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by marshray 8y ago
Here's what has worked for me: 1. Don't do that. Either write the driving app in Python or write the subprocesses in an ahead-of-time compiled language. Python's a great language but it's not the right tool for everythin
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by marshray 8y ago
Yes but with the added complexity and resource usage it's not a good general solution. If every app behaved this way we'd be in a worse place overall.
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by marshray 8y ago
These days I bet a thermal camera would be great for finding those.
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by marshray 8y ago
Garbage Collection is a very consequential design decision. To free that last unused object is going to take O(total writable address space) memory bandwidth.
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by marshray 8y ago
Don't worry! You'll be able to tell them apart by the slightly different logo embossed in black plastic on black plastic lettering on the back of the device.
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by marshray 8y ago
Everything's a fuse, it's just a question of how much current it takes to blow.
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by marshray 8y ago
"Linear in F_EM" :-)
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by marshray 8y ago
> it's not realistic to expect a company with so many projects and users like GitHub to be making those kind of individual calls While I agree with that logic on some level, this sounds exactly like the same arguments that every tec
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by marshray 8y ago
> beam forming simply from CSI in any random environment Isn't this basically holography, just using a few discrete antennae rather than an (approximately) continuous film medium?
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by marshray 8y ago
I'm not a physicist like the Ars writer, but I always kinda though that computation requires energy consumption and non-linear elements to interact with a signal. The only energy source in this experiment are the Wifi transmitters and
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by marshray 8y ago
This argument has been made since the introduction of the JVM in the early mid-90's. Seems to me like if, in practice, JIT provided better performance then by now people would be rewriting their C/C++ code in Java and C# for speed
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by marshray 8y ago
I'd love to see a dog detect the odor of an undoped polycrystalline silicon wafer.
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by marshray 9y ago
Maybe a subtle difference here is that a page doesn't get to block on anything before it gets closed. So how is creating a nursery that matches the lifetime and visibility of the page different from not using a nursery at all?
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by marshray 9y ago
A common minimum voltage requirement for the nominal +5V supply is 4.5 V. Let's assume a voltage below that won't damage the drive, but it won't operate. The diode is going to drop 0.6V, leaving you with only 4.4 V max for th
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by marshray 9y ago
> having your toaster burn the day's agenda on your toast Shut up and take my money!
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by marshray 9y ago
Yeah completely unrealistic thinking FCC is going to call you. They send out certified letters. Here are a few: https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html
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by marshray 9y ago
What would be the security model of such a browser environment? Maybe like an iframe?
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by marshray 9y ago
Seems like 'smart' is unrelated to the ability to give or receive feedback, or maybe even inversely correlated. Another aspect of this: Say person B is smarter than person A, and A realizes this. Now person C, who is smarter than
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by marshray 9y ago
> clearly he had been involved personally in most of the things I was criticizing: code of poor quality with no validation of inputs, lots of partially finished modifications (see the lava flow anti-pattern), lack of unit tests, obvious
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by marshray 9y ago
> 1.06J/cm3 Energy per volume? That would make sense for, say, battery storage but can anyone explain how it describes an energy conversion process?
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by marshray 9y ago
IANA thermodynamicist, but I suspect the resulting system could not be more efficient than either the heat pump or the pyroelectric charge pump by itself. So if this conversion process is really that great, you would end up replacing your h
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by marshray 9y ago
I have been a WF customer for many years and, to be fair, they have always done right by me. It used to be that my main complaint was they would ask me to sign up for a credit card every time I walked into a branch, but they've cut way
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by marshray 9y ago
I stopped reading at: "composed of carbon atoms joined in a pattern that makes the material extremely tough and impervious to even the smallest atom, helium." Is helium really smaller than hydrogen?
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by marshray 9y ago
A lot of what's said and written about genericized trademarks is just utter BS. Go ahead and market a product named Thermos, Chapstick, Band-Aid, or Kleenex in the US and see how far you get.
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by marshray 9y ago
> The creation of law or precedent in the USA doesn't make it happen elsewhere, nor does not having law or precedent in the USA prevent it elsewhere. If that were true, I think we in the US wouldn't be hearing so much about the
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by marshray 9y ago
> If you break American law in America, saying "the information is overseas" isn't--and shouldn't be--a valid excuse. So, by this logic, if a prosecutor in [country without privacy rights] claims one of their laws has
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by marshray 9y ago
I can't find the original link where I read about this, it may have been more theory than about specific games. These links seem to be relevant: http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Sprite_overflow_games http:
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by marshray 9y ago
> NES games never drew their own sprites. They just said "Hey NES, write the sprite at this x and y location" Yeah, but the hardware is so limited with weird corner cases that writing a bitblt might be easier. For example, some
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by marshray 9y ago
The problem is that cheap meters will give bad readings. For example, reading AC on top of a DC offset voltage can produce incorrect results on a cheap meter. Or it can just be broken. An experienced tech can spot the errors and work around
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by marshray 9y ago
I got my ham license because I loved electronics. I went to a local meeting, got a transceiver, and joined a local net. Then I realized I didn't really have anything to say over the radio to these people. But the ARRL handbook is defin

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