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by kwantam 16y ago
Fair enough :) (In my defense, I've been solving other problems instead...)
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by kwantam 16y ago
This sounds cool, but how is this not a solution that's already been considered? It seems intuitively obvious to me that you can use a circuit simulator to solve this problem pretty quickly by assigning conductances to the edges of the gra
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by kwantam 16y ago
"Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk..., heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk." Hmm, seems to me that all have precisely the same likelihood of dying. Sorry to be snarky, but this is j
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by kwantam 16y ago
I often use it in a slightly different role: to introduce a new idea or discovery I've made without sounding like I'm fishing for compliments: "I've thought a lot about a better way to implement this circuit, and it turns out that there is
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by kwantam 16y ago
Clearly the right way is 2ij^[ :) (EDIT: uhh, the :) is a smiley, not part of the command)
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by kwantam 16y ago
C-x is cut. C-v is paste. C-a C-x C-s cuts everything to clipboard and saves an empty file. C-v C-s would restore this. So C-a C-x C-s C-v C-s is just a funny way of saying C-s.
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by kwantam 16y ago
A couple references: http://www.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopmethod.php http://coffeegeek.com/guides/popperroasting I'm thinking of trying this out; it sounds really easy.
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by kwantam 16y ago
Intercepting system calls via LD_PRELOAD is a hugely useful approach for many situations. Got a binary-only piece of code that's creating ghost temp files you want to poke at? Intercept unlink(). Need to quickly (and dirtily) hack an exe
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by kwantam 16y ago
I can see your point here, but since time is fundamentally an external datum provided by the system, in my view there's no reason to screw with Haskell's internals when you can just produce the necessary simulated environment in which your
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by kwantam 16y ago
> inconsistent error handling I don't understand how offering several choices is synonymous with inconsistent. If you really really want "consistency", establish a policy for your code and stick with it. All three have distinct uses,
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by kwantam 16y ago
It's understandable that you'd rather concentrate on writing neat software, but when your hardware doesn't work and your guide doesn't help you, I'm guessing you'll wish you'd spent a little more time learning basic circuits. To that end, H
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by kwantam 16y ago
I won't pretend to know what the author was thinking, but one obvious answer is that the central authority approach makes data lock-in a whole lot easier.
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by kwantam 16y ago
The author of this article backs up his argument with little substance. No decision-making process is perfect; pointing out the warts in Google's isn't much of an indictment. Really, to my mind the whole thing comes across as a bit whiny.
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by kwantam 16y ago
He made the specific claim in the article that he believes the cost of switching operating systems escalates with time; if he sees it as inevitable that OSX will go walled, it's reasonable for him to cut his losses now. I don't necessarily
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by kwantam 16y ago
This is similar to the argument against allowing steroid use in various professional sports. If you can't compete unless you compete dishonestly (I'm not taking a side here on the question of whether steroids are actually bad, but if they'
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by kwantam 16y ago
I'm not trying to pick a fight here, nor am I claiming you're wrong as such, but I think you have to actually justify the claim that programming a microcontroller in Python is "certainly better" than doing so in BASIC. An overwhelming numb
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by kwantam 16y ago
Not quite the web dev / web news / media that you're requesting (you've had other suggestions better than I could provide to that effect), but perhaps you'd consider the Feynman lectures on physics? They're available on CD, and they're hon
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by kwantam 16y ago
A while ago I was bored on a car trip and coded up a Set game in Haskell. Later, I converted it to a really simple CGI game. I had grand plans for a scoreboard and head-to-head play that fell by the wayside when I moved on to another proj
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by kwantam 17y ago
Serves me right for being a hardware guy. Clicked through eagerly expecting something like my vector clock implementation, http://web.jfet.org/vclk/
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by kwantam 17y ago
Yes; at present, adding code generation for new architectures is kind of a nightmare (google "haskell Evil Mangler"). LLVM will make this much simpler (or, at least, foist it on the LLVM guys :) )
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by kwantam 17y ago
I took a class from him at MIT (9.00). He is a very, very smart person.
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by kwantam 17y ago
Right. Anyway, we first have to settle the question "will LISP ever get critical adoption?" :) (I love LISP. I'm trying to point out that "critical adoption" doesn't seem to be a very important or measurable thing.)
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by kwantam 17y ago
The factual content of this article is more useful if your mother or father is an avid reader and keeps asking "what is it you do again?" I enjoyed this article not for the factual content but for the writing style. Another here has called
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by kwantam 17y ago
There was another presentation at Defcon about attacking USB drivers with rogue devices. Basically, they programmed a USB-enabled microcontroller to present a malformed ID string and could use it to inject and run arbitrary code. http://w
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by kwantam 17y ago
Well, it's certainly more cross-platform, and a CD can't pretend to be a keyboard.
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by kwantam 17y ago
Today there is no software that could understand(well) that there are birds(or small planes) on the way that are going to be eaten by your engines, and damage it. This is just fearmongering. Birds, sure, but airplane engines are designed
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by kwantam 17y ago
The big difference is that redout happens at substantially lower G force, partially because there is no way to use skeletal muscles to fight it. This is partially why both the Immelman and the Split S use a "climb" to effect their vertical
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by kwantam 17y ago
This is how the SomethingAwful forums remain, in my opinion, rather high quality despite being affiliated with an offensive comedy website. $10 and strict mods seemingly breed compliance with whatever regulations you care to enforce.
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by kwantam 17y ago
(Sorry to be US-centric in this post) I think one thing that people could already start doing is pushing their state legislatures to pass law or even amend state constitutions such that "3 strikes" provisions, lacking due process, are both
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by kwantam 17y ago
Silly, unsubstantiated remarks aren't as interesting as they sound in your dorm room. Snarky, wildly inaccurate drivel doesn't lend you any much-needed credibility. If you're unaware of Apple's obsession with lock-in, I'm impressed you c

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