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by shabble 15y ago
I wonder how much the in-house expertise of developing Chrome is contributing to the GoogleBot analysis stuff. Having people who aren't afraid to go knee deep in WebKit and produce some nice fast library for partially evaluating layouts, e
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by shabble 15y ago
It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.
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by shabble 15y ago
For the plain ol' FFT, I've found the "Fastest Fourier in the West": http://www.fftw.org/ to be an excellent library, which implements a whole bunch of different solvers, and picks the appropriate ones to use for your data. Hopefully this
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by shabble 15y ago
From an (incredibly) brief skim of http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rec-memory-stick , it looks like they have a mark on "Memory Stick", but not necessarily "Memory Card".
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by shabble 15y ago
Yeah, I'm well aware of the reasoning, and I'm scrupulously careful about how often I take it, and have essentially given up alcohol for the last year or more out of paranoia (erm, justified caution). Dying slowly of liver failure over sev
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by shabble 15y ago
I didn't see it yet from a quick skim of the available chapters, but I'm going to guess that his preferred alternative is 'bstr - The Better String Library' - http://bstring.sourceforge.net/ I've used it the past, and I try to include it
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by shabble 15y ago
Even before that there were pre-payment schemes, I think you could get a 3 month or annual card for ~£15/£35 or something. Helpful mostly to people with chronic conditions (IIRC unemployment/disability benefits tend to include relief of pre
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by shabble 15y ago
The costs of running a manned fingerprinting system would be pretty heavy and hard to scale, I imagine, not to mention inconvenient for users. Without some skilled operator attending closely, there are all manner of ways to fake fingerprint
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by shabble 15y ago
The tricky part is convincing the TV Licence goons that you either don't have any receiver, or that you don't use it. It used to be that you could have the RF unit specially mangled as proof you don't watch broadcasts, but now with set-top
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by shabble 15y ago
nitpick: you probably mean Karnaugh Maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
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by shabble 15y ago
Your second idea has already been done, to a certain degree. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/2005/930810/abs/ is one example of a (highly miniaturised) sensor network that communicates with a corner-cube retroreflector returning modul
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by shabble 15y ago
A consideration often overlooked in these 'pay money lest ye be the product' quips is that quite often, a company might be pretty hard-pushed to make their business model work that way. If you're offering a free service to (many) users, and
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by shabble 15y ago
Ah, I thought it was reasonably common knowledge, so I didn't elaborate on it. Essentially, Sveasoft (which is/was, iirc, a single guy) took the original Linksys firmware releases, and built some fairly impressive new features on top. His b
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by shabble 15y ago
> I have licensed a lot of custom-built software under the > GPL (because I used GPL'ed bits and pieces). None of my > clients ever redistributed their software, most likely > because they considered it a competitive adva
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by shabble 15y ago
I've just finished reading Altered Carbon [1], and quite enjoyed this quote: 'The personal, as every one's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or
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by shabble 15y ago
I've noticed this is common amongst a number of dyslexics I've known.
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by shabble 15y ago
I can't find a source just now, but I recall reading somewhere that user testing showed a much higher signup/purchase rate when using those sorts of 'certified hacker-proof' badges, with very little difference between 'legitimate' (from rec
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by shabble 15y ago
Going pretty far off topic here, but you might enjoy rainbow-mode: http://julien.danjou.info/software/rainbow-mode as a partial alternative (although it's more a preview than a picker)
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by shabble 15y ago
Won't 'ps aux' show them anyway? I imagine there are some restricted userland tools available for shared hosts to use, but having just checked on a couple of my personal machines, it'll display arguments even for processes started by root.
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by shabble 15y ago
True, I agree it's not necessarily a good way to test the filesystem, but it's only the shell that's being hit, nothing really to do with the terminal. I pointed it out mainly because terminals can have a significant impact on performance
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by shabble 15y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding (or he's since changed his post), but: dir /s > c:\list.txt is piping it into a file. Where does the speed of the terminal affect that (in any significant fashion)? I know what you're getting at - tar
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by shabble 15y ago
There was a bit I'm reminded of in the write-up on the Crash Bandicoot series,[1] where they mention 'Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment.[2] Essentially, fail enough times at a given point, and it gets a little bit easier (sloppier timings, mor
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by shabble 15y ago
If you've got net access (or even if you don't), it seems almost plausible that you could just identify the book/page in question and use a lookup table of coordinates. I don't know how many variations on the /Where's Wa[a-z]+\?/ theme have
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by shabble 15y ago
I'm curious if asynchronous logic will get brought back in as time goes on. Multi-core is essentially desynchronising the individual cores since (iirc) clock generation and distribution is one of the most expensive parts of the processor,
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by shabble 15y ago
There's the Paternoster[1], which is essentially what you're talking about, but as it probably fairly obvious, they're pretty difficult to make both safe and efficient. I'm reminded of the 'Moving Platform'[2] idea proposed for high-speed t
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by shabble 15y ago
> Also, pot-smoking is smoking. I don't have anything solid to back this up, but I was under the impression that in places where cannabis is legal/decriminalised/cheaper, there's an increase in oral consumption, rather than smoking (e.g
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by shabble 15y ago
There's the fairly well-established Hawthorne Effect[1] when applied to measuring productivity in others, but I'm not sure how well it would apply to self-analysis since you actually know the details of what you're studying. Quoting: Chang
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by shabble 15y ago
See the sibling comment by raju for the specifics, but you can actually bind the Fn key with the `mac-function-modifier' variable. I'd thought for a long time that Fn was a hardware/OS-only key based on the lack of apps that use it, but i
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by shabble 15y ago
Some BGAs are possible with the right size shims and a hot-air gun (even a cheap £20 gas iron with hot-air tip has worked in the past). Debugging/QA is utterly impossible though (since it generally involves x-rays), so if it doesn't work, y
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by shabble 15y ago
Presumably they thought nobody would ever be foolish enough to actually implement the HCF[1] instruction. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire

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