oakwhiz

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by oakwhiz 13y ago
To elaborate... I suppose it's more about being the person with the most wealth, and you are actually causing a net motion of wealth away from everyone's pockets and toward yourself.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I never thought of inflation in that way. That's rather interesting. I guess a simple way of describing this would be to say that if you are the sole printer of money, and existing money becomes worth less over time, then you can simpl
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Ah that makes much more sense.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Live migration is useful, but in my opinion it's kind of a band-aid solution for the problem of availability. Live migration is not necessary if you design your application as a distributed system.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
So... the physical impact against the camera is causing a fault with the video encoder on the camera?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
But what if those non-geeks have other geek friends besides you who are able to retrieve it and have temporary access to their computer?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It would be neat to do something like this but by detecting high-frequency regions of the image (possibly using a wavelet transform) and placing smaller circles in areas with more high-frequency detail.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Perhaps this could even be used by an organization to differentiate official binaries of closed-source software from leaked binaries.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
More concerning is the possibility of interference with medical devices, especially implants. It's not just a "may cause harmful interference" problem either: Many cardiac implants have an emergency shutoff feature which is a
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I don't understand why HN currently considers link submissions and text submissions to be mutually exclusive. Most of the problems with titles seem to stem from the title being overloaded to carry additional information. A text field f
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
It's a shame that audio routing is pretty much nonexistent on Windows.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is interesting because I think way too many different meanings are attributed to a single social action. If someone posts a good news story about a current event that you disagree with, should you like or dislike the news story? A lot
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This is an absolutely brilliant use of LFSRs.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Certain SBT plugins and build settings can generate really deep nested paths under the "target" folder of a project. I think the point of this is to enforce file immutability during the build process - whenever a file is modified
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
C- hashtag
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Sometimes it seems to me like people are intentionally causing fear, uncertainty, and denial about Bitcoin just to swing the price in their favor.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I wonder if it would somehow be possible to use this with the protein folding game Foldit. http://fold.it/portal/ Some puzzles start off with a sequence alignment phase.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I wonder if some port knocking schemes can be attacked using a De Bruijn sequence. If the firewall only examines the last N potential knocks amongst K ports, sent from a given IP address, then every possible combination of knocks can be bru
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Might I suggest a tax form?
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
While Boggle sounds like an interesting method of generating random numbers, I think that a better way would just be to whiten the "random pulse train" output from a Geiger counter next to a weakly radioactive sample and send the
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
Many crypto algorithms depend on good random numbers. Even if generating a key using a poor RNG is not a problem, some protocols create nonces which must be randomly selected or the security of the algorithm is greatly compromised. I'm
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
That's the physical and link layer's fault for not possessing alignment information. You shouldn't have a bit stream, you should already have a byte stream, otherwise you are dealing with data forensics. The physical part of
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
For a moment, I was wondering what Firefox OS had to do with uninterruptible power supplies...
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
As the other commenters have pointed out, I'm pretty sure that you're supposed to compact old events once they have been determined to be eventually consistent amongst all (or almost all) of the nodes.
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This seems rather contrary to the heterogenous computation interest group that AMD was involved in. http://hsafoundation.com/
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This does make it a bit more complex though, because the microcontroller, though simple, still needs a board and some kind of power supply, and a reasonably accurate DAC for controlling the galvanometers. The microcontroller would have to s
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
This doesn't really work, though, because to the 3D printer, 0 volts is a valid signal in the domain of the input. Never use a value in the domain of your input as a null value. Additionally, it is difficult to define what the sound le
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
I disagree on the premise that audio glitches can and do happen on non-realtime operating systems due to the lack of guaranteed scheduling. For this 3D printer, it doesn't really matter, but for a lot of other things, I would feel unco
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by oakwhiz 13y ago
The resin takes a certain amount of light exposure to fully cure. I doubt that noise or buffer glitches would seriously cause a noticeable effect on the print. More likely, soundcards with improper equalization, and galvanometer impedance a

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