The standard actually says that anything can happen in undefined cases. > However, if any such execution contai
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by gh02t 9y ago
Very true, though there are some better Arduino variants. The Pro mini is the canonical "low power" Arduino as it uses a very efficient LDO regulator. I also use bare ATTiny's for a lot of uses, they don't require any pa
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by gh02t 9y ago
You can use the standard AVR sleep modes and interrupts on Arduino. Put the uC to sleep and have it wait for a pin to change or a timer to elapse before waking instead of idling at full power. See the Arduino docs (or the Atmel datasheets,
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by gh02t 9y ago
No need to install it on remote systems. I'm more of a Vi guy and I have a decent selection of plugins on my primary system, but I appreciate being able to use the built in Vim features without installing stuff on remote machines. Thou
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by gh02t 9y ago
Historically making concessions hasn't worked either. We made many concessions and the DPRK didn't follow through. I think at this point diplomacy is not off the table, but we have to see some lasting comittment and trust building
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by gh02t 9y ago
Here's Dave Jones ripping into it pretty hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA The talk by the uBeam CEO he links is also pretty infuriating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c Her
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by gh02t 9y ago
> I mean, that's a good thing Like AvE says, it's really not. Elegant engineering is exactly meeting your design requirements (assuming your design requirements are good). It's far far easier to overengineer everything. It
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by gh02t 9y ago
Not exactly. The whole idea was predicated on the obsolescence of nuclear weapons in modern conflicts, so in a sense it was partially predicated on improving non-nuclear defensive capabilities. His suggested "pitch" to countries t
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by gh02t 9y ago
Oops, somehow I overlooked that!
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by gh02t 9y ago
Yeah they did, but under different circumstances. Arguably South Africa never had any intention of keeping their weapons and intended them as a bargaining chip. South Africa never really had a significant arsenal either. This talk was about
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by gh02t 9y ago
I saw an interesting talk by one of the guys responsible for nuclear weapons policy under Obama. He focused on a game-theoretic analysis of whether or not "nuclear zero" (total global disarmament) was really possible. The analysis
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by gh02t 9y ago
Don't forget Racket, it's a beautiful language and IMO pretty practical.
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by gh02t 9y ago
The article explains, albeit it's maybe not very obvious if you aren't acquanited with metrology. > So in 2014, at the quadrennial General Conference on Weights and Measures (yep, that's a thing), the scientific community
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by gh02t 9y ago
A combination of Unicode strings breaking a lot of libraries and Py3K not having a lot of user-visible improvements early in its lifetime. It built up a base of people who said "they broke all my code and I don't see any reason to
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by gh02t 9y ago
I think the point is that the only way to make your software genuinely resistant to cracking is an onerous DRM scheme like you see with games or obscure engineering software. Stuff that takes a lot of work to implement (or $$ to license) an
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by gh02t 9y ago
It's overly complex for what I do, which is mostly hobby stuff with some occasional custom designs for my work use (academic research lab, mostly custom mounts and brackets for obscure equipment). Also the onerous licensing and price.
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by gh02t 9y ago
I'm not sure, I think Solvespace is history based, but I don't know enough about CAD geometry engines to give an in-depth answer. Most of my experience with CG comes from the simulation modeling aspect (think more GEANT instead of
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by gh02t 9y ago
I think it's also the degree of flexibility. Typesetting is itself a creative process as much as a technical one. When I do technical writing with LaTeX (and I do a lot ) I'm usually ok with about 99% of what it outputs, but then
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by gh02t 9y ago
I've used Solvespace a lot and agree, it's very intuitive and stable. Unfortunately it lacks a lot of the more in-depth features and also its constraints engine gets confused very easily, plus it doesn't do great with curved
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by gh02t 10y ago
It has vi in the base system, specifically `vim-tiny`. Vi is mandated by POSIX, so pretty much every distro includes some minimal version of it in the base system. `nvi` is also used sometimes instead.
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by gh02t 10y ago
It amuses me to see "Western" Japanese food (youshoku). E.g. hamburger steak, Napoloitan pasta (totally disgusting to me) or even omurice. Dishes that we vaguely recognize, but are really Japanese creations or Japanese versions in

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