samlittlewood

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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Stay that way, unless you are prepared to go to extremes to maintain separate identities (physical, temporal, financial). Anything casual will crumble under pressure, so it's best not to have the false sense of security.
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
How much headroom do the 'cloud' providers allow? Presumably any sudden, broad, increase in demand for servers is going to cause problems if there are no physical machines to support the instances - however many times you scribble the word
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Somewhat related - measuring consumption by looking for metabolic byproducts in waste water: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/05/highereducation.... Given some more data points, and the above map - one could get some idea of the a
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Will the bulk of the browser wind up inside the NaCl sandbox? A supervisor runs a bunch of sandboxes - one for each tab - each having the minimum necessary hooks for communications, storage & interface.
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Very like getting engineering apprentices to make a 1 inch steel cube using only files. Serves no direct purpose, but you gain a lot of understanding of the materials and tools. Edit: Or these for machinists: http://i20.photobucket.com/al
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
They want a rotation representation that: 1) can be accumulated (quaternion multiplication) and interpolated (slerp) 'smoothly', 2) and in a way that does not depend on the absolute orientation. - Smooth: If you dive in and start using 3 an
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Thus the popularity of unit quaternions in 3D simulation and graphics. They cover the sphere twice, so each rotation can be represented by two possible values. My hack minds eye view of this is that you take two combed layers with nulls at
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Or use something like: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
4chan vs. Trent Reznor would be an epic, and (I suspect) enjoyable challenge for both sides.
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Thanks. I assume that the forum mentioned in the article is http://www.pprune.org . The current thread about this accident is http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/376433-af447.html Apart from the current tragedy, it's a great window into a
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Similar idea gets used for compression of code - transform it to a more amenable form. http://www.paul.sladen.org/projects/compression/ Make sure that the transform and its inverse are robust in the face of random data - and it can be co
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
... and leave an easy task to pick up when you resume.
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
I think the accusation was that they were looking for people who had scrobbled the as yet unreleased U2 album.
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Seconded - it's great fun. I find that I need to be absorbing the text one or two sentences ahead of the words I am speaking, so as to plan the emphasis and timing. Once I am familiar with the text, though, I can have a completely unrelate
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Wow - we had once of those at school - 2mhz 8080 w 48k. ISTR it had some interesting bugs in the BASIC interpreter that would trigger a stack overflow. The first clue was the screen RAM filling with the runaway stack - on it's way to overwr
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Do these meet your requirements? ATmega16U4 http://atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4380 ATmega32U4 http://atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4317 Or use an AT90USBxxx part like on: http://www.pjrc.com/teens
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Way Cool! I did a hack a few years ago that made a PSX Dualshock pretend to be a buddy box. A PIC polled the joypad, then fed a PPM stream into a Multiplex 3030 xmtr. Having a centre-sprung throttle was neat - but other than that - it was
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by samlittlewood 17y ago
Very nostalgic. As a games developer at the time - some of the things I remember as being important: The setting into which it arrived: Games for the successful cartridge based machines were selected and scheduled by Nintendo & SEGA. Th
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
Reminds me of another (probably apocryphal) tale: http://www.zerogain.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1464
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
It seems a pretty good example of how important talent is vs. the shingle outside the door. 3dfx was founded by ex. SGI talent - Gary Tarolli, Ross Smith and Scott Sellers. (Garry Tarolli wrote dogfight)
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
... and so the wheel turns - isn't this what used to be called a village? I'm all for not having people commuting between single-purpose locations.
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
eg: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
Digging a bit deeper, yes: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/loader_cli.html Has the source to a command line downloader (GPL)
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
Yup, a good way of getting analog sensor data around eg: http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/voltag... Also, sometimes all you care about is the value of a signal relative to a threshold, so you use a simple comparator t
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/loader_linux.html
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/hack_lets_you_look_...
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
Perhaps, a reference to http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001125.html
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
Lots of modules and ideas at http://www.sparkfun.com , and lots of activity in the support forums. Other sources of inspiration & contacts: http://blog.makezine.com/ http://hackaday.com/
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by samlittlewood 18y ago
The Selective Laser Sintering "rapid" prototyping process can be used with casting wax.