trapperkeeper79

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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Logic programming and productions are a wonderful idea that I studied in undergrad back in pre-2000. These days, people seem hostile towards them. People just don't like the idea of specifying rules. I couldn't find modern intro t
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I bought some Pokemon bracelets (yeah .. I know) for some family members. I have a big suspicion that they are counterfeit. The boxes had asian writing on them, and it did not seem Nintendo-like. The device itself has horrible connectivity
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
From Toronto. We have it worse. We are actually thinking of moving to Vancouver and renting :-p The rents in both places seem the same, except Toronto has shitty traffic, very limited tech opportunities, bad weather, and bugs. I looked arou
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
That's right. At the start of the crisis, I had landlords offer crazy incentives - 2 months rent free on a 13 month lease. They just wanted to lock people in. In a few months, when it was clear that people abandoning houses were moving
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
This article crystalizes a point that was vague in my mind: "megacities have a problem making it affordable to raise large or even medium-size families. How many of us could live in San Francisco, London or New York City and bring up t
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I've seen good people get fired for what seem like purely political reason (in California). They got a month of severance but come on. My father worked for a handful of companies his entire career and had true loyalty for them. The com
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Wanted to do something similar in cloud computing. Couldn't figure out how to get clients. Best of luck!
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Is this the same as code morphing mentioned here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver Article seems to say NVidia couldn't get a license from Intel.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
IBM's policy seems to have changed recently. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/ibm_no_more_telecom...
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I haven't been able to type in the other screen viewer app I got on the rift. Does BigScreen offer that?
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
The clock question always pissed me off in school. It assumes the clock's arms move in a continuous way. The clocks I grew up with made discrete movements.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Heh .. my fav book in the discworld series is Going Postal, and its sequel. I highly recommend them.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I've read a few of Taleb's other books. He seems to have a few brilliant points with lots of supporting materials and rants. Can you summarize the new insights you got after being married/employed?
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
This is hilarious. Given that the world's population is 7 billion today, we started with (7x2) people 600 years ago? LOL. Doesn't check out.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
A correction to what you said: Bill C-6 (which undoes the damage done by the conservatives) has been stuck in the senate for many months. I followed it closely, and it was a bit disheartening. Checkout the forums of the website canadavisa.c
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
RE HDR ... I saw a side-by-side setup recently and could not tell the difference. I think you can only tell the difference if you turn the brightness way up. Or maybe it is just me.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Haha .. I really wanted to pick up an active shutter system to play with. The price had kept me away. I was hoping that eventually the prices would come down. As an aside, it seems 3D projectors are still around. A friend showed me his setu
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
What is the status of NaCl? Is the project under active dev?
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Is there a way to chroot the linux distro? I'd love to be able to have multiple systems (even if I could only have 1 active at a time). It would be great for experimentation ala VMs.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I'm curious what the state of the art in rule engines is? I feel this is a neglected topic these days. I'm almost surprised to see new work on the topic.
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
The "connecting two ethernet MACs [with] filtering" seems like an interesting project. I guess a "simple" (and possibly useless) idea could be to do filtering based on MAC addresses in the enthernet frame. Is there open
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
The iFixit was very interesting. It has a freakin FPGA?? A comment said it was there to drive the e-ink display, while the MCU slept. Any confirmation on that? Also, what the heck was the smart strap supposed to be? This is sad because I wa
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I saw the page via wayback machine since the site was down at the time. Seems like a cool academic project. I've been getting into FPGAs personally, with this exact application in mind. I've been really stymied by how to process p
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I agree. I've been impressed by his selection in previous years. This year seems drab with the exception of The Grid. Also, doesn't he read fiction? My fav book of the year was Ready Player One :)
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Pardon me, what videos?
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I'm a dabbler and I came across a very cool project that seemed a bit out of my league at the moment - but perhaps you and others on this thread will get a kick out of: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-003-buil
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
HP Spectre (the one before the latest once since the latest doesn't have a regular HDMI connector). It is pretty decent .. the only con is the trackpad. I fooled around with the settings to make it livable and also use it with an exter
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I've been delving into VLSI but realize it is quite a complex topic. Can anyone familiar with this provide a TLDR? Is the idea here that instead of verilog, etc. one can use python to code a PLD/FPGA?
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
I bought a Windows laptop this year after being a long time Mac user. I still have Macs in the house, and use a beefy 15 inch Macbook Pro for work. I'm pleasantly surprised by my Win 10 experience. It isn't as polished as a Mac bu
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by trapperkeeper79 10y ago
Some people believe central banks are essentially printing money right now (since 2008, so for nearly a decade). Why has inflation not picked up?

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