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by utoku 7y ago
Yeah, they have badly linked documentation from there. Most of their plans are on their wiki, ex: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube_v15.6 . The plans assume you have quite a varied set of equipment at
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by utoku 7y ago
This immediately reminded me of Yvon Chouinard quote from 180 Degrees South documentary: "Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and t
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by utoku 8y ago
It is because of the template class code. In C++, a template is not really a class or a function. https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/templates#templates-defn-vs-decl
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by utoku 9y ago
Reminds me of a habit I have which made me end up on tops of mountains occasionally. I guess the algorithm can be called "observable ascent": 1. Look around 2. Find a relatively close high spot that is visible 3. Plan and climb on
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by utoku 10y ago
Here's Vapnik's story, I first forgot where it was from, then I remembered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... quote: Now, the history lesson, all this stuff feels fairly new. It
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by utoku 12y ago
Its speed is most likely relative to Sun. Earth moves at about 30km/s relative to sun. So that's your minimal starting speed.
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by utoku 12y ago
It is _the_ book on knots, although it does miss knots invented later in the 20th century, like the Zeppelin bend. I was amazed to learn that it was used as a reference book by mathematical topologists. They will refer to a bend in space as
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by utoku 13y ago
Lovely. Armies A1 and A2 destroying each other with confirmation messages.
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by utoku 13y ago
And after the internet age, when the facts hit the people who were not even aware of it went "Oh shit, did our military really do this to those people?". If it wasn't for internet, most Turks would stay ignorant of the milita
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by utoku 13y ago
Unfortunately they are not roughly equivalent. A solid shell or a ring around a star is not a Dyson sphere. The correct Dyson sphere is composed of many separate orbiting elements. A solid shell or semi-shell is unstable and is bound to col
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by utoku 13y ago
On the contrary, if you consider that supernovae make our version of life possible, maybe life will happen someday at M82 because of this explosion. We are all supernova dust, after all.
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by utoku 13y ago
Andrea: Unhappy the project that breeds no coders. Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the project that needs a coder.
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by utoku 14y ago
I agree with you. I am calling them total bullshit on the scientific part. They could at least try to put the Alpha Cassiopeiae and and Beta Cassiopeiae in the same "general" direction from the Sun. It would fool more people. Distances seem
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by utoku 14y ago
A bit of clarification, I think the orbiters are in sight of Earth for most of the day. It is Curiosity that is not in sight of the Orbiters, again because of their low orbit.
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by utoku 14y ago
According to wikipedia article, the power source is designed to create 125 watts of electrical power from 2000 watts of thermal power. (It might look inefficient, but they are using the heat in all parts of the rover.) For comparison, that
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by utoku 14y ago
Like most people here, I just don't like the fact that some people are trying to put digital walls around me. To buy my nexus 1 phone, I had to use a machine in US. I bought some other stuff from UK that way, using my machine in UK. But the
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by utoku 14y ago
tarballed beta programs should really install themselves on /usr/local imho.
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by utoku 15y ago
Thank you. There is attention to detail here. It actually amused me when I watched Andrew Ng's videos at 1.2 or 1.5 speed that his voice didn't become squeaky because it is frequency modulated.
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A treehouse spaceship. You know ... for kids.(content.rocket.jonh.net)
2 points by utoku 15y ago|0 comments
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by utoku 15y ago
I think the problem might be a deeper problem. The writer of the article is asking generally about how a system's rules can be exploited to the point that the original intention of the system is no longer achievable. The sortition is also a
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Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions(mmodata.blogspot.com)
78 points by utoku 15y ago|40 comments
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by utoku 15y ago
In the real good old days, many internetworking attempts failed because they tried to have a point of central control. Only the current internet protocol survived the evolution.
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by utoku 15y ago
uname -a shows Linux (none) 2.6.20 #3 Sat May 14 19:08:30 CEST 2011 i586 GNU/Linux
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by utoku 15y ago
The first study I know of is the 1996 book "The Road to Excellence" http://www.amazon.com/Road-Excellence-Acquisition-Performanc... . I got it after I read Peter Norvig's essay on "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years." http://norvig.c
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by utoku 16y ago
I discovered last year that this is still a field where good honest money can be made since everyone is bitching about the fact that there is not a good solution. I just wanted to keep my MRI and digital X-ray scans. I wanted to send them t
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by utoku 16y ago
My leftist friends think I am a hardcore capitalist. My rightist friends think I am an irrevocable socialist or communist. They don't put me in the middle ground. Hackers like to point out the flaws in all kinds of systems. So be prepared t
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by utoku 16y ago
I disagree. Devices like Antikythera would have probably cost a lot more than their weight at their time. One of the reasons that artifacts don't last is that some metals like iron don't last because of oxidation. Bronze however resists cor
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by utoku 16y ago
You almost identified the problem correctly. Internet is already distributed. The attacks against Visa and MC are also distributed. But Visa and MC are not. They are single points of trust for our financial transactions. A more distributed
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by utoku 16y ago
Kind of funny in the sense that the bread and butter language of the academia lacks a grammar.
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by utoku 16y ago
The problems with questions in imagined worlds is that sometimes it is hard to get the premises right. Even if you treat the problem as a thought experiment, it feels uncomfortable because: - Ball bouncing with 60% energy remaining all the

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