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by sswam 16y ago
This is true but I was just looking for the 'infinite number of bounces in a finite time' part; after that it would slide or roll without bouncing, or sit still if there had been no horizontal component initially.
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by sswam 16y ago
My experience has been that although the topics needed are covered in high school physics and math (limits), most people did not get it right.
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by sswam 16y ago
Congratulations to everyone who figured it out, and especially to Glenn from Alaska who was the first to email me with the correct answer, and wins $50. In his words: "The ball makes an infinite number of progressively smaller bounces in a
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Simple bouncing ball puzzle, with $50 prize(sam.ai.ki)
16 points by sswam 16y ago|53 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
I made a shorter url for this post: http://sam.ai.ki/mofo
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by sswam 16y ago
I suggest to try Aikido, Tai Chi, or Wing Chun Kung Fu. Aikido has by far the best philosophy of any martial art in my opinon, and it's worth learning for that reason alone. I like Yoshinkan Aikido.
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by sswam 16y ago
by the way, there's a plain text version of the page here if that would be easier for you to read / edit. http://sam.ai.ki/co2-and-forests.txt
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by sswam 16y ago
Hey this is great, is there something I can do for you in return? I'd really appreciate it if you would proofread a short article I wrote about global warming. It's only 3 columns / one page. I can do coding, hosting or payment if you'd
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by sswam 16y ago
I was going to buy the microsoft version, but BASIC is not Basic without PRINT! (They use TextWindow.WriteLine() or some nonsense. Who would type that 500 times to write a game?) And their substitute for DATA is hideous. Compare: http:
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by sswam 16y ago
I do have some similar books targetting BBC Basic, with graphics and sound, etc., from the 80s. It's a pity that computing books these days are much more dull! because the languages are so much harder to use. I'm very interested to corre
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by sswam 16y ago
sounds interesting, what is the difference between a clone and an emulator? do you mean it looks like a Vic20, but does not actually emulate 6502 (or whatever) machine code?
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by sswam 16y ago
This is awesome, looks like a great book. Some really good ideas for games, which I could use to illustrate my own language. It would be fun to add graphics or sound functions to some of these games, while keeping the code simple. The fir
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by sswam 16y ago
A couple examples of how such a universal surveillance system might be used: big brother could identify the people who meet with known peace activists or political rivals, find their meeting places, and disrupt meetings or capture participa
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by sswam 16y ago
I updated and expanded my article based on your feedback, and removed the wording 'forced'. Thanks very much.
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by sswam 16y ago
Yes, perhaps free, community-operated p2p wifi networks could replace the monolithic paid cellular networks. It might take a long time before this would happen though.
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Govt. tracks Cell Phones all at once, Accurately, without GPS or a Warrant(sswam.wordpress.com)
5 points by sswam 16y ago|9 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
Can't we have a 'this is spam' button? I guess it's not much bother if each spam is only read by one or two people before it's trashed / moved to the 'spam' section. Perhaps there could be a karma threshold before you're allowed to mark s
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Opening the software toolbox (an old but excellent guide to shell programming)(gnu.org)
3 points by sswam 16y ago|0 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
I provide ssh accounts on 2 VPSs (and growing), free of charge. http://nipl.net/ http://ai.ki/
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by sswam 16y ago
I think if committing has decreased over the past couple of years it's probably due to the so-called 'global financial crisis', I guess people have to work more and don't have so much free time to hack on open source.
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by sswam 16y ago
that's amusing, considering that every wireless access point is insecure
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by sswam 16y ago
I can see there will be a market for edible micro SD cards. "Sir, we see from your blood sample that you have recently digested some silicon wafer..."
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by sswam 16y ago
Giving up my passwords would compromise the security of other people, so I wouldn't do it.
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by sswam 16y ago
I suspect that the improvement is not good enough that this image format would be adopted, when jpeg is already established.
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by sswam 16y ago
The Jpeg shown is of a higher fidelity than the WebP image; look around the top edge of the red quadrilateral. In the Jpeg image, the edge is sharp, in the WebP image it looks a bit like the coloured sprinkles you might put on ice-cream. It
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by sswam 16y ago
I don't care much about software patents. If people sue me for violating some patent, I'll publish on bittorrent and move to Sweden or some free country!
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by sswam 16y ago
I used plan 9 for a while, and I really like it; but when I was looking to use a network filesystem I tried a 9p remote mount between two Linux servers over the internet. I was disappointed to find that it was much much slower and general
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by sswam 16y ago
I don't want to encourage terrorism, but if someone wanted to destroy an airplane, they could bring onboard a more dangerous device disguised as a phone or other everyday 'black box' object such as a laptop. The dangerous device might emit
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by sswam 16y ago
that's not going to bring back the copies of my contacts, private photos, passwords and banking details which have been broadcast to the internet
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by sswam 16y ago
I think they should have separated permissions that could compromise privacy / security from less important permissions, and grouped them by potential impact. Also the user should me able to say "um, no I won't allow you to read the phone

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