klagermkii

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by klagermkii 10y ago
> I don't understand e-sports teams. They're not representative of a geographical region ... I don't understand the convention for how spectators are intended to root for a team. That isn't an e-sports specific phenom
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by klagermkii 10y ago
I don't think it's necessarily just people trying to appear smart to their peers and creating abstractions to do so. I think it's an intermediate programmer problem that comes from seeing their own novice programmer code spir
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by klagermkii 10y ago
I think it serves the same value as a falsifiability test. It helps find flaws in otherwise nice sounding or convenient theories.
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by klagermkii 10y ago
At what number of terrible Bluetooth software stacks does one start wondering if there isn't something fundamentally wrong with the specification that makes it so incredibly hard to get right? It's been bad from day one with Widco
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by klagermkii 10y ago
But you can't do a more binding referendum than this in the UK. There is no more binding than the Prime Minister promising to do something immediately after the vote. This isn't like other countries which have some kind of constit
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by klagermkii 10y ago
Sure it might not be a clear mandate, and I think it was a stupid bet to make, but it met the condition set and they were very clear before the vote what would happen. Normally it might not be that big a deal but it exists in the context of
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by klagermkii 10y ago
I see the datasheet mentions WiFi Direct and WPS which I remember at some point wasn't possible with the ESP8266. Does this mean that it can be controlled directly by an Android phone with WiFi P2P?
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by klagermkii 10y ago
> That said, something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why. I'm sure the authors of the article would recommend you read the linked piece on http:&#
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by klagermkii 10y ago
> you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government I don't think if it's government or individual it changes the inherent unfairness of having som
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by klagermkii 10y ago
You underestimate the power of being able to turn the Eye of Justice selectively upon individuals or groups of enemies. It's one of the reasons people get so upset with racial or class-based profiling. We may all agree that enforcing s
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by klagermkii 10y ago
I don't think that that is a trait derived or unique to Christianity. I think that happens in all groups be they religious or secular, where people find that they can make a majority of the group happy by instituting common standards o
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by klagermkii 10y ago
"Secondly, it turns out that, contrary to all my expectations, the executable bit can be dropped from the p_flags field. It turns out that the readable and executable bits are redundant: either one will imply the other." Wonder if
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by klagermkii 10y ago
There is no benefit to NVIDIA holding back on perf/W improvements: * It would make all the cards more expensive with better cooling and better VRMs need. * It would lock them out of much needed laptop wins where they face real pressure
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by klagermkii 10y ago
Wouldn't taking Apple to small claims court be a very fast way to get you booted out the App Store entirely? I don't think those 500 copies would ever be worth that.
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by klagermkii 10y ago
http://anandtech.com/show/10273/intel-proposes-to-use-usb-ty... As Anandtech points out it gets HDCP, so I'm sure there's going to be some uptake for apps that require a protected path.
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by klagermkii 10y ago
I wonder if the pressure detection is localised enough to allow that to work without being annoying? If I'm resting my right thumb on a letter, but pressing with my left thumb on another letter, I don't think the tech is necessari
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by klagermkii 11y ago
This is another industry with a brutal gender gap (95%-5%) that I don't see referenced in the article as being an untapped source for talent. http://www.womenofaviationweek.org/five-decades-of-women-pil... Is it an ind
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by klagermkii 11y ago
I guess this is one version of what a micro-transaction powered Web could look like. Potentially even worse forms of click-bait becoming dominant.
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by klagermkii 11y ago
> In other words, it seems arguable viewers view for the games more than the Let's Player. If people would tune in without the games then there's no reason for the Let's Player to have the games at all. Successful Let&#x27
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by klagermkii 11y ago
An issue I don't see raised here is the complications from Mobile Number Portability, where one may use different services to send text messages to different networks in a country and wrongly rely on the number prefix to identify the m
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by klagermkii 11y ago
I installed an adblocker on my Mac after I was using mobile tethering with my computer muted, and some ad went through a huge video playlist in another window using close to 1 GB of data. It was worth around $20 at the time in local currenc
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by klagermkii 11y ago
I don't think they can do that due to the relatively weak anti-piracy protections of Windows 7, and the ease with which a SLIC 2.1 pirated copy can be converted to a "genuine" Windows 10. It would leave too big a window open
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by klagermkii 11y ago
I'm ok with 20 year predictions when it comes to converting an existing invention into its commercially available mass produced form (like white LED lighting). Or the growth of the 1995 Internet into its now ubiquitous level. I'm
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by klagermkii 11y ago
Works here on a Retina 15-inch mid-2012 MacBook Pro. You've got to have the antenna real close to the machine (talking 10 cm here), turn the dial pretty much to the end of the AM band and then you can hear the tune through loads of AM
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by klagermkii 11y ago
That's the theory in the article, that this silent corruption is happening all the time and it's just happening in unimportant places or ones that don't trigger a noticeable crash. But why am I not seeing this when explicitly
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by klagermkii 11y ago
Do the results talked about in this article scale down to small systems? "Jaguar had 360 terabytes of main memory, all protected by ECC. I and others at the lab set it up to log every time a bit was flipped incorrectly in main memory.
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by klagermkii 11y ago
Indeed, rather than being anti-code sharing it looks very similar to the risks presented by The Wrong Abstraction that was posted a little while back. http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abs
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by klagermkii 11y ago
I think the X-1 is still in the camp of furthering advanced expensive technology and pushing the boundary of what is possible, compared to SpaceX and their efforts to make space transport practical. In support of the author's theory th
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by klagermkii 11y ago
> Despite being pre-installed on Galaxy phones, Samsung's ChatON messaging service gained few adherents and closed without fanfare in March, while the Milk Video app, a high profile project run by newly hired U.S. executives, lasted
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by klagermkii 11y ago
Why do you think AMD would bother with something like http://www.anandtech.com/show/9792/amd-sc15-boltzmann-initia... so recently if OpenCL has become the dominant platform? Nvidia still doesn't even support

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