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by jbri 13y ago
It's in the field of copyright rather than patents, but the Righthaven suits suggest some form of precedent in this area. But that's kind of a sideshow - I believe the real issue being pointed at is if the defendant chooses to arg
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by jbri 13y ago
> again, maybe I'm getting old, but to see the pixels on my current screen I have to get my nose almost right up to the display, which I'm never going to do The point of going to higher and higher resolutions is that eventually
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by jbri 13y ago
Of course, the reason that language was introduced into the standard was primarily to mitigate this sort of attack.
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by jbri 13y ago
The author mentions that he only evaluated drives that have some form of power loss protection - doing some quick searching around, I couldn't find any Samsung drives in the given price range that claimed to have that. Did I miss an ap
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by jbri 13y ago
Given that these techniques seem to be well-known, it would be interesting to see a JPEG compressor which uses what we know of human vision to minimize filesize while keeping the image visually the same. JPEGmini seems to go partway with se
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by jbri 13y ago
If you want to build new crypto, people would be absolutely happy for you to design and present a new cryptographic scheme - hopefully with some advantages over existing ones. People will analyze it, tell you where the weaknesses are, and i
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by jbri 13y ago
If people want to support the TrueCrypt developers, there's a "Donate" button on the TrueCrypt website. People have instead chosen to give money to an initiative to have a thorough independent audit of the TrueCrypt code - it
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by jbri 13y ago
On the other hand, if you allow outside communication (such as unrestricted access to the internet), you open the door for "I'll pay someone who already knows this stuff to phone in the answers for me" - which isn't gene
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by jbri 13y ago
I'll confess I'm not intimately familiar with the details of this case, and I'm speaking in generalities. But still - it doesn't matter whether the charges are invented or not, or even what those charges are. What matter
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by jbri 13y ago
It shouldn't matter whether these specific charges are made-up or not. At this point they're unproven allegations, and it's up to a court to decide whether they're valid or not. It's important to realize that anytim
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by jbri 13y ago
In theory? Quantum and thermal effects inside an unstable configuration of transistors. The simple example is a basic SR latch (two NOR gates, where the output of one gate feeds one of the inputs of the other, and vice versa), where you sta
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by jbri 13y ago
> and early PS3 were reluctantly compatible with the PS2. And they did that by effectively putting a PS2 inside the case alongside everything else, ironically making backwards compatibility one of the things contributing to the high pric
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by jbri 13y ago
It seems unreasonable to claim that academia would reject the idea out of hand when no-one's even written a paper to attempt to submit to a peer-reviewed journal. If you showed me scientific papers that had been rejected by peer review
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by jbri 13y ago
Reading your link, it appears that the author just flatly assumes that space is not expanding, and everything else stems from that assumption. The author provides another article to attempt to support that assumption, but their argument for
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by jbri 13y ago
The primary reason people use monospace fonts is historical inertia. It's definitely worth trying out a proportional font if your environment is amenable to it (some tools don't cope particularly well, for sad and disappointing re
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by jbri 13y ago
The optimal mechanism is to indent with tabs, and align with spaces (that is, you have the same number of preceding tabs as whatever you're trying to align with, and then use spaces from there). Though setting your editor up to do
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by jbri 13y ago
I believe the big reason for the power-efficiency is that it's entirely clockless - the power consumption of an idle transistor is very low compared to one that's switching, and a central clock causes many, many transistors to swi
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by jbri 13y ago
Honestly it seems fairly obvious to me - "clocks changed" is kind of the first assumption you make when two time strings that appear very close together parse as far apart. After that, it only takes some quick googling to figure o
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by jbri 13y ago
The electric eel has lots of insulating fat just under the skin - so it wouldn't be too much outside the realms of plausibility for it to have higher electrical resistance than something made primarily of muscle. Of course, the insulat
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by jbri 13y ago
No, that's not it. If you restart the simulation a few times, you should eventually get something where everything forms into one clump with low initial angular momentum. If you keep watching from that point, you'll see the clump&
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by jbri 13y ago
Something seems off about the simulation - once you get a big clump, it starts spinning faster and faster until it tears itself apart again. Ignoring that, it's pretty neat - and runs decently fast as well.
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by jbri 13y ago
That seems like a bit of a sideshow, considering they'd get exactly the same (combined) amount of money if they weren't living together. What makes it any different from a bunch of working adults living in a large house and splitt
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by jbri 13y ago
> those keyboards that result in vi/vim not being able to exploit control characters. Modern vim uses control characters just fine. Have you used it any time in the last decade? Because you seem to dance around that question a lot,
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by jbri 13y ago
That seems like the wrong way to do it. The post sentence spacing was never really treated as two consecutive spaces - conceptually, it's a single area of whitespace that is larger than the inter-word spacing. If you especially cared a
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by jbri 13y ago
There is indeed a massive advantage of a mouse over a keyboard-based interface - it's far, far more discoverable for novice or occasional users. In fact, I'd venture to say the mouse (and the corresponding advent of discoverable
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by jbri 13y ago
I'll point out that any modern version of vim uses mice just fine. It also uses the system clipboard just fine. The reason most vim users stick with the keyboard is because using a short key combination to select and manipulate text is
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by jbri 13y ago
To me, it sounds like he's made the classic "vim newbie" mistake of thinking of insert mode as the default, and then switching to normal mode to do anything other than edit text. It's easy to see how that would cause a p
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by jbri 13y ago
Flexbox[1] addresses the issue you're talking about - of course, browser support is still a little lacking (No support for IE9 or below, and IE10 doesn't conform to the current spec). [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org&
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by jbri 13y ago
I'm confused. At some points you talk about "The" JVM as if there is only one, yet in other places you suggest there are multiple ones that offer different tradeoffs. When someone says "The JVM does that", are they
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by jbri 13y ago
Well, it's not 128k random bytes, a large chunk of that is compiled executable code. That weights things very much towards sequences of opcodes that achieve something when executed.

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