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by zw123456 11y ago
Maybe a bit OT here but... The thing I always wondered about what the probability that Lance Armstrong was the only one doping. I know some others have been caught but it did seem to me like there was a second agenda there.
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by zw123456 11y ago
yes, but there is a special place in my heart for it, even though it is horrible and I never use it. But like a lot of other people it was one of the first high level languages that we got exposed to, so I guess it is sort of like the first
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by zw123456 11y ago
I agree completely, I get a huge high from solving interesting programming problems or engineering problems. I think it is why so many engineers and programmers will work on open source projects, not just the love of the technology but the
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by zw123456 11y ago
I have seen a number of articles about the lack of craters and the assumption that this means recent geological activity. But that would assume a similar craterization rate to that of the inner planets like Mars and our Moon. I am wondering
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by zw123456 11y ago
The missing link here in my mind is what is on the other end of the 900Mhz link? Someone has to have an internet connection on the other end of it. It is not clear who would want to provide that and pay for it or how many users you could g
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Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists(wired.com)
75 points by zw123456 11y ago|13 comments
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by zw123456 11y ago
True, I may have over stated my point. A double blind with placebos test is the gold standard, and difficult to implement with humans when it comes to diets. Which is why I think there are so many different kinds of fad diets that come and
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by zw123456 11y ago
The biggest problem with these types of theories (e.g. Paleo diet, grazing, micro-eating etc.) is that there is no way to test against a placebo, for obvious reasons. So it is really impossible to completely test the theory scientifically.
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by zw123456 11y ago
Or perhaps it is a case of the "10,000 Monkeys" effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
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Neurodiversity – Is Autism something we should accept as a difference?(cbc.ca)
2 points by zw123456 11y ago|0 comments
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by zw123456 11y ago
I have often pondered, that if it were possible for me to transcribe every thought that I had into words or actions immediately, how both wonderful and at the same time, frightening that would be.
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The Accidental Artistry of Wire Wrapped Circuitry(motherboard.vice.com)
6 points by zw123456 11y ago|1 comments
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by zw123456 11y ago
And perhaps someday we'll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like "oh I just wanted to optimize the c
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by zw123456 11y ago
I don't know anything about advertising but sometimes I watch TV late at night and I see ads for various local and national companies and I always wondered how they ever could verify that they actually are getting the air time during t
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by zw123456 11y ago
What if Zuckerberg gave up because someone already made Myspace? Or what if Bill Gates decided not to build Windows because Apple already built the Mac?
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by zw123456 11y ago
Anyone with experience in telecom will immediately recognize this as a traffic engineering problem easily solved with the Erlang formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit) Not to be confused with the Erlang L
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by zw123456 11y ago
I did one about 10years ago using an old phone I got at a garage sale. I was going to copy the Sparkfun design but instead I made mine a Bluetooth one so that you don't have to tied up a cellular line. Anyhow, at the time I was working
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by zw123456 11y ago
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this man made island in international waters was that someone can just get a boat and a few armed men and rob the place. I agree with all the complaints about government surveillance, intrusio
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by zw123456 12y ago
One serious argument for using a connectionless protocol is mobile. The reason is that mobile networks have a MAC/RLC layer (talking 3G/4G here, e.g. LTE) and those layers have ARQ (in other words retrans). At times, those re-tran
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by zw123456 12y ago
Yes, but a larger antenna will have a narrower beam width so it gets harder to aim it in the right place especially with a platform that is moving. If the antenna beam width is too narrow, you end up needing mechanically steered antennas to
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by zw123456 12y ago
Yup. The downlink is always easy (from the tower to the phone). The uplink is always the weakest link because the size of the device, the limited battery the limited size of the antenna due to the form factor of the phone and so on. If it w
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by zw123456 12y ago
Picking up is one thing, getting the signal back from the phone with it's small antenna and low power transmitter seems problematic. But perhaps they have solved that somehow. At those distances, I am guessing the uplink would be very
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by zw123456 12y ago
hmmm, not with 100mw, in the old days of CMDA perhaps if the phone had 600mw which some did back then. But Loon is using LTE as I understand it, and I think it said they are using unlicensed spectrum, which, although I have not seen it spel
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by zw123456 12y ago
I think the last time that the Loon project item was posted here a lot of the same comments were made. I think it was verified that they are flying at the 60kft - 90kft range where the winds are typically mild and in the 20mph range. I thin
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by zw123456 12y ago
Agreed, it did not get that far in but this is one of the better explanations I have seen.
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by zw123456 12y ago
Very cool, I am going to have to try out the C one. The only thing missing is HDL (Verilog or VHDL) but there are tons of those out there (e.g. https://github.com/jbush001/LispMicrocontroller )
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by zw123456 12y ago
I agree completely. I do not view it as a mistake (although it seems like everyone else does). It was just the path I took. And I went on and got to work on a lot of other very cool projects and did very well for myself as a result, just no
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by zw123456 12y ago
That was an aspect of it, one of the things that I had started at NSI and got cut short when they sold out to Big Blue (and PG would love this) was AI Expert System for Network diagnostics using a Symbolics computer using OPS5. I was convin
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by zw123456 12y ago
Yes, and it was trivial to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager pre-dated windows on the same HW !
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by zw123456 12y ago
In retrospect, the only difference between the fork in my road and the fork for others is that mine was so obvious in hind sight. Other people probably unwittingly passed over great opportunities but just did not ever find out what they mis

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