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by shabble 11y ago
I think most exponential backoff schemes I've looked at treat the 'backoff delay' as a range and do randrange(0, current_backoff) or similar which does what you say. Truncated exponential (where you cap the upper limit of the
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by shabble 11y ago
See "Don't call them Whales"[1] presentation by the CEO of Kongregate, a large online/flash games site. ~75% of revenue from ~2% of users, broken down in all sorts of interesting ways. [1] http://www.slideshar
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by shabble 11y ago
Having switched over for a week or two now to a self-hosted instance, there are some major workflow issues we've encountered. Odds are good that some are just undiscoverd features/user error, but: * Navigation between 'root&
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by shabble 11y ago
There's the 1990 short by Stross - Yellow Snow : http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to... along these lines.
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by shabble 11y ago
Probably neither of these (depending on your definition of primitive), but they're interesting anyway: The Cookie Monster[1] by Vernor Vinge Glasshouse[2] by Charles Stross [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coo
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by shabble 11y ago
It would make life interesting for multistorey car parks. It's not uncommon to have 500+ spaces. If each one of those has something between 3-50kW charge capacity, and many are being used at once, that's going to require some seri
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by shabble 11y ago
Entertainingly, the operators of the light-show[1] around the Eiffel tower are claiming any photo taken at night (when the lights are operating) is required to obtain a licence[2][3] [1] http://www.toureiffel.paris/en/f
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by shabble 11y ago
One possibility: It will know when the internal batteries are running low (the internal charge/discharge monitor IC doing battery "gas gauge" measuring). It'll maintain a reserve of a few crank's worth of energy, an
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by shabble 11y ago
I think you might have it backwards. Legitimately manufactured ketamine is typically in sterile saline solution at a fixed quantity per dose. This is because the usual medical route of administration is intra-muscular or intravenous injecti
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by shabble 11y ago
Also "The Smash Brothers"[1] is a ~4 hour episodal documentary about the competitive history of Super Smash Brothers Melee, which evolved out of what was originally thought to be a gimmicky party game. I do feel like it could hav
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by shabble 11y ago
Our CI server monitor has 3 modes: Red, Green, and Tiger Cage Released. Future iterations will involve individual angry badgers in climbing harnesses located above each developer's desk. `git blame' will identify the build-breakin
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by shabble 11y ago
The biggest issue[1] I've found with vi(m)-like modes in shells and readline is the lack of any feedback as to which mode you're in. That, and my tendency to use C-c as an alternative to esc in vim has...unfortunate consequences i
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by shabble 11y ago
As an ignorant layperson, I kind of assume we could. A virtual machine thinks it has a network card and a hard disk and whatever, but it's just being given what it expects to see. The problem I was imagining is that right now we&#x27
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by shabble 11y ago
Another thing I've been pondering occasionally is what this and other discoveries might mean if cryonic neuropreservation (head/brain only) storage & reversal is ever practical, or if full head transplants become a viable surg
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by shabble 11y ago
Vitals by Greg Bear is an interesting (fictional) take on this premise, in which modified bacteria can be be weaponised to influence people's behaviour.
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by shabble 11y ago
I confess that my first hope was that it was some kind of klein-bottle glassblowing robot bodged togetehr out of bits of scrap wood and insulated with glass-fibre. The reality was almost as good though, it's a cute little forklift-bot,
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by shabble 11y ago
And that's why I've had '/bin/stty -ixon' in my shell init scripts for a long time now. "But the docs say that C-r searches backwards through history and C-s is forward"... test ....um.
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by shabble 11y ago
> " directing an intense coherent beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus to produce a bright highly-focused pattern of light at the intersection of the beam and an opaque surface" (Emph. mine) How doe
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by shabble 11y ago
Mentioned almost as an aside, but I'd never heard of 'cross-writing'[1] before, and now having looked a few examples, I can quite imagine how painful it would be to read. [1] http://blog.paperblanks.com/2013&#
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by shabble 11y ago
I wonder how effective some of the newer EOD disruptors like the PigStick[1] would be. It uses a shaped charge to generate and direct an incredibly high pressure water jet for similar sorts of 'decapitation strikes' on detonators
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by shabble 11y ago
Injection moulding is one of those ubiquitous technologies that appears deceptively simple (heat plastic; squish into mould; eject), but in reality is amazingly complex. The number one fact people seem to know about it is "Oh, the moul
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by shabble 11y ago
Those copper blocks about halfway down look a whole lot like sinker EDM[1] electrodes, which makes me question the accompanying quote: " instead you have to use magic electrolysis (like they taught you at school) ". Spark erosion
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by shabble 11y ago
I quite like the ModMyPi Modular Case[1] for being nicely built, and having things like optional locking covers for the SD card and USB/HDMI ports, which can be set up so they're only removable after you open the whole case. Or yo
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by shabble 11y ago
I've known some systems that exclusive "offensive" words/substrings, occasionally leading to the ol' Scunthorpe Problem[1]. Personally, I feel the opposite should be enforced. If you make the password vile enough, p
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by shabble 11y ago
and not having to know ed is an excellent reason to learn vi :) obCompulsoryEdJoke: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by shabble 11y ago
Interesting. I had seen that a while back I think, but totally forgot when writing my comment just now. It's not quite 100% what I was thinking, but it's closer than anything else.
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by shabble 11y ago
I'd make it so that under some very specific and hard to attack circumstances, it would be possible to make a backup of the keyring stored on a device. Possibly only directly to another device, or maybe dump an encrypted blob to file o
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by shabble 11y ago
http://finalkey.net/ looks like a step in teh right direction, although I'd prefer to see something a bit more compact, and ideally with an independent user interface. Something like a smartcard, with an eInk display a
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by shabble 11y ago
I still have a bunch somewhere. I got quite excited at the 'going for an outrageous sum on ebay' quote, but sadly they're only ~£5 each. The NE2000's were the bane of our lanparties. Super cheap, and about as reliable as
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by shabble 11y ago
I don't know if they existed in the early days, but when 10Base-T got popular both hubs & switches would often have a 10Base-2 segment interface or two as well. I'm fairly sure there was some possibility of segment isolation,

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