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841.
by shabble 15y ago
These days I mostly use Ctrl-C instead of Esc, just because it's so much easier to type. If you make a serious commitment to vi(m) though, binding your capslock to esc is probably the better way to go.
842.
by shabble 15y ago
which might have been even better without the exceptionally drawn-out terrorist 'side-'plot
843.
by shabble 15y ago
There's a certain parallel to draw with the Iron Ring/Engineer's Ring[1,3]. Quoting from the latter article: The Iron Ring is worn on the little finger ("pinky") of the working (dominant) hand; this would be the left hand for a left-handed
844.
by shabble 15y ago
I'm entirely in favour of increasing the resolution/bit-depth for video, but I think the general problem is more complicated by external factors. The cost of renting a red one and recording straight digital vs hiring a film camera, process
845.
by shabble 15y ago
People from a musical, non-signals background tend to use 'harmonics' as a synonym for 'overtones' or 'partial tones', which is where the confusion arises, I suspect. There's a measure -- inharmonicity[1] -- of how far the actual overtones
846.
by shabble 15y ago
There seems to be some strange idea that analogue means 'infinite detail'. In this particular case, there's no significant difference between being limited by the original digital recording resolution and the grain size of a film recording.
847.
by shabble 15y ago
I can't view the video, so I'm not sure if it's straight up transcription error, or just confusion, but: the length of wire that is as long as light can travel in one nanosecond. The length is a very portable 11.8 inches. A microseconds wo
848.
by shabble 15y ago
On occasion I've idly wondered about what would happen if you started enforcing a relatively strict '1 in, 1 out' policy. There must be plenty of crap on the books that either is completely outdated, subsumed by other more recent statutes,
849.
by shabble 15y ago
I'm not sure if I've been sensitised to PR weasel-wording that these things tend to gather (and get blasted for in HN comments), but it's quite refreshing to see something as blunt as " We apologize for our failure to maintain an adequate l
850.
by shabble 15y ago
Second only to: "Simple, you just revert to your most recent complete backup"
851.
by shabble 15y ago
I would love to see something like detexify: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html but that worked for unicode chars as well. I think the guy who made it has some posts about how it works on his blog at http://detexify.posterous.com
852.
by shabble 15y ago
If you merge these 2 aspects: DRM first, free(er) one later, you could get most of the money, and the PR bonus of being DRM free, which, as more people get annoyed by cumbersome DRM, could even give you a 2nd sales bump. The problem would b
853.
by shabble 15y ago
Pretty sure they already do: http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm Also, I have no real way to confirm, but I've heard (via friend of a friend: suspicion +10) quite a big part of a high-value flavour science is not just now it tastes, bu
854.
by shabble 15y ago
I'd like to think that they'd have better purity controls than the more...informal distributors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_agent And more specifically, Levamisole is becoming something of a hot topic as a dangerous, but desira
855.
by shabble 15y ago
I think I prefer the lolcat-compliant version: http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/303
856.
by shabble 15y ago
It seems like there should be at least some manual override (assuming there isn't one already - I didn't check the details much beyond the article provided) to set your 'my DNS is NX-LYING' flag manually. For machines that are permanently
857.
by shabble 15y ago
I suspect some hubs would be suitable for buffering against that sort of attack. Not sure which though, or whether a more subtle approach (some sort of pulsed power to avoid tripping polyfuses, perhaps) would still be practical. If you want
858.
by shabble 15y ago
Reminds me of the 'biggest drawing in the world' viral image that went around a while back, which later turned out to be a hoax: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/05/artist-says-he/ Pretty cool that someone actually did it though!
859.
by shabble 15y ago
and if you've gone so far down the hole you're completely lost, 'jobs' is a useful way (in most shells, I think?) to figure out where you are.
860.
by shabble 15y ago
There already exists tup : http://gittup.org/tup/ which does that sort of thing.
861.
by shabble 15y ago
ISTR that they have some fairly sophisticated anti-cheat stuff running (esp. for WoW & Starcraft) Warden, I think it's called. Essentially, a sort of background process monitor/snooper that tries to detect cheating behaviour and block o
862.
by shabble 15y ago
Granted incredibly unlikely, but doesn't that open the possibility of: * Rip off developer * Hire incredibly expensive legal team/legal buddy[1] to find small enough loophole in contract * Bill developer for cost of legal as well as rip the
863.
by shabble 15y ago
I wonder if it's legal to state upfront in your contract that 'technical measures' are implemented in your work to prevent theft of service (or whatever you call the use of the work product without payment), and are to be deactivated &
864.
by shabble 15y ago
except a huge number of terminal emulators still reserve ^S/^Q for XON/XOFF software flow-control[1]. stty -ixon lives in my init scripts for that reason. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control
865.
by shabble 15y ago
I've found that the tone of the message is often an indication of what the sender thinks it will achieve. The all-guns-blazing "How dare you do this to me?!" is intended to get an immediate apology and admission of guilt, with the probable
866.
by shabble 15y ago
I often find myself looking for the opposite mapping; to which package does /usr/share/foo/bar.blob belong? $ dpkg --search /etc/apt/ debconf, apt: /etc/apt
867.
by shabble 15y ago
...yet. Decent digitisation / handwriting recognition should take care of that, and will probably be ultimately more useful than physical notes, since you'll be able to search, edit, or send them to other people.
868.
by shabble 15y ago
At which point, how do you identify which is a user-specific issue vs a site or fractional-site wide one? And who's responsible for building that list? Does the vendor have to add things manually? Is there a submission process? How do you s
869.
by shabble 15y ago
I wonder how plausible it'd be to make a little spinthariscope[1] attachment to stick over the camera instead. Rather than affecting the CMOS camera element itself, you generate visible light flashes with a fluorescing capture material. [1]
870.
by shabble 15y ago
And presumably why it's pretty poor at discriminating Alpha & Beta, since they'll be quite easily stopped by the barrier as well (and probably the lens even if it were exposed) IIRC actual radiation detectors use very thin mica films to

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