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Pornspammer buys expired FOSS domain, edits its Read The Docs site(github.com)
2 points by galvanist 6y ago|0 comments
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by galvanist 12y ago
Something about the old MIT AI koans convinces me that yoda would be a lisp hacker; http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan
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by galvanist 12y ago
I hope they maintain their teletypes better than the wildfire people or someone is bound to get shot by anti-monkey-lasers.
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by galvanist 12y ago
Where are the low level lightweight concurrency/parallelism features?
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by galvanist 12y ago
Hyperbolic title considering that David Sanders is giving two Presentations at the upcoming SciPy 2014: The wonderful world of scientific computing with Python Sunday 8 a.m.–noon in Room 101 Introduction to Julia Monday 1 p.m.–5 p.m. in Roo
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by galvanist 12y ago
That’s what I kinda suspected. It would be hard for me to imagine someone mistaking sensitivity to the listed foods with a gluten problem.
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by galvanist 12y ago
On your gluten free diet, do you eat (in no particular order): apples, pears, peaches, milk, sugar, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, garlic, avocado, cauliflower, mushrooms, and soft / fresh cheeses? Do you have any issues with t
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by galvanist 12y ago
See also the National Geographic coverage: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140514-bicep...
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by galvanist 12y ago
Do you have any actual data to back your wild assertions? Entire domains of computer science are dedicated to productivity languages and many are widely used with great success and little or no overhead relative to C. (edit: for example sci
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by galvanist 12y ago
I had to look it up. From wikipedia: A proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism (controller) widely used in industrial control systems [...] A PID controller calculates an "error
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by galvanist 12y ago
For some hardware attacks, like transistor-level dopant mask swaps, there isn’t any reliable way to detect them, not even optical inspection (because the layout is unchanged) nor functional testing (because passing BIST and external benchma
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by galvanist 12y ago
The DIY Garden Box That Destroyed A Nation! You’ve got me wondering about startup culture. When you’re running a startup you presumably invest all your money, borrow from friends and family, get investors, expose yourself to various types o
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by galvanist 12y ago
“It’s just wood” is also a great description of kale.
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by galvanist 12y ago
sounds useful. how did that work? were you auditing? did you enroll as a student? what was the cost?
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by galvanist 12y ago
The phrase “Oculus Rift, which added an orientation tracker” glosses-over the chief technical accomplishments of the team. The Rift is defined by the affordable very low latency head tracking. We’ve had head-mounted 3D displays at least sin
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OS X and the Unremovable File(galvanist.com)
2 points by galvanist 13y ago|0 comments
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by galvanist 13y ago
This reminds me of "Thing" -- a passive bugging device hidden inside a wooden carving of the American Great Seal and given to the American Ambassador to Russia by Russian school children. It operated for years and was discovered o
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by galvanist 13y ago
His usage of "powered" is a very common english colloquialism. For example the phrase “powered by wordpress” doesn’t indicate that someone is obtaining energy from the wordpress software product. Some more examples: https:/&
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by galvanist 13y ago
Maybe something like the Canon Canobeam DT-130 Type SFP: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/free_spa... But, you know, more than one... or something.
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by galvanist 13y ago
Wait. A gmail.com email address on an apple job listing? How can this not be some kind of identity theft/fishing scam?
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by galvanist 13y ago
I love this comment.
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by galvanist 13y ago
Not worth your time. At all.
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by galvanist 13y ago
One word of content. Six words of advertisement.
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by galvanist 13y ago
Yes, let's look to the British to tell us how a country should keep to its borders, handle international relations, balance domestic surveillance/privacy concerns, run fair and impartial international trials, and teach us about In
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by galvanist 13y ago
What are you trying to say about the linked story?
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by galvanist 13y ago
Why Apple Wastes My Time - A Typical Experience (Samsung.com)
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by galvanist 13y ago
This is some talented ad work. It was clearly cheap to make. They're going for viral. We're discussing it. The message isn't slimy. It's funny. It's more interesting than something like #tweetyermom. I say mission accomplished. Also I still
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by galvanist 13y ago
So I think you mean stock option grants... because otherwise you should have an equal number of choices for negative values.
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by galvanist 13y ago
This kinda thing already happens at the Ronald Regan foundation's "Air Force One Discovery Center," where a similar video-advisors-choose-your-own-adventure system is used. The Jan. 14 2011 "Kid Politics" episode of this American Life featu
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by galvanist 13y ago
Nit-pick: The "real" "Mordor on earth" is Mt. Tongariro on the north island of New Zealand. The 3-4 day trail around Mt. Tongariro and Mt. Ngauruhoe is one of New Zealand's spectacular "Great Walks." If you have the opportunity to visit New

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