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by jwise0 12y ago
It's a shame that this had to go the way it did. If you read Rakesh's Twitter recently, it's pretty clear that something has gone dramatically and completely wrong -- and that is something that David alludes to in his blog p
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Oklahoma botches first execution in 80 years(latimes.com)
12 points by jwise0 12y ago|20 comments
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by jwise0 12y ago
SpaceX has taken an interesting approach here -- effectively, they've crowdsourced a more-robust MPEG decoder! It would be interesting to hear a description of the steps they've already taken to repair the bitstream (and would be
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by jwise0 12y ago
Yes, I just wrote a small app around sql.js, and I was surprised at how poorly it performed. I was expecting to be within a factor of three of native, but I'm seeing performance down by an order of magnitude or so. The sql.js page al
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by jwise0 12y ago
It is in fact the case that they're shipping; I've had one arrive in the mail. My first impression ( from just looking at it and not powering it on yet ... ) is that the board feels like what Raspberry Pi should have been. The Z7
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by jwise0 12y ago
Recently I found myself in the position of a diving save not of someone who reports to me, but of a peer. In this case, the balance is more difficult. On one hand, I have my own self-interest at heart -- I intend to stay at the organizati
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by jwise0 12y ago
One of the interesting things that's changed some since that article was written has been the advent of truly itsy-bitsy sensors, for instance on cell phone cameras. Sony, OmniVision, and Aptina are all making sensors on the scale of
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by jwise0 12y ago
I haven't gotten a chance to learn UVM yet; is it as awful as VMM? VMM is (arguably) better than nothing, but there's a lot about it that's really broken [1], which can be very frustrating if you're trying to build larg
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Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities?(liorpachter.wordpress.com)
9 points by jwise0 12y ago|0 comments
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This does not actually seed the PRNG. User-provided data is not entropy: entropy needs to be random, not deterministic. In OpenSSL, PRNGs are pluggable, as well, which means that some modes of seeding the PRNG could actually leak sensitiv
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by jwise0 12y ago
The first I had heard of a tuned mass damper was in the installation on Taipei 101. There's a good video of it moving that gives you an idea of just how colossal these things are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSg
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Airpooler(airpooler.com)
4 points by jwise0 13y ago|0 comments
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The original thread that this came from: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/28185-Successf... Interesting in particular is one poster's claim that Tesla gave him a seemingly-dismayed call... http:&#x2F
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by jwise0 13y ago
Thanks! Much appreciated.
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by jwise0 13y ago
I sent the following mail to Dan, too, but for others who might be confused at why people take offense to an attempt at inclusiveness: --- I'm kind of surprised to see you explicitly call attention to your usage of "you guys"
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Nuclear Accident at Wood River Junction (Oct 1994)(yankeemagazine.com)
1 points by jwise0 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwise0 13y ago
I think the true enlightenment in this article (for me, at least) is that Windows's tracing framework is far more powerful than I had realized. Being able to capture a system-level trace is an incredibly valuable tool. Until recentl
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by jwise0 13y ago
This seems unusual. Isn't the board responsible for appointing the CEO, to begin with? How can it be that half the board resigns after their own CEO appointment? Even if the appointment were simply a majority of the board, that in an
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NVScene(nv.scene.org)
2 points by jwise0 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwise0 13y ago
That seems to indicate that the data are transmitted via ACARS. Is there another back-channel, if ACARS were unavailable for some reason?
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SWOT analysis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jwise0 13y ago
The use case that I'd be really excited about -- and something that I have been strongly considering hacking MPD to do -- would not be an icecast stream to my phone, but for my phone to have its own Mopidy or MPD instance. Right now, a
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A Review of Criticality Accidents (2000)(orau.org)
2 points by jwise0 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwise0 13y ago
When were these? I can't think of a time like that in the history of the United States, sorting by decade or so...
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by jwise0 13y ago
Worse, it is not even a certain check against integer overflow. A particularly large expression could have overflowed substantially enough that it becomes positive again! This, in fact, was the source of a vulnerability in PHP [1]. (The w
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by jwise0 13y ago
There is plenty to moralize in your post, but I'll refrain; I'd like to factualize instead. In many parts of the the U.S., it is possible to be forcibly admitted to a mental unit. In California, for instance, this process is call
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by jwise0 13y ago
Additionally -- on the first "Yay!", I don't get the nextlevelbutton (which seems to be what it wants me to do next); gray_bg and youwin_outer remain display_none. I have to go manually put them in place in order to proceed
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by jwise0 13y ago
During the tutorial, it seems like the memory dump goes blank for me (it loses its scroll bars, and loses its contents) -- http://i.imgur.com/ta9iykd.png This is Firefox 25.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, on Ubuntu 12.04. I&
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On The Typography of Flight Deck Documentation (1992)(ti.arc.nasa.gov)
1 points by jwise0 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwise0 13y ago
I think in TCP mode, the big pain point is that packet loss on one wrapped session is lethal to your whole connection (i.e., all streams stop if just one stream stops). In UDP mode, I think you lose only 70-ish bytes per packet, which isn&#

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