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by mutagen 11y ago
I 'helped' a labmate troubleshoot a simple oscillator circuit in the 2 MHz range on a breadboard by turning my circuit on and off. Despite not designing any antenna-like features it was broadcasting enough to get his marginal circ
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by mutagen 11y ago
> Although very few people would ever come across the bug, Intel allowed every processor to be exchanged. No matter if you were a gaming consumer or a giant corporation using coprocessor-heavy software. Initially they only wanted to exch
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by mutagen 11y ago
The article briefly mentions using them with rechargeable batteries. While I'm sure the boost to 1.5V allows more devices to use the rechargeable batteries, I'd be concerned about over-discharging [1] NiMH batteries. [1] https:&#
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by mutagen 11y ago
Yeah that backwards bicycle episode is worth watching.
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by mutagen 11y ago
Yes, lasers. Even with the higher accuracy and more expensive real time dGPS systems the vertical accuracy isn't as good as horizontal. When you're looking for a very shallow gradient in a field for irrigation GPS just isn't
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by mutagen 11y ago
Glorious indeed. At least three levels of abstraction, two JITs, and a host of supporting code. Can we add some more layers like an emulator or get recursive by getting something like Pyasm running inside it?
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by mutagen 11y ago
When I looked at the Minecraft mod scene a few years ago mods were generally monetized through distribution, generally only available for download through ad-laden 'locker' sites. Also, I think that many developers aware of softwa
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by mutagen 11y ago
My mother is schizophrenic and exhibits symptoms of the Cotard delusion (claims of being dead, of having no heart, rotting inside, of having to die). The symptoms aren't as bad as some of the described patients and improve when she&#
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by mutagen 12y ago
I'm looking forward to the flavor experimentations that will result from this. Shortening the feedback loop, providing additional 'knobs' to turn, and reducing costs of trying new techniques will hopefully result in some amaz
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by mutagen 12y ago
A quick google search found a nice article on the first question I had, how does it compare to Lua? https://computerscomputing.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lua-and-... My first thought is "Squirrel doesn&#x2
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by mutagen 12y ago
200+ queries for a simple dynamic page doesn't surprise me. Once you add some dynamic features it's easy to start sticking all kinds of stuff in the database. Let me check some sites I run: Medium complexity Drupal 6 site: 200
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by mutagen 12y ago
There's an old USGS paper on the increased seismicity around Lake Mead after Hoover Dam was built. http://usgsprojects.org/lee/Rogers_Lee_BSSA1976.pdf The Wikipedia page on induced seismicity has additional exampl
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by mutagen 12y ago
This paper summarizes a variety of promising research instead of specific diets. The first two sentences of the conclusion summarize it fairly well: Recent and accumulating work in unicellular and invertebrate model organisms, rodents, mon
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by mutagen 12y ago
Bruno Senna is Ayrton's nephew. Nicolas Prost is Alain Prost's son (and Alain is visible in some of the shots cheering on his son from the garage). There are a number of other close ties to F1 in both the car hardware and technolo
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by mutagen 12y ago
p 52: "With the freedom implicit in C's use of pointers come certain risks. Much of C's growth over the last decade has been in ways of detecting erroneous uses of pointers without restricting the ability to write efficient c
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by mutagen 12y ago
I just dived into some of Udacity's data science classes and it's very easy to get started with numpy. I'm just scratching the surface but it still feels amazingly powerful. Pandas is another great tool that goes hand in hand
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by mutagen 12y ago
The article attributes all these free engines to Unity but I think they've missed 20+ years of videogame history. First, Valve has always been very open to game mods. Some of their most popular franchises (TF & CS) grew out of the
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by mutagen 12y ago
It is a fantastic saying. A quick Google search for the phrase "lack poetry in their souls" turns up a handful of uses in the past 5 years and one theological journal article from 1922. Remove the word 'lack' and I get p
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by mutagen 12y ago
He likely could. I'd speculate a couple of reasons for not taking investment: 1) Control over IP and final product. While some investors would likely give free reign to continue as he has been, identifying and coming to an agreement wi
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by mutagen 12y ago
This excellent talk was linked at the bottom of the CPU backdoor article ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8999507 ). Worth a watch, though unfortunately the slides appear to be offline.
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by mutagen 12y ago
>The Deep Space Network has only three 70-meter dishes, and there is a lot of competition for time on them; It seems like I've heard this time and again, that certain data or measurements couldn't be returned from planetary spa
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by mutagen 12y ago
Google uses it for several properties, including: AdWords UI AdSense UI Blogger Groups Doclist Parts of Maps / Geo according to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-web-toolkit/Mjj... Their cas
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by mutagen 12y ago
DMCA violation!
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by mutagen 12y ago
Interesting connection, the article mentions she is an artist and is often unable to draw or read a fearful expression on someone.
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by mutagen 12y ago
I use http://hn.premii.com/ to read HN on mobile devices. A handful of sites every day aren't compatible with whatever technology they're using to scrape page content. If the comments don't indicate that the
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by mutagen 12y ago
Opportunity for a text anonymization API here. Insert subtle stylistic changes for the pendants with more obvious 'foreign-isms' for those seeking a greater degree of misdirection and anonymity.
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by mutagen 12y ago
The resurgence of the hoax shows that some of our FB friends are gullible and don't understand TOS, copyrights, etc. This is obvious and we probably knew who would fall for it because we used to send Snopes links to them. I think it al
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by mutagen 12y ago
I wonder if the limit on lines was due to 20 kHz filters on the audio output. When the 24/96 audio sampling & perception discussion went by a few weeks ago I seem to recall some testing showing that even high sample rate sound hard
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by mutagen 12y ago
I suspect the caching benefit is minimal, the vast majority of visitors won't have the fonts in cache. I'm basing my suspicion off the research done into jQuery cache hit success rates at http://www.stevesouders.com&#x2
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by mutagen 12y ago
It is of course important that some efforts be made to verify the correctness of the assertions that are made about a routine. There are essentially two types of method available, the theoretical and the experimental. In the extreme form o

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