abthomson

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by abthomson 6y ago
In the upper right there's a "login with password" link. I logged in successfully using my old number there just now.
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by abthomson 9y ago
It's called Fermi estimation for a reason!
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by abthomson 13y ago
For shorter distances, time-of-flight is not typically used. There's surprisingly little documentation about how these things work online though. From http://ptd.leica-geosystems.com/en/Measuring-Techniques_4939..
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by abthomson 14y ago
The Kwikset motorized deadbolts have tapered bolts to help compensate for poor alignment. I'm not sure why it's not more common with other locks.
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by abthomson 14y ago
Both "normal" automatic transmissions and the Prius use epicyclic gears. The main difference between the two would be that an automatic transmission in normal operation has one power input (the engine) and one output. As bprater alluded t
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by abthomson 15y ago
Very true, search for "server inlet temperature" if you want to learn more.
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by abthomson 16y ago
It's definitely not accepted that power and cooling are the dominant cost, in most cases it's the servers: From James Hamilton (who just happens to work for Amazon) http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/18/OverallDataCente...
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Generation why?(nybooks.com)
5 points by abthomson 16y ago|0 comments
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Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Google broke privacy laws (theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by abthomson 16y ago|0 comments
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by abthomson 16y ago
It's not clear why the author decided to compare a ZestCash loan with credit cart debt when they're clearly different products. And while ZestCash's rates of 242% to 462% are high, they are, under certain circumstances, competitive. For e
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by abthomson 16y ago
http://thestartupdigest.com/ is useful for finding out about events like this in advance.
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by abthomson 16y ago
I don't know much about ISP DNS configurations, but the problem extends to clients as well. For example, until Java 1.6, the default TTL for DNS lookups was forever.
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Otherworld - giving applications a chance to survive OS kernel crashes(usenix.org)
2 points by abthomson 16y ago|0 comments
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How to thrive among pirates(kk.org)
19 points by abthomson 16y ago|3 comments
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by abthomson 17y ago
I'm only sure because I saw a bunch of RTMP and Flex messages going to the central servers (they all have similar IP addresses) and a lot of UDP traffic going to a pretty much random IP address that changed with every person I talked to. Al
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by abthomson 17y ago
Yes, and this is what chatroulette does. I did a TCP dump of the traffic and the data sent to the central servers is very minimal, mostly short plain-text messages containing little bits of information - your partner's camera status, number
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Chatroulette - video chat with strangers(chatroulette.com)
5 points by abthomson 17y ago|0 comments
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by abthomson 17y ago
Furthermore, the flow in the two pipes is usually in opposite directions because it's more efficient that way.
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by abthomson 18y ago
If a child prodigy becomes famous in later life, it's probably not because they were a child prodigy but for some other reason. One example I can think of would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram but I'm fairly certain there