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by hazeii 7y ago
As a kid I remember playing with the logistic map (possibly pointed at it by Dawkins?) following Robert May and Verhulst explanations of population dynamics. Feigenbaum's constant(s) seemed to point a way through the chaos (this at a t
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by hazeii 7y ago
One common use is to drive hardware directly, either to learn how it works (prior to e.g. writing a linux device driver) or just for performance reasons. Reading and writing bits to a parallel port takes about 1us or so; there's no lat
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by hazeii 7y ago
From the article: >The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. W
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by hazeii 7y ago
Couldn't agree more, I've got at least a couple of dozen computers (from workstations and thin clients through 486s and Pi's) at home and only the main server and its backup have persistent storage. Especially useful for Wind
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by hazeii 7y ago
I have that book, and it's quite the classic! A lot of it is available on Google books [0]. The more modern take is, of course, Bicycling Science[1]. [0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=leq7AQAAQBAJ [1] https:&#x2F
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by hazeii 7y ago
Except that so few people make money broadcasting on Youtube, it's very likely they'd make more by learning how to maintain their own streaming platform and using that knowledge ('consulting') to less technical (but more
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by hazeii 7y ago
Depends; for example one video application I've written buffers as many incoming frames in memory as possible; if malloc fails when taking the buffer from 8000 to 9000 frames it's not a problem; just carry on running with the curr
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by hazeii 7y ago
That's reminiscent of the nasty version of 20 questions, where everyone bar the subject is told the only rule is to give an answer that is consistent with previous answers. Never been on the receiving end, but what I've seen you
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by hazeii 7y ago
An interesting case is where a human does the selection; this was pretty well covered in Dawkin's 'The Blind Watchmaker' [0] with his program for generating biomorphs. Some nice speculation in there too: 'Dawkins specula
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by hazeii 7y ago
Yes, same here in UK (for some hours now).
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by hazeii 7y ago
IMAP as well - for some considerable time now.
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by hazeii 7y ago
...and only the paranoid survive?
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by hazeii 7y ago
19:30 UTC and while several services appear to be back up IMAP logins to gmail are still timing out (UK, on BT).
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by hazeii 7y ago
Not sure how true it is, but I read somewhere that the reason it's so good at what it does is because it's used at scale by certain large websites (youtube being specifically mentioned).
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by hazeii 7y ago
Having CD's that go back to their launch (plus records/cassettes from before), I had to rip a couple of thousand CDs to FLAC so I'm totally with you on this one. Unfortunately a lot of people don't understand what's
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by hazeii 7y ago
From the article (about a book written 50-odd years ago):- "... and there’s a teeming social network that allows media organisations to put out hits of news and receive real-time fan feedback." And at the bottom of the page:- &quo
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by hazeii 7y ago
Indeed, I recall getting messages along the lines of "error: freeing a null pointer" or something like that. On the other hand, what are the chances of some freshly-written C being built with an old compiler? (possibly moderately
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by hazeii 7y ago
Unclear to me why you've been downvoted; I've seen many cases where a structure has had elements added which would be end up uninitialised. A memset(&struct,0,sizeof(struct)) seems pretty reasonable to me.
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by hazeii 7y ago
Very interesting point; as a kid I hated PE but after some growing up I found myself naturally enjoying exercise. Maybe it's whether it's enforced or by personal choice?
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by hazeii 7y ago
Recently Google has bounced replies to emails from a gmail.com address to us, with a message about it being "suspected unsolicted email" (for a reply???). That's just egregious (we're on a dedicated server at a reputab
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by hazeii 8y ago
Still, interception of communications is a serious crime (unless your monopoly-scale ISP does it, of course). Thanks for the update (if somewhat depressing to know they still get away with it).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Indeed, 'zero-configuration' only applies to users.
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by hazeii 8y ago
Never used the BT hub, I've always bought my own router (I've also had a linux box as a firewall between the router and home network since the days of dial-up).
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by hazeii 8y ago
What happened is going online resulted in everything being redirected to a BT page saying you're not using our DNS and to change settings so you do. Some googling revealed a few people who'd had the same issue and found the (obscu
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by hazeii 8y ago
Single data point, but I've been running a home DNS server (bind) for many years; it's set to be authoritative for the .local domain and caching for everything else (except for major tracking and advertising sites, which it blackh
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by hazeii 8y ago
Coming at it from the other side, not too hard to make a long-case ('grandfather') clock using the per-second signal from MSF (WWV, DCF etc) to drive the pendulum and so lock the clock to 'atomic' time. An old 6 volt rel
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by hazeii 8y ago
Which had the amusing feature that some motherboards let you add a '487 FPU' [0], which was actually a 486DX that took over completely from the SX. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87#80487
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by hazeii 8y ago
Indeed; a lot of people subscribe to the view that the vote delivered the 'incorrect' result because one side was more effective at lying than the other side. Very difficult to know where to draw a line; my feeling is that even if
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by hazeii 8y ago
>The Brexit promise is something nobody can deliver on.. I would - respectfully - point out that's not the situation. It is (was?) a promise in the sense that the government is there to enact the will of the people. The majority of
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by hazeii 8y ago
> I have a solution for that too: hire me as a contractor and give me a week or two to do a real project for you. I really don't understand why more companies don't do that. Couldn't agree more; it's just not the trad

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