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by zhemao 13y ago
Right, because the CIA has no electronic surveillance capabilities whatsoever. They can't cast a large dragnet over all of the country's communications like the NSA can, but they can sure as hell tap a few congressmen's phone
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by zhemao 13y ago
What kind of job was it, retail? Even that job is probably a luxury compared to, say, manufacturing. I don't think you'd have that much down time if you were working in a factory. You wouldn't be thinking a lot, since it&#x27
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think you guys have an edge over Soylent in that this actually looks somewhat appealing, as opposed to a generic beige liquid.
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Show HN: A Toy 8-bit Microcontroller for FPGAs(github.com)
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by zhemao 13y ago
Hey, it's in Arch community repository! Happy day. sudo pacman -S uzbl-tabbed
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by zhemao 13y ago
I disagree that the "practice" taught in CS classes gets out of date with industry. Consider that modern websites use a communication protocol first developed in the 1990s and run on operating systems largely inspired by one devel
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by zhemao 13y ago
The arduino package has been sitting in the AUR for an oddly long time given its relative popularity. I've been waiting for it to go into [community] but it hasn't so far.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Just realized that HN doesn't do PMs. If you want an invite, shoot me an email. You can find it on my Github account (linked from my HN profile).
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by zhemao 13y ago
I am also willing to send out some invites. PM me if you are interested.
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by zhemao 13y ago
De nada
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by zhemao 13y ago
> I never went to a real English school/class, as you can probably tell at this point by reading this No, I couldn't. You give yourself too little credit. Except for "way much fun", everything you wrote was perfect id
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm not certain because I'm definitely not a legal expert, but I think this might be because there is more legal precedent that warrant-less phone monitoring is illegal compared to warrant-less IP traffic monitoring. Would anyone
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, in what way are either of those shows "girl things"? They seemed pretty gender-neutral to me. Or were you referring to something else?
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by zhemao 13y ago
It wasn't magic. You deliberately sought to gain experience in computer programming. The author is saying that you can't tell a 22-year-old woman with established interests that she should go into computer programming because &quo
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by zhemao 13y ago
Uh, I don't think I was ever given the impression that it was "normal" for me (a guy) to like coding or math/science in general. It was definitely seen as a "nerdy" thing.
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by zhemao 13y ago
They probably just call each other up on the phone. If two hawaladars know each other well it would be pretty difficult to impersonate one to the other.
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by zhemao 13y ago
According to Wikipedia all insects except locusts are non-kosher and some grasshoppers are omnivorous. So there must be some grasshoppers that don't "keep kosher". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher#Pro
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by zhemao 13y ago
What do you mean? It showed up for me on encrypted.google.com.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I searched around a bit and found this PDF link. http://www.state-machine.com/arm/Building_bare-metal_ARM_wit... It seems to have the full series.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wow, Iceland really likes Macs. Can anyone explain why? I suppose the population is small enough that it only takes a few adopters to drive up the percentage, but still.
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by zhemao 13y ago
As far as I know, they're SIMD, not VLIW. In VLIW, each ALU can be executing a different opcode. In SIMD, each ALU is executing the same opcode, but with a different operand.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm really skeptical whether the author's "optimizations" are actually doing what the author thinks they do. Read-after-write hazards do not always result in a stall. Modern CPU pipelines have backward propagation that c
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by zhemao 13y ago
That's not a fair comparison. If all you want is private version control hosting, Github and Bitbucket offer pretty much the same amount of functionality, whereas a NetBook differs greatly from a full-sized laptop or desktop.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Most new students have seen a text editor before (like Notepad or Microsoft word). They are used to things like using the arrow keys for navigation (instead of HJKL), not having to switch modes, and using the mouse to manipulate text. There
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by zhemao 13y ago
> The point is that these things are faults of leaders The leaders were driven by the ideology. Their actions were driven by a desire to achieve their vision of a communist utopia. People went along with these plans because the ideology
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by zhemao 13y ago
Presumably this also detects failed login attempts, so if someone is trying to brute force your login password, you would know immediately. I agree though, that setting up a firewall would be much more effective. Alternatively, disable pass
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by zhemao 13y ago
Put things in perspective? Because other societies and governments are equally horrible, Communism isn't so bad? What kind of argument is this? I can point to a lot more examples. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr
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by zhemao 13y ago
They already passed such legislation. And you're right, it is a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Ac... Basically, it moves US patent law from first-to-invent to first-to-file. So it
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by zhemao 13y ago
From the diagram, it seems they intend to put something resembling a microkernel stack in the browser app, which is a rather odd architectural choice. What exactly do you gain by piecing together low-level components inside the very high-le
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by zhemao 13y ago
I assure you it is. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor )

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