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by yew 13y ago
This is the kind of stuff that until now, only major intelligence agencies could do with very expensive surveillance equipment. 'Major intelligence agency' is apparently now code for 'anyone with a few hundred dollars and an Internet conn
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by yew 13y ago
In my (admittedly limited) experience people don't weld contacts to their eyes, nor are contacts capable of physically restraining you from pushing an 'Off' button. I suppose you could attack someone with epilepsy this way. The rest of yo
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by yew 13y ago
. . . so turn it off? I mean, someone could hack your computer and (effectively) do the same thing for the couple of minutes it takes you to figure out what's happening and flip the power switch. It's a screen. They're all screens. The re
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by yew 13y ago
The 'correct' way to determine the type of a file is indeed to look at metadata. This includes things like magic numbers and extensions, but shouldn't be limited to those things. Just looking at extensions can be misleading because not all
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by yew 13y ago
That's certainly a possibility. I'm just wondering if Sandia has provided more details themselves.
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by yew 13y ago
They say they're not patenting the mixture - does anyone have more details on the chemistry? It sounds like they've found a way to prevent the nitrate-sulfate substitution from occurring directly in the fertilizer, which is very interesting
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by yew 13y ago
Better luck next time! (Just try to remember having this conversation . . .)
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by yew 13y ago
I enjoy flying, though not driving, and I wouldn't fly you to North Dakota just because you asked me. It's too expensive when you're not doing it for fun. (Also, North Dakota is cold and far away.)
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by yew 13y ago
'Control' doesn't necessarily mean 'personally pay attention to all the details'. Even if you let the car/plane/misc operate itself, the legal ramifications of rooting are interesting (presuming you've already reached the point of having ca
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by yew 13y ago
I've decided to protest against protesting against definitions, on the grounds that they're words and protesting against them will redefine them to something that someone else will protest against, ad infinitum, and I don't want to die from
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by yew 13y ago
EE work is usually done with traditional, well-characterized materials. Treating drift velocity as anything other than part of a constant or a temperature variance equation is pretty rare. It's more common if you're doing novel research.
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by yew 13y ago
I know how to cook, but don't often have time to cook. I don't even always have access to a kitchen! I used to have more time, and might again in the future - and if that happens, I'll go back to spending a few hours preparing dinner. U
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by yew 13y ago
Er, no? People repeatedly expose themselves to small amounts of radiation all the time. X-rays, sunlight, airplanes, astronauts, living anywhere with large quantities of granite rock . . . Really, that seems to be totally irrelevant to whet
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by yew 13y ago
If YouTube videos rank highly because Google is pushing them up, that's a problem. If YouTube videos rank highly because people like YouTube, that's not a problem. Likewise, if someone has an official YouTube page and doesn't have an offi
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by yew 13y ago
. . . this is a serious question, by the way. It seems that an answer can be found here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-383_en.htm . Most of the news is just parroting the least-useful bits of the press release. Can't say I'm
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by yew 13y ago
Does Google actually promote links to their own services? (Outside of marked advertisements, I mean.) The article isn't totally clear on what 'ranking policy' refers to, exactly. I know they have the ability to specially promote 'social' co
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by yew 13y ago
'The perfect is the enemy of the good' is the enemy of the good.
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by yew 13y ago
I did mention that two posts above. If Glass is just "cellphones, but on your face" I agree that it probably won't catch on. Of course, smartphones are already useful for a lot of things besides checking Facebook. There's a reason they were
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by yew 13y ago
If you couldn't, we'd all be wearing contacts. I seriously doubt the accuracy of that judgment. Likewise with the rest of the post. 'smug' and 'lazy' are nice, quick labels but none of it actually serves to differentiate the Segway from
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by yew 13y ago
I don't get to decide how people view my actual glasses either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to walk around blind. The usefulness of a thing as a tool is incidental to its value as a fashion statement. If Glass is actually revolutionar
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by yew 13y ago
It's important to ask how this happened, because of course our choices are themselves brought about by external reasons. We can , in many cases, do something about it. We can teach people how to make better choices, too. But I agree, it's
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by yew 13y ago
I'd call that a postmodern understanding of art, and one originating from just one particular sect of postmodernism at that. There's a lot of postmodernists who would say that the artist's intentions in creating the work are secondary, or
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by yew 13y ago
Not sure that's so far from Haskell, really... :-P Maybe it's my lack of experience talking. Haskell feels heavier in a lot of places. I think the focus on compilation in the backend is almost a downside here, too. Can it be in isolated
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by yew 13y ago
Give me a statically typed Python and a type system that can handle external hardware poking around in its memory and I'm in ;) I'm sort of a fan of Haskell already, to tell you the truth.
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by yew 13y ago
Sure, if you want to spend the money to add (more) redundant links. You want to front a few thousand dollars? Unless you mean that digital links aren't more vulnerable to radiation, in which case I recommend you read up on large-scale analo
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by yew 13y ago
As an engineer he should know that the ISS has to be rad-resistant. They'll upgrade soon enough.
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by yew 13y ago
That's the main problem with calling Maybe 'better'. If you don't have static type checking then either you implement it just for Maybe or you end up with the same sorts of problems as you had before. Making types non-Nullable by default i
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by yew 13y ago
Funny how this stops being true as soon as it involves people you don't like. (Not accusing you personally. Just tired of "it's okay if they're politicians on the other side!")
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by yew 13y ago
Speaking as someone relatively new to Python (coming from an embedded development background, mostly with C/C++): What's the standard way of distributing client-side programs/libraries? If you only have one script you can just put it in /us
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by yew 13y ago
No one knows whether they're right or not after submitting their ideas to the crowd for a full and proper vetting, either. 'The crowd' is not a substitute for experimentation and investigation. Noticing that someone looks suspicious in a

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