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by jackhack 10y ago
There is no "opponent" here. Is that how you see this, as some sort of confrontation? You're taking this way too personally. There is no opponent, it is just a discussion. I read the document. it is not trustworthy because it
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by jackhack 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but not the assumption that "we" can do anything about a celestial phenomenon. Humans cannot change the oscillating output of a certain nearby star. That is the source of the minuscule changes to the Ea
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by jackhack 10y ago
The Apple ][ DOS was written in about 4 weeks by Paul Laughton. That doesn't mean it was easy, just that it was possible. (Laughton was/is an extraordinarily capable developer.) (edit: fixed name!)
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by jackhack 10y ago
>excellent programmer ... top of his game One of these two assertions may not be true. GORILLAS.BAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) DONKEY.BAS https://blog.codinghorror.com/bill-g
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by jackhack 10y ago
Exactly. Actual construction work == Moldy crawlspaces. Hot attics. Slippery roofs. Muddy trenches. Asbestos & fiberglass dust (yay for silicon fibrosis!). Lead paint. pneumatic paint sprayers, heavy equipment, nail guns, projection inj
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by jackhack 10y ago
H) Age It is a common belief (especially among startups) is that developers have a "shelf life."
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by jackhack 10y ago
It should not take an i7 processor to run a text editor. I mean no disrespect, but either something is very wrong with your computer, or something is very wrong with this software.
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by jackhack 10y ago
Just a quick note to say how impressive this project is, and that it was fun to read your detailed writeup. Thanks for sharing, it's inspiring and a neat bit of engineering on a lot of levels. I learn as much from mistakes (usually my
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by jackhack 10y ago
Transmit or receive analog or digital information on just about any frequency : audio/voice (including multichannel), video, GPS, telecommunications, data transmission, synchronization, module configuration, etc. etc. etc. Sky's t
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by jackhack 10y ago
More likely than one might want to think. A car traveling the same direction swerves into your lane, crowding you off the road. Does your self-driving car allow the collision and push the offending car back in order to hold your lane? Or d
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by jackhack 10y ago
Ever wonder why they would leave a toothless law in place like this, rather than strike it from the books? Because it enables detention. Now that the local constable has a legal reason to stop and detain due to the criminal act of jay-walki
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by jackhack 10y ago
+1 on the cheap scope recommendation. Without seeing your signals, solving a problem with shoving bits around is (educated) guesswork. Nothing like struggling for days with a weird fault or corrupted xmit only to throw a scope on a bus line
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by jackhack 10y ago
Neither. It neither changes safety nor moves targets. It is worse -- a distraction that leads away from solving the underlying problem in the same way as the Gun Control/Knife Control issue obscures and redirects passions. Machines and
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by jackhack 10y ago
>I still have the floppies, though I very much doubt if they'd read any more I think you might be surprised. Those low-density floppies were remarkably DURABLE. I have a whole pile of 8" and 5.25" floppies from the late 19
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by jackhack 10y ago
The feds even ordered troops to open fire and aircraft to drop bombs against coal miners in West Virginia, to protect the companies' interests: http://www.wvculture.org/history/minewars.html
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by jackhack 10y ago
How far will this go? What happens when the robots organize labor unions? Will this "electronic person' be allowed to vote for representation? Will they be entitled to medical care (I can't help but think of the Wizard of Oz&
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by jackhack 10y ago
And meanwhile leach God-knows-what into your otherwise pure food. No thanks. Glass containers for me, please.
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by jackhack 10y ago
Absolutely. When making a "Barking" sound at a police dog can result in a charge of "Assault on a police officer", anything is possible.
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by jackhack 10y ago
(For those who didn't get the joke... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_eat_up_martha.jpg ) Wouldn't it be strangely ironic if they chose to use the Palm Grafitti glyphs? (explained, below) If so, I&#
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by jackhack 10y ago
aka "last year's model"
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by jackhack 10y ago
>>In the meantime try to get new helicopter landing sites approved in your neighborhood. Which takes us right back to the noise issue which needs to be solved, first. 'Till then, no way. Helicopters (nicknamed 'choppers&#x27
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by jackhack 10y ago
"layers of wood, etc" doesn't do justice to what is in place there: http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/topics/oakisland/story.... Flagstones, layers of heavy timbers every 10 feet, a stone wi
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by jackhack 10y ago
This is used today in the high security vault industry. Safes often include rubber pellets in the concrete pour between steel casing layers. Cutting into the safe with a torch or plasma cutter will cause these rubber pellets to burn and fil
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by jackhack 10y ago
>>a multi-level pirate cache. I immediately think of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where a pirate's stash has resisted recovery for an incredible 221 years but has yielded taunting clues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jackhack 10y ago
Almost 25 years ago, Jonathan Connell's book "Minimalist Mobile Robotics(1)" briefly discusses the behavior network of the pond snail, and maps it using Brooks' Subsumption Architecture. The book then goes on to discuss
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by jackhack 10y ago
second that. It sounds fascinating.
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by jackhack 10y ago
I'm far out of my area of expertise here, but can anyone offer thoughts about the potential of wrapping these C routines and accessing them from python (Cython) to give python this level of concurrency?
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by jackhack 10y ago
It exists today in steel pipe mills in the US, where the noise is such it is impossible to hear a voice -- even shouted -- from further than a foot away. Radios are similarly useless due to background noise, so a catalog of hand gestures ar
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by jackhack 10y ago
Synesthesia? Perhaps her brain sees those sets and identifies them in such a way that it takes no conscious effort? A group might appear in a different color, or "taste" or feeling, for example... https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jackhack 10y ago
scoot, I offer my apologies. You are correct -- I read too much into what you said (limitations on bluetooth due to RAM scarcity), and took off on a tangent.

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