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by shabble 13y ago
> I have timemachine setup on a small server (running zfs and snapshotting). Are you talking about the Apple Time Machine app here? I'd be curious to hear about your setup if so. Right now I'm using time machine to a USB atta
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by shabble 13y ago
For anyone wondering what's normally attached to a weather balloon, reading up on the history of the Radiosonde[1] is pretty interesting. Things like thermal insulation, choice of materials for biocompatibility/minimal long-term h
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by shabble 13y ago
Have you considered fashioning some stylish yet concealed body-armour under your outer clothing, possibly using bits of left-over belt and magazines? Not quite Ned Kelly, but might help a little.
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by shabble 13y ago
barcode/qr-code/RFID sticker (to identify the product) & set of cheap(ish) wireless weighing scales could probably do it easier than trying to estimate based on crappy phone pics. Does require more infrastructure though, but m
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by shabble 13y ago
Perhaps. But at least one complexity there is that there are a couple of isotopes (of different mass) for both oxygen and hydrogen. There's the Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water[1][2] which accounts for differing isotopic compositions i
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by shabble 13y ago
In Chrome at least, having the devtools panel open[0] disables {all,most,some,infuriatingly inconsistent} parts of the cache system, so every refresh is a 'hard refresh'[1]. [0] Might be an option in the dev-tools settings, but I
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by shabble 13y ago
I'd prefer a Utah Teapot[1]. Then you can at least have a decent reference for your shadow rendering implementation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
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by shabble 13y ago
> * We saw the emergence of penicillin resistence in S. Aureas, then methicillin resistance. we moved to quinalones, and sulfa and we see resisance develop there.. OF COURSE it does. The antibiotics don't cause resistance.. Natural
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by shabble 13y ago
The obvious answer is: You can't profitably slaughter diseased animals (at least for human consumption, with various complex exemptions that massively reduce value) So treating with broad-spec antibiotic prophylaxis increases your heal
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by shabble 13y ago
I keep meaning to figure out why this isn't working for me, because trying to use nxhtml-mode along with any sort of templating or embedded script tags is an exercise in frustration. But web-mode (installed via ELPA) doesn't seem
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by shabble 13y ago
And/or occasionally generate some fairly weak throw-away keys, and use them to encrypt jpgs of lolcats, or something. Bonus points for "Hi there! NSA" steganographic embedding inside that :)
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by shabble 13y ago
It's still there afaik, but you need to download the `yow.lines' file separately and put it in the right place or M-x customize-variable yow-file to point to it. https://github.com/shentonfreude/dot-emacs&#x
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by shabble 13y ago
I think this occurs to nearly everyone. It's commonly referred to as a "pepper"[1], and is generally considered not all that helpful in most scenarios, as well as being potential evidence that you're a witch^W^WDoing You
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by shabble 13y ago
The LHC beam-dumps[1] at CERN are also at that holy-shit-physics scale. A more explanatory article[2] also covers the superconducting magnet quenches, in which up to 10GJ of stored energy suddenly decides it really ought to be following Oh
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by shabble 13y ago
There certainly are, although they're not typically intended for home usage. But in industrial/commercial setups which use CO2 (beer/drink-cellars, dry-ice handling, pressure pipe-flushing, etc) they're relatively common
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by shabble 13y ago
That's a rather alarming install script, especially things like: sudo apt-get --assume-yes upgrade in it. But to your point, I think most of the easy_install packages could be handled by pip. The apt packages look like almost
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by shabble 13y ago
"We put the Pro in procrastination!"
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by shabble 13y ago
http://techland.time.com/2012/03/21/amazons-775-million-acqu... Exactly what sort of robotics are you railing against? It seems to me that your arguments are essentially the old joke "We're wasting
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by shabble 13y ago
Ideally you'd want to be running Tor with transparent proxying of all traffic on a physically separate (and locked down) host. I believe there are guides on how to do all that on a raspberry pi out there. On your primary browsing/
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by shabble 13y ago
There is an approved form of pharmaceutical melatonin in the UK (Circadin, 2mg modified release), but it's only licensed for use in adults aged over 55. Any doctor can prescribe it off-label if they wish, although they might be hesitan
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by shabble 13y ago
"My fault-detection circuitry may be malfunctioning, but I'm not sure how to tell"
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by shabble 13y ago
The obvious solution to this would be to cycle randomly between fonts every few characters (or keep a running total of the font used for each particular symbol, and ensure it stays below some threshold). For bonus points you could convert t
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by shabble 13y ago
There are specific terms in the GPL[1], and probably elsewhere, that address this issue: [3(a)] Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
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by shabble 13y ago
The physical security (especially the release mechanism) is what I'm curious about. Elsewhere you mention the constraints low-power places on you, and it strikes me that the less energy required to trigger the release, the easier that
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by shabble 13y ago
What happens if you try to fsck /proc or /sys? I presume 'not much' or 'you get an error', but I don't have an instance I'm prepared to sacrifice right now, just in case something hilariously destruct
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by shabble 13y ago
Obligatory Blue Jeans Cable v. Monster Cable legalese catfight: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/ (The final response pdf in particular)
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by shabble 13y ago
Could use something like PaperBack[1], which can handle >1MB/A4 sheet. Combine that with a decent quality printer/paper and autofeed scanner, and you could quite easily dump a few hundred MB without too much manual effort. I be
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's still the case (I recall some discussion about optimising it) but using the more obvious[1] idiom of foreach my $line (<$FH>) { ... } slurps the entire file because the foreach is forcing list c
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm getting the KE of a car to be roughly double your estimate: assuming ~4000lb[1] car, 140mph ~= 62.6m/s, 0.5*m*v*v = 0.5 * (4000*0.454) * 62.6^2 = 3.5E6Joules[2] ~= 830kcal Did you miss the 0.5, or use a diff
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by shabble 13y ago
I believe they can be used in isolation, because by suppressing/slowing the oxidative metabolism of synaptic neurotransmitters, they can be used to compensate for low baseline levels by extending their active lifespan. The main reaso

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