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by windlep 10y ago
> This isn't really for drones. It's for frying ground-based electronics like cell phones. Drones are the smoke screen to hide that fact. Or imagine a smaller system integrated on a humvee that can destroy electronics in anythi
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by windlep 10y ago
At this point, I just assume it will all go back to being as wacky as it was under Bush (very wacky). He threw in plenty of people that refused to acknowledge Climate Change too. Now, its fascinating how much executive power Obama has used
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by windlep 10y ago
Indeed, and that proposition is not at all what it appears to be at first glance. Voters in California should definitely do some due diligence researching that before voting or they're going to be in for a nasty shock at the outcome.
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by windlep 10y ago
> ... polish really find Linux or Windows that much better? It's definitely not better when it comes to polish, it's worse. However, instead of the lickable polish of OSX, you get responsiveness that makes OSX feel laggy in com
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by windlep 10y ago
Fiber the way the US does it is rather lame. Consider that where Google has put in fiber the houses now have: - Copper telco lines - Coax cable lines - Google fiber There's zero reason for anything other than fiber in an area being upd
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by windlep 10y ago
> Using firefox? Did you tick "Send analysis data to Mozilla"? If yes, Mozilla has the very same information about your browsing habits and all clicks and actions you performed in Firefox too. That is blatantly false. The poli
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by windlep 10y ago
I'll admit I'm not very interested in speech recognition of this nature when it can't disambiguate the speaker. ie. the way Amazon Echo and other voice recognition systems can't tell the difference between a human in the
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by windlep 10y ago
Tech trolling at its finest. Blaming SV is a fun game of late it seems, but this poor example of it ignores the fact that the processed food industry has been doing this for quite a few decades. No techie VC money at play here (Soylent is b
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by windlep 10y ago
Yup.
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by windlep 10y ago
> The browser will require more memory than the operating system it runs on. Done! And of course, many apps routinely now take more memory than the OS.
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by windlep 10y ago
I agree entirely with everything on this list. Thankfully, there is a modern solution! Buy the PC of your dreams, install Windows 10 on it, then install VMWare Workstation. Put the linux distro of your choice in vmware, enjoy! Everything wi
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by windlep 10y ago
If 'open source' isn't about having.... I dunno, all your source-code being licensed under an OSS license... then what exactly is it? I think the word you're having more of an issue with isn't 'open source&#x27
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by windlep 10y ago
> What happened? How, in those early Internet years, did we get the future so wrong? Sort of reminds me of some scientists concerns after inventing the atom/hydrogen bomb.... oops, what did we just do? Yet I don't see or hear a
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by windlep 10y ago
I have one of those lying around, but the issue afaik is that the Steam Link kind of takes over the PC that is running the games to stream the system. Hooking up the speaker/controls/VGA of my arcade via a long cable directly to m
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by windlep 10y ago
Yea, I've had too many issues with imprecise SNES emulation, so I only wanted to use bsnes. I get why people skimp and go for a less precise emu that can handle their hardware, but its too frustrating to me to invest time into a game t
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by windlep 10y ago
Ah, is that the latest model of the RasPi? It was lagging quite abit on my older Rasberry Pi B model.
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by windlep 10y ago
I've had an arcade cabinet with a 9-year old computer in it that finally failed the other day. I tried the Rasberry Pi route awhile ago, it does fine on the oldest 80's MAME games, but has issues with most of the 90's era gam
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by windlep 10y ago
> Of the millions (yes millions) of dollars they've received, little seems to have gone toward Firefox development. I'm not sure what you believe it costs to employ all the engineers that Mozilla has whom are busy constantly...
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by windlep 10y ago
Which proves you didn't already open it, swap in a brick, and reseal it to make it look unopened... how?
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by windlep 10y ago
> If someone came up with a better search engine, Google would just buy it or hire the principals before they did. Not really. The people with the better search engine might prefer to be 'the next Google' instead, and if they&#
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by windlep 10y ago
I was thinking about that as well. Depending on the payload, it might make sense to build duplicates of many satellites for redundancy should SpaceX lose a rocket. Cost-wise that could still come out ahead given how much more ULA costs. Of
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by windlep 10y ago
I wrote a tool to evaluate memory per connection one layer up (at websocket level), using autobahn. It works in asyncio, so it should work fine with uvloop. https://github.com/bbangert/ssl-ram-testing/
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by windlep 10y ago
Cool! For the client test I'm referring to, these would be long-lived clients that stay around and just TCP ping for an echo server, rather than HTTP calls that connect/disconnect. In my experience, PyPy+twisted is around 5-25x fa
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by windlep 10y ago
This is quite interesting, but I don't find req/sec very interesting at all. These should be about matters of concurrency, that is, how much is being done at once, not how many req/sec overall are done (which could almost be
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by windlep 10y ago
The neighborhood around Kennedy Jr High School and Monta Vista High School. Many houses over the past decade became mini-mansions for awhile, but the recent trend seems to be ignoring basic house maintenance. I didn't mean to imply the
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by windlep 10y ago
I'm inclined to believe many are empty investment properties. A documentary about the housing costs showed a Chinese investment tour of Cupertino for such purpose: https://youtu.be/SBjXUBMkkE8?t=2m35s The other issue i
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by windlep 10y ago
Yup, it can just become 50% empty investment properties, and folks can scrounge for what's left. Some solution is going to be needed to prevent that situation, though maybe with all those empty houses, there'll be less people to m
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by windlep 10y ago
I'm sure the fact that there's an increasing trend of empty Chinese investment properties isn't helping. I grew up in Cupertino, and when I visit my parents there, I'm rather shocked at how downhill the neighborhood has
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by windlep 11y ago
Unfortunately this post won't get many upvotes cause its not negative about an employer (everyone loves dirty drama, the HN upvotes say it all), so I'm quite happy to see someone post about some great work they've done. Docum
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by windlep 11y ago
Absolutely, of course, without a spreadsheet like this, its really damn hard to know what ballpark "get paid what you're worth" even is. At least with numbers like this, a few visualizations accounting for remote/office,

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