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by rcfox 14y ago
It'll be slightly offset by the fact that it has a diesel engine. Not enough to make it equivalent to car, but it's something...
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by rcfox 14y ago
Is there a more authoritative source? This article comes off very heavily as "Here's some FUD. Oh by the way, our product just so happens to alleviate the problem that we just pointed out."
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by rcfox 14y ago
You've missed my point. If you were in a parking lot and found your car to be unlocked, this might alarm you. You might try someone else's door to see if it's similarly unlocked, and just to be sure it's not a fluke, you might try another.
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by rcfox 14y ago
If you have a lot full of unlocked cars, perhaps you should bear some of the blame too? When Sony was hacked and user data was leaked, they received quite a bit of blame. At least they had some semblance of security. AT&T was wide open.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Machine learning casts a problem into higher dimensions in order to linearize it. Linear problems are easier solve, and can be projected back into the original space. An extra dimension is literally just another variable, which doesn't nece
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by rcfox 14y ago
For what it's worth, it looks like the preview books simply have every byte XOR'd with 0x42, and you can see the image requests coming in on the Network tab of the Chrome developer tools while you're in the Flash-based reader. (I can't say
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by rcfox 14y ago
People (like me) notice this, and don't appreciate it.
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by rcfox 14y ago
So is the redirecting to HTTPS thing going to permanent then? I guess I'll have to figure out how hack some Chrome extensions that haven't been updated for 3 years since the creators seem to have hard-coded the HTTP URLs.
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by rcfox 14y ago
C++ is not a superset of C[0]. If you want to use MSVC and newer features, then you're not writing C anymore; you're just writing an awkward C++ program. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B
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by rcfox 14y ago
Integer subtraction with a result of 0 sets the same status bit as comparing one value to another, so you can get away without the compare instruction when counting down. It might not sound like a lot, but it can be meaningful in a tight lo
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by rcfox 14y ago
This might help you: http://blog.nofate.me/?p=35 I've never tried it myself though because I don't own any games on Origin.
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by rcfox 14y ago
If the only reason people are playing the new game is because the old one shut down, then you're not really releasing a new game; you're renewing their subscription. You should either realize that this is evil and innovate, or realize that
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by rcfox 14y ago
Isn't at just a cron helper for one-off jobs?
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by rcfox 14y ago
FYI: Upverter has a template that you can fork as a basis for new Arduino shields. http://upverter.com/upverter/8840f66750a0b8b0/Arduino-Shield...
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by rcfox 14y ago
Yes, this is the opposite of permadeath.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Permadeath only really works for games that don't have an explicit narrative. It's no fun to die and then have to sit through the same conversations and plot twists all over again. Roguelikes tend to be complex and random enough to allow th
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by rcfox 14y ago
For me, the biggest value in emulation is playing the fan translations of games that were never originally made available in English. Some of my favourites: Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shuugou! http://www.romhacking
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by rcfox 14y ago
That knowledge didn't just appear once there was an internet; it had to come from somewhere. You're able to make geo-local picture sharing apps inside of instant messengers because someone with an advanced degree figured out how to make tra
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by rcfox 14y ago
> use CMake it will make your life easy At the expense of your users. Okay, I know next to nothing about CMake. All I know is that it is extremely frustrating when I get the source to a project that uses CMake and then have to modify th
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by rcfox 14y ago
Sure, if the problem is solved, then you probably don't need to know anything. But implementing other people's solutions is only satisfying for so long.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Because, as the article clearly mentions, there's a difference between making something work and making something work right.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Oh, you're right. I was thinking of the double inverted pendulum.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Balancing an inverted pendulum is one of the classic "hard" problems in control theory. (At least, in undergrad.) Not only has he solved that on a flying platform, but he's going to the next levels. Tossing sticks around between flying robo
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by rcfox 14y ago
Remember that copyright applies to CSS too.
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by rcfox 14y ago
If you've set up your company correctly, you should be personally protected from liability if the company fails, right? Assuming that's true, then perhaps you'll end up with a tarnished reputation, but your life isn't crumbling apart. It sh
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by rcfox 14y ago
This comes up pretty much every time pg posts an essay. Just click the footnote link, read it, then hit back. Alternatively, people could provide a link back to the place in the essay and use the :target CSS selector to highlight the footno
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by rcfox 14y ago
I wonder if adding toll booths on either end of the city would be a viable-enough source of income to make up for the terrible traffic in the city.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Well, I see the image as top-down view of one level in a cave. Going down stairs would mean generating another level. It's entirely legitimate to see it as a side-view, in which case yes, you'd be cutting through the terrain.
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by rcfox 14y ago
You can use simple cellular automata to create somewhat natural-looking cave formations: http://rcfox.ca/random-cave-map-generation/
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by rcfox 14y ago
I think the biggest stumbling block for me was all of the stupid tricks involved in the proofs I had to do for school. "If I add sin(x) to both sides of the equation, then I can use such-and-such identity which makes this equal foo." If you

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