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by tomerv 12y ago
There are so many people involved in the design and manufacturing of a processor, that I don't see how it's possible to hide a backdoor, either in the microcode or during manufacturing. We're not talking about some secret go
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by tomerv 12y ago
While the main point of the article is interesting, some of the details don't really make sense. For example, it would be difficult to make an instruction like fyl2x or fadd cause a privilege level change. The reason is that floating
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by tomerv 13y ago
Okay, I understand now. Thanks for the explanation! The page should explain this, since it looks a little weird.
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by tomerv 13y ago
On my browser (default browser on Galaxy Nexus) the pallete example and posterization example (tree and mask pictures) have weird scan lines. I guess the palette support is not perfect in every browser.
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by tomerv 13y ago
It might be compatible with democracy, but it's incompatible with democratic dialog. You can't have a dialog when one side is refusing to talk.
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by tomerv 14y ago
It's impossible for us to know all the facts of this dispute, but from the outside it looks like a childish move on Quirky's part, and a mature response from OXO.
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by tomerv 14y ago
While resting heart rate is determined mostly by how fit you are, and is usually in the 50-80 range, maximal heart rate is generally a factor of your age. The accepted formula for maximal heart rate is (210 - age). Most workouts are at 60-7
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by tomerv 14y ago
http://xkcd.com/978/ Obligatory xkcd strip.
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Darpa Spectrum Challenge - rules now available(dtsn.darpa.mil)
4 points by tomerv 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 14y ago
If you map both x to -x and y to -y (in addition to mapping z to -z), then you still get a reversed (chiral) image. From the pictures, it looks like it maps x to -x, but y is kept the same.
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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
2 points by tomerv 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 14y ago
You're probably hearing sounds that your body is making. The sound of blood moving in your ears is pretty significant when you're in a silent environment.
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by tomerv 14y ago
The way I see it, "flat" wages are the default state, and I would expect wages to be flat for many othet areas of employment. It is true that IT has become an increasingly important part of the economy, but wages in the field were always re
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by tomerv 14y ago
Also known as "Sneakernet" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet )
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by tomerv 14y ago
By filtering out answers that arrive after more than 5 hours, you're really skewing the data, and in a very arbitrary way. Why not 4 hours, or 6? Note that filtering also caused languages to change relative positions (e.g. PHP climbed from
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by tomerv 14y ago
Perhaps I'm not reading this correctly, but it looks to me like Amazon does not hold the right to delete books in the case of a ToS abuse, which means that they shouldn't have deleted the books in this case.
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by tomerv 14y ago
What you're describing is known as "prior art": simply publish your idea anywhere public, and it automatically becomes invalid for patenting. You don't even need to implement anything.
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Understanding Ego Depletion(danariely.com)
2 points by tomerv 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 14y ago
A more generalized version of the problem was posted as a practice question in Google's codejam contest: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/32003/dashboard#s=p2 I suggest solving this version of the problem, as it forces you to look a
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by tomerv 14y ago
Am I the only one here against this proposal? I sometimes browse HN from my phone (outdated Nokia with Opera Mini), and I get a rectangle instead of an arrow.
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by tomerv 14y ago
The article doesn't specifically mention this, but Last.fm is one of the services that was offline.
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London datacentre outage takes more than 50 businesses offline(zdnet.com)
1 points by tomerv 14y ago|1 comments
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by tomerv 14y ago
Wikipedia has lots of lists of female X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=list+of+f... Is that considered creepy too? In any case, I don't think "creepy" is the right word. It implies a sense of stalking, which I don't
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by tomerv 14y ago
Also, for some reason all the 'ffi' trigraphs are replaced with 'ffl': For example, the second sentence in the first paragraph starts with "The offlce building..."
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by tomerv 14y ago
The 99.97% statistic has "may uptime" written next to it, so I guess it refers to the previous month.
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by tomerv 14y ago
Newer versions of Firefox have smooth scrolling. Try running the demo on Chrome, and you'll see the problem.
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by tomerv 14y ago
The developers defended Winamp 3.0 for a while, but eventually they realized that it sucked. The next version to come out was Winamp 5, which was supposed to be a combination of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3: http://web.archive.org/web/20041204223
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by tomerv 14y ago
There's also كوم which is 'com' in Arabic. I'm not sure how the gTLD are supposed to work technically, but it seems to me that VeriSign made a mistake when registering the Hebrew '.com': Their version uses the Holam diacritic (the dot over
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by tomerv 14y ago
I generally like the way Firefox implements the sidebar, but there's one problem with it - it doesn't work well with websites that expect horizontal gestures. For example, a drawing app wouldn't work very well.
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by tomerv 14y ago
That's not entirely correct. The scheme that chris_j proposed can help prevent weak passwords from being cracked, since now an attacker needs to do one of two things to crack passwords: 1. Try lots of weak password - hash each one and compa

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