stewartbutler

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by stewartbutler 14y ago
I still don't understand why Facebook has such an overblown valuation to begin with. The entire business is a house of cards based on the possibility that it might make someone else some money someday. Sure, there are some vultures like Zyn
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
This is a digression, but do you have experience with z/OS? When I took an operating systems class a few years back, a comment the professor made about z/OS stuck in my mind. "z/OS is one of the few operating systems that can run a VM of it
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
Maybe some were. I'm basing it off a comment from a professor regarding nuclear power in small electronics. Quote (from memory, thus unreliable) below: "So, they tested these things for all the possible stresses they would encounter -- high
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
As a person with (perhaps incorrect) assumptions about the normal locations for toilet paper to end up, I have to ask: has someone ever had to tell you you had toilet paper stuck to your face? If so... Why?
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
Pity they don't use nukes anymore; they worked great, until people started cremating them.
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
> Just asserted it was blatantly false and admitted it was true that full discharge damages the battery in the same paragraph, hoo boy. No. He stated that, while discharging an individual cell below a certain voltage will damage it, the
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
It only adds a quarter of a nanosecond at the current distance from the CPU, but using it you could place more RAM at greater distance on the motherboard without significantly increasing delays. For applications where you want to store larg
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
Generates a mapping of geolocation -> SSID of access points. Used as a fingerprinting method to locate users in the real world, very useful when you're working with mobile or ubiquitous computing.
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
The cynic in me wonders how many of these warnings and one-star reviews are from authors/supporters of competing apps. Down-vote bots are becoming quite common in other forms of media (Reddit, etc). I wish there were some way of computing t
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
It is actually quite possible to print the entire gun, if you wanted to use a metal Selective Laser Sintering machine. They are just cost prohibitive ($500,000+). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
Not unless laptop manufacturers wanted to create the next gorilla arm. Using an input device without mechanical feedback will not work for serious data entry, our hands aren't designed for it. It would cause a huge increase in RSI.
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by stewartbutler 15y ago
Question: would adding another hardware RNG to feed the random queue significantly boost performance here?
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
Heh. Nice thing about airforce: REALLY BIG radar.
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
I'd think that the bandwidth on an embedded device like this is too low for enterprise use -- it would be a network bottleneck. You'd have to have a much higher clock rate than most small devices can achieve to get full 10/100/1000 bandwidt
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
Not much better. Modifying a gun to turn it into a weapon means you are taking a legal weapon and turning it into something illegal. The import and creation of automatic weapons in the US is restricted to law enforcement and military. Mere
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
A guy in my lab played has been playing with something like this off and on for a while, for a different application. My understanding of the technology is that it requires fairly high voltage but extremely low current to work, so the power
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
Mea culpa- I did not remember the document I read correctly. The carbonic acid references are usually a separate but related concern. As CO2 dissolves in water, it changes the pH balance, which is having a detrimental effect on sea life (es
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by stewartbutler 16y ago
Biggest CO2 sink is the ocean. Increase CO2 content in ocean water and you produce carbonic acid. I'd assume that this is at least a contributor to ice melt. However, you could contend that many of the northern waters are similarly contamin
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Feature announcement for new decentralized P2P system(sagubooru.saguratus.com)
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by stewartbutler 17y ago
I saw an interesting article a while back that proposed using the tactical nuclear weapons we have to dispose of the radioactive waste. The fallout from good thermonukes is apparently very small, and if you bury the bomb and set it off arou