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by jff 12y ago
And that's correct--WHEN WALKING. Cyclists are supposed to behave as vehicles, not as pedestrians, so they need to move with traffic.
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by jff 12y ago
I wish all police everywhere started ticketing for more traffic violations. When everyone on the road--cyclist, motorist, and pedestrian--follows the rules precisely, traffic is predictable and safe. When morons wave you through at a 4-way
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by jff 12y ago
Thanks for the reply! As someone involved in computing research (sometimes OS kernel research, even) I can appreciate the need to actually get something going. Ideally, if I was starting off a project with the intent of focusing on somethin
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by jff 12y ago
It's always Linux, isn't it. Everyone always says they're making a specialized, lightweight OS for whatever task and then the first thing they do is saddle it with a 20-year-old clone of a 40-year-old kernel. I also disagree
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by jff 12y ago
It's an incredibly slow wire protocol if there's any latency involved. Copying a large file from Bell Labs' servers to my California-based system via 9P took an order of magnitude longer than using HTTP between the same syste
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by jff 12y ago
I have a Pentax K-50 DSLR and a Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR. I love the pictures from the DSLR, but the size and feel of the film camera cannot be beat. It's about half the size of the K-50 and all the controls are quite simple. Developin
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by jff 12y ago
When RMS allows Emacs development to be hosted on Github, Hell will freeze over and the Cubs will win the World Series.
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by jff 12y ago
I'm hoping the Twiddler will provide some variation from regular typing to help keep my hands/arms/wrists more comfortable. I'm also very interested in experimenting with wearable computing... I've built my own chor
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Twiddler 3 chording keyboard now available(tekgear.com)
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by jff 12y ago
"Where line 9 there just blindly assumes the regex found a match, and causes quite the run-time error message." You blindly assume the regex found a match, because you ignored the part of the docs where they tell you how to check
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by jff 12y ago
Switch the regen output into a big-ass heatsink so as to burn off the energy? Put actual brakes in there for this sort of situation? Nightmare situation for a SF resident who lives on top of one of the crazy steep hills, charges his board a
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by jff 12y ago
It seems to share some things in common with the rotary, like moving the ignition chamber past the fuel/exhaust ports, rather than opening/closing valves. So it will need some way to seal the cylinder during compression/ignit
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by jff 12y ago
Because the software I'm attempting to demonstrate/distribute is specifically designed for running VMs. That is its sole purpose--sorta like OpenStack.
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by jff 12y ago
The crazies are certainly out in force on the article's comments section... Any mention of quantum physics seems to bring them out, I guess because to the layman "quantum" == "magic"
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by jff 12y ago
If you use the -privileged flag, docker containers can access /dev/kvm and start low-overhead KVM instances. It's advantageous for me, because I can say "hey check out this software" and they just have to run a sing
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by jff 12y ago
Ok, I've done VMs inside docker already which has been fine, was hoping GCE would let me do it on Google's systems.
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by jff 12y ago
Is it possible to run a KVM VM inside one of the containers? I have an application for launching and managing VMs and letting people spin up a Google container to try it out would be neat.
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by jff 12y ago
I finally started experimenting with the pkgng stuff and it seems pretty good. I too have been annoyed by the constant compilation, so I've been pleased that I'm getting along with the occasional "pkg upgrade", which wil
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by jff 12y ago
> code around the broken parts and provide compatibility until userland changes/fixes their problem read: provide compatibility indefinitely.
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by jff 12y ago
I always found that they keyboards weren't much better than on-screen. I make about the same number of typos either way, and frankly my corporate Blackberry's keyboard is a travesty. Little tiny keys with shitty action, your finge
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by jff 12y ago
Agreed, I didn't have much use for email at 15, because I interacted with all my classmates and teachers every day; coordinating things was simple, and all my schoolwork was submitted in person. I primarily used email for asking questi
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by jff 12y ago
Glass is not projected into your eye, it is simply a screen placed near your eye, with special optics so you can actually focus on it.
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by jff 12y ago
It's right there on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
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by jff 12y ago
> I found Brin's Existence really refreshing on this front -- the predictions and tropes seem based on looking at technology of today and extrapolating from that. I really enjoyed it! So based on the rest of your post, give it 5 yea
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by jff 12y ago
Can they predict how to get real money back in exchange for their Bitcoins?
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by jff 12y ago
Reminds me of how I described C# to someone the other day: "If you really want to write Windows programs, I'd rather do C# than the alternatives."
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by jff 12y ago
Crap, I was talking about motorcyclists, but didn't specify it in my post. This is literally an argument I have heard from other riders.
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by jff 12y ago
Ah, the old "If I don't wear a helmet, I'll ride more cautiously and never get into a wreck" argument.
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by jff 12y ago
You know, the previous time he copy-pasted this same comment on a different article, the footnotes were in there. If it happens again, we'll know where to look.
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by jff 12y ago
Good point. So rather than saying "we have a totes sweet fusion reactor design, if you pay us we'll show you the schematics", UW publishes it to the world and if somebody thinks it looks good, they pay UW some money to use th

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