lfowles

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by lfowles 11y ago
I don't know, I opened up (too) many toys and appliances as a kid and the only thing I learned was how to open things up. As far as I was concerned, the resistors in there were lined up in a pentagram to summon the proper amounts of el
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by lfowles 11y ago
> Simply put, I think as a parent of four children that active avoidance of time-wasting activities is helpful for children's development. Well put. I often see these posts saying "TV is bad", "Computers are bad"
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by lfowles 11y ago
It got slipped in Futurama, you can't just _make up_ something like the Space Pope.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Note: Some of your pages don't have titles, making me wonder if they ever finished loading when I see the tab!
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Oculus rift simulator(vr.mkeblx.net)
1 points by lfowles 11y ago|0 comments
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by lfowles 11y ago
"resource-management game" aka Roguelikes. Heh. It does more strongly resemble puzzles though. For anyone that hasn't played, the gameplay resembles a single level of a roguelike with stationary enemies. The difficulty is in
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by lfowles 11y ago
> But that doesn't mean the alternative—pure idle leisure—is that great either. Doing nothing sounds awesome when you're burnt out, but after a week or two of it, most people will start chewing on the wallpaper. Did you take a
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by lfowles 11y ago
Recently it seems to be better about respecting download settings. The download size also seems to be an upper limit, for example Team Fortress 2 pretty much always showed up as a 10gb update download, but spent less than 5 minutes actually
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by lfowles 11y ago
> Flying height these days is something like 3nm (yes, you read that right), so the tiniest vibration could cause a head crash in a vacuum. Wikipedia goes on to say the head could crash into a fingerprint or _smoke particle! So... how d
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by lfowles 11y ago
They publish the results[0], which show 40% Unspecified, 24% >10M, and 19% >2M. That still leaves ~15% in <2M speeds. [0]: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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by lfowles 11y ago
That's a refreshing attitude. I wish AWS had something like that warning... "If you only want a VPS to idle in IRC with... stop reading, this is not for you."
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by lfowles 11y ago
Heh. I submitted the Steam hardware survey again last week and one of the questions asked what my connection speed was. The fastest entry was "LAN>10M" https://i.imgur.com/aU1oQQS.png
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by lfowles 11y ago
> If you single-handedly list Python and C++ together, Matlab should have some ridiculously low entry barrier. The ridiculously low entry barrier exists wrt importing data and plotting/displaying results.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Or to check out books that you didn't remember checking out before!
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by lfowles 11y ago
Reminds me of the quip that goes something like this: "What's the best way to save 10 dollars? Earn 10 dollars more."
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I have just given up running my own mail server after more than 15 years because of this problem. Five years ago I had no problems, but these last 12 months have made me decide to give up and just pay. I'm tempted to do so as well
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by lfowles 11y ago
Sure, but I don't see the need for _an open bitstream_ to enable general purpose computing on FPGAs. The best argument I see is that tooling could get better.
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by lfowles 11y ago
OpenCL implementations exist for FPGAs, I'm not sure what you're getting at?
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by lfowles 11y ago
Ah, I see "before you start school" now..
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by lfowles 11y ago
Example: I knew literally nothing about any of the engineering disciplines until junior/senior year of highschool when a careers quiz directed me towards them.
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by lfowles 11y ago
It would be interesting to see a graph of stories inspired by other stories on HN. I'd expect lots of short little sections of ~5 or so stories for about a week after a current event.
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by lfowles 11y ago
There's a program called `motion` that I've used in the past for a similar setup. http://linux.die.net/man/1/motion
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by lfowles 11y ago
Anecdotal, but I replaced my eeepc's charger with a cheap compatible charger from ebay and about a year later, I heard some buzzing on the speakers at my desk followed by a bang at my feet. The caps blew the wall wart's case right
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Let's Solve Cross Set(lfowles.org)
1 points by lfowles 11y ago|0 comments
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by lfowles 11y ago
I think it's mainly being able to use a language you are familiar with vs working with Bethesda's custom scripting language[0] [0]: http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Papyrus
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by lfowles 11y ago
That sounds like level 2 of the scavenging perk in the INT tree. Level 1 was finding screws and uncommon materials when scrapping guns, level 2 is finding rare materials when scrapping guns as well as highlighting tagged components in the g
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by lfowles 11y ago
Interesting, do you have a picture? Most engineering paper has a grid printed only the back so it doesn't show when scanned, but I haven't seen it in blue.
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by lfowles 11y ago
> from anyone out there feeling the pressure - i did only well enough in highschool to get into a halfway decent college (good public school), and then graduated there with a 2.0 out of guilt of wasting my parents' money. i literall
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by lfowles 11y ago
> Another option is to accept a lower grade in a class. Ex: If getting a C on a project saves you 80 hours of work it can be worth it. Not that I'd recommend going as far as I did, but this was my college motto. 20% of the work for
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by lfowles 11y ago
> It's when your behavior is rejected, when you meet with poor results, that you have a true incentive to improve and push yourself forward. It might be painful and difficult, but the end result can be greater than what you would ha

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