omellet

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by omellet 12y ago
2 frames at 60Hz is about 33ms, which is way more than 1ms latency from a wireless hop.
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by omellet 12y ago
Well, they haven't approved the patent yet, so give them a chance.
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by omellet 12y ago
Use a scale. 1 liter == 1 kg.
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by omellet 12y ago
I use Inconsolata if I can't use Consolas, they're nearly the same.
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by omellet 12y ago
False. The best programming font is Consolas.
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by omellet 13y ago
Other currencies are stable because they're actively managed by central banks, there's huge liquidity, and the currencies aren't inherently deflationary. Bitcoin has none of these things going for it. It's not a currency
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by omellet 13y ago
People are dumping shares of hot stocks like FB and Netflix to free up capital to buy Twitter.
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by omellet 13y ago
There aren't any options yet, they'll probably start trading later next week. After that you can trade them through e*trade or whatever.
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by omellet 13y ago
What makes you think computers will be worse than human drivers at driving in poor conditions? I'd think it'd be the other way around.
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by omellet 13y ago
"...texture swaps in conjunction with compression scaling to account for changes in network latency." What does this mean?
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by omellet 13y ago
In a perfect world, you're right. But it's inconceivable that there would be a BTC futures market with enough liquidity to make this happen, since a) the BTC supply is relatively small and b) no CFTC-regulated exchange is going to touch BTC
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by omellet 13y ago
Other commodities are volatile for different reasons. Natural gas is volatile because it's literally volatile, so storing and shipping it is expensive. Grains are volatile because of variable growing seasons. Onions are volatile because US
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by omellet 14y ago
No, whatever the current highest bid is will get executed, and you'll sell at that price, instead of $157 (assuming your offer is through the bid).
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by omellet 14y ago
They'd have to transfer the patent to the shell company, which would then be transferred to the winning defendant in any bankruptcy. So at least they'd lose the patent they sued with.
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by omellet 14y ago
They'd have to have their certs installed on your computer, or be an existing CA. Schools and corps (including the one I work for) can do this because they have admin control over destination machines.
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by omellet 14y ago
The article's main point is that the founders didn't do anything really noteworthy, technologically speaking, and so Yahoo overpaid for the talent in question.
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by omellet 14y ago
That's exactly what short selling stock is: you borrow it from someone and sell it, and return it to them later by buying it for (hopefully) cheaper. To sell short without borrowing is called 'naked' short selling, and it's not allowed on U
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by omellet 14y ago
It never really worked in the sense that you mean. Economic growth was virtually nil until the industrial revolution. Not coincidentally, it was around the same time that gold-backed currencies came to be seen as a bad idea. If you have the
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by omellet 14y ago
When you have a growing economy but a fixed money supply, money will appreciate. When this happens, people will prefer to keep money rather than spend it, and you get deflation-induced recessions/depressions. See the latter part of the 19th
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by omellet 14y ago
People will want to have it as an asset, not as a usable currency. Appreciating currencies are disastrous for any economy stuck with them, which is why we're no longer on the gold standard.
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by omellet 14y ago
I just saw this. I thought our company proxy was borked again, but it's the same on my phone.
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by omellet 14y ago
Should we stop saying 'telephone call', when 'to call' meant to actually visit somebody? Of course not. Language is defined by usage, not by the dictionary.
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by omellet 14y ago
We use C++/CLI here at work quite extensively, and it's still alive and being developed. Managed C++ is just an earlier version of the same thing.
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by omellet 14y ago
Only if you think they're trying to keep in touch with the average person.
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by omellet 14y ago
Even though it's not as pleasant as print typography, it's still worth it. I totally agree that it can be better, but for me it's already outclassing the physical book experience.
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by omellet 14y ago
It's especially annoying to me, as I typically hold the book in my left hand. Now I have to either swipe right to left, or reach my thumb across the (invisible) previous-page touch area to hit the next-page area, or hold it with my right ha
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by omellet 14y ago
It also makes it much easier to roll back to the previous implementation. If he had created a new configuration file format, he'd have to keep the old and new config files in sync until the new implementation had proven out. Speaking from s
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by omellet 14y ago
I'll never stop coding. I may not continue as a professional, but there will always be the creative itch to scratch. Creative in the sense that I feel compelled to create, not that it's necessarily fine art. It's not limited to software, ei
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by omellet 14y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I don't think this is necessarily true for all writing, though. Political writing, press releases, thing of a nature where the point of the writing is to lead a person to a particular conclusion. Man
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by omellet 14y ago
They also did this the first time I logged in from a foreign country.

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