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by pronoiac 12y ago
What's up with the nowrap CSS? On my iPad, it shows only x10^4 in portrait mode and 10^6 in landscape.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Encryption doesn't kill people, people kill people.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
If you're wondering when Secure Enclave first appeared, I looked up the A7 processor. It's in the iPhone 5S, the iPad Air, and the iPad Mini (2nd generation).
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Global suicide hotlines and resources for therapy: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp (Full disclosure: I run this wiki.)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
If using that name seems rude, I suggest the name "MarkUp."
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I hadn't realized I could write notes on Pinboard! I've written long descriptions for my bookmarks on occasion, though.
727.
by pronoiac 12y ago
Doing this means that you have your own Wayback Machine, just index your mail archive. :)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I don't understand why you have to upload the videos. Is there a part that requires a ton of processor power? It seems like you could install the right packages on the Mac, or just start a Linux VM on it.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
The live event has wrapped up, though the 1hr37min archive remains viewable.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
There was a discussion yesterday about the original home for this stream - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8156322 about http://www.spacecraftforall.com/ - and this link skips the splash page that sugg
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by pronoiac 12y ago
If I'm tracking time correctly, the live lunar flyby should happen in 15 minutes or so.
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A Spacecraft for All: The ISEE-3 Live Lunar Flyby(youtube.com)
7 points by pronoiac 12y ago|4 comments
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by pronoiac 12y ago
A live webcast is running - http://spacecraftforall.com/live Edit: Here's the Hangout link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtUIXPjVgk
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Amazon is pushing their agenda with propaganda, and I'd be more critical. I liked John Scalzi's take on it: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/
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by pronoiac 12y ago
This is an interesting take on Amazon's propaganda battle. I was going to post this after the Readers United post hit the front page, because I remembered this post and this point: "While this is not going to happen because this
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Well, except CERN Webfest - http://webfest.web.cern.ch/
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by pronoiac 12y ago
HN doesn't allow Markdown, sadly.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It sounds like when I piped /dev/random to a midi device. (Or was it /dev/urandom and TiMidity++?) It was like demos; I would be stunned at the emergent complexity and compactness, and it would only elicit shrugs from fr
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by pronoiac 12y ago
"Listen to your favorite bands' favorite songs"
740.
by pronoiac 12y ago
A more clear tagline: "Listen to the favorite bands of your favorite bands"
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I knew I'd seen this before. It looks like Medium's wacky URL structure is bypassing the dupe checker. If you search for the hex code at the end[1], you get the previous discussions. From when this was first posted in March: http
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Privacy Badger - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger - might be able to help. It's like Disconnect or Ghostery, but based on behavior, rather than a blacklist.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I might be nitpicking, but it seems worn to call this holographic. It is 3d, but it's like an improved lenticular process; it has many views, but they're discrete not continuous, and they don't float above the display.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Oh cool! They presented this at Dorkbot-SF a couple of weeks ago. A bit I particularly liked was that, because of the relative speed of the probe, a couple of km/sec, the frequencies sent and received had to be separately adjusted. And
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by pronoiac 12y ago
When I read "cores" I think "on the same chip," so that took some re-reading to parse. Handling the radio is the job of the baseband processor, which has its own RAM and firmware, in a separate package from the CPU. It l
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Say the blockchain's growing by a gigabyte a month.[1] I don't think SMS can support that much, especially times so many devices. Using a tv signal is more robust - you can support millions of devices, and transient 3G network f
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by pronoiac 12y ago
The author tried building the first release on Sabotage Linux, an experimental distro, and reported on what broke. That may be valid; I hadn't heard of the distro before. They also talked about how entropy was being gathered incorrectl
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by pronoiac 12y ago
To summarize: Elite was an amazing game that had a gigantic universe, procedurally generated from a carefully chosen and vetted random seed. There's a story on how it was made, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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Communicating with a Space Probe using SDR – The ISEE-3 Reboot Project(youtube.com)
1 points by pronoiac 12y ago|0 comments
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It looks like they don't account for the rolling shutter on the camera.

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