jurjenh

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by jurjenh 2mo ago
You are obviously with them in the wrong room.... Once you know them for who/what they are, and you learn to be comfortable enough with not following them closely, or not knowing what the hip thing is right now, then you can learn to l
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by jurjenh 7y ago
I'm not entirely convinced this is the argument. From what I've read so far, it seems that ESA was uncomfortable with the possibility of a collision to a degree that SpaceX could possibly be quite comfortable with - ESA wants >
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by jurjenh 8y ago
Could be "improved" #define SIX 1+8 #define NINE 5+1
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by jurjenh 8y ago
That made me wonder about what would happen if google started grouping concepts (eg words for grandmother in other languages will almost certainly give you differing results) rather than words... Possibly (probably) the cognitive load on pe
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by jurjenh 9y ago
It always comes in slightly to the side of the barge and as part of the landing burn it does a final sideways correction. I believe it was for this kind of situation - or one where the final burn doesn't even happen.
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by jurjenh 9y ago
Didn't google earth have exactly this in the early days? I can't remember exact details, but pretty sure it was an easter egg - ctrl + alt + a would launch it.
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by jurjenh 9y ago
Also reminds me of ethernet over barbed wire. Seems like similar things have been done for a long time... http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
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Traveling back in time could be possible(medium.com)
56 points by jurjenh 9y ago|51 comments
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by jurjenh 9y ago
"The non-powered vest offers protection and support against fatigue and injury by reducing the stress and strain" Would love to see how this works and maintains an adequate range of motion so as to not get in the way. Seems like
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by jurjenh 9y ago
Pretty sure Wernher von Braun isn't available any more though [x], in fact I think you're going to have a real hard time with many of the other principals. Principles though seem to be potentially an easier route. Either way, I&#x
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by jurjenh 10y ago
I believe that comment is more or less based on the shuttle landing and/or the soyuz capsules (eg parachutes) - but as far as I can tell, SpaceX is the only one currently capable (and using) propulsive landing on earth - so essentially
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by jurjenh 10y ago
Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement. You're still subject to much the same kind of media merry-go-round, and subjectively is probably not even that far away.
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by jurjenh 10y ago
I would say on the whole, yes - that is actually true. Now you only need one "smart" person to program up the machinery, whereas in the past you did need multiple skilled craftsmen in a variety of roles - not exactly apples vs app
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by jurjenh 10y ago
The way I've come to see it is "The less you know about a subject, the less you think you don't know." In other words, you have no solid grasp on the field and so cannot make an effective guess at your ability in the fie
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by jurjenh 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the implication is that the big corporates don't care a hoot about open source, the ethics or the model - they'll just take it, the cheaper the better. The principle and supposed ethic is to share and have som
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CSIRO sets world record in generating "supercritical" steam using solar power(gizmag.com)
2 points by jurjenh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jurjenh 12y ago
Is there a middle ground here somewhere? In that the kernel developers create some sort of DB specific hooks that allow some of the kernel bypass mechanisms to be implemented? What are the key things that a kernel bypass version does differ
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by jurjenh 12y ago
Genuine question - was he Ukranian when he went up there? I guess customs for space flight isn't such a concern, but that would be a weird thing to have go down while you're off the planet...
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by jurjenh 13y ago
How often do sysadmins actually make the call on what gets bought? For a purchasing dept, they'd probably stop at step 2, get the over-priced product and everyone's happy. The re-seller is obviously the under-performing part of yo
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by jurjenh 13y ago
There's a relationship management issue there somewhere - supporting one-off small volume sales has a definite cost at some point - someone needs to process and fill the order. Limiting sales to "big" customers means you can
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Easy to implement in an AI as well. Could try various permutations and see which works best fairly trivially then too, eg up down left right / up left down right / up left right down etc...
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by jurjenh 13y ago
I've been enjoying spotting the sunset. Can't actually see the sun setting where I live, but the sudden change in hue (blueish to reddish - I've set it quite red) is quite noticeable (pleasing to my eyes).
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Is there a noscript type extension that allows you to see the start of the script contents? Or the parts that would be triggered first? Seems like a sensible option might be to have some sort of button (address bar / extension button)
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by jurjenh 13y ago
I wonder if it is an instinctive reaction: a large new space has a lot of unknowns -> some of these unknowns could be dangerous -> a very large new space has a lot more unknowns -> very large spaces are to be feared. This is based
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Wow, that page led me to the fact that there is such a thing as centrifugal force... And all these years spent trying to correct people. Oh well, you live, you learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Just googling it (because I've heard it from several places) that the longer rising of bread does start to break down some of the gluten (hence making it easier to digest) Fermentation of proteins . Some bacteria of the genus Clostrid
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by jurjenh 13y ago
What about other options? Dead/underperforming pixels seem to be a good fingerprint as well I believe. Would be a whole different level of identification, but would lead to multiple ways to detect photos taken by the same camera.
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by jurjenh 13y ago
I don't think there's a limit, as its part of the natural growth pattern of bananas. Some other species have similar habits - I believe there's an entire forest that is one plant - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by jurjenh 13y ago
Yes - you caught me out there :) but what I had in mind was a small-scale greenhouse - the kind you have in your garden, not the commercial-scale kind. But this brings back the restricted scale that we'd end up with if mass-produced lo
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by jurjenh 13y ago
This is incorrect. You can't breed fertile bananas from the Cavendish, but if somebody kept records of how they got there (crossing which cultivar with what) we could do the same today starting with the original cultivars, which most l

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