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811.
by wiml 12y ago
A lot of wave and tidal motors were built along the California coast in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It's an interesting history. Cheap fossil power made them uneconomical, though. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009&#
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by wiml 12y ago
https://www.catalogchoice.org/ ?
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by wiml 12y ago
Intermediate mode: You could program the discrete logic onto a tiny CPLD and probably still hide it inside the 74'193. That way you'd still technically be complying with the "no microcontrollers" constraint.
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by wiml 12y ago
Definitely. You could make a small hardwired state machine and decode its various states into the behavior you wanted, for example. It would probably take a dozen or so 7400-series logic chips (depending on how complex the easter-egg behavi
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by wiml 12y ago
Take a look at the PDF version on recon.cx linked by jesrui— it's substantially different from the slideshare version in a few places, notably that it talks about a third generation (Bay Trail TXE) which uses SPARC and drops the pesky
816.
by wiml 12y ago
Different versions of this slideshow have different information. The table titled "ME Core Evolution" (slide 15/16), for example, shows two generations in the version on slideshare, but three generations in the PDF on recon.c
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by wiml 12y ago
There are things in Deepness that will have more significance if you've read A Fire upon the Deep , but nothing central to the plot. They're both standalone novels, just in the same setting/universe/background.
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by wiml 12y ago
Wouldn't that also make it impossible to change one's password?
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by wiml 12y ago
It's one of the few ways apps can interact with each other under iOS— by telling the system that they can handle particular URL schemes, and having other applications ask the system to open URLs with that scheme. It's kind of ridi
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by wiml 12y ago
I think there are a couple of things that would have to happen in order for that to work: 1, we would have to set up a global registry for SSIDs, like we have for domain names. (Otherwise, what's to keep someone else from using a colli
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by wiml 12y ago
CVS was developed in the '80s specifically to get around the locking problem that locking (non-concurrent — that's what the C in CVS is) version control systems had.
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by wiml 12y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen that product already ... aha, yes, it's being marketed to snowboarders: http://www.reconinstruments.com/products/snow2/
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by wiml 12y ago
IIRC, both the Linux and BSD socket implementations let you do this with a combination of a few sockopts.
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by wiml 12y ago
There's a restaurant down the street from me named after Genghis Khan. There's a craft brew named after Tamurlane. I could go on and on.
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by wiml 12y ago
And extensions to let us specify failure-case or other behavior of those extensions, and so on. But at that point, we're already heading down the road of implementing a tiny DSL for "the program that posix_spawn() should run after
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by wiml 12y ago
err_sys() is something you have to provide yourself, though, which takes you out of the flow of the code you're thinking about, which is half the reason people don't write error handling in the first place. Once I discovered the e
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by wiml 12y ago
Interesting, maybe a bit more like bubble memory than a hard drive.
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by wiml 12y ago
Hyphen/minus. ASCII 0x2D or EBCDIC 0x60.
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by wiml 12y ago
The example with dashes made me chuckle, because there actually is a standard for setting off a signature --- two dashes with one trailing space. Searching for this works tolerably well in my experience; if it's in a message and not mo
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by wiml 12y ago
It can be done using openssl (the documentation is a bit opaque but it's not hard to do). As Robin_Message says, I'm not becoming an intermediate CA — I'm generating my own root CA, which no one except me and my apps trust. I
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by wiml 12y ago
What I do is I generate an inhouse CA for uses like these and hardcode its certificate into the clients: the key used by the API server can then be changed whenever necessary, just as if it were signed by a commercial CA.
832.
by wiml 12y ago
Laser designator, I think.
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by wiml 12y ago
You could bruteforce all 25 possible keys ... but the key is right next to the Caesar cipher clue.
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by wiml 12y ago
In the past OSX has actually been a pretty decent server OS. I wouldn't recommend it for that today, but there are still plenty of reasons someone might want it (legacy systems, developer familiarity with OSX from desktop use, some App
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by wiml 12y ago
As a matter of principle, in the US at least, laws to which you are bound are supposed to be freely-as-in-freedom available. That doesn't mean they invariably are, though; people find various ways to extract rent from the law.[1] Usual
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by wiml 12y ago
IIRC, both Mars and Venus have enough of a natural population inversion in their upper atmospheres for laser action to take place (NIR CO2 lasers). Googling this hits paywalls pretty quickly but it seems to have been investigated in the 198
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by wiml 12y ago
Isn't that roughly the demoscene, where there are often categories for entries that fit in 4kB or 64kB; or competitions to do the most interesting thing in 1kB of JS, or the like? Code golf?
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by wiml 12y ago
Those are really just feeding on the reactive chemical species produced by the ionizing radiation from nuclear decays in the rock. Pretty nifty, and I hadn't heard of them before. The other possible answer to this that I know of are th
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by wiml 12y ago
It's a truly ancient anecdote; it probably predates the Internet. The first example in RISKS is in 1994: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/15.59.html#subj3.1 but the canonical version of the story is in a Cape Town
840.
by wiml 12y ago
Why should they ban dios? Honestly, what makes Metafilter a great site— I've been a member there for a decade— is that, unlike a lot of fora, it still allows dissenting and unpopular views. I may frequently disagree with what dios says

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