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by phaedrus 16y ago
Suppose you have two variations of a gene; one produces larvae that prefer the taste of a vital organ, and eat that one first. The other variation prefers the taste of a less important organ, eating that first and eating the important orga
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I wondered how it would compare if you measure this from the gate level rather than the transistor level. To check this, I looked online for a Verilog file describing a 6502 core. This site has one: http://www.birdcomputer.ca/Projects/Pr
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by phaedrus 16y ago
That video is seriously cool.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
This is like an assembly language or machine code program that does two different things depending on the alignment with which you jump into it.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I found this timely as I am in the same situation, although I did do a brief stint of setting up the x86 option he also mentions. In the end I decided it just wasn't worth the hassle. I'm happy to see this article because I had been wonde
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I wrote a piece of network test software for NASA on an internship. Now, I must here stop and say that the Johnson Space Center outsources their IT security to a contracting company, who is based out of another state, and who is batshit pa
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I disagree. Or at least, you will cause problems for other people. One of my coworkers was delivered a Windows app by a third party - it was written using MFC. I said, "Seriously? In 2010, MFC? MFC was bad even before it became obsolet
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I fell out of my chair laughing when I read this: "So of course, the blackhat compiled a C program with #include “/dev/random” in it, and gcc was hosed."
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I bet you could play Dwarf Fortress over this. I'm not being facetious: on windows, using msys/mingw or cygwin term, the game looks terrible: not all the characters render and the font choices are limited and uniformly inadequate. If th
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I recently noticed the same (that the tradeoff of price vs. capacity seems odd lately). The author was criticized for failing to notice that one of the drives he included in his chart, a Seagate Cheetah, was actually a SCSI server drive: I
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I used Linux for years without knowing about the bash history file (though I knew about hitting the up arrow). As soon as I discovered this file, I looked up how to set it to save all my history forever without rollover - what a good resou
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by phaedrus 16y ago
According to a book I read about game testing it's common for commercial games to be run through a test of simply leaving the game on for hours or days to see if there are bugs that only show up in this way.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Coincidently I'm reading Ernst Mach's "The Science of Mechanics" at this very moment. It includes a lot of analysis of setups like this. As for this problem: consider first the weights. Each one's downward force is 1 kg, due to gravity.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Can't upvote this enough. On NPR an economist said that one thing that makes the US economy different (in a good way) from the EU economy is the extreme mobility of our workforce - that when times are tough, a reasonable portion of US peopl
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_Why Yown Is Funny So You Can Laugh Too(discoveringio.blogspot.com)
20 points by phaedrus 16y ago|10 comments
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I disagree. I think Portal is on the same level as a great work of literature. As an aspiring game developer myself, I feel one could analyze Portal as "the perfect game" in exactly the same sense that a classic may be described as "the p
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're agreeing with considering the article is arguing the US govt should NOT be selling off helium.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I think the issue is that much of the expansion isn't in educational facilities but in things having to do with prestige or wasteful competition.
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I bought a Neo Freerunner back in 2008. The Freerunner didn't have much internal flash capacity, and I had a world of trouble finding an SD card that was compatible with it. The Nexus One has more internal flash than the Freerunner, but s
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by phaedrus 16y ago
DIY drones is a really amazing crew. I ran into one of the guys behind DIY drones (Jordi Muñoz) at the last SparkFun robot competition. At the time I had my (land based) robot's electronics box open when Jordi walked by. I was probing t
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by phaedrus 16y ago
You mean like this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071018201850AA... "In many states, power companies are required to buy any "negative" power that comes from home or business users, at a slightly higher rate; this is know
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by phaedrus 16y ago
I'm reminded of a comment a Mono developer made about the hullabaloo over whether Mono is a Microsoft Trojan Horse: "I can only imagine the C++ developers are laughing their heads off at us."
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by phaedrus 16y ago
When I was 12 someone gave me a very old Z-80 machine. The only disk I had for it with a programming language on it was dBASE II which supported scripts, but the computer also came with a very thin, informally written dBASE II programming
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by phaedrus 16y ago
(Replying to myself because my post is too old to edit.) I see I've been upvoted and then downvoted again. I've read comments on HN that were critical of Stephen Wolfram (either calling him a self promoter or that his work is derivative of
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by phaedrus 16y ago
This reminds me of the kinds of things Stephen Wolfram talks about ("A New Kind of Science"). Here we have fractal structure somehow influencing the superconductivity in materials, and the article says it appears that we need new physical
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Absolutely! That's one of the top criteria (right up there with type of license) when I evaluate whether to include a library in my game: is this library actively maintained? Incidently, it's one of the things that worries me about the pth
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by phaedrus 16y ago
There's also a great Google Tech Talk video of the author telling his story: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567...
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Edit: The post I quoted from was deleted. "The other usage that is common is using "underemployed" to describe people who want to work more hours. I want to work five million hours in a week, but I am constrained by the laws of physics." Y
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Many years ago, when I was first learning game programming, I insisted on implementing everything myself, including low level 3-d math and writing to video memory manually. Now, I'm working on a new game and I've created a script-binding t
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by phaedrus 16y ago
Interesting - I never heard anyone equate the internet to an unstoppable self-replicating technology before - but by God I hope you're right.

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