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by sehugg 11y ago
A practical near-term application of this tech is precision formation flying of satellites -- Young Bae has been developing test systems for over a decade: https://www.nasa.gov/spacetech/niac/2013phaseII_bae.html
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by sehugg 11y ago
It sometimes blows my mind that this would be $100 in today's dollars, or $12.50 per kilobyte.
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by sehugg 11y ago
Yes, and in a bizarro twist it was Apple who asked that the warrant be filed under seal (according to NYT).
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by sehugg 11y ago
Wired reports: "...the company’s engineers had first suggested to the government that it take the phone to the suspect’s apartment to connect it to the Wi-FI there. But since reporters and members of the public had swarmed that crime s
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by sehugg 11y ago
The DOJ had a chance to make that detail clear in their filing to the court, and they did not. It's hard to believe that was an unintentional omission. The judge will probably wag a finger at them -- although in the previous case in Oc
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by sehugg 11y ago
I do all of my app development in Borland Delphi 2.0. No, just kidding. I just sometimes fantasize about being able to.
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by sehugg 11y ago
The FBI said it was 100% totally fine with giving the phone to Apple and just having remote access to the phone in this one specific case. It's really up to the court to decide that, and this post makes the argument that it may not b
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by sehugg 11y ago
A little Googling reveals that Pascal is the code name of Nvidia's next-gen GPU. (I know, I was kind of excited too)
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by sehugg 11y ago
So how many SQLite databases are in use? "We don't have a good way of counting it," he says, "but we're guessing it's the most widely deployed SQL database in the world." This article came out before the
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by sehugg 11y ago
There's a less-proselytizing piece about Monderman in a 2004 Wired: http://www.wired.com/2004/12/traffic/
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by sehugg 11y ago
In 1987 sneakernet was way more popular than any online service. The majority of regular folks weren't online yet.
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by sehugg 11y ago
I've had frayed insulation with multiple MacBook adapters and Lightning cables. I wonder if it is climate related; I live in a hotter and more humid place than Cupertino. In any case there is no excuse for the insulation being so fragi
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by sehugg 11y ago
I think the 80% win rate against CrazyStone is for the single-machine version. The distributed version won 100% of the time against CrazyStone and 80% of the time against the single-machine version.
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by sehugg 11y ago
As soon as software can convince the majority of humanity that it's conscious, the question will be academic.
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by sehugg 11y ago
Getting someone to contact someone else ASAP is key to virality.
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by sehugg 11y ago
or the township elects to post artificially low speed limits to collect fines from the passerbys Like the ones in Olney, Maryland: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/06/1...
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by sehugg 11y ago
I think it refers to the number of entries in the palette.
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by sehugg 11y ago
Only after the bug was described on CNN.
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by sehugg 11y ago
They didn't get rid of catastrophic plans, they just made them completely unusable. You need a hardship exemption and be < 30 to qualify for one, but they aren't eligible for subsidies.
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by sehugg 11y ago
When I made a shareware game using Delphi in the 90s distributed via BBS, tens of thousands of people downloaded it. Now there is so much "stuff" that I have to pay or beg for downloads.
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by sehugg 11y ago
I'm uncomfortable with research that merely states "we threw some Turkers at it". In my experience they are overall reliable, but there's no data on what qualifications (if any) the jobs were assigned, how much was offer
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Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists(theintercept.com)
2 points by sehugg 11y ago|1 comments
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by sehugg 11y ago
Uncle Matt's costs a couple bucks more, but doesn't use flavor packets. They store their juice in frozen drums in the off-season: http://unclematts.com/resources/flavor-packet-faqs/
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by sehugg 11y ago
Nope. This has happened to just about every Apple cable I've ever owned. MacBook Pro power adapters. MacBook Retina power adapters. iPod cables. Lightning cables. The insulation gets frayed. Sometimes there have been sparks. This has n
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Frightening ISIS encryption methods have surprising Canadian connection(nationalobserver.com)
1 points by sehugg 11y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 11y ago
Hovering wastes energy though. The most efficient (theoretical) landing would be an instantaneous impulse that brings your velocity to whatever your landing gear can support. The Falcon economics might not support anything less efficient (t
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by sehugg 11y ago
I'd like to know more about the strategy for disrupting that $4.5 billion gravy train. The pharma industry and consolidated media is going to fight tooth and nail, and our current surgeon general seems too close to the industry to act
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by sehugg 11y ago
Although “the legislative environment is very hostile today,” the intelligence community’s top lawyer, Robert S. Litt, said to colleagues in an August e-mail, which was obtained by The [Washington] Post, “it could turn in the event of a te
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by sehugg 11y ago
(I'm not a lawyer... this is not legal advice... etc) But I think he probably could try it if he wanted to. There are a number of "sample trolls" using technology that finds samples in old songs: http://www.project
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by sehugg 11y ago
@jimfenton recorded some audio from Cartoon Network in an attempt to find these beacons: http://altmode.org/2015/11/13/searching-for-ultrasonic-beaco... FSK at 17.5 and 18.5 kHZ is one possibility, but wasn&#

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