TheTravCav

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by TheTravCav 11y ago
I feel the same way about the chips reaching their physical limits. But I keep waiting for a new way we use them. We used to just churn out MHz and that was the metric. Then we got hyper-threading, multi-cores, GPU and other specific proc
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
I can just imagine a sql server team meeting where they discuss sql server's effect on laptop battery life. Given sql server's intended environment, I almost wonder if its activity is intentional.
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
> Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all. Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it, I think the point is that if you're going to tell them to RTFM or google it. you should also attempt to answer it or point them in the ri
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
There's enough people out there hacking the echo and looking at the data getting sent back and forth that anything suspect would be all over HN and reddit within hours of the update that caused it. It has some closed source bits but w
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
works great. lots of features. easy to use. I like it.
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
Simmer down comment section. So what if it's not the most perfect thing ever. This is neat. Good job by all that worked on it. I'll bet they learned a lot in the process and had fun doing it. thanks for sharing it with us.
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
From the article, “I started calling them identical twins because they are like identical people,” he said. “They are too similar to just happen by chance, but not absolutely precisely identical to the last molecule.”
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
geexbox is the closest thing i can think of. You can even use http://www.geexbox.org/iso-generator/ to put the movie and the os on disc/usb and boot to the movie basically.
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
>people who are not you are confused by it and don't understand it This is the history of computers and users. So many technologies that seem completely intuitive now started out just like this. being confused by it and don't
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
...I guess i just misunderstood the nature of your question. Yeah there's no way to tell if the history is everything they send or just the commands it heard. But at least it's something. Guess you're looking for something
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
You can go to http://echo.amazon.com/ and see the entire history of recordings with the option to delete any.
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by TheTravCav 11y ago
well obviously not. Don't let the article's title get you too riled up. This tool won't be replacing anesthesiologists completely. But this will help with this part of the job. Machines are useful tools and should be though
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by TheTravCav 12y ago
I've been using AIDE since the early versions and it just keeps getting better and better. It's actually very usable given it's form factor. They've taken a lot of the environment's constraint into account. I would