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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
Oop. You're right. I overlooked that. I put about 2 minutes into the illustration and didn't think it over very much (I probably should have). I was mostly responding to TomGullen's confusion about the GP's statement, ra
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
Here's an illustration, if it helps: http://imgur.com/YrlKW4Z The length of the red arrow is always the same. When your velocity is zero, your "time speed" is 1.0. As you begin to move faster, the arrow tilts
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
And, as a couple people have pointed out, Thorium isn't even used in fusion. This author could stand to do a little more reading on the subject.
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China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Takes No. 1 Ranking on 41st TOP500 List(top500.org)
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
To be fair, it's not the same people on both sides of each of your examples. I suspect every politician ever will be subject to completely opposing criticism from both sides.
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
I think they're pushing the "picture in space" as a sort of hook to gather public interest. Large scale public interest in their projects has the potential to bring in larger funding from entities that might otherwise not be interested. Per
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
Probably the most awesome Kickstarter I've ever backed. I'm so excited!!! Planetary Resources is a really cool company.
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
> Does the tech stack in the background matter I think it does, because the tech stack in the background allows for things that might not be possible for other tech stacks. You can duplicate somebody else's webapp in your backend of cho
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
I could have sworn that last sentence wasn't there (my bad).
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
I think he means that prime factorization is unique (which is true). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...
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by ramidarigaz 13y ago
I think he means that this development would encourage the use of diplomacy over explosives. I initially read it the other way (diplomacy being more useful than this development).
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
That's terrifying...
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
> Can you buy an N4 simply yet? Yep :) https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
Where does the GIL factor into this? I thought using threads in Python gives basically no gains unless all the heavy work is being done outside the interpreter. I've always gone with the multiprocessing module instead.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I remember it being something about check valves in the oxidizer pressurization system. I don't recall where I read that, but it's probably not too hard to dig up (I'm just lazy).
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
Wow. I had no idea the ATV was so expensive. As a side note, your comments in space-related threads are always awesome. Do you work in the industry?
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
The capsule's thrusters had a blockage which prevented them from maneuvering and deploying the solar panels. They managed to clear the blockage just fine.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
Nice. Looks clean, things are well sorted.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
They lock in the price. I bought 3 bitcoins for $48.48, and shortly thereafter the price jumped up by a couple dollars. 5 days later, there was a charge in my bank account for a total of $48.48.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I don't believe he actually means the OS Kernel. It's a userspace "kernel" in that it coordinates the traffic and behavior for all of the subprocesses.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
It can be done on a moderately powerful GPU these days, but only to about 10x zoom (or maybe less, I don't remember) before it starts to look weird. The main problem is floating point precision (or lack thereof) causing distortion :(
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
Are you sure you watched the HFR version? Not all 3D showings had HFR. I think you may have only seen the regular version. HFR was really noticeable (for me, at least).
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I've been running kippo (ssh honeypot) with a really weak root password. It's really entertaining to watch people break in and try to muck around.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
How do you change the reported OS/SSH version? I didn't see any obvious lines in sshd_config that do that.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I imagine that's a factor, but it's primarily the fact that sea water is really hard on the delicate parts of the rocket due to corrosion and mineral deposits.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
Like the other commenters gave said, landing vertically is very much their intention. The rationale is that sea landings make repair work much harder.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I knew armadillo was doing some impressive work, but wow. That was really cool.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
How is this not a part of the EFF's core mission?
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
I still like to push the idea that my school's CS department uses: grading appointments. 40% of your grade is the code actually working, 60% is you being able to explain it to the TA.
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by ramidarigaz 14y ago
So far it hasn't been a problem (fingers crossed). I have a couple ways into the server in case I get myself banned. Also, it's my personal server, so the only user that would complain is me :) For other sites, I'm honestly not sure how the

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