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by planteen 9y ago
In the current situation with a few popular cryptos, you still have the exact same problem. Using ShapeShift to change BTC to ETC is going to charge a miner fee.
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by planteen 9y ago
I suspect it is even older than 1550s. I'm a farmer with land who needs seed. Another farmer is willing to front me seed in exchange for grain in the fall. That is a contract.
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by planteen 9y ago
Right, so could you recover from k/2 erasures with k/4 errors?
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by planteen 9y ago
I thought Reed-Solomon also worked with a mix of erasures and errors? I wasn't aware of a requirement that erasures can't be corrected in the presence of errors unless you have hit the erasure limit for your chosen code.
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by planteen 9y ago
Right. Just to elaborate, there is a difference between quality and quantity of heat. A red hot nail has high quality but low quantity. A hot bath has low quality but high quantity. Data center waste heat is like bath water.
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by planteen 9y ago
The real cost is laying the last mile infrastructure. If it is fiber or coax, equipment upgrades may be needed in the future, but they are far cheaper than pulling new cable.
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by planteen 9y ago
A reliable, long use rocket is not exactly new either. Delta II first launched in 1989, 153 launches, 151 successes. There will be another launching this fall for JPSS-1.
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by planteen 9y ago
What "kind of guest" does this attract? I sometimes do this, especially in ski towns. I also sometimes negotiate at rural hotels to get a fade rate. Do hotels hate me?
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by planteen 9y ago
Glass darkens from radiation exposure. Even UV does it, Coke bottles at old high altitude mines in Colorado turn a purple color.
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by planteen 9y ago
Rounding behavior is important for more than medical imaging and physics simulations. Many embedded systems controlling or sensing something in the real world care about it. Not just things like cars and planes, but imagine control loops de
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by planteen 9y ago
What about the solar arrays? You are always going to be reflecting sunlight somewhere.
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by planteen 9y ago
The future of OpenGL is most likely OpenGL ES. You might want to try OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide (or OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide). It is far less daunting than the OpenGL Superbible. The differences between OpenGL ES 2 and 3 are sma
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by planteen 9y ago
Everything I see about laser broom is for LEO not GEO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
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by planteen 9y ago
That makes sense for how you could do a retrograde burn. Since for GEO the debris will be fixed or nearly fixed, I guess there always a horizon point by longitude. Seems like lots of extra atmosphere for the laser to go through.
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by planteen 9y ago
A space weather problem would be a single event upset. Something got flipped to the wrong state and could have burned up (e.g., power electronics). You protect designs against this with circuit design but can't use shielding. Shielding
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by planteen 9y ago
How does an Earth based laser bring something closer to Earth with radiatipn pressure rather than pushing it further away? And how does that work in GEO? The typical disposal method there is to go up to a graveyard orbit, not down to the at
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by planteen 9y ago
BSPs weren't new to the Quake engine (Doom had them). Gouraud shading, lighting, and TCP/IP multiplayer are what made Quake revolutionary for the PC. These things existed on SGIs costing $100k for years before too. The optimizatio
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by planteen 9y ago
The codec is HDC, High-Definition Coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Definition_Coding
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by planteen 9y ago
> Christianity is quite focused on the idea of good and evil. Norse mythology was never like that. It's interesting you say that. My only exposure to sagas was from reading Beowulf in school, which is a canonical example for the the
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by planteen 9y ago
I have always hated HD Radio from the pedantic standpoint that "definition" describes images and "fidelity" should describes audio.
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by planteen 9y ago
There have been general architecture changes. Look at DRM as a better way to do rendering versus the old Unix way, for example.
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by planteen 9y ago
You can get a i.MX6 SoM (system-on-module) to take care of nasty things like external memory. https://www.solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/imx6-som/
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by planteen 9y ago
For what toolchain? GCC supports inline assembly for every architecture I have used it on (x86, x86-64, PPC, SPARC, ARM)
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by planteen 9y ago
100 lbs is useless without height. So you wouldn't consider a 6' 3" person weighing 130 lbs skinny? I think the usual definition would be underweight (or near the low side of underweight) in a BMI sense.
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by planteen 9y ago
One concern is work forcing you too book the cheapest flights for business travel. In that case, it is in your interest for the lowest fares to be more comfortable.
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by planteen 9y ago
Since when is citing a book considered spam?
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by planteen 9y ago
Altia has a product (PhotoProto) that can import PSDs to their tool which can then generate C code for embedded systems. http://www.altia.com/products/photoproto/
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by planteen 9y ago
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for posting that. And it's going to happen again "soon" in geologic time...
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by planteen 9y ago
Google also uses a single giant repo...
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by planteen 9y ago
I think digging into the code for 2 hours solo is very important. If you still can't find it, ask a senior dev. Actually being familiar with the code is important to be able to nail down how things work abstractly to the actual impleme

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