j-g-faustus

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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
I enjoyed cassettes. I still have a bunch, and a cassette player in my car. And I never use them over streaming audio from my phone. Why? Because this is 2017 and I'm not a hipster.
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
Stunning! Absolutely stunning! I will print these and hang them in my hallway.
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
Initial conclusions indicate an error in production that placed pressure on plates contained within battery cells. That in turn brought negative and positive poles into contact, triggering excessive heat. Samsung however
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
I was commenting on "why did they design Java that way in the first place", as opposed to (say) Go. I agree that once the primary use of Java moved outside the browser, there was no particular reason to not give the option of AOT
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
Because Java was originally designed for set-top TV boxes and appliances, where it's kind of a big deal that you don't need to know or care what OS or processor each appliance is using internally. https://web.archive.or
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
> imagine that the algorithms you write had to work (perhaps slightly differently, but essentially the same) when hit with bit-flips in the code. How would one do that? Gray code [1] does it for integers: Any two consecutive values are o
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
It can feel like "flu with a hangover", that's my experience too. In my case that's triggered by too much activity. I've gradually learned to stay within my limits most of the time, so these days I don't have t
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by j-g-faustus 10y ago
On the basis of having had a CFS/ME diagnosis for the past several years, and spending some time reading what I could find about it: There's no consensus yet, but there is a bunch of interesting research going on. Most of the theo
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by j-g-faustus 12y ago
Can't agree with that. Betting say $1 on a highly improbable event can't really be considered "insane" by any metric I can think of - if you lose, so what, you're only out one dollar. The risk of the event itself do
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by j-g-faustus 12y ago
It's different in a number of ways: Suppose it's not you hacking your car, it's an enemy that want you dead. So they disable the brakes. Or perhaps it's possible for an attacker to disable the brakes only when you'r
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by j-g-faustus 12y ago
I haven't tried a standing desk for programming yet (it's on my todo-list). But I did have a summer job as a student where I was standing in front of a computer all day, registering incoming packages in a warehouse. My feet hurt f
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Yes. Representing resolution by horizontal pixel count has been standard in digital cinema for years[1][2]. So they have 2k, 4k and a number of subvariants. So I guess we're just seeing a conflation of cinema, TV and computing, at leas
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Clear for people in the know, I guess. But suppose I had a Kickstarter for a car on the same premises: "A revolutionary car powered by sunlight and water - fill up with water every now and then, and it will run forever". No furthe
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Not really. Last month was a special case: Several months of hype and preorders hit the statistics all at once when Tesla started delivery.
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
The Tesla price range in Norway is roughly equivalent to the BMW 320i to 328i. The Leaf is the same price as a Ford Focus or VW Golf. So if you're looking for a car in this class, there's no extra cost to going electric.
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
I think it's similar to eBay: eBay didn't invent "buying and selling stuff", but it was still disruptive e.g. to classified ads in local newspapers. It's a limited form of disruption, but still disruption. Airbnb is
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
It's an interesting choice from an evolutionary standpoint: At the time homo sapiens evolved, we presumably had saber-tooth tigers, tyrannosaurus rexes, abonimable snowmen (or whatever :) prowling the bushes around the place we slept.
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
I have no better knowledge, just parsing the reports: The cleanup is more effective during sleep because the channels that transport waste from the brain expand 60% in volume, and the brain cells themselves shrink by a similar amount to ma
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
I've no idea how much a razor "should" cost, perhaps you would enlighten us with your calculations? If I decided to produce my own razor blades, I suppose I would need to buy an iron mine, a factory to melt the ore to iron, a
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Here's a blog post arguing that the iPhone wasn't disruptive , like PC vs mainframe - the PC was worse in every respect, but it was also dramatically cheaper. Instead, it was obsoletive , like PC vs typewriters - the PC was way
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
I was struck by this part: "FEINSTEIN: [...] upstream collection [...] comprises about 10 percent of all collection that takes place under 702, and occurs when NSA obtains Internet communications, such as e-mails, from certain U.S. com
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Call it FoodStand, let if fill with food vendors in my neighbourhood (preferably those who offer delivery), and I'm all for it. That would transform PizzaHut from an obnoxious ad ("seller oriented") to a genuinely useful opti
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
At the moment, 15% (1:6.8) are in the UTC+2:00 timezone, which covers most of mainland Europe using Daylight Saving Time. Sounds ballpark reasonable to me - Europe is twice the population of USA, and USA is split over more timezones. And As
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Two reasons for non-Americans: - the snooping is explicitly targeting foreigners. In USA I'm a foreigner, by hosting in my own country I have at least the protection of being a citizen. - if I don't like the snooping my own govern
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Agreed. If we buy the principle that individuals generally make better decisions for themselves than governments or committees can do for them, there's no reason why it should be different for the poor. In the "fishing pole" analogy: You ma
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
Several options: - Ideological motive: Internet corrupts people, we must protect them from evil influence. - Political motive: Disrupting infrastructure as an attack on the current rulers. - Financial motive: Maybe they sell cable repair se
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by j-g-faustus 13y ago
The lesson is presumably that a bank should spread its bets. Here's the Central Bank of Cyprus in December 2012: When one invests over 100% of one’s capital in a single financial instrument – even if that instrument is considered
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
> Why do we assume that we need "free time"? Two reasons: * For better or worse, humans are not machines. We can only keep doing the same thing over and over for so long before we go crazy, somewhat like Chaplin in Modern Times [1]. Cre
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
If you want to reproduce the signal, yes. But in this case they don't want that. They want the illusion that the water is standing still, which you get by sampling the signal at the exact same point in every cycle. So to the sampler/viewer

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