stratomorph

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by stratomorph 17y ago
Huh, that idea seems so obvious, now that someone else thought of it and did it. Interlaced video in two dimensions rather than one, with the number of fields potentially adjustable on the fly. Trivial to select the number of fields (and th
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by stratomorph 17y ago
Single page version: http://thetyee.ca/Life/2009/12/16/MakeLove/print.html So, the author starts with an academic study of the sex lives of modern young people, which drew some conclusions that porn is not the devil: "pretty conventional,
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I wouldn't say that people have "no problem" with it; plenty of people are terrified of flying. Jet fuel and hydrogen are worlds apart in danger and ease of handling, as jet fuel stays where you put it and will extinguish your cigarette. Fi
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by stratomorph 17y ago
Is there a Tetris AI that can play against this bastard? Has that been done already? Might as well let the computer try to outsmart itself.
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by stratomorph 17y ago
While I agree that this guy is clearly a thief, I'd still disagree that there's no legitimate reason to modify a modem. I don't rent mine, I bought it, and it shouldn't be a crime to modify my own property. Maybe I'd like to change the firm
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by stratomorph 17y ago
Though it makes you wonder what the sentence would be if he had built a business on stealing Comcast vans and selling them, instead.
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by stratomorph 17y ago
The "007" thing makes sense from the standpoint of preventing rogue launches. It's not intended to prevent the missiles from being launched without command authorization. Instead, no single person has all the information needed to launch, s
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by stratomorph 17y ago
Unfortunately, it can also be neither. It's easier to simplify than make it fair.
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I'd like to note that those are two different adjustments. The claim is that pilots adjust the mix of fresh and recirculated air. The author is talking about adjusting the incoming flow volume of new air. Airplanes don't have "recirculate"
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I think that would be a helpful factor in theory, but in practice would be too inconsistent to rely on. Using Reddit as an example (because I have no familiarity with HN's source) there is client-side javascript that intercepts clicks on li
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by stratomorph 17y ago
In turn, why prevent Google News from making a deal to offer you free links to news in exchange for throttling (say) HN until your browser times out?
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by stratomorph 17y ago
"Existing on the internet and nowhere else" is a typical way to categorize people, given the existence of global communication. Having never met either of you (as far as I know), you only exist on the internet to me, and to each other. The
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I think circumscribing would be a better choice of word here: "...without introducing a censorship architecture and circumcising constitutional freedoms." The translation is fluent, and I shouldn't make fun of it, but that line made me
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by stratomorph 17y ago
To be fair, network latency is both much higher and much more variable than hard disk latency, even if the bandwidth is higher. Design can change, but it's hard to get away from needing enough local smarts and storage to make an interface
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by stratomorph 17y ago
If you only counted stable substances as "elements", an awful lot of things would have to get a different name. Uranium wouldn't be an element at all, because even U-238 (the most common isotope, more than 99% of the stuff found in nature,
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I don't understand what that graph is showing. Which variable is independent, or supposed to be? It can't be buckets as a function of collisions. At first I thought he had his axes reversed (from the customary y as a function of x), but it'
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by stratomorph 17y ago
It seems to me that the people likely to want to see this quantity of stuff are probably the people who already know how to use the download queue in their bittorrent clients. I suspect the less computer literate, who are likely to get this
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I speculate that the type of structure is the major factor causing the quality of social interaction to diverge. Wikipedia is people collaborating to make something, and only incidentally communicating with each other, on talk pages and use
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by stratomorph 17y ago
Minor points in the comments: The reason this doesn’t matter is that we don’t land airplanes with GPS really. We direct them down a path to the airport and then the pilot flys at minimum the last 200 feet with the runway in sight. If he ca
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I see a mention of what differentiates Jetpack: No, that’s not correct. Jetpack has access to the browser chrome - that is, the stuff surrounding the page you’re viewing - with simplifying APIs wrapping the more complex native APIs add-on
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by stratomorph 17y ago
It seems like their time would have been better spent forking and improving Greasemonkey, if they thought it wasn't user-friendly enough or whatever, instead of re-doing everything. As I recall, there were significant problems with Greasemo
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I agree that it's not boiler-plate, and I don't mean that I do it all that often, maybe every six months or so when I find something new I want my home server to do. (Like the last one, experimenting with port knocking) I am by no means a p
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by stratomorph 17y ago
What Wolfram Alpha needed was to avoid the Spore-style overhype in the days leading up to release. It was nearly inevitable that a product touted as "the Google killer" would get slammed on the rebound, regardless of actual performance. As
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I like Google Earth as a platform, at least the general idea, mostly because of the unlimited zoom. Games like Sins of a Solar Empire benefit greatly from the ability to see arbitrarily large swathes of territory at once, while games with a
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I concur about the blurriness. It'll be a good day indeed when everyone has a 300dpi display and we can get rid of anti-aliased text for good. Anti-aliasing looks great for headlines at large point sizes, but for bulk text, that blurry look
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by stratomorph 17y ago
I haven't tried this, but it sure looks handy. Writing a daemon is a common task, but not so often (for me, anyway) that it feels like copy-and-pasting the same boilerplate every time. So, I ignore the old rule that says "if you're going to
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by stratomorph 17y ago
The airplane system intrigued me. Most aircraft these days (save light aircraft that really only get flown in day VFR) already have a digital notion of pitch and bank, which is trivially repeated around the cockpit to the indicators and fli
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by stratomorph 18y ago
True, but if they were getting anything like that level of activity, their plastic detector would have been swamped. If one in a hundred million neutrons produced by this process headed through the plastic, they could have reported thousand
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by stratomorph 18y ago
Interesting. I had never thought about the implicit assumptions behind the term "water wars". I figured that just because I couldn't think of a significant example off the top of my head, I wasn't thinking hard enough. I am confused by thei
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by stratomorph 18y ago
I imagine a fair number of people came here from Reddit, as I did, and I think this might interest some people. I came across this Greasemonkey script after months of frustration at the increasing clutter of Reddit. It makes the site a lot

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