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by jzwinck 12y ago
If you are serious, the answer is to make the device a 1" tube that fits into the steer tube of most bicycles and can receive and transmit RF via the top cap (which would be plastic rather than the usual metal). Easy to conceal, near-
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> Can we enforce harsher punishment for bike thieves? Yes, you can, but you choose not to [1]. This is a drain on society beyond the mere cost of buying replacement bikes. Bike theft discourages (even prevents) people from riding bikes
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The court would consider many factors in concert, not just one. Therefore it is impossible to answer this question with a simple yes or no. And someone will eventually show up and recommend that you hire a lawyer. TL;DR: Nobody knows. Yo
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Using the latest date may work against you, because someone else can show that they produced a work in 2013 with verifiable documents and if your documents say 2014, they will appear to have published earlier than you. If you're going
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by jzwinck 12y ago
These copyright notices are mostly-useless boilerplate anyway, but if you're going to have one, it should have specific, fixed dates, not dynamic ones as this site suggests [1]. As a thought experiment: if a date is not actually in the
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Of all the gun uses I am aware of among every person I have ever known, only one single bullet would have been prevented from leaving the barrel by a system like this. That bullet killed a child and sent the (accidental) shooter to prison.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
3. What numeric bound should YouTube have placed on their view counter (in the case I linked earlier)? 2 billion? Why? If the answer is "Because that's all that fits in an i32" then we're right back where we started:
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> Since overflow cannot cause crashes or data races (outside of unsafe code), we can skip these checks without endangering Rust's core value proposition of safe systems programming. Whenever checks are disabled, overflow will yield
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by jzwinck 12y ago
There are racing teams with multi-million dollar budgets who would be interested in this sort of detection technology. For example, just a couple days ago one of the top competitors in the Sydney-Hobart abandoned the yacht race due to hull
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The example which claims to get "all the rows from 50th row to the 55th row" is broken, since Python is zero-based whereas Julia and R are one-based. The 50th row in Python is at index 49, so the code is not equivalent between th
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Does anyone here remember those huge catalogs of everyone's home address? I recall they were full of yellow and white pages. I'm not sure what the point is here...if someone knows your name they can often simply look up your home
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> That is what is being lost because I live in a state/city that puts infrastructure projects near the bottom of the priority list. Isn't it rather because you choose to live 12 miles from work?
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by jzwinck 12y ago
A few months ago I attended PyCon SG (Singapore). At some point one of the presenters[1] asked for a show of hands how many people were using Python 2, and how many Python 3. The ratio was about 10 to 1 in favor of Python 2, with hundreds
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> Can their be an external IO port that is both (a) fast and (b) access limited? Yes. eSATA is one example. 10 gigabit Ethernet is another. DisplayPort is, for certain applications.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The network effect. Fitbit has a huge advantage right now because the user base is so large. A lot of people use its social features to compete with their friends, office mates, etc. This encourages more people to buy the hardware to par
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by jzwinck 12y ago
This sort of "impossible," "the data I get is not the data on disk" type of error happens fairly often in my experience. On Linux, a very handy tool is strace(1), which lets you see the system calls being made by a prog
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Given that NTFS is closed-source, can we know if these protections are actually sufficient now?
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Things which transparently use Git on Windows seem likely to bundle their own copy of Git in their installer. I don't know of specific examples, but if this happens it may be trickier for average people to stay safe. Worse, I don&#x2
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The first and probably not the last. It reminds me of fish factory ships [1], where fish are processed at sea rather than being brought back to shore for processing. What's next? Maybe assembling airplane parts while in transit? [1]
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by jzwinck 12y ago
In English it is all too easy to mishear "14" as "40". Given how much of the article seemed to come from verbal sources, I imagine this is why that happened. Still, careless.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Here is an entire documentary from that time: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ - it's over five hours long. We used to use modems to connect directly to our friends (and sometimes, enemies), send and receive mail, play
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by jzwinck 12y ago
In an old-school helcopter you have, say, one main rotor with a vertical shaft, and one tail rotor with a horizontal shaft. Each of them has complex control mechanisms implemented in hardware: the main rotor has swash plates, and so does t
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Look at the hinge picture. See how the two hinge pins are parallel? Now imagine the blades turning 180 degrees. The hinge pins will now be at the "opposite" angle to before, despite that the blades are symmetrical so identical
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by jzwinck 12y ago
As recently as a few months ago, R used a form of "reference counting" which only allowed three values in the counter: 0, 1, and 2 [1]. This might be caused by unusual ancestry or it might not, but it's hard to stop saying R
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by jzwinck 12y ago
R makes it hard for teams to collaboratively develop code in libraries. No, R packages are not a solution, because each user has to "build" and "install" them every time another user checks in an update. R doesn't
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by jzwinck 12y ago
What would it take to make $72M? If you start with $1000 and make a profit of 6% per day for a full year, you're there. Or start with $100 and make 7% per day. But if you can only generate a piddly 1% per day (which itself would be a
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I missed a break in a switch a few weeks ago. I have been programming in C++ for more than a decade.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Significant typo: the second memset() in each pair needs to be memcpy() instead.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The article title refers to a "plane engine" not a "plane." There is a huge difference: the passenger plane airframes everyone knows and flies on are made by totally separate companies (Airbus, Boeing) from the engines
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Nottingham, Tottenham, Birmingham, Buckingham. Graham.

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