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by rootbear 13y ago
This version hasn't been updated in a long time. I hope the author gets back to it at some point. I've only played with it a bit, but it was very nostalgic. I think adding modern stuff to this is a bit missing the point, but it
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by rootbear 13y ago
I was going to look those up and post them, but you beat me to it. Until I watched those videos some months back, I had no idea such mechanisms had ever existed.
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by rootbear 13y ago
Thanks for pointing out the Robert Full talk. He gave a talk at Pixar during production of "A Bug's Life" and it was fascinating. And, yes, these older TED talks were better.
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by rootbear 13y ago
Agreed. I thought at first the ISO I downloaded WAS a USB image. And why the linux installer script ends in .com and not .sh is beyond me. But all that aside, this is a really interesting project!
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by rootbear 13y ago
"70 Distinct Ways to Encode <" would be the traditionally correct way to say it. I should have made that more clear in my original rant. My objection to using "unique" in this context is that doing so further erodes
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by rootbear 13y ago
I know that "unique", which became a synonym of "unusual" years ago, has now also become a synonym of "distinct", especially in tech contexts, like "unique hits", but it still grates on my ears (or ey
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by rootbear 13y ago
There are thing you can do to make naps more effective. I do well with a 20 minute nap in mid-day, but I'll feel groggy if I nap for too long. It's better if I don't lie down, but instead sit in a comfy chair, so I don&#x27
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by rootbear 13y ago
I have Das Keyboard mechanical keyboards on all of my home systems. I have spinal nerve damage that reduces sensation in some of my fingers. The positive tactile feel of the switches and the clicky sounds are very helpful in compensating
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by rootbear 13y ago
It's fascinating to learn about all of the hidden bytecode implementations scattered about and a bit alarming that some are so complicated. As for most common, when counting up the tally for the JVM, you must include all Blu-ray playe
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by rootbear 13y ago
Years ago, I tried to calculate how many opening positions there are in Scrabble with two players. I didn't get very far...
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by rootbear 13y ago
In Ancient Times, Industrial Light and Magic was on Usenet, and maybe the Internet, via a system named dagobah. I worked in a computer graphics group that used artist names, like vermeer, escher, davinci, etc. My system was bonestell. In an
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by rootbear 13y ago
I understand about the panels, but what about the source material? Is color information on a blu-ray stored at 8 bits per channel or is it higher? If the source material is 8 bits per color channel, I still think you'll see banding o
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by rootbear 13y ago
Good point. But the current 8 bits per pixel is definitely too few.
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by rootbear 13y ago
This race for more pixels is misguided. The change I most want to see is deeper pixels, at least 10bpp, preferably more. I'm getting really tired of all the banding I see on what should be smooth gradient images. If a landscape aspec
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by rootbear 13y ago
That was fun! I got 300. I only speak English fluently, although I've studied French and German. However, I am very interested in phonetics and have read up on the sound systems of lots of languages and that helped a lot. Thanks, I
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by rootbear 13y ago
So is 'reversing' a common lazy shorthand for 'reverse engineering'? The title confused me until I realized what it was about. Feeling like an old fart...
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by rootbear 13y ago
I live in the DC area and the people I know who work at NSA typically say they work "for the Department of Defense". That's a sure sign they work at NSA, since anyone else who works at DoD would just say more specifically wh
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by rootbear 13y ago
And the formula given has at least two bugs, I think. They give it as -b + (Math.sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c)) / 2*a Shouldn't it be (-b + (Math.sqrt(b**2 - 4*a*c))) / (2*a) (still ignoring the other root, of course)
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by rootbear 13y ago
Mark Weiser was a professor of mine at the University of Maryland before he went to PARC. It was an awful tragedy that he died at such a young age (46). With the rise of tablets and small, powerful computers like the Raspberry Pi and the
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by rootbear 13y ago
So would you have preferred that the original poster not bring it up on HN at all? I could just as easily claim that someone who was planning to enter the contest before learning about Samsung's practices will now choose not to. We h
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by rootbear 13y ago
Merely discussing something is not promoting it. The GLBT community has fought this battle again and again, when various parties sought to suppress any mention of homosexuality in public schools, because that would be "promoting the ho
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by rootbear 13y ago
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5
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by rootbear 13y ago
Thank you for explaining the GR vs SR aspect of this. I was somewhat aware that the no-FTL rule was different in GR but I didn't really understand how. I'll have to look into this more and now I know where to start. I'm no
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by rootbear 13y ago
I don't see how this can avoid violating causality. When analyzing this sort of thing, the method by which one travels faster than light doesn't matter at all. Warp drives, hyperspace, or magic carpet, it's all the same. T
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by rootbear 13y ago
I was just about to post the Slashdot article on this. There is a link in the Slashdot article to a spatial ability test: http://psych.io/spatial/ It's a very challenging test and was fun to do. It's for
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by rootbear 13y ago
I would not have thought that return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;}); was valid C. GCC 4.4.7 chokes on it, using -std=gnu99. Is this a C11 thing?
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by rootbear 13y ago
Today is the 60th birthday of a friend who has been HIV+ since 1983. When we met, ca. 1986, I didn't expect him to live long. I am pleased beyond my ability to express that I was completely wrong. The party he and his husband are th
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by rootbear 13y ago
That raised my eyebrow as well. The 65th anniversary of the Baby was just a week ago, so it was fresh in my mind. It was experimental, but the follow-on Mark-1 does seem to have beat the EDSAC by about about a month. I love reading about
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by rootbear 13y ago
Really interesting piece. I've been thinking for a while that the series would end with a live action version of the opening credits, with Don taking a swan dive off the top of the building. But I guess that's too obvious.
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by rootbear 13y ago
And Apple's gray-on-silver labels on the back of my Mac Pro are pretty hard to read, too. Not enough dim-eyed gray beards like me at these companies, I guess.

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