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by hengheng 13y ago
For those who understand German, you can read it up on wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik-Effekt
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by hengheng 13y ago
What if you land on a pointy surface ... gravel, sand or sharp stones? Sure it's good protection, but let's think this through first. (I am convinced that regular bicycle helmets are crap, as there are no decent standards or crash
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by hengheng 13y ago
I was thinking of the Pro-Ject Stereo Box, which is 2x30W with some quite excellent sound up to its maximum power. But I'll admit there are smaller things sitting on my living room altar.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Speaking of form factors, I'm really looking forward for a widely-accepted form factor for living room electronics. Rarely any devices still require 440mm of width, and thus all consoles, set top boxes, sat receivers, small HTPCs and m
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by hengheng 13y ago
Shot in the dark, but might there be advantages simply because there are more molecules flying around than with air? 10nm ground effect flying probably isn't trivial.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Every now and then I look at the caliber of issues that my local nuclear power plants have (German here, you'd expect we know what we're doing). Missing screws in critical places, wrong kind of concrete used, diesel generator not
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by hengheng 13y ago
Did Google lose business over the fiber spying? Their reaction is similar in its hypocrisy to German chancellor Merkel.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Chernobyl was bad technology, but the crash happened more due to bad decision-making and irresponsible acting. The same is true for Fukushima, which is my whole point.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Sure, VMWare Player with a shared folder pretty much lets you act with a shell onto a (Windows) directory. I don't know how much this helps you with hardware evelopment though.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Not being able to use CMYK is a terrible perspective if you ever get a chance of printing something.
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by hengheng 13y ago
So what are we going to use as a nuclear waste dump? Transmutation hasn't really become practical, so I'm out of ideas on this one. And while I really really like modern nuclear reactor design, I haven't seen anybody run a re
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by hengheng 13y ago
What if one out of those thousand rockets fails?
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by hengheng 13y ago
In the OSS world, many people feel no need to finish things and make them usable for the end-user. (I am looking at you, bcache.) Honestly I'm wondering why. Does nobody have the missionary drive anymore to bring Linux to the people, a
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by hengheng 13y ago
Well the problem with boycot is you will find some reason to boycot one of the big players every week. When everyone does their ranking at their yearly smartphone purchase, the whole boycot becomes intransparent. If there were an associatio
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by hengheng 13y ago
If tools for private communiation weren't 10-20 years behind sending digital postcards on facebook.com, I'd use them more consistently too. I am tech savy yet most crypto tools don't seem to be made for me. I have seen OTR fa
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by hengheng 13y ago
Seems fair enough to me, so it's basically the shareware security model where any application that carries malware instantly loses its reputation, even though it is technically able to do so. Interesting to see this carried over to web
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by hengheng 13y ago
I'm not too familiar with web development, so please forgive my question: Is this just a style sheet that the browser knows how to apply, or am I giving you read access to my e-mail?
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by hengheng 13y ago
Yes. In the Netherlands for example, bi-directional bike paths have to be 4 meters wide, which is sufficient for emergency vehicles.
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by hengheng 13y ago
So they brought sunlight to a parking lot. A. Parking. Lot. I was hoping for a decent cafe, restaurant, playground, meeting place, mosque or such to emerge. Let's see if that's going to happen.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Let's see what price Apple can negotiate for the 8 and 12 core options. This is where intel usually charges big. Those CPUs may be useful for high density computing in a datacenter, but not so much for a desktop where the user could ha
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by hengheng 13y ago
Regenerative braking often doesn't pay off. Note that you don't need a whole lot of energy to put your bike into motion, while you need quite some energy to keep it moving due to friction. Putting in numbers, if you go 5m/s=1
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by hengheng 13y ago
Thing is their IdeaPad Yoga isn't an X220 replacement. X220 offers two full-speed cores (2x3.2 GHz) with higher TDP, 16GByte RAM, ExpressCard 54 slot, optional WWAN, matte display, TrackPoint, ThinkVantage system update, replaceable ba
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by hengheng 13y ago
This looks way better than I had in mind. Thanks!
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by hengheng 13y ago
So it's an entry level computer, probably not targeted towards us but more an e-mail and google machine for our grandparents. Which is fine. Serious question though: Can it print?
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by hengheng 13y ago
Except today's Macbooks will be outdated and superseded in 5-10 years, whereas a skateboard won't.
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by hengheng 13y ago
Alright, so what life time can one expect as a customer? And economically speaking, how expensive will a battery swap be? The whole reason I'm asking is this 20 year old skateboard I have down the hallway, which is working flawlessly w
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by hengheng 13y ago
... all of which reddit (and to a lesser extent, slashdot and disqus) do just as well.
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by hengheng 13y ago
I'd say it's the large form factor. Having something four metres wide that you can see from across the room can be quite handy.
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by hengheng 13y ago
How do you automatically scan for malware in AES-256 encrypted files? I am asking because Deutsche Post is offering something they call "E-PostBrief", which is seemingly encrypted but features a mandatory man-in-the-middle attack