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by shabble 11y ago
"inurl:pdf" is great for finding copies of papers, too. "filetype:" supposedly works as well, but I've had much less luck using it.
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by shabble 11y ago
I feel like if there was a "One True Emacs Keyboard", it would probably be something like http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/
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by shabble 11y ago
Oddly, I find the opposite to be true, although I can't really think of a good way to justify why. I have a GUI emacs-server running that I can open buffers from via emacsclient for "serious editing", but I often end up using
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by shabble 11y ago
From a quick skim of the paper, it doesn't seem like they mention how they acquired the data, other than some mention of how it's secured by their rate/count-limiting process. I'd hope they're storing it all as one-
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by shabble 11y ago
Cute. I remember some anti-spam outfit trying to "protect" emails with a copyrighted poem in the headers: http://www.oblomovka.com/writing/habeas%3A_the_antispam_haik... I wonder how far back in OS(X) it date
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by shabble 11y ago
It's a worry that's been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Moral%20Virologist (and probably plenty of others I'm forgetti
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by shabble 11y ago
The scenario you describe is malicious because people don't expect a charger to have "features" which consume large amounts of power without benefit, but it does make me wonder if such tech could be incorporated into electric
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by shabble 12y ago
Or just a robot arm with arbitrary dish-type manipulator to load & unload your dishwasher. Then it can take my usual pile-of-stuff on the countertop, and restack it nice and clean an hour later. Bonus if it can reach into my cupboards :
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by shabble 12y ago
There's a great BBC documentary[1] about the Windscale fire that goes into quite some detail about the US-UK "Special Relationship" when it came to atomic weapons information sharing, which largely boiled down to some tacit a
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by shabble 12y ago
It crops up occasionally, the issue has always been the effort of client support, and that it only anchors the validity to that of the document referencing the javascript (or whatever). These days there's an active spec underway for &q
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by shabble 12y ago
whilst this is good advice for shell scripting, are you sure it applies as worded to the snippet you're replying to, given how Make uses $() itself for variable referencing?[1] $$() might work, but untested. [1] https://www.
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by shabble 12y ago
Does it really matter why? There are innumerable occasions you might have 5GB+ of data you want to quickly swap between machines. DVD images (especially OS install ones) spring to mind, and it's not uncommon to want the image itself, n
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by shabble 12y ago
Doesn't (Desktop) Firefox use it for history and bookmarks and various things as well[1]? I wonder if 'delete my history' GUI action actually removes the file (securely) or just deletes entries from it, exposing it to this so
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by shabble 12y ago
It looks like from ~24.4 onwards there's support for various notification event sources for auto-revert[-tail]-mode, as determined by the file-notify--library variable. I don't appear to have anything compiled into my prebuilt OS
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by shabble 12y ago
There is http://www.wedinos.org/db/sample_testing although it does require you to submit a bunch of questions and a postcode along with the sample. Politicians are very sensitive to being seen to be 'running a dru
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by shabble 12y ago
It's also about cost, in the form of reliability, since the payloads commonly cost > 1 billion USD each. Not to mention, if you botch the orbit they might have to throw missiles at it so it doesn't injure peopl^W^Wfall into the
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by shabble 12y ago
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e... (and the rest of his 'Common misconceptions about publishing'[1] series) covers this idea in quite some detail, and ultimately co
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by shabble 12y ago
By 'lowercase numbers', do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures ? I've never heard the term before, and initially wondered if it was some sort of joke, but it would seem not. Interesting st
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by shabble 12y ago
> No major language implementation that I'm aware of compiles to assembly. I believe 'gcc -S' would demonstrate not. If my understanding is correct, it produces essentially asm internally regardless of that flag, but sub
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by shabble 12y ago
there's no reason having a cert should prevent you from registering another one, afaik. There are plenty of reasons you might legitimately want to do that, and running the certpatrol firefox extension shows that lots of sites change ce
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by shabble 12y ago
Probably in much the same way as other hardware/software systems that weren't intended to be user-serviceable. The obvious comparison is old Arcade Games. There's a fine talk from 31C3[1] about it. You need to extract firmwar
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by shabble 12y ago
Are you limited by total BW cap, or transfer rate? There's no reason an suitably intelligent resumption system could allow that TB to be downloaded over the course of several months if necessary. You'd be a lower priority peer, bu
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by shabble 12y ago
The added bonus of periodically validating random chunks is that it forms a sort of data-scrubbing function, allowing the detection of non-malicious failures due to bad sectors or whatever as well.
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by shabble 12y ago
> * To be honest, no. But Wikipedia seems to have that event pretty well covered* And in a lot of cases, the actual citations or references used by Wikipedia are dead links, or have some sort of 'last retrieved at' annotation,
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by shabble 12y ago
When we had a huge stash of cardboard after getting some whiteboards delivered, we ended up building something not unlike the jwz 'Tent of Doom'[1] around a few desks. It was surprisingly relaxing and productivity-enhancing for th
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by shabble 12y ago
For those wondering just what's inside, Mike (of Mike's Electric Stuff[0]) has some excellent teardowns with commentary on a few[1][2]. The engineering constraints (high reliability with low maintenance, instructing the user how t
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by shabble 12y ago
practical room-temp superconductors might make electricity transmission possible on smaller towers, but unless we get some cool tech like mostly autonomous underground cable tunneling robots, its likely to remain cheaper to run them on pole
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by shabble 12y ago
I was expecting something Mapping/GIS related, given [1], but maybe that's just the mental scar-tissue from a previous project involving various data sources that were in formats not quite entirely unlike the ones they purported t
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by shabble 12y ago
You may or may not be surprised to know that PHP supports it natively. php5 -r 'echo idate("B");' http://php.net/manual/en/function.idate.php
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by shabble 12y ago
Reminds me of the excellent EE-trolling magic circuits by Henryk Gasperowicz[1]. The number of things you could bury a little QFN MCU or similar in to play silly buggers with people is huge, especially if you have the luxury of them providi

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