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by saulrh 14y ago
One simple answer: lossless power transmission over long distance. A measurable percentage of our electrical generation is lost in powerlines or transformers without doing any useful work.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Money quote for the people that don't want to wade through ten pages of rant: During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team a
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by saulrh 14y ago
True, there are mitigating factors. I just got annoyed when Tiny Wings was used as an example of a great game, particularly when the explanation of its success started off by citing its mechanics, and even more particularly when McCoy's foc
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by saulrh 14y ago
The game also had the advantage of free ideation and fun-testing; Tiny Wings is a zynga-style copy of the best flash game from a small flash dev's one-experimental-game-a-week-for-a-year personal project. Tiny Wings' contribution was mostly
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by saulrh 14y ago
Streams clamp everything in them to O(n). That's a problem in some cases; for example, your NASDAQ feed dumper probably has some kind of database inside itself that lets it run filters in massively sublinear time, and making it linear would
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by saulrh 14y ago
Heh, not your fault, I got that part. Should have looked at the username more closely before responding. :P
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by saulrh 14y ago
They might have to do some work to become resistant to takedowns, but that's a very long-term deal. Just getting the content off the phone is good for the short term.
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by saulrh 14y ago
It seems to me like a reasonable generalization of the part where experts don't talk authoritatively about things outside their fields. You have degrees in CS and Philosophy, but I doubt you'd write about as related to your field as CPU man
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by saulrh 14y ago
Given how important computers are these days, the same could be said of FizzBuzz.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Everybody uses email differently. Any one person proposing a "solution" to email or a new client design or workflow or whatever is going to be shouted down by the 90% of the population that doesn't do it the same way. The best thing, then,
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by saulrh 14y ago
Yeah, my bad. I think I crosswired "computer" and "bit" when I was typing "2D vector".
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by saulrh 14y ago
This explanation is missing a little bit of background. A classical computer's state is represented by a single number - the concatenation of all of the classical bits in its memory. The transition function in a classical computer takes a
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by saulrh 14y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention. No necessity means no invention. Right now, we're building an entire generation that will be unable to produce computer innovation because they've become complacent: they believe that facebook is the en
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by saulrh 14y ago
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Di... It's on the Macbook Pro in the display assembly.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Just use keepass. If you're already carrying around a password file, you can carry around portable binaries of the program that reads your passwords. www.keepass.info
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by saulrh 14y ago
Bit of a difference between overall health and sword-swinging fitness. I may be almost completely disease- and parasite-free, but the guy that's been training five hours a day since he was five will always lift more than me and run further
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by saulrh 14y ago
Swords are a lot lighter than people think, even the heaviest armor in use (completely different from the ceremonial stuff) was much less restrictive than usually believed, and the average video gamer is significantly less fit than the aver
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by saulrh 14y ago
This isn't a prototype computer. This is a prototype relay that can only open. If they'd given their engineers just two more months they'd have been able to show off a grid of pixels - something that would work in multiple orientations wi
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by saulrh 14y ago
Sorry, replace "piracy" with "lost sales" in my post; even if we don't believe that, the recording industries certainly seem to.
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by saulrh 14y ago
First of all, a levy on storage media? That is so weird! How the hell did that come about? Erm, multiple countries have levies like this. They, and increases in them, are for exactly what they say on the tin: the money is given to
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by saulrh 14y ago
It's a bit of a bummer because it's trivial and boring. It almost looks like it's just a touchscreen with pockets on the front that you blow compressed air into. The fact that this is getting so much attention - and the fact that it's wasti
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by saulrh 14y ago
I'll vote for Google ID or a dedicated login.
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by saulrh 14y ago
All true. I considered mentioning Excel, GUI builders, HTML, and flash (I'm too young to remember hypercard) but couldn't fit it into the post without rambling. That said, nearly everybody ends up at the command line eventually. Javascript
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by saulrh 14y ago
because apparently it's the lack of time spent punching arcane commands into a terminal that has killed interest in computer science Uh, actually. I think that this review is well off, and it really shows here. The command line
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by saulrh 14y ago
Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access) In other words, Microsoft won. Not only have they made Linux significantly more difficult
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by saulrh 14y ago
If I had to guess, he's being funded by the military and he is definitely fishing for money. I've seen the same kind of language before. On the other hand, as the parent comment said, these researchers are reputable and we should assume tha
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by saulrh 14y ago
You're missing a point there. The information may be mostly white noise, but with that much data, even filtered by laws and ethics, statistics are powerful . You are not the customer; neither are the developers. It's Target. http://www.fo
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by saulrh 14y ago
They're using a Kuka DLR lightweight arm. It's a rather high-end piece of equipment. It's strong enough to do a pull-up, fast enough to catch a ball, and every joint incorporates a six-axis force-torque sensor. It's definitely strong enough
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by saulrh 15y ago
The other nice thing about packaging systems is that you can choose how fast you want things to be updated. If you're having trying to install Gentoo on a toaster oven, things will break; if you install Debian stable, you'll never have to w
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by saulrh 15y ago
Speaking as a user rather than a dev, even the current package management system is better than what we have on Windows. On linux, my libraries are six months out of date because that's how long it takes the community to add them to the rep

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