mchahn

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by mchahn 8y ago
> a practical decentralized database did not exist before FlureeDB It was hard to keep reading after this.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> the solution is to protect the resource with a mutex. Then you have deadlocks.
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by mchahn 8y ago
If I understand the problem correctly it involves generating random strings. If so, then it seems like cheating since quantum effects are random and classical computing isn't.
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by mchahn 8y ago
This garage door opening story reminds me of something that happened in the 50's. The first powerful comm satellites happened to use a frequency that garage doors used (no id codes then). Garage doors opened and closed by themselves.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Check out tampermonkey. You can add javascript to any loaded webpage. It can often replace the need for an extension and it much simpler to use.
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by mchahn 8y ago
A long time ago (late 70's) a lab I worked next to had an emergency shower over each worker and there were straps on their wrists. If they jerked their arm back the shower would go off.
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by mchahn 8y ago
I had a friend that would fix bad PCBs that had a short in a middle layer by hooking up a car battery and burning up the short. It actually worked.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> cheap, slow boards from China I've bought about a dozen chinese prototype PCBs for $0.20 a board and experienced 6 days from order to arrival at my door (using $19 shipping). These are tested boards with 6 mil features up to 100x1
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Software usually has a technical reason for not running on a platform it's not targeted for. Not true. Many years ago Atari patented a little cartridge flap just so no one else could make a cartridge that could be inserted into t
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by mchahn 9y ago
I couldn't use this because I only work on a laptop on a couch. I haven't sat at a desk in years. (And yes I also exercise to stay alive).
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by mchahn 9y ago
I still use a RSS reader but the number of my feeds has gone down from a dozen to three. When they quit sending you the feed you are screwed.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> We introduce a malware How do you get malware onto one of these things? I guess social-hacking could be used but if you have that then no technical solution is needed.
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by mchahn 9y ago
Ironically, the evil businessman Bill Gates was always a nice guy. I had several business meetings with both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and they were on the opposite ends of the spectrum. I was on the same dais with Jobs at a conference an
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by mchahn 9y ago
> I just groan. It's going to be painful for sure. I get amazon packages every day or two for my startup. I don't ever remember any pain.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> The vans in my area are unbranded Most of my deliveries have been in cars uber-like. > "Soft" expenses such as uniforms They do wear an unlabeled orange vest here. Maybe that is just for safety when crossing roads but it
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by mchahn 9y ago
I didn't have the time to watch the video but I am acutely aware of the difference between the 1970 unix and today's. My school was down the road from Bell Labs and we had a PDP-11 running unix in a lab in 1970. Unrelated: We had
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by mchahn 9y ago
Ditto. I was intrigued and eagerly reading and then looked for the "more" button.
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by mchahn 9y ago
This is impressive enough that it might turn into a real language instead of a hobby language. I think improving the speed is the top concern. Everything else seems to be already in place.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> accelerating quickly uses up more energy than accelerating slowly Can you explain this to me? I know gas engines have this attribute but I assumed electric motors didn't.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I was hoping this would be about how piracy was detected, but it was mostly what happened when it was detected.
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by mchahn 9y ago
That is one of my favorite Yogi Berra sayings.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> the screen isn’t on with static elements for 8 hours I have two old cellphones mounted on the wall in my house that show time, weather, control the thermostat, etc. Most of the display is static. After a couple of years the burn-in i
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by mchahn 9y ago
GitHub's Atom editor recently added git operations. I use Atom but haven't had the time to try the git wrapping. Has anyone else used it?
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by mchahn 9y ago
> Gold, on the other hand, is just valuable because it is expensive to produce and has a long history of being valuable. ... Bitcoins are expensive to produce and if it hangs around very long it will have a long history also. So in the
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by mchahn 9y ago
Maybe unrelated, but one of my favorite sayings is "moderation in all things, including moderation".
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by mchahn 9y ago
O(n²) power drop off only applies to a spherical emission. Focused power drops of much more slowly.
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by mchahn 9y ago
How could a 10% increase in traffic be a problem?
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by mchahn 9y ago
2 things: Sailors could see the top of ships before the whole ship when using a decent telescope. I saw the curvature of the earth when I flew to Paris in a Concorde many years ago.
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by mchahn 9y ago
> Two words: washing labels. Great Idea. However, I had to write software one time that had all the possible washing symbols as input. There were 30 or 40 possible symbols. No human could possibly know all of them.
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by mchahn 9y ago
I've broken several motherboards and many cables over the years. It drives me crazy. The USB-C is the worst. I'm on my third cable now. At least I finally figured out to make sure I get USB-C chargers with removable cables. N

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