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by sorbus 16y ago
Given any method, memory diamond[1]. It's incredibly dense (25 grams of the stuff stores a bit over half a Yottabyte), and quite durable. If restricted to existing methods ... a metric fuckton of hard drives in raid arrays, outsourcing back
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by sorbus 16y ago
Even so, it should be possible, especially if full documentation for the interface and filesystem used is included. There will probably still be a few computers around which still use SATA interfaces, even if it's only because of how old th
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by sorbus 16y ago
So, they decided, a week before the deadline, to bid. Then they had to ask for two extra months because they weren't prepared. Then they sent it in at the last minute, and, predictably, it didn't get there on time. I have absolutely no symp
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by sorbus 16y ago
Given that it was a "square of specific dimensions," I just assumed that it was supposed to be a rectangle.
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by sorbus 16y ago
"He believes that no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. Whether it’s an MIT degree or if you got everything you know from lectures on the web, there needs to be a way to highlight that." So, is he planni
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by sorbus 16y ago
The issue is with the encryption that BBs use, which prevents snooping on the traffic. Kicking anyone sending encrypted data off the network would be a good way to do that. As I understand it, the data is relayed through RIM's servers on th
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by sorbus 16y ago
They're supposed to teach it in high school.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Any downvotes were probably from people taking you seriously. Sarcasm doesn't translate well into text. At least, I'm assuming that you meant to be sarcastic, given your edit.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Is the page load time that significant in bounce rates? (Your list includes A/B testing; how about figuring out if you get more emails when the marketing page is secure or insecure?)
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by sorbus 16y ago
One of them is true when money is limited, and it's actually possible to know everyone else in the company. Another is true when you can throw millions of dollars at a problem to make it go away and barely even notice that the money is miss
701.
by sorbus 16y ago
18 years of photographs, around 6570. Currently, 16 exposures for the SX-70 (the camera he used) cost $72 on ebay. That puts the cost of 6570 polaroid pictures today at a bit less than $30,000 - and they would have been cheaper 13 years ago
702.
by sorbus 16y ago
Yep, entirely made up by designers, except for the bit about it already existing: "In 2009 the first pilot units have been installed, while BBVA prepares to roll out the ATM across its Spanish branches."
703.
by sorbus 16y ago
I'm subscribed to Onwardly's feed (which is how I found this, actually). Google Reader says that there are 1.6 posts per week, so it's probably safe to subscribe without worrying about being inundated with posts (depending on how you define
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How to Come Up With Business Ideas(onwardly.com)
2 points by sorbus 16y ago|2 comments
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Mediocrity(antipope.org)
2 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
From my reading of the article, it seems like they tracked the number of laptops which failed and needed repairs, not the number which failed and were repaired. So no, higher retained value doesn't explain it. Even if they were looking at h
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by sorbus 16y ago
Advertisers do pay to reach demographics on Hulu - just look at all the advertisement breaks in videos on Hulu. The problem is that there is no distinction between Hulu users who also watch Television and Hulu users who do not watch televis
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by sorbus 16y ago
But that doesn't make it inherently better than the alternatives. The sole purpose of Old Spice (and scents in general) is to improve how others see you, and therefor whether your peers perceive Old Spice as being a superior choice decides
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by sorbus 16y ago
Stepping back onto the square where it started could have been added by whoever modified the game, and fits with the message I'm getting from it, even if it would be hard for the player to realize that they needed to do so. Playing through
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by sorbus 16y ago
"This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance." I can't help think that it might be more useful to play a sh
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by sorbus 16y ago
The whole thing with "support companies you like, provide positive feedback to business models and ideas you support." If you, as a consumer, support a method of advertising and want more companies to do it in the future, there are two main
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Building the first Open Source Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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The core concern of Transhumanity is the Human condition itself(grinding.be)
1 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ah. My understanding was that the "not charging" bit also applied to renting rooms while present. Which, if you're right about it not applying, means that I entirely agree with the law and don't see why there's so much fuss about it. Thank
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by sorbus 16y ago
I know that I've seen one around recently ... One for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140/ One for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/limjcpdphjbhdldh... Other web services which appear to alre
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A Baffling Engine(blog.makezine.com)
5 points by sorbus 16y ago|1 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
My understanding is generally that you can get out of it just before it starts playing (by pressing the menu button, I think?) but once it starts playing it uses the same flag for the anti-piracy warning (or something like that), which prev
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by sorbus 16y ago
Really? My understanding was that it includes an exception for situations where the owner of the apartment is present, but forbids the exchange of money in that situation (which allows couchsurfing, but outlaws actually renting a room). At
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by sorbus 16y ago
I did say that it wasn't a good comparison; however, thank you for clarifying exactly how horrible it was. How about moving on to the other paragraphs? (Also: previous comment edited to incorporate exactly how terrible the comparison was. I
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by sorbus 16y ago
How about a car, then? If you mess up, you are quite likely to kill lots of other people, while causing little damage to yourself (my world-view supports the idea that causing inconvenience to people in a house which you are a guest in is a

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