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by oofabz 11y ago
I always install fail2ban so to prevent brute force ssh attacks from getting in. It's popular enough that's it's probably available in your distro's package repositories. http://www.fail2ban.org/
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by oofabz 11y ago
If you want to know more about quantum entanglement, here is an excellent lecture on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
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by oofabz 11y ago
Yes, this is covered in OP's link if you scroll down. Here is a link directly to the relevant section: https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn/pia19617/occator-crater-enhanc...
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by oofabz 11y ago
The PC Engines APU is great. Soekris is another hardware company making high-performance BSD-compatible routers: http://soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html
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by oofabz 11y ago
The federal gas tax was last increased in 1993, 22 years ago.
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by oofabz 11y ago
He didn't benchmark any C implementations, just Go.
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by oofabz 11y ago
I see he is using a typical inflation-adjusted graph to show the historical price of oil. It's interesting to also see the historical ratio between oil and gold prices as an alternative way to compensate for inflation. The oil/gol
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by oofabz 11y ago
Do rivers actually have a well-defined length? I know coastlines do not, and rivers seem similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
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by oofabz 11y ago
> This article is claiming just that. This article claims that the volcanic eruption caused cooling, not warming. It mentions "a summer without heat" and that "15 of the 16 coldest summers recorded between 500 BC and 1,000
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by oofabz 11y ago
The cat's eye effect only works when the light source and the viewer are in roughly the same place. In a car, light from the headlights is reflected back at the driver. It wouldn't work for the Dawn probe because there is no light
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by oofabz 11y ago
I'm not so sure you can count on a country to act in rational self-interest. Individual people aren't so good at that, and collectives can be less rational than individuals.
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by oofabz 11y ago
Wonder Woman used to fly a P-80: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fo_miq__gnc/Tt_1zSHQ8gI/AAAAAAAACv... http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Wonder-Woman-J...
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by oofabz 11y ago
I love the illustrations.
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by oofabz 11y ago
Of course it went to the lowest bidder, that's how business is done. But the lowest bidder in China is a lot worse than the lowest bidder in the US. Thanks to our regulations here, you can count on the lowest bidder to make a decent br
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by oofabz 11y ago
>Brandon Eich I'd take HolyC over Javascript any day.
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by oofabz 11y ago
If you can't buy them, the price is infinite. But once he starts importing them, you can buy them in the USA, and the price drops to a finite level.
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by oofabz 11y ago
> Encryption [...] is "a good thing," Comey has said, even if he wants the government to have the ability [to] get around it. Doesn't the government already have the ability to get around it, without compromising security?
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by oofabz 11y ago
It looks like you can. Most fractional derivative solutions on the Wikipedia page use the gamma function, which is defined for complex numbers.
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by oofabz 11y ago
This fish is not "fully warm-blooded". As described in the article, it does not target a specific body temperature like mammals or birds. It just uses its muscles to warm itself, like some species of snake and insect do.
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by oofabz 11y ago
Is HT hyperthreading? Why would that help AMD, when Bulldozer already does hyperthreading?
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by oofabz 12y ago
Me either, but bug reports are used for feature requests too, not only bugs.
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by oofabz 12y ago
You can see a striking comparison between corn and the wild plant it was bred from on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maize-teosinte.jpg In the old world, the cabbage family is a similar example. Starting
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by oofabz 12y ago
The duration of a pause has more to do with the size of your heap than with how much garbage you generate. If you generate a lot of garbage, the pauses don't get longer, they get more frequent.
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by oofabz 12y ago
There is a whole class of drugs that induce disassociation, including DXM, PCP, and Ketamine. They are more confusing and disabling than psychedelics like LSD.
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by oofabz 12y ago
If I run a computer system that commits a crime because of a bug, I will be held accountable for my system's actions. For example, I might misconfigure my FTP server to include my music collection, facilitating piracy. Or I might write
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by oofabz 12y ago
Someone should run an n-body simulation of the solar system and this star backwards in time to see if it had any perturbative effects on us. What if this star was responsible for ripping Pluto away from a planet or sending Phobos down into
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by oofabz 12y ago
"What every programmer should know" is only the title of the last chapter, a summary. The book as a whole is called "Coding for SSDs".
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by oofabz 12y ago
It's not even just copyright, the federal government even protects Disney's airspace: http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_4_3634.html TFRs (temporary flight restrictions) are intended for short-term events l
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by oofabz 12y ago
2 ton, 5 meter spaceplane? That's tiny, about the same size as a Cessna. It's even smaller than a Soyuz reentry capsule.
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by oofabz 12y ago
I also say bring on the fizzbuzz. If I were looking for a job, I would welcome any opportunity to demonstrate my skills and set myself apart from the competition.

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