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by jbri 16y ago
And breaking a window stimulates the economy because it means the window-fitter gets more business.
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by jbri 16y ago
If you used an opamp sweep for one of the rastering dimensions (probably the horizontal), wouldn't that free up one of the DACs so you could use it for the shading?
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by jbri 16y ago
I would guess it's because window management on Windows (at least until 7) was just Too Hard. 7 improves things a lot, but it's still not as good as it could be. If you bring up a window, and it's too small, you could either: A. Drag it to
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by jbri 16y ago
Python is "clever" so that the Python programmer doesn't have to be.
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by jbri 16y ago
It looks to me like the break is at the first bend - on the HD version, the water coming in doesn't appear to turn a corner there at all, and then on the other side of the tower support it's flowing straight outwards.
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by jbri 16y ago
From what I can figure, it's the usual perspective trickery (flat water track, vertical tower, perspective makes it look like they line up), and then there's a nozzle pouring out water from the tower top. Note that the water doesn't appear
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by jbri 16y ago
I think they already are doing "something". The article does note that botnet-tweeting doesn't appear to have any effect. Whereas a tweetstorm from "real" people is probably indicative of actual (if temporary) interest, hence legitimate pag
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by jbri 16y ago
The original post is here: http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/02/16/rim-needs-to-shut-up-a... Is HN so enamored with Gruber that we'll upvote what is essentially a retweet onto the frontpage without any mention of the original?
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by jbri 16y ago
AFAIK, Watson was just using the light signal to decide when to start buzzing in. Just the light, ignoring when Trebek was going to finish saying something. Presumably a human could consistently beat Watson to the buzzer by predicting when
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by jbri 16y ago
The difference is that Tolkein's words flow naturally, while the ones here are more forced - the translation appears to mangle the English to fit exactly what is said in the source text, leaving it feeling rather awkward. Tolkein's sentence
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by jbri 16y ago
Is there a meaningful difference between a machine that claims it fears death but in reality doesn't (for some definition of "fears"), and something that actually 'fears' death? How can you tell whether something 'fears' death or not?
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by jbri 16y ago
My 'argument', as you call it, was a straightforward extension of your comment about computers only being capable of "acting like" they feel pain. How would you show that a silicon life-form lacks subjective experience?
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by jbri 16y ago
I could just as easily turn your argument around and argue that torturing you is perfectly OK because all I'd be doing is creating electrical signals in your brain. That's actually (almost) the point of my comment - if, in two logical ste
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by jbri 16y ago
What is "pleasure" and "pain"? Ultimately, they're just electrical signals triggering the release of certain chemicals in the brain, with subsequent alterations to how the brain processes other stimuli. "It doesn't really feel pain, it just
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by jbri 16y ago
Well, there's the second issue of doing it such that the machine can produce results efficiently. Which tends rather towards the mathy computer-science side of things - which is where I think the less social "I just want to write code" peop
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by jbri 16y ago
That's also one of the biggest issues in software development.
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It's all about what's called the consumer surplus . If someone is willing to pay $350 for a pair of headphones, but they only paid $200 because you didn't have a $350 offering, you just lost $150 . The trick is to effectively capture that
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by jbri 16y ago
For commodity products, yes. Luxury goods have never been "well-functioning" markets by the definition you appear to be using.
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by jbri 16y ago
In the general human mindset, there's a huge difference between "they're adding extra for those who pay more" and "they're taking stuff away from those who pay less". If the feature differentiation is achieved by taking the premium offeri
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by jbri 16y ago
If you cache the page from which a user submits a POST/PUT/DELETE, how are they going to get their CSRF token?
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by jbri 16y ago
Unless you want your URLs to look like twitter.com/someone#!someone_else, you're going to have to take the multi-step page load at some point when you transition from the HTML version to the AJAXy one.
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by jbri 16y ago
It's the responsibility of the receiver to ignore signals transmitted at appropriate power levels, yes. The receiver is not required to be overengineered to cope with transmissions vastly more powerful than expected - that's why limits on
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by jbri 16y ago
A method to do something to a biometric scanner, using a belt sander? Somehow I don't think that would really be relevant for the "they're checking my fingerprints at the passport office" situation.
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by jbri 16y ago
Back when autorun was implemented, there wasn't any realistic way of getting those off a system even if you did compromise it through autorun.
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by jbri 16y ago
What user-unfriendly VCRs did you use?
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by jbri 16y ago
The point is whether the government can use that information for broad-base surveillance. Whether the technology is there to gather the data is orthogonal to question of whether it should be legal to do so.
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"Enterprise" developer at work here, folks!
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You're not a Formal Methods guy, I see.
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I have to wonder why you consider port knocking to be a useful security-usability tradeoff. If SSH alone isn't "secure" enough for you, then adding a port knock doesn't actually lift it over that boundary.
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by jbri 16y ago
Yes, there you'll be incurring the huge performance penalty of one additional instruction per element in the array. As I said, not really significant unless your loop is so tight that memory latency is the big limiter anyway.

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