motoboi

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by motoboi 9y ago
I suppose they have a 80GB ssd with the operational system on it.
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by motoboi 9y ago
In Brazil Windows is sold in DVDs with the official installer. The newly installed Windows asks for activation and you just ignore it forever. You can't choose a desktop background and are greeted with a "You may have been victim
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by motoboi 9y ago
I am pretty sure that pirated Windows can update without problems. Source: someone I know pretty well since I was born.
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by motoboi 9y ago
What is so bad about it in your oppinion?
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by motoboi 10y ago
The real stopper is the unix-like environment. With MacOS you have (or used to have) a very good UI environment, but could just open a terminal and have all the unix goodness. I know windows have a terminal too, but apart from being black,
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by motoboi 10y ago
They way I see it, companies just need a place outside the city where drivers can enter the truck and do the last part (or leave the truck and get the next one). This may work similar to ports, where a pilot come to the ship to navigate the
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by motoboi 10y ago
> one group was trained in the method of loci, and they practiced using an online course for six weeks, 30 minutes per day. Does someone know if the course referred to in the article is available to anyone?
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by motoboi 10y ago
Well, they could double it then and reap the benefits of scale.
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by motoboi 10y ago
And because the compression session is longer and has a bigger dictionary. And because the TCP window size is already maximized.
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by motoboi 10y ago
This seems like a good problem to have, indeed. But the real problem with empty houses is that if you need to really live in that city, you'll have to pay a lot more, as the number of houses available is "artificially" smalle
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by motoboi 10y ago
> Sure, if AWS goes down, Netflix goes down. Well. AWS went down (part of it), but Netflix stayed alive.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I am seriously considering changing my vacation destination this year from New York to someplace else. We love New York and want very much to visit some places we haven't had the chance in other trips, but my girlfriend doesn't sp
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by motoboi 10y ago
> (..) where Uber started to accept cash as customers were asking for this) Can you offer a reference for this?
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by motoboi 10y ago
I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too. Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.
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by motoboi 10y ago
When I first watched a movie about the slavement of africans and their marine trade, I was just as flabbergasted as you seem to be about this story. I kept asking myself: how could something like that (people being transported on the baseme
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by motoboi 10y ago
I'd like to give another perspective. When someone says people should not start exercising before seeing a doctor and without supervision, they are saying: you can die! And people can really die if they "go back to the roots"
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by motoboi 10y ago
Is it a robbery if you agree on the price _before_ the service is done?
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by motoboi 10y ago
Space suits have ar-conditioning units so astronauts don't die of overheating. This is how hard is to radiate heat to space.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I think rockets are the real modern mass launchers. They can throw thing so far they'll never fall again.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I think you probably made a joke, but this is exactly what Hyperloop is.
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Amazon's 8th book store(nytimes.com)
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by motoboi 10y ago
If I recall correctly, they invented banking. So, yes, they were really advanced.
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by motoboi 10y ago
What am I supposed to see? It just shows a dictionary entry for spinner and normal results.
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by motoboi 10y ago
He forgot to mention a very important aspect of bittorrent: the uTP (micro-TP) protocol. uTP is a very nice bittorrent over UDP protocol implementing LEDBAT congestion control algorithm [1]. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by motoboi 10y ago
> As for the body of the content? For a gzipped value like this, it's everything outside the header, until EOF. That's not quite as easy as when the content-length parameter is given, but hardly difficult for parsing. This is c
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by motoboi 10y ago
Have you saw those YouTube videos about genetic algorithms teaching a thing to walk of fly? You may think: this thing do not suffer or feel any pain in repeating millions of times the same moviments just to fall on the floor less and less,
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by motoboi 10y ago
What happened in that video? Why did he connected a wire directly to the board underneath the cpu?
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by motoboi 10y ago
Probably Brazil had the biggest one from 2002 to 2015
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by motoboi 10y ago
A metro car can't lock its doors and drive to the nearest police station. That should give enough deterrence.
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by motoboi 10y ago
According to Parkinson's Law, data will always expand to fill available storage. We may have petabytes for rack, but 4K videos are coming. wiki.c2.com/?ParkinsonsLaw

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