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by yason 12y ago
Something like this could be a good upgrade for myself when my current phone breaks down. I've been using an Xcover 271 for years. It gives me a couple of weeks of battery and, if I really need to, I can still use a simple web browser
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by yason 12y ago
IRC has always worked well. Done this in several companies. IRC is both real-time and offline. Even your toaster can run an IRC client so it's completely platform independent which is a big thing with engineers. In a work environment p
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by yason 12y ago
I know several places where software components or systems software is tested against real-world applications, games, and whatnot, and... guess how it's often done? Yup, with a combination of injecting artificial keyboard/mouse in
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by yason 12y ago
This is golden. I've wondered more often than once myself what would it be like to have a "normal" office job. For instance, take some city department or some big firm where things generally flow at a slow pace and require a
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by yason 12y ago
I didn't think these "non-intrusive lists" were actually used much in real world programs. Even if allocations weren't a big issue performance-wise, the sheer amount of work required manage the allocations themselves wou
816.
by yason 12y ago
The whole unspoken point of the Tribler project, as I see it, is to provide an anonymous enough way to seed and leech BitTorrent to keep MAFIAA befuddled until something better comes along. Thus, the cryptography was probably never as much
817.
by yason 12y ago
This looks more like 16-bit weather though. 8-bit machines didn't generally have high resolutions (= 1x1 pixels) with that many shades of color. The best had either or . In contrast, the weather guy looks like a PC EGA era illustratio
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by yason 12y ago
Honestly, we can't really blame the developers either. If you inherit a compilation of different techniques, there isn't much you could do to it. There isn't necessarily a code base that you could build on as the same thing
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by yason 12y ago
Freenet has really sped up since the last time I tried it. I'll definitely dive into it again in the upcoming weeks. The Freenet has a wild array of content and much of it is not particularly interesting to the common man. And the web
820.
by yason 12y ago
But don't medallion owners also hire drivers? Not all of them care about their employer's reputation. Thus, surely some negligible——but still tangible——fraction of cab drivers, working for Uber or not, will at some point rape a cu
821.
by yason 12y ago
Nope. You can run, for example, bubble sort or insertion sort in a loop, always iterating over the same set of data (with some fixed amount of state) until the array is sorted. Conversely and per definition, quicksort divides the data flow
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by yason 12y ago
I hiss at the term "non-recursive quicksort" which is used a lot. Quicksort per definition is recursive logically. The same computation recurs in the subarrays, you know. Whether you maintain the state by using the programming l
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by yason 12y ago
If you only ever look at the fraction of the universe for which we have a plausible explanation that is passing scientific criteria, you're missing out on a lot of what is part of human existence all around the globe. Science is a good
824.
by yason 12y ago
Not everything is about gender, sexism, feminism, or chauvinism. There are very few things in the world that are not somehow associated with male vs. female in an objectively equal way. The Lena in question is just an image with a long trad
825.
by yason 12y ago
I have "a thing" for basic system services like malloc, linker, etc. Writing a memory allocator is a nice exercise but it's also fundamental research: by toying around, because of sheer interest, with what everyone else takes
826.
by yason 12y ago
Since they also make stationary batteries I wonder what would it cost to manufacture small flywheel energy storage units for homes instead. To an extent, those are used in bigger grids to balance out peak production and peak consumption: th
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by yason 12y ago
I posted this not necessarily because of pirate politics but because this is an example of how important it is to have software in free distribution. Suppose that the majority of software would only be installable from app stores and third-
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Play Store kills PirateBay applications(torrentfreak.com)
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by yason 12y ago
Then the same software could produce an enhanced image of the road to a human driver, too, right?
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by yason 12y ago
I love Hy and I've started using it several times but it still somehow has a few quirks that I bump into when starting to write serious code. Now it tries to reflect how Python works which isn't always that lispy: basically I&#x27
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by yason 12y ago
Yes.
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by yason 12y ago
The reason I love C——I wouldn't like to love it but I am dragged down back to C each time so I think I've just given up——is that it costs a bit more to write. I used to prototype things with Python by the method of sheer experim
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by yason 12y ago
The thing that is fascinating——and only possible in Lisp——is that by extending the DSL that he started as the assembly language he could, eventually, actually program his 6502 in... Lisp. A typical assembler reads the program in assembly la
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by yason 12y ago
This just verifies that water is a good shield against radiation. The slides explained that any proximity to, not to mention physical contact, with the object would be highly dangerous but having a mere 1.4 meters of water in between the hu
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by yason 12y ago
I don't quite understand the problem here. Art comes from a culture, and there are different cultures. Some are secular, others not so much. They all produce art. Good art is good art, regardless of the background. It might open up in
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by yason 12y ago
The problem with Facebook is that your contacts are there. I'd have left a long time ago if it was a similar service for a dedicated crowd of hobbyists or for work colleagues but everyone's there from my neighbours to my relatives
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by yason 12y ago
That's how it has always been. We take different storage/memory technologies, sort them by their speed and price, put the fastest but most expensive closest to the CPU and the slowest but cheapest as far as possible. Minimizing me
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by yason 12y ago
I've understood it has solar panels. But what would be the reason they didn't put a nuclear battery on board? That would work for years. If the direct output power of the nuclear battery was too low, it could still be used to char
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by yason 12y ago
That's the reason I use wget and only when necessary I switch to curl. It's not that I wouldn't forget about that nasty behaviour (eventhough I sometimes do forget) but it usually goes like this: $ curl -o news.ycombina
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by yason 12y ago
Life is now. If you‘re doing something for money so that you can live your life the way you want later, that doesn‘t work because it takes time to learn to live your life the way you want. Typically it takes a lifetime to do that, so you mu

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