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Average price of laptops drops to $1,000 (2005)(msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by wcoenen 16y ago|0 comments
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by wcoenen 16y ago
The article demonstrated a silent bug in a specific use case: merging a rename for a file which was modified locally. I was responding to the generalization "don't rename files if you use branches at all". Things are not that bad. As I expl
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by wcoenen 16y ago
I wouldn't say "fail". You'll just get a tree conflict where SVN complains that it can't merge changes because a file no longer exists. In TortoiseSVN such a conflict is trivial to resolve, because the tree conflict dialog gives the option
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by wcoenen 16y ago
The physics can be modeled, but according to this article ( http://techglimpse.com/index.php/ibms-blue-gene-exploring-pr... ) a 1 petaflops machine is estimated to take 3 years to crunch through 100 microseconds of simulated time. And that'
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by wcoenen 16y ago
Because the value of encryption is significantly reduced if you don't know who you are talking to. How do you know you're not talking to a man in the middle?
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by wcoenen 16y ago
But pi does contain the finite instruction sequences for programs that generate the digits of those numbers.
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by wcoenen 16y ago
FTA: "a system that will let you watch the movies you buy wherever you are, regardless of formats and other technical hurdles" The track record for things like this isn't encouraging. Case in point: Microsoft didn't even bother to make thei
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by wcoenen 16y ago
I was going to say that truecrypt has the advantage of windows support, which is why I switched from dm-crypt to truecrypt. But I did some googling before hitting "reply", and apparently you can also mount dm-crypt volumes on windows with F
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by wcoenen 16y ago
The Golden Shield project employs thousands of people. They do a lot more blocking than "20 or 30 websites".
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by wcoenen 16y ago
I've just checked the "drug response" section in my 23andme.com data, but I don't see anything about provigil. Searching for rs4680 did show a result though (I have the AA variant).
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Why Hasn't the Jump in Oil Prices Led to a Recession?(frbsf.org)
2 points by wcoenen 16y ago|0 comments
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by wcoenen 16y ago
By the way, Obama mentioned this in his recent speech on the spill. Quote: "After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20 percent of the world's oil, but have less than 2 percent of the world's oil reserves. And that's part o
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by wcoenen 16y ago
If you look at the source, you'll see it is already based on git. C# is just used to glue it all together and provide a GUI. There isn't much source code there though. It looks more like a proof of concept. I doubt anything is "coming soon"
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by wcoenen 16y ago
The article makes the following (rather weak) points against Lorem Ipsum: 1) Nonsensical Handwaving such as "you'll feel more inspired with real content" and "Instead of your design enhancing the meaning of the content, your content is enha
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by wcoenen 16y ago
The reason that deep drilling is done is not because there is an abiogenic origin for that oil. There has never been evidence of oil wells replenishing themselves in human time scales. Instead, oil production from any given well always foll
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by wcoenen 16y ago
I haven't found a way to extract google talk chat logs though.
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by wcoenen 18y ago
I think the point raised in the paper about the system being defeated by torture are a bit over the top. If some ruthless individuals break into my home with the intention to torture people just to gain a few bucks... then I'm screwed wheth