leggomylibro

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by leggomylibro 10y ago
Neal Stephenson wrote a bit about this in Cryptonomicon; laying new undersea cable is both expensive and time consuming, but the cost of cutting existing ones is fairly low. So if any sufficiently-funded individual, corporation, or nation-s
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
The edges of the board have round plated indents near the through holes, which makes them easier for machines to place and solder.
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
What were you working on, if you don't mind my asking? I really enjoy graphical programming and I'm curious what kinds of jobs involve that, besides the obvious ones like video game programming.
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
I'm guessing that I'm missing snomething and you're talking about a more complex feature, but isn't 'e' the hotkey for extruding in blender?
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
This is very cool, but we've had spellers based on the P300 signal for some time; here's an article from 5 years ago explaining how to set one up: http://openvibe.inria.fr/openvibe-p300-speller/ So it looks l
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
Ditto; now I use SpiderOak which has a solid no-knowledge replacement, but I hear Box is also good.
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
I certainly don't trust someone like Hillary Clinton to make good decisions around things like recommending courses of action to the Justice Department for say, enforcement of the CFAA or DMCA. Ditto for stances on incoming legislation
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
Exactly - teaching people how to use software to solve problems at an early age is not railroading them into a single career path, it's setting them up to be more effective in the career path that they eventually choose. An administrat
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
You can detect strong signals with current consumer technology. One easy pattern is the SSVEP[1], which shows up as a spike in the brain signal's FFT at the frequency of a flashing light that the subject is looking at. Interestingly, i
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with paper books, it's just that you have to consider the tradeoffs now that we have multiple formats. Pros: Can lend it out, doodle in the margins, flip quickly through the pages, use without electricity, et
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
I remember seeing one in St. Louis - it was just an ordinary drab, beige-brick corner office building, and you wouldn't pick it out besides the 'AT&T' signs and the blinking rows of servers barely visible behind barred fi
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
Updated nothing, that sounds like Cryptonomicon's fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta.
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by leggomylibro 10y ago
Is it really faster to do a whole FIN / ACK / FIN / ACK / SYN / SYNACK / ACK every N bytes? How much does this sort of traffic shaping typically throttle, and how long does it typically give a connection? Can t
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
I'm surprised at the education numbers; out of the respondents who attended university, 22% studied either Computer Science or IT. Reading their 'how we made the survey' piece (1), it looks like they asked for responses acros
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
If anyone is looking for a more in-depth 'OpenGL For Dummies' tutorial, I wholeheartedly recommend Anton's OpenGL Tutorials^. It's written in a similar style to this blog post - plain English with simple minimal examples
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
And before that they were known for bungling a healthcare exchange for Canada's CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). I guess the US took them because they had experience in the field?
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
Put it this way, I wouldn't want my donations to <rebellious political candidate du jour> to land me in jail because it wasn't protected speech. Although donations to the wrong political group can certainly get you in big tr
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
It would be nice if the sites themselves took some responsibility. If your ad contract includes strong SLAs with massive penalties for malware distribution, the company providing you with ads will probably take a bit more time to vet them.
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by leggomylibro 11y ago
Graphical programming is a lot of fun. That might just be personal preference, but objectively it's at least very different from enterprise programming. There are lots of interesting problems, and you can see the fruits of your labor p