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by keenerd 13y ago
Ew. shuf -n 4 /usr/share/dict/words | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9'
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by keenerd 13y ago
A lot happens in the book and it explores a large number of interesting ideas. Sure it is long, but every part fits well together. As a result the universe feels more fleshed out and cohesive than the Culture books, and this is something
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by keenerd 13y ago
Though if you prefer hard sci-fi to space opera, skip Culture and start with The Algebrist. I can't pin down why, but it was a much more enjoyable read and has a higher density of parts that make you think.
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by keenerd 13y ago
> a minimum of three Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most systems use six? It is a whole lot easier to use three pairs of wheels. Pairs can be spun up from a dead stop and in the event of reduced power can be used to turn in e
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Those are called transits and occlusions. Very dull and quite frequent. And gas giants don't have a fixed surface you can stand on. I guess you could find the optimal distance to hover in your space ship to see an eclipse, assuming i
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by keenerd 13y ago
An amazing actual coincidence is that the sun and moon appear almost the same size as each other from the surface. The opportunity for such perfect total solar eclipses (with naked-eye visible Baily's Beads) is not common in the unive
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by keenerd 13y ago
99% of the time those sorts of problems are due to what could be summarized as bad marketing. If you are not familiar with the key phrases (and we don't go out of our way to tell people these phrases), you'll miss out on crucial
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by keenerd 13y ago
> I suppose every journaling FS already includes everything necessary for it. Depends. Ext seems to use a F̶I̶F̶O̶ LIFO for the empty block list. It can make recovering data more tricky. Last time I tried to recover some deleted data,
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by keenerd 13y ago
This does an 18 bit word, right?
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I once wrote a very ranty essay on the same topic: http://kmkeen.com/post-scarcity/ It needs some work yet and is not terribly well written. But it goes along well with the original post, providing things for we (as i
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by keenerd 13y ago
What do you think of LiFePO4 chemistry? The energy density is not so great, per-volume it is on par with NiMH. But they can provide lots of current and have a very flat discharge curve and are pretty much fireproof. Oh, and have much bet
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by keenerd 13y ago
It is a rephrasing of "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch". It is safe to assume that everything has side effects and the side effects are going to be roughly proportionate to the primary effects. If you think ther
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I think these studies underestimate how lazy a well-fed cat is. Lots of annecdotes ahoy! I feed (and fix and tame and try to place) a decent number of local strays. In the past five years I've only seen a cat really hunt twice - af
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> most people who care about photography don't use flash much for direct illumination I used to be adamantly against flash too. Then I read some of The Strobist blog. Now I am only against bad use of flash, the type built into P&#
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by keenerd 13y ago
> Wow. I thought that PDF was taking a while to load: the PDF is over 200MB. The Djvu file is 13MB. (To read these, I use DjView.) http://ia701203.us.archive.org/22/items/BrainfillingCurves-A...
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by keenerd 13y ago
For a more unix-y version of this, check out Jshon. http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
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Spot on. These are the guys I use, they are great. The transfer rate is $1/GB. If you don't have many pictures and serve pre-gzipped html/css/js (needs a custom .htaccess) the bill can be very low.
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by keenerd 13y ago
> However, after asking our team, we decided it wasn't worth it keeping the support code around for terminal transparency, and dropped it. Um, isn't this all handled by VTE? And as a Gnome project, does this mean transparency will event
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by keenerd 13y ago
Stuff like this is why I usually set my smallest clients up with a static html generator. (At least if they don't want comments, and then we consider Disqus before wordpress.) It is really hard to have vulerabilities with static html. Sim
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by keenerd 13y ago
You might also enjoy The Originist a short story by OS Card. It is a fanfic set in Asimov's Foundation universe. Without spoiling the plot, it takes place at The Library and involves the consequences of what happens when you have 10000
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by keenerd 13y ago
There was a post last month where the comments went into how the wealthy don't consider themselves "upper class". One fellow said he had $8M in investments but did not feel "upper class" due to lack of influence/respect. Completely oblivio
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by keenerd 14y ago
> Buttons didn't have ... 3D effects Buttons on windows have always had 3D effects. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/win31.... Note the 24 instances of shadows cast from a north-west light source, as if the button
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Academy of Motion Pictures report on LED lighting in film(oscars.org)
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Interesting! So a language might be a failure if it is only for writing OSes/FSes/drivers? That if it is not good for applications, it will never be used by application programmers and the language will never be popular? Come to think o
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> I plan to replace that with point-of-use electric tankless units. So what is your gas bill right now? It costs around five times as much to heat with electricity. If you wanted to be smart about it, add an electric heater with a sens
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by keenerd 14y ago
Bash is not suitable for large systems/teams. MySQL depends on image blobs. However both of these are wildly popular. They slot into existing systems, making them easy to pick up and use.
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Check out Bluebottle OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS
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That is simple. Oberon was a full-stack environment. Where full-stack means it typically provides OS-like and filesystem-like elements. Where as a mainstream language such as Python molds itself to the existing OSes, Oberon tries to take
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by keenerd 14y ago
GS is really slow at this. Pdfunite from Poppler is faster. wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/book2coverlarge.jpg convert book2coverlarge.jpg cover.pdf pdfunite cover.pdf *toc.pdf *pref.pdf *acks.pdf SEv2-c*.pdf *bib
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The bank wants their money regardless of how much you earn. With this scheme, if you don't earn anything you don't pay anything and when you do pay it is always a managable amount. This sort of arrangement could be very handy for a progra

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