nickolai

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by nickolai 13y ago
a daisy-cutter. they're 30k a pop.
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by nickolai 14y ago
The Tropico series also do this pretty neatly (especially 3 and 4) - you can follow your 'tropicans' from their family home to the job, to the market for food, doctor, church etc. A policeman would follow your orders and run after someone y
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by nickolai 14y ago
>The title only suggests something unique about Go to those who didn't read the article. The thing is, many people use the title to determine whether the article is worth reading . As is, the title suggests that there is something uniq
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by nickolai 14y ago
>It feels odd to me that people can be so sure that games have no influence yet images of thin women in magazines has such a strong influence. There is clearly an invitation to mimic the presented behaviour in both cases, however whethe
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by nickolai 14y ago
To be fair, In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.
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by nickolai 14y ago
>> With the grasshopper technology the cost of a flight to orbit basically is the cost of rocket fuel... >Even my car costs significantly more than just the fuel. yes, but the cost of using your car for a drive from home to wor
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by nickolai 14y ago
The thing is, having a comment in a tricky bit of code, and knowing that the comment may be confusing because some jackass (maybe myself six months ago ?) changed the code but missed the comment is IMHO still better than having no informati
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by nickolai 14y ago
>Comments are for the weak, Care to elaborate on this ? Commenting code is bad ? Or did I miss the irony ?
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by nickolai 14y ago
>Or do they have to channel the power into heaters each evening? AFAIK, No. The battery generates 2kw of heat in addition to the electricity, so I dont think the rover even has any heaters.
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by nickolai 14y ago
What time of the day do you usually have each activity? Morning Afternoon Night Disperse throughout the day [...] Lunch [...] Um... is that a trick question, or is there a part of the world where lunchtime doesn'
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by nickolai 14y ago
> Something like a 2 year protection would give companies significant advantage, yet still allow smaller players to use the stuff in time. Don't they take something like 2-3 years to only review the application and grant the patent at t
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by nickolai 14y ago
> In other words, they did the exact opposite of what the SOPA experience told them they should do. No, from a strategic point of view, they did exactly what the SOPA experience told them they should do. Which is that if a generous cont
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by nickolai 14y ago
> Why wOuld I feel the need to inspect a book before buying it? To make sure the pages will not start falling out before you're done reading it ? I had that happen to me several times with cheap paperbacks litterally falling apart befor
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by nickolai 14y ago
To be fair I dont think this one needs a tldr...
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by nickolai 14y ago
>being as unreliable as human memory, That's actually considered to be a feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
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by nickolai 14y ago
I was under the impression that this used a similar principle to the one that keeps hard drive heads in place. So some reasonable amount of vibration should not be an issue. On the other hand, assuming a reliability similiar to hard drives,
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Why Security Could Be Apple’s Greatest Threat(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by nickolai 14y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 14y ago
>This is just a way to create a slightly more complex password, if it's stored as a fast hash (like md5) then it's still going to be very easy to crack. It's not about storage, it is about how to get people to use different passwords. A
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by nickolai 14y ago
They may consider torturing you first. "Oh come on, my grandma/dog/goldfish would write better code!!!" This would be a totally acceptable jab among guys, yet saying this to a female coworker would immediately be misinterpreted as "woman ar
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by nickolai 15y ago
> What does a student learn from this? They're learning the tool, not the process of solving the problem. They will learn the process if the tool is only used behind the scenes to validate their answer
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by nickolai 15y ago
I agree that matching the variety of possible assignements by some generic method is very difficult, though in my humble opinion, we already have a lot of the tools required. There is a ton of improvements to do(lots and lots of usability),
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by nickolai 15y ago
I've done so too. It seems that they will not be able to get around the Gnome3 crap in their ubuntu-based edition. They're trying to get out of the mess with their Cinnamon project. I'll see how it goes, but i'm afraid I'll have to ditch gn
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New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues(h-online.com)
85 points by nickolai 15y ago|16 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
This is really cool, but im not sure - how is it supposed to be used in games? Reality cant possibly be a better playground than specifically tailored VR. I always saw AR as a convenient way to provide additional data on surroundings. Point
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by nickolai 15y ago
>However, if my other half comes home and starts having a phone conversation–at a significantly lower volume in another room–the muffled voice really distracts me. I find hearing a muffled conversation is actually worse than hearing a p
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by nickolai 15y ago
Great read. The linked article[1] on the Dunbar number is also very interesting, in case anyone missed it. [1]www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/03/the_dunbar_numb.html
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BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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'Social Glasses' May Reveal a Person's True Colors(innovationnewsdaily.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
I think we need some sort of captcha system that keeps not only spammers, but also the kind of people he refers to out. The one Quantum Random Bit Generator had set up comes to mind[1]. [1] http://random.irb.hr/signup.php . seems to be do
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by nickolai 15y ago
I used to use a lot of zsh at work, and one thing that drove me nuts was overzealous wildcard expansion. >scp server2:~/folder/* . zsh: no matches found: server2:~/folder/* nothing in current work dir matches 'server2:~/folder/ *

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