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by novas0x2a 16y ago
More information about the Desert RATS project: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/desert_rats.html
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NASA wants your help with a simulated lunar mission(ti.arc.nasa.gov)
4 points by novas0x2a 16y ago|1 comments
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
My favorite trick (in .ssh/config): Host *.internal.workdomain.com ProxyCommand ssh gateway.workdomain.com nc %h 22 ForwardAgent yes User <username> Then you can type ssh bender.internal.workdomain.com and ssh wi
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
Cookies have this problem, too (anyone from the same domain sees your cookies, and you can't really count on the cookie path). So does XMLHTTPRequest. Same origin[1] is pretty much the governing rule here; there wasn't any point in making p
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
First, caveat: this is for C++. I wrote a major part of a complex build system in autoconf[1,2]. I gotta say, just about ANYTHING would be better. There's no abstraction; at no point can you forget you're writing m4sugar (implemented on top
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
The calc() function is part of the CSS3 /Values & Units/ module[1] which is currently in Last Call status[2]. Here[3] are the status definitions that apply to CSS3. It doesn't make sense to remove the moz prefix until the standard is (p
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
Someday you might have to program in an actual resource-constrained environment, and you'd understand why sometimes you have to do stupid things to meet your constraints. Use half the memory -> buy a smaller memory chip per unit ->
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem: "Bob's Assault on Stupidity" becomes "Read more on Bob's Ass..." Arbitrary truncation of English text is guaranteed to result in amusing edge cases. Besides, how often does a blog title fit into 25 - l
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
What do you mean "yet"? vim has had code folding for years: :help fold.txt If you want to indent code, < and > are your friends. (Really? Indenting code with search/replace? What are we, barbarians?)
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by novas0x2a 16y ago
Also, a gem that most people don't seem to know about: a standard vim install comes with a program called `vimtutor`. Running it will put you inside vim with an excellent first tutorial, suitable for beginner vimmers. Good luck! The muscle
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
Gigapan.org has a snapshot feature for that. 26-gigapixel is bigger than most (all?) of what Gigapan has, but they have a bunch more. The Obama inauguration one[1] is probably their most famous. I don't really ever get tired of being able t
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
My responses will focus on the PC market, mostly. The console market is a different beast altogether. > Instead of relying on a single instance of a product making money for years to come, focus more on new games Sell it at a loss, make
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
It's a crazy mixture of burning man, a music festival, and a nifty tech fair. It's a great blend- watching the burners and the non-burners (... like my parents) interact was awesome. I was one of the organizers two years ago (which was the
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I might as well respond to myself with a mea culpa. I'm totally wrong with my history; I went to the horse's mouth: xiphmont/Monty, who has been with xiph since (at least? I think?) 1999, log from freenode/#vorbis: --- novas0x2a: i feel vag
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
My understanding is this (correct me if I'm wrong...) is this is exactly the business model that has killed Vorbis. Xiph originally created a floating-point free reference implementation, and charged for the integer decoder. You pretty much
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I think I believe him, actually. Or rather, I believe that he didn't seriously mean to trade a post for an Air. It looks to me like he just didn't have the experience to realize that you have to be careful when you're joking about an ethica
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I have to second nfnaaron here. The gun is always loaded. I don't care if you just unloaded it. It's still loaded. That's one of the most fundamental gun safety rules. Violating that rule, in my view, means you are not responsible enough to
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
You're right on the former, I was under the impression that it was an economy-of-effort thing rather than an ideological thing. However, I'm not sure I agree that it would be as hard as you think. The mime types are registered here[1] and t
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I took a quick look at the firefox source, and it looks like they wrote their own media-handling code (implemented with libtheora, etc). I did a bit more research, and found this[1] bug. Mozilla explicitly rejected using ffmpeg on mostly-id
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I'm not sure you understand the problem here. They do not have a license to use h264, and even if they did, they could not afford to share it with you. Distributing patent-encumbered GPL code violates the spirit of GPL-2 and the letter of G
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
mike[at]fluffypenguin.org (I've added it to my profile now, too). For some reason, it's taken me a long time to realize that the email I put into my profile isn't visible to others unless I also put it in the about box :)
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
I work for NASA Ames (here: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/groups/intelligent-robotics/ ). A bunch of us use git where we can, and git-svn for the rest of it. We're going to be meeting with the lawyers in a few weeks to hopefully get official bles
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by novas0x2a 17y ago
You're right that there isn't much air in space, but bowshock isn't specific to "air". There most definitely is bowshock in space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock