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by nicklaf 11y ago
From section 3.7.2 of the IPFS paper [1], on IPNS ("Human Friendly Names"): While IPNS is indeed a way of assigning and reassigning names, it is not very user friendly, as it exposes long hash values as names, which are notorious
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Date: June 9, 2015.
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13 years ago was still after HP's heyday. You need to look back further.
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As a Davis resident, I was curious to get a more detailed map of the flood areas for a hypothetical ARkStorm than the one provided by the Wikipedia article on the topic [1]. To that end, I created an animation, morphing between a google map
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Neither did the layout work when transferred to an identical FPGA. Now that is quite fascinating. (The article goes into possible explanations, for those who care.)
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This looks fun. One could conceive of a three-pronged approach to circuit design: * Manual placement of components, based on the designer's skill and knowledge * Insertion of preexisting blocks from a library * Specification of requir
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To be honest, I actually think you were right after all. I don't think I was justified in saying he impersonated the author in order to trash his reputation, now that I've looked into it a bit more: he created several personas, m
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This is where the definition of 'trolling', as understood in the traditional Usenet sense of the word, diverges from what the media has come to call trolling. In The Times of Israel article, he was impersonating somebody in order
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I am told that Niklaus Wirth only allowed for compiler optimizations in which the optimizations paid for themselves in speed, when compiling the compiler. This is said to be the reason for the Oberon compiler's speed. [1] I have only
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It seems the recentness of that discussion was enough for many people to warrant flagging this one--it's been sent to page 6.
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> classist Apparently, you're not alone in that sentiment: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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Similar project, but for multi-variable calculus: http://mathinsight.org/thread/multivar
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> even remotely suspect there is a chance Generally speaking, this is not a cost-effective approach to medicine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students'_disease
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This sounds like it could be quite bad for learning. I've found my learning of an abstract subject, such as mathematics, greatly increases when I can take a step back at each successive milestone of progress. In contrast, when everyth
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I was unaware of Mao's Three World theory. I had assumed that kelukelugames meant the phrase in the European sense of the term, coined in 1952 by Alfred Sauvy (according to Wikipedia).
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Also, China was a Second World country (at least, back when the distinction still made sense). Of course, at some point, "Third World" became synonymous with "poor", and was euphemised to "developing".
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Yep. For this reason, my usual response to "how are you" from somebody passing by is "hi".
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You might not like to work in Japan, then!
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Oleg's entire site is a veritable gold mine of Scheme and Haskell treasures. Poke around--you won't be disappointed.
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So many people these days seem to be writing about something "begging the question", whereas I am partial to reserving that idiom for a very specific logical fallacy, and simply saying that something "raises the question&quot
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I just tried this, and I'll say that it's not too easy. My middle finger doesn't really want to go down when the fingers next to it are still up.
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To be completely honest, the kind of person who cares about UI look & feel above all else isn't likely to get a whole lot out of a research system like Plan 9.
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In my mind, this only makes the law itself all the more evidently absurd.
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It really bothers me that Google has allowed groups to deteriorate so much. At one time, it was actually a decent archive of Usenet history, but since then, search has deteriorated, and apparently, posts are sometimes missing. Perhaps the
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Well, HSC is most certainly still around. Often cheaper than Digikey, with a great selection of jellybean components, as well as a really long tail of more obscure parts.
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"Herding cats"
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Try birds, for starters.
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This looks fantastic. Before Google axed it, there was 'Google Sets', which expanded a few basis terms into a longer list of related phrases. To be sure, this seems to be more powerful than that. The ability to eek out a 3D model
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...or when one 'Tera Computer Company' bought what was left of Cray from SGI, renamed itself Cray Inc., and released reworked versions of existing products under the Cray name.

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