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811.
by pronoiac 13y ago
You mean, other than mentally retreating from the party? He's doing math around the reciprocals of primes. See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/602:_Overstimulate... for more info.
812.
by pronoiac 13y ago
The spam for openings in other states is particularly frustrating for me. I'm job-hunting, and I have notifications enabled for email - I get my hopes up, then see that it's (frequently) that one recruiter who just cannot remem
813.
by pronoiac 13y ago
A couple of years ago, Monkeybrains talked about using microtrenching to spread a fiber network across San Francisco. I guess it's stalled, but I occasionally look for updates. https://www.monkeybrains.net/projects.html
814.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I agree! At the time, I thought of running the numbers to compare them to, say, radio and TV transmissions towers, or microwave ovens, but I had thought it was a done deal, with a few details to work out.
815.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Oh man! I knew the answer to this before I read the article. After I heard about contentious community meetings about Google Wifi, I went myself, taping them for posterity.[1] The community seemed generally receptive. I was sad when it fell
816.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Heh. Dorkbot-SF is having a 20-year anniversary party for VRML, and they just requested VRML files for projection on the walls.
817.
by pronoiac 13y ago
An update's available for 10.8. I didn't verify the issue before upgrading. Edit: I did check with Imperial Violet and gotofail.com, and the issue is not there after the update.
818.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Yes, I did it this morning. Look for the update from your phone, so it's a smaller download anyway. It takes more room than they ask for, maybe 750 meg. I just temporarily deleted some podcasts to make room.
819.
by pronoiac 13y ago
This also impacts iOS 6; there's an update available.
820.
by pronoiac 13y ago
YouTube used to offer a view of your download speed, compared to other customers of your ISP, other ISPs, and other countries, but it appears to be closed down, sadly. * youtube.com/my_speed
821.
by pronoiac 13y ago
When someone close to me had kids, I came close to loading up an iPod with all of Weird Al's music, so that they would hear his versions first, and they would think that he was the prime musical force of the past 30 years. I didn
822.
by pronoiac 13y ago
This is nifty! Though it's tempting to draft a GUI for it.
823.
by pronoiac 13y ago
You might check EBay. Check Buy It Now and sort by price.
824.
by pronoiac 13y ago
The Notational Velocity platform is pretty sweet! You might be thinking of nvpy - https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy . I haven't tried it. Instead, I use nvAlt on Mac, Simplenote on my iPhone, and ResophNotes on Wind
825.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Oh! I remember seeing this and thinking that I could build an awesome video livestream mixer off of it. The paid packages were definitely a speedbump.
826.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I had the same issue with Super Meat Boy on a Mac! I just checked, and it looks like there's been an update that fixed it, at least with 10.8.
827.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Digital preservation is definitely a problem, but relying entirely on the cloud seems misguided too.
828.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Whoops, I had to redo the Q&A highlight, and I didn't update the link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423954
829.
by pronoiac 13y ago
He presented this at Dorkbot-SF last night; I streamed it: part 1: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791560/highlight/423948 part 2: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight&
830.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Don't forget: SSH is strong crypto too.
831.
The Great Discontent, interview with designer Frank Chimero.(thegreatdiscontent.com)
3 points by pronoiac 13y ago|0 comments
832.
by pronoiac 13y ago
They were talking about letting unpaid customers go, but they found backing, to let them keep up the good work: http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/57274499607/the-new-old-re...
833.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I wonder what would happen if they tested them on, say, mathematicians or engineers with a penchant for numbers.
834.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I like MTPuTTY - http://ttyplus.com/multi-tabbed-putty/ - and I'm curious if you used this or another version.
835.
by pronoiac 13y ago
This sounds like (the reverse of?) something I saw recently, "Projection Mapping on a Moving Object," demonstrated on a bouncing ball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuSUHuSceYc The tech's called Lumipen, and
836.
by pronoiac 13y ago
I looked into reverse engineering of silicon recently, so here are some resources drawn from my comments in a thread about Linux and Intel's PRNG: * Degate, a somewhat automated "aid in reverse engineering of digital logic in inte
837.
by pronoiac 13y ago
There's a subjective jump between "this is loud" and "I can feel the music rattle my chest."
838.
by pronoiac 13y ago
How many trackers are detected by Ghostery on individual articles on these sites? Boing Boing has 12. The Atlantic has 13. Huffington Post has 16. The Onion's AV Club has 18. Wired has 19.
839.
by pronoiac 13y ago
It looks like the microcode is also encrypted. But perhaps that encryption could be reverse engineered from silicon? The Silicon Zoo tutorial noted that Pentium I-era chips were "easily viewable" [1], probably with optical mic
840.
by pronoiac 13y ago
Ah. Some relevant information on reverse engineering silicon: * Degate, a somewhat automated "aid in reverse engineering of digital logic in integrated circuits" - http://www.degate.org/ * Silicon Zoo offers a tut

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