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   by gvb 9y ago

   The headline elides the critical part of Musk's criteria: "[I]f that rocket flies a national security spacecraft before 2023."
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   by gvb 9y ago

   jgs - looks like Joan G Stark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark http://www.asciiworld.com/+-joan_stark_jgs-+.html
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   Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America(steveblank.com)

   4 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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   by gvb 9y ago

   "...it was disabled for the demo because it had been throwing too many false positives..." Then they blame the human driver and say "...but if our auto braking system were working, it would have stopped the car in time"
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   by gvb 9y ago

   Thanks for the link. Looking at the claims, it looks like he's patented an augmented floating point unit (hardware) that does bounded arithmetic. The #1 claim is "A processing device [with a] FPU [and a] bounded floating point uni
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   by gvb 9y ago

   A concrete example is Brendan Eich who was forced to resign in 2014 as Mozilla CEO over his personal contribution of $1,000 in 2008 in support of California's Proposition 8 (a now-overturned 2008 gay-marriage ban). Ref: https:&#
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   by gvb 9y ago

   I'm sure there is video but it wasn't and won't be made public.
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   by gvb 9y ago

   First stage, yes. https://www.space.com/38826-spacex-launches-secret-zuma-miss...
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   by gvb 9y ago

   > When it finally re-opened it was 8 months behind schedule, having been closed for more than a year and a half. If time stopped in the tunnel, wouldn't the repairs have been completed remarkably ahead of schedule from the perspecti
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Yeah, I think I was right and wrong. Right in that the microcode cannot fix the problem but wrong in that the microcode can disable the problematic features (speculative execution, ???) to foil the attack. Unfortunately, that will be a sign
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Microcode is very slow. The flaw lies in operations that you want to be as fast as possible (caching, prefetching) so those operations are implemented as hardcoded logic. Hardcoded logic is very fast, but impossible to change after the CPU
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    by gvb 9y ago

    > The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax. Evidence does not bear out this assertion. The Rockefeller Trust is a well documented example of a huge inheritance that was not
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    by gvb 9y ago

    See also "Stranger Things Alphabet Wall, Part 2: MQTT in the Upside Down" https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/12/22/diy-alphabet-wall-m...
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    Make Your Own “Stranger Things” Alphabet Wall(spin.atomicobject.com)

    2 points by gvb 9y ago|1 comments
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    by gvb 9y ago

    You can buy it via Avnet (US distributor) for $88.99 + $8 (or so) S/H. They sent me a promotion code THXNN6W for free shipping. It is an entry level Zynq processor (single ARM core, pretty decent FPGA capabilities). It runs linux well.
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Zynq MiniZed http://zedboard.org/product/minized My plan is to implement my own version of a neopixel driver to learn VHDL. Ref: Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles Part 37: Driving Adafruit RGB NeoPixel LED arrays with
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    by gvb 9y ago

    They are already selling a house lock and camera: https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Key-In-Home-Kit/dp...
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    Make Your Own “Stranger Things” Alphabet Wall(spin.atomicobject.com)

    1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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    by gvb 9y ago

    My all time favorite prank is getting harder to do but it is still possible. Back in the day, most people had full size umbrellas. When it looked like rain in the morning, they would take their umbrella in to work and hang it by the handle
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    by gvb 9y ago

    I actually have one of these on my desk at work, showing the youngsters what we did "back in the day." I made it when I was in college in the 80s (yeah, I'm old fart). My first version was built with the classic 556 timer chi
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Thanks, I added that to the title to make it clearer.
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    Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da(tbray.org)

    194 points by gvb 9y ago|113 comments
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Flashback to [1997]! J [1] "The font will be included with Internet Explorer 4..." "Because Webdings is a fully functional TrueType font it will look great on screen and in print..." "this[sic] page was last updated
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    Atomic Object Games 2017 – Now with Real-Time Strategy(spin.atomicobject.com)

    1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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    U.S. Department of Defense Video Shows Unknown Object Intercepted by F/A-18(theaviationist.com)

    3 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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    Economic factors of vulnerability trade and exploitation(blog.acolyer.org)

    1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Laplace transform[1]. Starting with a signal in the time domain, you can take the Fourier transform to map it into the frequency domain and then the Laplace transform (Z-transform[2]) to map it into discrete time domain. Discrete time is wh
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    by gvb 9y ago

    More like they ask for a car ferry to cross the river but really want a bridge. If you are lucky, you will recognize from their "requirements" (often just a verbal description) that they are describing the characteristics of a bri
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    by gvb 9y ago

    Agreed.
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    by gvb 9y ago

    If Judge Alsop said "you covered this up" it would be a statement of fact. He would follow that statement with serious sanctions and the lawyers involved in the coverup would be in serious risk of being disbarred. When he says &qu