thelambentonion

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by thelambentonion 13y ago
>> how to transport that energy to where we'd like to use it I've always thought that a rectenna[1] would be the most efficient way to send power from orbit down to Earth.
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
The actual title of this article is "Let's Bring The Polymath - and the Dabblers - Back". Much more grounded, and much less linkbait-y.
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
Care to explain how the FDA is harming the people it should protect? It seems to me that they're simply trying to get 23AndMe to accurately market their product. Since 23AndMe is making claims of a medical nature, it falls neatly und
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
This really looks like the FDA sticking their nose into something they should . 23andMe is making false claims about the efficacy of their test in their marketing material and the FDA isn't okay with that. They're not even orderi
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
> KVM has more performance overhead than LXC When I was using it, KVM had some small memory and CPU overhead, but it's a fair point. > ...so hardware compatibility is less of a concern. That's definitely a problem. I'd
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
Maybe I have an incomplete understanding of Docker and LXC, but I feel like this is retreading a lot of ground that Joyent has covered with SmartOS. Virtualization with KVM, networking with Crossbow, and VM exporting with ZFS datasets have
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
Anyone looking into prebuilt pfSense boxes would also do well to check out Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter Lite [0]. I was initially looking at getting an ALIX kit [1] for my home router, but the ERL offered much better performance for roughly h
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
I feel like the probability of the 'average' user having his/her phone stolen is much greater than that of being compelled to unlock his/her phone by police or a significant other. While I would prefer two-factor authent
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
An excerpt from a course I recently attended: http://i.imgur.com/6VW4X3o.png The noise floor of the Goldstone Observatory is truly incredible.