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by keenerd 15y ago
There can be emergent, uncoordinated cooperation between competitors. If two both adopt similar policies of price matching, one can raise prices without consequence and the other will soon follow. It has come up on HN before... google rea
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My first app for the WikiReader, a huge image viewer(kmkeen.com)
1 points by keenerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by keenerd 15y ago
They are already here. http://kmkeen.com/tmp/wikireader1.jpg I think this weekend I'll release the image view for the wikireader I've been working on. It can smoothly pan/zoom images that are thousands of pixels wide.
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by keenerd 15y ago
Odd. I have the Thinkpad equivalent (x120e) and I agree on almost all your points except performance. 720p plays fine in linux, 1080p plays fine too but only with vaapi acceleration. Have never booted windows on it, so I can't compare th
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by keenerd 15y ago
You should be using Pacmatic. The --force thing was a news feed item, and Pacmatic would have shown you the official news before you could have done damage.
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by keenerd 15y ago
Interesting that they only make comparisons with PIC and 8051. AVR still blows them away on many angles; particularly energy efficiency, community, ease of use on not-windows, and price. (MSP430 too, for efficiency and price.) I'm fooling
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by keenerd 15y ago
I prefer caps lock to Control. ^C does the same thing as escape in Vi[m]. While it is chording, the combo is pretty easy to hit. This is a bit of a compromise, but all the other programs that are not vim will benefit from it.
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by keenerd 15y ago
If you don't want to give money to Sony, the Sennheiser HD-280 is nearly identical. Same sized ear pads, nearly identical bandwidth/specs, same coiled cord, same price. Made in Ireland for some odd reason.
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Quoz and other memetic phrases of 1800's London(gutenberg.org)
8 points by keenerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by keenerd 15y ago
This is going to be a huge disappointment. A mid range LED flashlight with a single CREE emitter will run for 10 hours on two AA batteries while putting out 50 lumens the entire time. So we can guess guess the output of this bike light base
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by keenerd 15y ago
Reminds me of the Van Gogh from "Heretics of Dune" (written in 1984). > The Ixians had been at their best in the preservation and restoration. An observer could touch a dark spot on the lower left corner of the frame. Immediately, you
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by keenerd 15y ago
> To me, it demonstrates a far less altruistic motivations. He does not have a problem with cell phones. He has a problem with the fact that if you use the same cell phone repeatably, you give up a large portion of your privacy though
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by keenerd 15y ago
If you want to read the full text of this source, it is on Project Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 ). (Books link just because I could not get that specific page otherwise, sorry.) I just finished reading this book. It i
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The word "bubble" (in the economic sense) was created in 1720(books.google.com)
2 points by keenerd 15y ago|1 comments
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by keenerd 15y ago
No. It was like that (where vi is just a lightweight recompile of vim) several years ago. Since then Arch has switched to using ex-vi[1], the closest thing to 'authentic' vi you can get nowadays. [1] http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
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by keenerd 15y ago
I use a second browser just for JS and flash. It never has more than 3 tabs open and is quite light on memory usage.
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by keenerd 15y ago
Turn off flash and javascript. That should reduce your browser's memory use by 90%. And use Opera. I can easily fit 200 tabs in under a GB.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I can only hope that some day Square One will air again. That show was crucial to me as a kid.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I prefer GNU Screen for the nethack mode. It is a shame that Screen does not ship with a nicer hardstatusline by default - you can do some really amazing things there.
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by keenerd 15y ago
AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55333
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by keenerd 15y ago
> However, when you look at the actual accelerations involved the moon is much more attracted to the earth (by over 100x) than it is to the sun Your "over 100x" figure is entirely made up. The correct answer is 0.46. Depth of the well
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by keenerd 15y ago
No, you took the Moon's velocity relative to the Earth. The Moon orbits the Sun and its velocity relative to Earth is only useful for astrology purposes.
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by keenerd 15y ago
At 1AU, orbital velocity is 42.3 km/s. Io does 17.3 km/s relative to Jupiter. Io would be gone. Calliso does 8.2 km/s and I highly suspect that would be too fast to maintain a planetary orbit at 1AU. The orbital velocity of Earth is the
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by keenerd 15y ago
Your Deimos (and Moon) velocities are off, as those are velocities relative to Mars and Earth comparatively. The real question is, does 24.1km/s +- 1.3km/s keep Deimos in orbit without Mars. 5% change in velocity will probably knock it a
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by keenerd 15y ago
No. If the Earth's mass were to vanish, the Moon would continue to orbit the Sun. It would be a bit more wobbly, but the Earth is not an essential part of the system. If the same happened to Jupiter, all of those moons would fly out of of
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by keenerd 15y ago
And don't forget about his most recent book, Surface Detail, that is entirely about simulated realities for the dead.
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by keenerd 15y ago
> the main plot involves ... simulated beings ... bootstrapped on a normal computer. You might want to re-read that short story. It involved real people and was bootstrapped by very rare real people.
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Generator Tricks for Engineers(kmkeen.com)
2 points by keenerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by keenerd 15y ago
As a power user, I really appreciate Chromium's command line arguments. --user-agent is vastly simpler than anything else. I don't use Chromium myself, but it does get pulled out whenever someone needs a "legacy" browser.
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by keenerd 15y ago
I dare say you missed the point. Were you replying to the wrong thread?

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