jrabone

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by jrabone 13y ago
Other crows might - apparently they can remember faces and summon other crows to mob offenders on sight... http://www.sefs.washington.edu/research.acl/Crows_and_Other_...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Hmm. Would you buy phone components from people who can't do Unicode? "It�s pretty cool." Revenge of the SmartQuote.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Just need to find a CL developer for hire...
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by jrabone 13y ago
£800 option on the F30 in the UK - doesn't seem that much on a £43K 330d...
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by jrabone 13y ago
I think there's too much going on in that HUD for the average driver to parse. I'm also unconvinced by the choice of elevation perspective for the route guidance - even though the display is above the road, it feels less confusing
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by jrabone 13y ago
Whether to provide BCD optimisation always seemed to be a tricky engineering decision; virtually nobody used the 6502 BCD instructions in the amateur home microcomputer environment I was familiar with in the 80s, but it was clearly consider
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by jrabone 13y ago
...thus pissing off everyone using Hangouts for tech support to people who are only ever going to have Internet Explorer installed. Thanks a bunch, Google. I really want to crack some skulls together over the state of video compression code
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by jrabone 13y ago
Interesting that the power plate indicates 60 Hz supply - yet the UK is 50 Hz. Perhaps stretching things for the title to claim it's "from" the BBC, as opposed to "as used by" - this one was most likely was made for
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by jrabone 13y ago
Good for you. If you hit the bug, it'll look like http://forums.androidcentral.com/attachments/google-nexus-4/...
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by jrabone 13y ago
I'm happy that you haven't had this problem (although without a screen I'm not surprised you get multiple days use from a single charge.) Unfortunately, lots of people are not so fortunate, and I'm one of them. There are
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by jrabone 13y ago
Yeah, you too can watch as "Android OS" drains the battery in 6 hours. Honestly, if you get a Nexus 4 be prepared to be a beta tester, or scratch monkey every time there's an OTA update. Perhaps it's just "internati
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by jrabone 13y ago
Some of these algorithms (eg. Knuth Shuffle) are implemented using Java's Random, as is their StdRandom helper class. While they do state their assumptions, I think it's worth making the point that java.util.Random has traditional
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by jrabone 13y ago
But instead required a bunch of moderately obscure changes to system config which you are bound to forget after a few years when you reinstall / image a new machine. The Virgin Superhub is a crappy barely-consumer grade box from Netge
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by jrabone 13y ago
You can probably do this with love hearts or similar - buy a couple and reassemble two tubes as matched, randomly chosen one time pads. Entropy would be terrible though.
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by jrabone 13y ago
How is that different to the web of trust between friends that the parent referred to?
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by jrabone 13y ago
You need a CA for TLS-secured comms between MTAs. Many MTAs are set up to do opportunistic encryption out of the box, but they won't be validating the certs they get, so there's no guarantees about who's got the private key.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Indeed; and the bit-packing code to convert 8 7-bit characters to 7 octets is a PITA (I wrote a Java SMS server)
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by jrabone 13y ago
I expect that applies equally well to the UK with gantries of ANPR cameras over major motorways as well as portable ones in laybys, like the one I saw this morning on the A1 leaving Edinburgh. It wasn't a police car, though, but a dedi
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by jrabone 13y ago
Build it from audited source? As for updates, I imagine if you set up a domain you can run your own WSUS update server, MITM the connection, etc. - and then compare the behaviour with a "regular" home PC. The problem really is how
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by jrabone 13y ago
Not in my experience. I'm using greylistd with Exim and a custom config which uses geolocation to do greylisting by subnet country code. I've only needed to whitelist a handful of broken MTAs which don't retry. My spammers cl
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by jrabone 13y ago
But WHAT, exactly, can't we trust? I've seen NO technical detail to any of these discussions, yet there are a number of sub-systems that might be compromised: - low-level crypto APIs (the 'DLLs' referred to obliquely in
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by jrabone 13y ago
"All you need to do is to send emails to us." - no thanks. If you've built something more sophisticated than I can implement with Perl and Exim's system filter functionality, I might be interested in giving you money to
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by jrabone 13y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted for this, other than brand snobbery. That's also been my experience with Shure. As well as Sennheiser HD650 & Fostex T20RP, I own pairs of Shure e5c and e215 in-ear phones. The e5c are getting on a bi
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by jrabone 13y ago
When my Amazon colleagues first introduced a carousel implementation as an optional widget about 5 years ago, I believe they were wildly successful in A/B testing for a period of time; then we went through every page having about 6 of
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by jrabone 13y ago
Sounds like the sort of problem the Mersenne Twister PRNG is good for.
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by jrabone 13y ago
ABP has had an option to enable some white-listed ads for a while. It's ticked by default, but it's not exactly hidden...
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by jrabone 13y ago
If you need more power you have 2 options. You can add more batteries in parallel and increase the size of the cables to take the higher current, or you can go to a 24 volt system which means you can use the same cable. 24 volt components a
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by jrabone 13y ago
It was an Elecsol 100Ah leisure battery. The equivalent would be http://midsummerenergy.co.uk/buy/Sealed-Batteries/PM-110.htm... Other bits were a Morningstar SunSaver solar regulator SS10 and a Nasa Clipper BM1 B
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by jrabone 13y ago
In total about £600 (this was 2 years ago); £250 for the panel, £120 for the battery, £150 for the inverter (Ebay, 2nd hand) and the rest on sundries like cable & connectors (also Ebay in most cases). I used http://www.midsum
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by jrabone 13y ago
45W sounds like overkill for an RPi - I live in Scotland (55.95N) and I have a 50W panel charging a 110Ah battery in my garden shed. The battery is used to power a 1kW Invertek 250V inverter (150A fuses are impressive BTW) which I use to ru

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