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by mmagin 11y ago
Even that isn't true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation But even so, programming in significantly different programming languages isn't just a difference as simple as that. Just look
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by mmagin 11y ago
It always seems like languages that typically are used in an all-encompassing environment are at a disadvantage when it comes to widespread adoption compared to languages that anyone can just start using in their existing OS, with their exi
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by mmagin 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is really that different from the problems with getting treated for a lot of other serious but non-urgent conditions in the USA. There's a lot of administrative overhead, excessive specialization, avoiding ma
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by mmagin 11y ago
Well, it's not entirely irrational that a society might decide that having to work in a way contrary to the natural diurnal cycle deserves higher pay. (Yes, I am suggesting that perhaps our society's obsession with having things
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by mmagin 11y ago
At least in the US, it is entirely plausible that many of the electrical engineers working in a large company on such a product are not licensed professional engineers.
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by mmagin 11y ago
OMFG, you reinvented the startup incubator!
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by mmagin 11y ago
That makes no sense. Surely there are some efficiencies in "repeat solving" problems that they have "already solved". A cynical thought would be that perhaps they don't want to have to sell to a company in an indus
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by mmagin 11y ago
I wonder if it would be more interesting to fire a sizable dumb projectile into Pluto and then after you've past it a bit (with proper alignment of the spacecraft, sun, and pluto) observe the absorption spectrum of the gas/dust cl
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by mmagin 11y ago
It didn't go away. I was reminded of it recently when I read this: https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2015-July/092770.ht...
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by mmagin 11y ago
"NASA has recently demonstrated an X-Ray data modulator [3], although at less than 1 Mbps. Further engineering may close this gap."
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by mmagin 11y ago
"Simple" Ha. There's this whole coprocessor in the ethernet shield with its own proprietary implementation of TCP/IP and who knows when someone will find a serious bug in it. Then in 30 years you have a TCP/IP sta
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by mmagin 11y ago
He could probably set back research a bit while researchers figure out what he's doing, but not that long. Also, unless he's operating from right near one of these radio astronomy observatories, he would likely be violating FCC o
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by mmagin 11y ago
Office break-rooms usually only have microwave ovens, not stoves because fire safety regulations are more stringent for an area in a commercial building which is designated as a "kitchen" which a stove usually makes it.
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by mmagin 11y ago
It is not ionizing radiation, the primary hazard of microwave radiation is its heating effects on sensitive tissue that has poor blood circulation -- in particular it has been implicated in the development of cataracts in the eye. So to a
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by mmagin 12y ago
I'm guessing (those kind of) drones don't have mode-S/ADS-B transponders.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Based on my limited experience playing with FPGA dev tools and boards as a hobbyist, this is my experience as well. Not only is there a huge learning curve -- some of it is necessary (you are essentially doing concurrent programming), but s
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by mmagin 12y ago
Oh, yes, like I'm going to give FB my credit card info.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Dare I ask how having half a million terminals open in screen is useful in any way?
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by mmagin 12y ago
git-annex is a tool for versioning files with git that you don't want to actually store IN git. It is not a build automation system.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I find it fantastically useful to have the entire revision history on local disk, it makes it practical to actually do ridiculous searches through all of the history. Try doing that against your svn server.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Actually, they want to maximize their return on investment. A cost-effective happy employee.
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by mmagin 12y ago
Every time these k folks show up on HN, it feels like Chuck Moore and Color Forth.
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by mmagin 12y ago
I've seen dual licensing of software lots of times before. Though most of the ones that come to mind are "GPL, but if you don't want to have to GPL the code you're linking to it, you'll have to buy a commercial lic
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by mmagin 12y ago
"With all new flavors like banana, fizzbitch, and GUN!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk
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by mmagin 12y ago
Disingenuous use of a different use of the words public/private. I meant that they are not necessarily expected to treat Youtube as we would expect, say, the US Government to treat a piece of public land like a park (ignoring of course
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by mmagin 12y ago
Google is a private company not a state.
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by mmagin 12y ago
A full set of jewelry pliers would help.
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by mmagin 12y ago
What if some people believe developing offensive "cyber war" capabilities in secret is immoral? Consider, for example, whether you would be opposed to someone leaking information as to whether one of the nuclear powers had nuclear
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by mmagin 12y ago
Possibly they're operating on the assumption that "cyber war" works like nuclear war and the most effective deterrent is the threat of retaliation.
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by mmagin 12y ago
As a thought experiment, consider if we developed a drug that makes humans enjoy slavery. Would slavery then be morally acceptable, provided that drug was furnished to the enslaved humans?

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