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by wiml 10y ago
There was tons of guff. Do you not remember the "crypto wars" of the '90s? Export-grade ciphers? Server-gated crypto? The Clipper chip? Entire projects carefully developed only outside the US to avoid export restrictions?
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by wiml 10y ago
I'm not an EE, but if that 110 GHz is the transistor's Ft or gain-bandwidth product, then I think that's a respectable but not exceptional transistor speed— something you'd get from a silicon-wafer process a few generati
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by wiml 10y ago
I think it lasted indefinitely. Both people had life-extension technology on their ships and they were Bussard ramjets of the "can accelerate forever" variety. Another classic relativistic story is Pohl's _Starburst_.
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by wiml 10y ago
Big water waves are gravity waves, but ripples are capillary waves, I think.
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by wiml 10y ago
All you need to do is set it to music, so that at the end of the set each 1-factor of the factorization has been represented for a verse. You'd probably need a distinct song and pattern for each group size. If your dancers are some mix
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by wiml 10y ago
This seems to be the relevant text from the PDF that the article links to, on page 22: "The Committee recommends $50,500,000 for programs to promote Internet freedom globally. [Description of various techologies snipped] [C
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by wiml 10y ago
People who are interested in security would be verifying the pgp signature on the tarball. (What's that? It's unsigned?)
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by wiml 10y ago
It's possible to get permits for temporary operation. People have done this at hacker conferences and at Burning Man for example.
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by wiml 10y ago
And the opening of _Snow Crash_, too, was clearly a loving parody of an already-florid imagery. Cyberpunk as a fiction genre originated in the mid-80s and by 1990 people were calling it dead.
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by wiml 10y ago
really easy to google up a source, e.g.: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=08282015a > At WWDC 2015 we announced that iOS 9 will support IPv6-only network services. All apps submitted to the App Store must suppor
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by wiml 10y ago
In the general case, what you do is you take a wideband excitation - like a buffer of random samples - and use it as the initial value for a system with a lumpy frequency response. In this case the frequency response is very simple but more
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by wiml 10y ago
In addition, I assume, the ships being beached are empty- no cargo, very little fuel, probably stripped of a lot of normal equipment. They'll have a much shallower draft than a laden ship.
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by wiml 10y ago
20 years ago, perhaps. But 30 years ago, you could buy workstations that were programmed in Lisp all the way down to the metal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
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by wiml 10y ago
The first half of the sentence is saying, "Don't do things the hard way (hacking) when you can do them the easy way (social engineering)". The second half is saying "Everyone should know this."
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by wiml 10y ago
The answer to that is in the Zooko's Triangle link, give it a read. But, in short: for a name to be useful in a global context, it has to be unambiguous or unique. If there isn't a centralized naming authority / registry, the
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by wiml 11y ago
He's formulating a null hypothesis - a (perhaps rejectable) alternative to the unspoken assumption in most of this thread, which is that Reddit, or perhaps comment threads in general, are disproportionately likely to include a mention
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by wiml 11y ago
Classically, tools like ps worked by opening /dev/kmem, reading the symbol list from /vmunix or wherever, and chasing data structures in kernel memory a bit like a debugger might. These days there is usually a getter for proc
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by wiml 11y ago
A shell alias/function, a tiny shell script (which can also serve as documentation of the reasons for a procedure), or just finding the last invocation in my shell history with ^R.
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by wiml 11y ago
Question for the knowledgeable: why did one of the insulation layers have some metal foil in it? He commented on it as he was unwinding it, as if it was a little odd but not completely bizarre.
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by wiml 11y ago
Was it GNU df that had the POSIX_ME_HARDER configuration option to enable a particularly unwanted bit of POSIX-mandated functionality?
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by wiml 11y ago
Bzr+launchpad does this nicely, I think. The underlying history of the merged-in branch is there, and you can look at it, but by default it looks like a single atomic change.
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by wiml 11y ago
That's exactly what netbooks were, right? And Chromebooks are basically a resurrection of the same idea. Tablets basically took that space, I think.
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by wiml 11y ago
There is --- I used opentaxsolver for a number of years. It's definitely un-sexy but it does the job with no fuss.
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by wiml 11y ago
"Good enough for the average consumer" isn't usually Apple's marketing message, either.
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by wiml 11y ago
I think hackerspaces simply have a turnover, a lifecycle. In the last few years both of my favorite local hackerspaces have closed or become moribund, but others have appeared, and maybe I'll like them.
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by wiml 11y ago
GPS is below the noise floor at the receiver, IIRC. UWB radar is also a thing.
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by wiml 11y ago
It handles a lot of the details if what you want is to get a stream of asynchronous events. You can certainly implement an equivalent on top of websockets, but the same is true of any protocol, including HTTP itself.
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by wiml 11y ago
The timescale, I think. If the ice at the poles melts, the water immediately (days?) distributes itself along the geoid, the earth's moment of rotational inertia increases, it slows down. But, once the weight is taken off the poles, th
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by wiml 11y ago
You might be interested in this old BlackHat presentation by Christopher Tarnovsky: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Tarnovsk...
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by wiml 11y ago
It is an interesting observation about compression loss though. The more sophisticated any compressor gets, the more its artifacts are going to look semantically plausible. With simple technology, at first, you might get grainy or blurry im

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