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by gvb 10y ago
The power is also proportional to the swept area of the rotor disk, which increases by the square of the radius. This means the number of smaller windmills will have to go up by the square of the blade length. 12m blades have an area of 452
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Apple is now run by a guy who is more like John Sculley than Steve Jobs(recode.net)
90 points by gvb 10y ago|90 comments
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Specifying JSON(tbray.org)
4 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
The lawyers that were providing them counsel are anticipating receiving 25% of the settlement. If the Uber drivers did not accept the settlement, the lawyers would have a delayed (ergo more out of pocket expenses) settlement or possibly no
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by gvb 10y ago
Per the article, the electronics are unchanged, just 3 more backplanes and one SATA card: "When looking at what’s new in Storage Pod 6.0 it would easy to say it has 60 drives and stop there. After all, the Motherboard, CPU, memory, SAT
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by gvb 10y ago
Microsoft burned their bridge with Interix because "NT was going to win, right?" Six months later, when Microsoft figured out that NT still needed a Posix compatibility layer, they had to (sheepishly) rebuild their bridge with Int
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by gvb 10y ago
It is a way to generate CSS without going crazy. "Sass is a scripting language that is interpreted into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). [...] The newer syntax, "SCSS", uses block formatting like that of CSS." Ref: https:&
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by gvb 10y ago
You can right-click on the Windows 10 flashing animated crap and remove it from the start menu. > I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point. It was likely the marketeers driving the engineers.
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What is a photographer?(tbray.org)
3 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
U-Boot and linux have the Flattened Device Tree[1] (FDT) which allows the kernel to load and configure the appropriate drivers. Your statement is true, however, that someone knowledgeable of the actual hardware has to create the correct F
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by gvb 11y ago
Not just "some" turtles, from the first sentence of TFA: "Kai Xu [...] had repeatedly visited Michigan to buy and ship thousands of turtles to China, a court heard." (emphasis mine)
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Three years ago, Uber X was born with a policy manifesto(recode.net)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Documentation: http://intelledger.github.io/
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Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? – Part two(cringely.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Tangential, but the most misquoted text is 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil". Most people elide "the love of" which totally changes the application.
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by gvb 11y ago
1. Embrace is good. 2. Extend can be good if done openly and collaboratively, as opposed to closed and hidden. 3. Extinguish - Here be dragons. I'm hopeful the New Kinder Gentler Microsoft stays on steps 1. and 2. (done collaboratively
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by gvb 11y ago
$50 (or less) WiFi enabled SD cards (intended for use in cameras to automatically upload pictures) have an ARM processor running linux. http://haxit.blogspot.ch/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-c... http:/&
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by gvb 11y ago
ebtables would be the "linux and a bunch of ethernet cards" version of the solution. On the VLANs, yes, I should have been explicit. Having multiple subnets on a single shared ethernet is mostly useless security-wise, you need to
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by gvb 11y ago
Old Cisco routers (e.g. C4507s) are very cheap and very capable. They are also very large and very noisy (serious trays of fans). You can get them with various combinations of cards for $300++ (plus $150++ shipping) for something that proba
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by gvb 11y ago
You can do it with a capable (read enterprise grade) router that does packet filtering. You can do it with a linux box and a lot of ethernet network cards as well, but your speed will suffer because every packet needs to be inspected before
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These are testing times: mavericks vs. ice people(techcrunch.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Does the billion dollars include indemnification against all patent and copyright lawsuits?
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by gvb 11y ago
That is an example of a mandatory access control (MAC) framework[1]. SELinux[1] is a MAC for linux systems and is very effective if the user doesn't disable it due to frustrations over false positives or due to true positives that are
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by gvb 11y ago
Cringely is more unintentionally entertaining than respected.
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by gvb 11y ago
SpaceX appears to be competitive even without reusing the first stage: At its 2013 launch price and at full LEO payload capacity, the Falcon 9 v1.1 cost $1,864 per pound ($4,109/kg). Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by gvb 11y ago
Ref: http://www.universetoday.com/100229/fire-how-the-mir-inciden... ...which has a link to a very interesting PDF detailing the incident: https://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudy/Deta
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IoT Gone Wrong: POWERMASTR 10: KOM OK(daniel.haxx.se)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Do you know what Amazon is going to do with their excess 500PB of capacity? Are they scaling up fast enough that it isn't a big deal? Is Glacier selling your vacated storage? You must have left a large hole in AWS' revenue stream.
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The Day the F Went Missing(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
In other words, the Singularity is here and its Watson.

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