nanofortnight

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by nanofortnight 13y ago
If I were to guess this is a performance-oriented version of CEF with additional functionality exposed to the JavaScript engine, would I be anywhere in the right ballpark?
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
Quite a number of people who are into OS development hang out around http://osdev.org/ and similar places. I quote, from that site: > Why develop an OS? > There are various reasons why people choose to develop an ope
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
Ideas should be judged based on their own merit and not on the influence of the individual who proposes them, as the karma metric might suggest.
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
(dead people doing it with other dead people )
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
get/setcontext do not copy stack, but use an allocated bit of memory space for the stack and swaps stack pointers just like this implementation. I don't see how that's a performance hit. I do not pretend to know about Windows
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
This can be implemented without assembly using setcontext/getcontext on POSIX-compatible systems, and GetThreadContext/SetThreadContext on Windows.
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW): http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/ CourseRA courses: https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&lngs=en&ca...
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Chaitin, The Limits of Mathematics (1999)(cs.auckland.ac.nz)
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
NFC would be excellent, but if Bluetooth-enabled phone is all you have: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-smartphone-automatica...
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
> I want my personal information secure from casual passers-by who after having a quick peck on the keyboard would more than likely give up; I'm not looking for PRISM dodging security here
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but space debris is already a sufficiently serious problem that active removal has been seriously considered. (Nobody wants a runaway Kessler scenario!) Has deorbit of this model TARDIS been considered?
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
Not to mention the motion makes separating out the letters easy[1]; optical flow can be used to segment the individual letters. [1]: Have not actually attempted this.
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
This reminds me of an old reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/i1xvv/how_doe...
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by nanofortnight 13y ago
Not reproducible here.
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by nanofortnight 14y ago
Not as technologically impossible as you might think: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html
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by nanofortnight 14y ago
The transaction verification language[1] is not turing complete, and only provides one bit of information (accept/reject transaction). Currently almost all transactions scripts just do public-key verification. [1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wi
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by nanofortnight 14y ago
> C, D, E... system that is not the norm For those studying music theory in the English-speaking world, A-G is the norm. (German has H as well.) That being said, I've only ever met musicians from the commonwealth... I will not comment o
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by nanofortnight 14y ago
NYT article on the single-word press release: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/09/business/media-talk-bookst... Can't find the press release on Amazon's site though.