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by sirtaj 10y ago
It didn't work in 1971, when Nixon deployed the Enterprise and the rest of Task Force 74 to the Bay of Bengal to intimidate India during the war with Pakistan. All it took was a couple of Soviet submarines to call their bluff.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
sqlheavy is available, it's called postgresql. But you could go halfway and use something like libmysqld.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I agree completely about the user-space tools on Linux. My doubt is that Google will come up with a solution that applies anywhere except Android. But given the hopeless situation there at the moment, I'd be okay even with that.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
In this specific case, it's not Linux here that's the problem but Android itself. The kernel has been capable of near-millisecond audio latency for years, even more so with an RT-patched kernel. Google just hasn't cared much
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Also, in the sixteen years since then some of the core Plan 9 ideas like network block devices, union filesystems, user-space/user-managed mount points and other use of namespaces have indeed made it into other OSes. Perhaps not with t
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by sirtaj 10y ago
The outages are almost always due to load-shedding, so the POTS network doesn't lose power and our ADSL link remains connected.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
For one: if you live in a place with unreliable power supply (as I do), it dictates how much backup time you get from your UPS.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Or as Woody Allen said, "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
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by sirtaj 11y ago
You could just as easily go the other way and overlay distracting people in the room with a peaceful zen garden.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Almost every article and demo I've read and watched about AR in the last couple of years mentions huge virtual screens everywhere. It's in all the Hololens demos, for example.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
If they hadn't positioned Glass as "a wifi webcam on your face!!" in all their marketing, you mean. What geeks wanted was AR. What we got was... not that.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
I use it to control my Marantz audio receiver.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Plan 9 was a realization of this line of abstraction, in a lot of ways. Even though I never used the platform for anything serious, I still draw inspiration from it all these years later.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Only if free trade implies open borders. Capital mobility without labour mobility is a severely imbalanced market and hard to pass off as a benefit to humanity.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Not sure what the required power output is for a robot of this type, but I was impressed by this tiny 400W gas turbine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8elCF816g
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by sirtaj 11y ago
I'm in Delhi right now, a city almost literally choking to death thanks in part to the coal-fired thermal power plants in/near the city. Every time I hear concerns that the environment should come second to development I have to w
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by sirtaj 11y ago
> But that would be against a lot of cronies' interests and very much in the people's interests, so it's never going to happen. Not necessarily always in the "people's interests". Here's a bit of Wealt
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by sirtaj 11y ago
This is my sentiment too. I'm excited by the possibilities of 3D printing, but at the moment all of my friends who've purchased printers are using them to create shoddy little trinkets. The kind of printers that could produce prac
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Any specific reason not to allow mouse wheel as fly forward/back?
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by sirtaj 11y ago
It's possible that it gets cheaper in winter. My wife and I did exactly this trip but around christmas-time and it was fantastic. IIRC we paid a similar price but for the little cabin instead of the chair car. A lot of American friends
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by sirtaj 11y ago
How long does a net revenue of <$1M (and that's just the handful that report a profit at all, at least in your linked article - many are losing millions) take to pay off a $70M stadium? The expenses listed don't appear to inclu
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Haha wow, have you ever met a 14-year-old?
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Presumably an English teacher has the communication skills to ask any one of the number of staff who were involved in the entire affair. You know, like the engineering teacher. Did he somehow go on vacation in between? And how about the pol
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Perfect trifecta of bigotry, ignorance and cowardice. And at a school too, where any number of apparently educated staff could have verified what the device was in a moment. Great job!
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Same. Suddenly my entire childhood made sense. It's also a little frustrating because I can't help thinking of all the lost time.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
I'm sympathetic to the basic idea, but surely this is not the article you're hoping for. There's a lot of ranting, with only a couple of sentences of actually useful information, eg. situations in which React is not a good fi
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by sirtaj 11y ago
A nice intro would be some of the channels over at http://somafm.com/ particularly Deep Space One, Space Station Soma and Drone Zone.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Not surprising, escalators injure more than ten thousand people a year in the US alone, particularly the elderly. Moving people is dangerous, agreed, but if we gave in too quickly to the "just behave sensibly" people, our cars wou
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Any system of any kind is doomed to failure if it is designed around the requirement that humans behave infallibly at all times. Everyone is a distracted idiot some of the time.
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by sirtaj 11y ago
Are you sure you're aware what he does for a living?

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