limmeau

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by limmeau 15y ago
Almost like the bumblebee which can't fly and the spinach which contains lots of iron, except the story behind it is more interesting. Do they tell the bumblebee story all around the world?
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by limmeau 15y ago
This particular example, or generally quoting misquoted science when it supports your position?
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by limmeau 15y ago
I'd tell you an X11 joke, but you don't have the PROTOCOL_JOKE extension. etc.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Thanks, I missed that point.
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by limmeau 15y ago
An IMAP client somewhere could poll the 'read' state of message 0x12345678 instead, alerting the owner when the message turns 'read'. However, that client would have to have access to the Gmail box...
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by limmeau 15y ago
Never mind, the other item has more traffic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2634821
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by limmeau 15y ago
The problem with Lojban, according to Munroe: http://xkcd.com/191/
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by limmeau 15y ago
No mention of MSP430? Some of them come in DIL packaging (at least the little ones). The architecture has a GCC port and two free-as-in-small-glasses-of-beer commercial IDEs. The assembly language is bearable. The cheapest development board
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by limmeau 15y ago
On another forum[1], I read that the download includes a disk image for an emergency boot disk. [1] http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/news/foren/S-Re-Mac-OSX-Lion-n...
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by limmeau 15y ago
In order to closely imitate Bitcoin, the proof-of-work would have to be based on a block of payment history. So folding proteins can only be used if there is a suitable mapping from blocks to protein problems.
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by limmeau 15y ago
I'm somewhere in Un Lun Dun by China Mieville right now. I cannot recommend his imaginative writing enough. ( Un Lun Dun is a children's book in the same way the Potters are children's books).
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by limmeau 15y ago
It's also an example of a Win32 program in assembler, together with a WndProc for a window. Does Win32 require a window if you want to write a web server?
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by limmeau 15y ago
While attacks against the basic building blocks of cryptosystems (like the SHA256 hash or AES block cipher) are rare, the protocols built upon those blocks can be independently vulnerable. Take the Needham-Schroeder public key protocol from
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by limmeau 15y ago
Still, you'd have to write a similar Chrome extension if you meet your trolls again in a random blog's comment section. Also, if everybody knows that everybody's news client has a killfile, then there is a stronger incentive not to troll th
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by limmeau 15y ago
Back in the days when people used Usenet for discussion, newsreaders had a killfile with which you could stop hearing from that particular person ever again (unless they changed their name). That's a feature I dearly miss from today's HTML-
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by limmeau 15y ago
My favourite anti-TOFU (German for Text Oben Fullquote Unten, text above, fullquote below) educational signature is: Because it sounds backwards. > Why should I not use the style? >> Text oben, Fullquote unten. >&
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by limmeau 15y ago
Is there a Pelican-driven demo blog somewhere?
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by limmeau 15y ago
That would have to be something that cannot be resold. Still, a company which sells its product (which would have to be unique within its market segment) for "real" money today would have to say goodbye to all those dollar-wielding one-dot-
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by limmeau 15y ago
$800 millions should be enough to live comfortably by for a lifetime; no need to go all-in on bitcoins.
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by limmeau 15y ago
From a collaboration point of view, the thought of programming with single-function modules sounds like a nightmare. Now you don't have to find and install matching versions of five libraries, you have to find suitable versions of a hundred
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by limmeau 15y ago
I wish the author had, as a PoC, taken one of the papers in his career as a maths PhD, and rewritten it so that a non-mathematician (say, one with only a CS or physics degree) can immediately understand it. I don't say it's impossible, but
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by limmeau 15y ago
No, many languages have a grammar in order to reject malformed programs, so that not every sequence of words is a program. AFAIK, you can define your own FOR loops in FORTH, but you can't enforce statically that each FOR has a matching LOOP
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by limmeau 15y ago
... and as long as every sequence of words is a valid program.
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by limmeau 15y ago
While the LaunchPad itself is old news, I hadn't noticed that TI was offering a $10 capacitive touch pad/scroll wheel module.
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by limmeau 15y ago
And while we're at it, who took our cylinders, heads and sectors (and tables of bad blocks) and gave us stupid LBA addresses?
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by limmeau 15y ago
Is this a reinvention of the PLC with nicer plugs?
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by limmeau 15y ago
In the days before KVM, he wrote a paravirtualization kernel module for QEMU (kqemu), gave away binaries and tried to sell the source. I don't know what happened with that business.
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by limmeau 15y ago
They could leverage best-of-breed synergies: there is already a Skype port for Symbian.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Invest the European branch's cash in the EU instead of paying the taxes for taking it home to the US? (Disclaimer: I don't work for an international tax avoidance consultancy)
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by limmeau 15y ago
The other point was using bandwidth. If you run Skype on a well-connected computer, you can't decide whether you want to become a big Skype relay node for your part of the world; Skype decides that for you.

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