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by jws 12y ago
Here we leave the realm of copyright and enter trademark law. HWACI's operating instructions reference their trademark on SQLite. Given that the reasonably adept HN readership has members confused into believing this was an HWACI produ
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by jws 12y ago
Used travel trailers and RVs older than 15 years are ludicrously cheap. Arrange with the seller to drop it at your property if you don't have a big enough tow vehicle. You can find small patches of land in rural America for very little
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by jws 12y ago
Danger: Accidentally clicked on it. It spun my iPhone into a tight loop with a fake security dialog and a toll free number to call. I was unable to close the tab or get off the page fast enough to keep it from coming back. I finally had to
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by jws 12y ago
The shackle gets a lot of ink in the media, and it did fail. The questions about who inspected it and how seem a bit misplaced given that it was rated at 120 tons and the tow line alarm registered over 300 tons more than 30 times, so missin
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by jws 12y ago
…would not stop until Newill acknowledged it on the computer screen… Sounds like software to me. I suppose you could put a computer controlled relay into your physical system, but the software would still have to know which alarm it was d
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by jws 12y ago
That 4% number is private, for profit . Private, non-profit is still 11%.
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by jws 12y ago
I wonder if Sony has an insurance policy that pays if a movie can't be released? I can imagine such a thing would exist to protect them in the event of a copyright problem with the story or script. I see lots of movie industry insuranc
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by jws 12y ago
No OpenCL for Mali 450.
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by jws 12y ago
Sounds reasonable. I did just have to use them as "backup of last resort" to recover a web site. A little scraping turned "sorry, its gone", into "web site is back online".
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by jws 12y ago
cdza has a "History of Misheard Lyrics". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jRICTGmnM For those unfamiliar with cdza, they film musical experiments, frequently humorous in a distinctive "in studio" style,
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by jws 12y ago
ASN.1 managed to infest some internet protocols like SNMP and SSL certificates. It's one of those solutions to a problem that shows its committee heritage and ends up being ludicrously complicated to implement because of all the edge c
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by jws 12y ago
In 1935, U.S. Adm. William H. Standley saw a British demonstration of the Royal Navy's new remote-control aircraft for target practice, the DH 82B Queen Bee. Back stateside, Standley charged Commander Delmer Fahrney with developing so
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by jws 12y ago
Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T? It's ok. In two years these will all be forgotten in someone's sock drawer. Seriously though, in two years the c
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by jws 12y ago
A brief scan suggests they are engulfing an unpressurized section of airplane volume since unpressurized sections don't weigh as much.
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by jws 12y ago
I like the effort that went into the eyeball command. It speaks to you like a human. That is, rather than showing a cell hint, it works out how you would get there and tells you that. I did similarly in a sudoku game, it is an interesting e
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by jws 12y ago
When confronted by closed standards with open drafts I generally just implement the last draft. I might buy the closed spec to check, but my code comments and documentation will all reference the draft since that is what people can read. Yo
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by jws 12y ago
It occurs that I may have an observer bias, since I only see someone's mini if I am in their office or house, but can see their laptop many places. I was going to use Amazon's Best Sellers to try to ferret out how few Mac Minis
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by jws 12y ago
Power=heat. If you want a tiny box without a lot of fan noise you need to watch your power. I think the point of the Mini is "good enough for many people". And great for them. No sense buying RAM sockets you will never use, solder
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by jws 12y ago
I stay with the toy story named releases. That way I never get a surprise upgrade when the meaning of "testing" changes. You almost never want that, since when the name changes it is the early days of testing. Later when I need so
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by jws 12y ago
I am unclear when this was published. It does not reference an Intel microarchitecture past P6 (Pentium Pro) and contains no citations later than 2000. TLDR Abstract: We look at 8 aspects of front-end that can contribute to performance los
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by jws 12y ago
The FTDI chips and drivers also have the ability to toggle a few extra pins. If you are making a device this can be important enough to lure you away from just being a generic USB Communications Device Class profile. (Think a 'reset&#x
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by jws 12y ago
I use systemd on all my servers. A couple of lines of declarative configure file to specify a daemon with its restart policy beats a messy shell script. For my custom processes I've ripped out all the chroot, fork, and setuid code adde
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by jws 12y ago
Steve Jobs stated that in a Keynote, but it wasn't planned. He just sort of decided on the spur of the moment (or so I hear). As it turned out FaceTime infringed patents Apple did not control and it all turned into a mess. I'd lov
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by jws 12y ago
This may be device specific. On my 5 year old iMac full screen is smooth enough I can't detect its individual frames. It takes about one second. Edit: Shooting it at 240fps in video and counting frames confirms 60fps animation.
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by jws 12y ago
"conKnk k.kco"
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by jws 12y ago
Optional named parameters with default values can make nice clean calls in the common case while still allowing for the uncommon case. As far as the IDE goes, for the sort of code I write, reading is more important than writing. When I read
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by jws 12y ago
You can run TCP inside a TCP connection, but your bandwidth throttling gets a bit strange. Your inner TCP sees delays instead of packet losses and that isn't how TCP is built to throttle. As a practical matter, the percentage of custom
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by jws 12y ago
You'll need to call a meeting of all the internet's firewall administrators who block TCP ports by default but allow 80 and 443 through. If you can get them to agree to stop breaking the internet then we can use TCP. Until then we
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by jws 12y ago
The archerfish in the Baltimore aquarium hunt cooperatively. The fish that takes the shot is not the fish that gets the cricket. Advanced physics and society. Not bad for a tiny fish.
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by jws 12y ago
There are devices which measure BMI using conductivity. Given that a device may report a value other than the simple function of height and weight, it seems prudent to have a spot to put it.

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