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by oakwhiz 13y ago
What would be neat is a way to "virtualize" permissions. Example: An app asks for GPS. You don't want to give out your location but you still want to use the app. So you lie to the app about your location while still sending
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Not all mercury is pure, though. Organic mercury compounds exist which behave similarly to elemental mercury but they have a greater health risk associated with them.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I'm actually surprised this isn't the method that Apple decided to go with considering that it is simpler and presumably requires fewer additional parts.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I have seen this behavior both controlled by an extra mechanical pin in the audio jack and also by a feature on the audio chip which was ultimately controlled in software. So it's hard to tell whether that would work. Also consider tha
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That's definitely the real reason behind this situation: The people behind large projects tend to have to manage tons of releases, branches, and commits along with the code itself. The solution that many projects use is to appoint a fe
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
If I recall correctly, some motherboards feature a removable TPM module that uses a standard 2x10 0.1" header. Perhaps some sort of custom ATMega or FPGA based open source crypto module could be hand-built that conforms to this interfa
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
We acquired the complete state of the Bitcoin transaction system [...] This required downloading 180,001 separate but linked HTML files [...] following the links backwards to the zeroth block [...] Each file was parsed in order
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I think that perhaps a large portion of Bitcoin nodes are "dormant," i.e. offline until the owner feels like updating in order to make a transaction.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
What I did to fix this error was first back up my configuration, then uninstall packages nginx, nginx-common, and nginx-full. Then I installed nginx again and there were no problems.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Maybe at the very least, something that: * curls/wgets the script over https * shows you the script in less * then asks you whether you want to run it
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Altcoins could be made more valuable if a) they performed some function that Bitcoin cannot feasibly perform, and b) if some type of atomic inter-cryptocurrency trade protocol could be produced which would allow low-friction trade between c
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The Math PhD one reminds me of the sorts of symbolic algebra systems that you find in Haskell and Scala.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Perhaps it is because successive rotations of the spiral are proportionally longer, which offsets the decreasing density.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>Smartphones with powerful cameras have begun to take a toll on sales of expensive, dSLR cameras. But are they really good enough to replace them for most users? Yes.
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I take it that you don't play video games on your desktop machine, then.
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I'm surprised that the ringing isn't that bad even without a window function.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>Use ZFS and RAIDZ with EBS That's a really cool idea, and I'm curious to see what kind of performance losses will occur during normal usage.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
More apps and devices seem to be using wireless proximity as some kind of authenticator, along with the assumption that a specific received signal strength confirms the user's intent to perform some action. However, such systems seem t
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is interesting since I have found very little information about Bitcoin operating on poorly connected networks (i.e. most nodes are not directly reachable from any given node.) Given the current trend toward internet censorship, I wond
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Potential good side of freemium hardware: Acquiring low-end hardware and somehow hacking it into a higher-end version. Manufacturers will try to make cheaper hardware by cramming more functionality onto one SoC, thus slowly driving down cos
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
A whole CPU just for a single GPIO task? Now that's bloat.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
"I want to believe"
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
You could tweet the cryptographic hash of a piece of information longer than 140 characters to prove that it existed at a certain time.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I would recommend looking at the PyPy sandbox environment as it is not possible to secure CPython in this way.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That web PXE boot is pretty cool though. Don't try it at home, do it at a friend's house.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Yes, every graphics card that I have seen merely occupies additional slots to make space for the cooling devices. However, I do believe that Nvidia's SLI and AMD's CrossfireX multi-GPU interconnects are a proprietary variation on
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
>MIDI sequence for a pure sine-wave synthesizer Interestingly, we do have this, and it is a crucial component of lossy audio compression techniques such as MP3 - it's the Fourier transform. Essentially you can convert any audio sign
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
avconv seems to be more up-to-date than ffmpeg.
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Wouldn't the result would be as smooth as the FFT's window function?
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Selective noise cancellation could be possible using a Fourier transform. Zero out the coefficients that you still want to hear and then perform an inverse transform, then a time-domain inversion, and finally apply the appropriate amount of

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