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by sj4nz 11y ago
Bloomberg's headline leaves out the condition "in April and May." At least it states the reason why in the first paragraph: hydro-generation is at risk because of a prolonged drought.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Aim an EMP beam at the enemy's anti-drone EMP's... then unleash hell.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
There you go, you're denying the enemy a sporting chance. :/
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by sj4nz 11y ago
This is some especially scary stuff. These drones won't be carrying bullets. They'll be carrying tiny payloads of VX nerve agent to be "effective detterent." Since the LD50 is 10 mg, "legally" _any_ country cou
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Timing is everything. To me, this is just Dynamic Networds from the mid-1990's. :)
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by sj4nz 11y ago
So, no reasoning for a fork? What was the itch? Just to use GPLv3 instead of GPLv2, can GPL be "switched" just like that?
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by sj4nz 11y ago
As always, the future moves closer and closer to Black Mirror's S01E02.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Personally, I have moved away from Github because I'm finding Gitlab Flow to be more useful. It enables collaborators to have a kind of Gerrit/Critic work-flow to review potential merges without having another system to integrate.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
For anyone unsure if they would like spacemacs from the "Vi" camp, consider spacemacs as a super-set of Vi but now imagine that you have modal-control in "normal" mode of quite a large bit of user-interface and applicati
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Pretty sure it has to do with benchmarks and the cut-throat competitive environment GPU-manufacturers exist in where you cut all corners to proclaim "We're the fastest!" Not zeroing a buffer cuts a big constant out of overhea
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Formal Methods and systems like Agda, TLA+ or other where you develop proofs of your algorithm. For me this seems like a very rich and deep direction for software engineering. This is very much the atomic sledgehammer approach to "fir
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by sj4nz 11y ago
My theory is in a noisy office, the noise is "distracting" because there is a higher chance of noise being relevant/important to you, but in a cafe-situation the noise is "anonymous" and you don't need to criti
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Watched it last night. The very short summary is "bundling" is a kind of inside out Trojan Horse, the example Moxie used was "Google Analytics" which has some functionality that is undesirable to some users, enough so th
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Perhaps not with this ratio, but something like this with a quartz movement, with the right ratios should be able to advance a "day of year hand" around the face of a clock. If you wanted to get really fancy, advance a DoY-hand fo
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by sj4nz 11y ago
There is a project "Kerlnel" http://kerlnel.org/ that is supposed to be Erlang instance running on bare metal. Site appears to be down and the Github https://github.com/kerlnel hasn't been to
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by sj4nz 11y ago
uBlock Origin appears to protect browser navigation to all sourceforge.net links now.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
So I get a blank blue/purple screen. Shrug.
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by sj4nz 11y ago
Jonathan Blow is also working on Jai, a programming language for game developers. https://inductive.no/jai/
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by sj4nz 11y ago
We're closer to preserving them in order to download them later perhaps: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v9/n12/full/nmeth.2213.h...
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Now a subsidiary of Zombo: "The infinite is possible" Sorry... "THE INFINITE IS POSSIBLE"
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by sj4nz 12y ago
After trying to scroll down a little bit with the mouse wheel and then trying the space bar as an alternative and finally just grabbing the scroll knob and adjusting, I gave up trying to read this site. Immensely frustrating.
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Thanks for this, I wouldn't have noticed this gag because I don't have any of the fonts in question installed. :)
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Nice DH1 you've got there. Governments are not evil machines. They're machines staffed by people and people do what people often do: follow the laws blindly because "it's their duty", exploit the existing laws to th
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by sj4nz 12y ago
This slides in the assumption that you need a national currency. No traditional nation-state will _really adopt_ a crypto-currency unless it bakes in some ability to seize or inflate it's subject's currency. If that exists in thei
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Did you realize that your demo page for Collabtive does not allow the user to choose their language? It appears to default to Chinese for the user interface.
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by sj4nz 12y ago
This is the scariest thing about BitCoin, this efficiency bubble. What happens when the world's miners decide that a different crypto-coinage is more profitable? I don't believe that the difficulty parameter in BitCoin adjusts ver
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Wired is not a mathematics journal, so probably not. "Know your audience." That's perfectly fine for a "general audience" medium. But a broken Back button? Yeah, they should fix that.
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by sj4nz 12y ago
I think from the book "Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" by G. Pascal Zachary he mentions that NTFS was developed by an intern for the Microsoft PC system, on hardware that
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Totally have to agree with this. I've tried a lot of other editors, but keep coming back to Vim. Drew Neil's "Practical Vim" really helped me increase my leverage on using it well, and its tag line is of course, "Ed
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by sj4nz 12y ago
Brain filters out patterns that aren't "new" or threatening in order to concentrate on differences. Watching the swirls above for 30-seconds gets "boring" to your brain so it begins to ignore them in order to optimi

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