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by jrabone 14y ago
If those are switch-mode power supplies most of the that current will be drawn out of phase (ie. imaginary power); not important to the domestic customer, as the meter probably won't read it, but important to the supplier, who will come and
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by jrabone 14y ago
If instead, my DAW software was running based completely on sandboxed code executed locally but being served up remotely, then I can move from machine to machine effortlessly and collaborate incredibly easily with other producers and music
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TomTom HD Traffic(youtube.com)
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by jrabone 14y ago
That is beautiful. And grandparent does indeeed link to the best regex ever, http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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by jrabone 14y ago
Article is spot on for all sorts of reasons. Never mind people typing in domain literals like me@[1.2.3.4]. Internationalised Domain Names are going to REALLY screw over some regexes, given how poorly understood Unicode is. Does Ruby even h
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by jrabone 14y ago
That smooth adaptation only works while there are alternatives, and while market speculation doesn't apply - ie. while there's slack in the system, and no gaming. For example, http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/indium/mcs-...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Over a certain threshold, the government can and does intervene. Accessibility lawsuits against large internet retailers are not uncommon, and whining that it's all about the images doesn't cut it. Of course, if no-one uses the website, no-
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by jrabone 14y ago
Solar panels use rare earth elements (indium, specifically). That's going to be a scarce resource pretty quickly at the rate it's going into land fill via LCD panels. The energy required to refine silicon to semiconductor purity isn't small
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by jrabone 14y ago
Intellij Idea + Maven seemed pretty good, last time I had to write production Scala. I couldn't get it working with the fast background compiler daemon, which would have really helped. Agreed on the readability though.
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by jrabone 14y ago
See Scala's case classes ( http://www.scala-lang.org/node/258 ) - just move your 20% logic somewhere else.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Diamorphine is used medically. Pretty sure that isn't cut with anything.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Have you tried a mild skin antiseptic cream? I've used Savlon for this in the past (cetrimide & chlorhexidine gluconate are the active ingredients, in a white vanishing cream base). Doesn't block pores, but is effective at killing most
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's a shame they don't just give up on comments completely. With rare exceptions like this one, they add nothing.
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by jrabone 14y ago
That pathfinder bug was a priority inversion caused by failing to enable priority inheritance when creating mutexes, not quite as simple as setting the priorities wrong. VxWorks wasn't entirely at fault, although the priority inheritance f
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by jrabone 14y ago
Me too - exact same issue, and the same experience; apart from the hold time the support people I spoke with were polite and helpful, and the second person resolved the problem with my original RMA request over the phone. Turned out I gave
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by jrabone 14y ago
It's a shame that there are some serious quality issues with the Nexus 7 though. I pre-ordered two from the play store in the UK. Both arrived a few days ago, both had the loose screen and one doesn't have a working touch screen. Still wait
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by jrabone 14y ago
I think the military use-cases will pay for hard AR anyway (think Deus Ex HR-style 'see through walls to find targets' or 'target leading' AR), and we'll start to discover the consumer use-cases after the fact. Actually AR laserquest/paint
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by jrabone 14y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
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by jrabone 14y ago
And Amazon's revenue is growing 33% YoY. Costco is 8%. Wallmart is 8.5%. See where this is going?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Some Amazon FCs are already fully automated (Marston Gate in Luton, UK for example), and they recently bought Kiva Systems for $775 million, who do just that ( http://techland.time.com/2012/03/21/amazons-775-million-acqu... )
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by jrabone 14y ago
Perhaps the rest of Europe is better. As a UK resident I hope they absolutely crush the high street "experience" as it is in many large UK towns - which I find suffers from the exactly the same triumph of cost cutting over customer service
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by jrabone 14y ago
There has been evidence in the UK that this is how the thieves are doing it (people finding their cars with the drivers window smashed and the OBD cover lying on the floor). See http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670339 - at l
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by jrabone 14y ago
Amusingly enough most of them aren't - OBD access to interesting features (as opposed to a very limited standard set) usually costs a LOT of money. $10K one-off charge plus an update subscription for example. OBD-II has essentially failed b
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by jrabone 14y ago
That's not the point; I don't expect to be able to walk up to your front door with a random Yale key, jam it in and out a few times and have your lock reconfigured to accept my key instead of yours. That's what's happening here - it's not a
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by jrabone 14y ago
Well, if that means an end to keyless / smart fob systems, I'm all for it; they are nothing but trouble in my opinion. Right now, I think the OBD port should be read-only unless a registered key is present, and recoding the ECU to accept a
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by jrabone 14y ago
See http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=670339 and http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=713085 - there are people who will do this in the UK.
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by jrabone 14y ago
You might be over-thinking this. It's possible to disable the factory alarm motion sensor by double-pressing the lock button on the key fob. This is a feature for people (like me) who take their car on ferries, and who don't enjoy listening
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by jrabone 14y ago
Um, it's a GBP 40K car; I don't care.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Haha. Glenn's perl was legendary at AMZN, even 10 years later. My team ended up 'maintaining' GPOS (for non-AMZN folks, the G stands for Glenn - you can figure the rest out...)
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by jrabone 14y ago
You can say "Don't use this purchase for recommendations" and "Not interested / already own it" on Amazon. It's clearly not well-exposed, given the number of people making your complaint.

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