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by korethr 9y ago
I was expecting something similar. I know of rockwool for it's insulative and sound absorption properties, I'd never thought of it as a fiber suitible for textiles. I was hoping to learn some intersting properties about rockwool f
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by korethr 9y ago
Who is this author, and where is his code? I'd like to study it -- I might learn something.
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by korethr 9y ago
> ...especially since integer handling in C is so treacherous. I'm still learning C, having not had much reason to do so until recently, so I'm not quite sure I understand this statement. How is integer handling in C treacherou
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by korethr 9y ago
It sounds like what happens in every other instance of engineering: trade-offs. Emphasise performance in one metric -- preventing roof collapse and preserving the integrity of the passenger compartment in this case -- and it can come at the
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by korethr 9y ago
Likewise. I don't know how many times I'd observed this phenomenon, and made the right conclusion (that thing's gonna hit me!). It was just another thing I intuitively did, without fully conciously knowing what it was or how
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by korethr 9y ago
As the article says, the bill, as is, is too radical to pass. But I'd wager that's intentional. Knowing that negotiation will have to happen in order to get the bill passed, he proposed something extreme, so it would still be clos
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by korethr 9y ago
It would be nice to know which older CPUs are affected. Do I have to worry about my Fam 10h processors getting bricked, or just my K-7 and K-8 systems?
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by korethr 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that different people have different thresholds for "bricked" depending on their awareness, willingness, and ability with regard to various repair techniques that may be to hand. To my mother, a virus
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by korethr 9y ago
I'll have to take a look at this later when I get home. (I forget what my residential IP is, so I can't easily check this from work.) I've not been on any torrents for some years, so unless my roommate is downloading things,
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by korethr 9y ago
That's the reason I put that statement in quotes. A </sarcastic> tag seemed like it set an unduly negative tone to the rest of the post.
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by korethr 9y ago
While I like the idea, a potential problem comes to mind. A list of what domains are tracking domains will need to be maintained. The need to maintain that list will possibly move the cat-and-mouse game of ads vs ad-blockers to the tracking
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Anil Dash's analysis of Sam Altman's free speach essay(threadreaderapp.com)
75 points by korethr 9y ago|173 comments
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by korethr 9y ago
I discovered this site years ago, when searching for information about how to season cast iron. I had a cast iron skillet I'd been using off and on for a few years at that point, but was still having trouble with food sticking, and so
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by korethr 9y ago
Do you have any local friends who have the space & time to deal with lye or electrolysis? They might be willing to do so in exchange for a few beers or maybe a steak cooked in said cast iron skillet. Another thought that comes to mind:
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by korethr 9y ago
So, now that the concept has been proven, are we going to see a proper RFC proposal to standardize this? There's still 110 days left for submissions. That should be plenty of time to test what string types and electrolytes work best fo
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by korethr 9y ago
Per the article, increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere are causing plants to produce more sugars in favor of the (micro)nutrients they'd otherwise have, causing a relative drop in those nutrients. Okay. That makes sense. However, pla
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by korethr 9y ago
-edit- I just re-read your comment and the (great-)grandparent, and embarrassingly, just got the joke which I think you were making from some of the ambiguity of the original phrasing. That said, I'm leaving the rest of my original com
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by korethr 9y ago
Sounds like the seeds of a young hacker are being sewn. Has he given off any signals about combining the pieces into cool new things yet?
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by korethr 9y ago
It wouldn't surprise me. I recall watching a video about researchers trapping and tagging raccoons to study their movements. What they found is that the territories of individual urban raccoons were rather small, and bordered by hazard
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by korethr 9y ago
There probably could still be some market segmentation based on the results of what comes out of the silicon fab. Recall that in the case of CPUs, the circuits on dies of processors from the same line (and different lines!) are the same, bu
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by korethr 9y ago
This is something I would love to see. As evidenced by the netsec person you spoke to, not everyone's comfortable with electronics. But a pre-built thing or kit that leaves little to no chance of user error would provide a great deal o
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by korethr 9y ago
While this is great, and I'm glad it exists, not everyone is like you and I: willing and able to open a computer and use a SOIC clip and a Raspberry Pi to purge the ME from the computer's firmware. You and I are what the normals t
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by korethr 9y ago
And that last bit, figuring out what the old software is doing, can be a bitch and a half. You don't have to just replicate the spec or documentation (if it is accurate or even exists at all), you have to replicate the classic behavior
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Bufferbloat on the Backbone(blog.cerowrt.org)
1 points by korethr 9y ago|0 comments
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by korethr 9y ago
> Peeking at the API indicates I can pass something called an ambisonic order into some functions, but even the constant for the default gives me no obvious indication of what this means. They're likely referring to Ambisonics[1].
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by korethr 9y ago
My first thought upon reading this was that it sounded kinda like magnetic-core memory. Assuming this tech can be produced at commercial scales and does not remain just a lab experiment, how many years is it going be before "core"
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by korethr 9y ago
I feel seriously remiss for forgetting Adventure Time now. Gravity Falls has been recommended to me before, though it escaped my memory since I've actually never seen it. Even though it's a miniseries, I do feel like I should perh
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by korethr 9y ago
I'm one of the 90s kids who watched this series. I'd not realized that there'd been executive pressure to make the show into another 20 minute toy commercial -- I never got that vibe from watching it. So, IMO, they successful
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by korethr 9y ago
>> Another thing I wonder about, is if it's possible to have the CPU come online directly in protected mode or long mode after POWER_OK has settled and the motherboard releases the reset line. > No. The BIOS needs to perform s
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by korethr 9y ago
As far as I can tell, it is an US thing. I can't speak for other countries in the Americas, but when I was in Europe briefly a few years ago, what few purchases I made with a card were all done chip & pin. In the US, that signature

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