honkhonkpants

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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Any idea why it would take 20+ years to build? The largest lock in the world was built in 5 years.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Ok. It is though.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I never felt more like stabbing myself than when trying to cipher out exactly which immediate values are possible on ARM, and which are not. X86 I happen to enjoy. It is not "the worst ISA" by any means. It has wonderful code d
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Energy density is the energy stored per unit volume or mass. Power density is the same thing, but per discharged per unit time. It is essentially a volumetric statement of the internal resistance of the battery or capacitor. Supercapacit
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
"Working class" people (with incomes below $50k/year) voted for Clinton.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Well they are about an order of magnitude below state-of-the-art batteries in terms of energy density, and about the same distance above batteries in terms of power density. For phones this doesn't seem to make sense unless you want y
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Pretty impressive, but even more amazingly their paper is in a single-column format that I can actually read on my computer, instead of pretending that I am reading printed and bound conference proceedings. Truly a giant leap for the field
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Authorities are warning of at most 1m above high tide levels. http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.TSUPAC.2016...
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
You just said it was stupid. Then you said "If you are happy with your system don't change it." This is contradictory, and your first statement was just inflammatory.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
There aren't any. The Times bent over backwards to stab Clinton in the back at every opportunity, to avoid accusations of bias.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Here's the news story that Fox News posted in its non-opinion, non-blog, supposedly-factual reporting section of their site. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/trump-protests-intensif... Here&#x27
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
There are literally zero comments on those other two, so they aren't discussions.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I think the original fake tweet author's response to this is pretty revealing. He essentially retracts his tweet, while reserving the right to repost it again, and to post such false things in the future. Let's read his own word
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
And this one already has 15x as many points, so deal with it.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The same reason that Google could launch Gmail with 100x as much free storage as Hotmail: Google's physical infrastructure is dramatically less expensive than everyone else's.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Which part of the automation failed? It appears to have identified with perfect accuracy an organized ring of phone scalpers. I think their account abuse team should be roundly congratulated.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Ironically using some of these buggy tools can be an effective and swift way to get your account locked out or at least rate limited by anti-abuse systems. Read the code and make sure they are using official APIs and are coded sanely.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
So funny. The current right wing enthusiasts don't even mention the cattle futures thing, which is the only outright crooked thing you can really hang off Hillary Clinton. It's all Benghazi all the time these days but to me the
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Violating the timing specs for PCI signalling would put the whole system into an undefined state. It's possible you could glitch the thing on the other end into doing whatever you want. Who knows?
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
That isn't what he's describing. He is commanding the storage controller to initiate DMA from host memory over the PCI-Express bus.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Some big words mixed in there, but if you try your hand at this I think you'd find that making impedance-controlled differential traces on a PCB isn't much of a trick at all. It's a difficult engineering challenge if you int
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
That isn't the point. This exploits the host, which holds plaintext data in memory.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Images of the way a font was rendered on some output device are always going to look weird and wrong on another one.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Like I said, I'm just curious. Google has so much capacity that I'm not sure it would be important for their bottom line to move it between Google and customer workloads in quanta smaller than one physical machine. Your theory a
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I'm curious to know what workloads you think Google is running on the same hardware that cloud customers are using.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
It's 8.5" on each square side and 2.3" high. A square 8.5" on a side has a diameter of 12".
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Even a Macbook Pro can drive 4 external displays and the internal display at the same time. The Mac Pro that came out in 2013 can drive 6. The question is really up to the GPU makers to put the right output capacity on their cards, and the
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Actually has a footprint larger than the Mac Pro which is only about 7" in diameter. This has a diameter of 12".
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
You jumped from mean to median. The /median/ new car price in this country is about $22k.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Doesn't seem specific to electrics. I owned several trucks that couldn't tow that trailer. Towing capacity has more to do with the frame, brakes, and cooling than it does with energy and power. Still I think someone will make seri

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