oxalo

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by oxalo 10y ago
Has anyone done any research on how much 'energy' is stored in wind currents? How many wind turbines can we erect before we affect the climate by disrupting air currents?
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by oxalo 11y ago
I haven't seen this approach before, and I like the idea of it. Dunno if it fits for all goals though. Would it be effective if you just measured total hours?
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by oxalo 11y ago
Has anyone figured out how to deal with the issue of latency for space-based internet? Things like online games and video calls will just not work if the traffic hits space. I could see an ISP offering a service where traffic that needs lo
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by oxalo 11y ago
For retro gaming, also look at the OpenPandora and its soon-to-be successor Pyra. https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pandora/
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by oxalo 11y ago
Says it comes with a 128 GB SD card with the current blockchain. How long until a copy of the full blockchain is > 128 GB?
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by oxalo 11y ago
I wonder if there's any data on accidents/ traffic violations between the two companies. Tips are supposed to be for better service, and with driving the only way to provide better service is to be faster. My hypothesis would be t
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by oxalo 11y ago
Your comment made me stop and think about all the times I've seen someone complain about 'coding' on a whiteboard during interviews. Did those people learn 'computer science' entirely in front of a computer, and so
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by oxalo 11y ago
Beware the Local Maxima: http://www.iafrikan.com/2014/07/07/beware-the-local-maxima-p...
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by oxalo 11y ago
What's the possibility someone brute forced his private key?
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by oxalo 11y ago
Related: http://swimbots.com/ Similar evolution simulator with more complex 'physical' phenotypes.
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by oxalo 11y ago
Reminded me of a Peter Thiel quote reference in [0]: 'We wanted flying cars and instead we got 140 characters.' Flying cars were a means to an end; we got a similar end, we just found a different means. [0]: https://med
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by oxalo 11y ago
Reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by oxalo 11y ago
I'd be interested to see the opposite of this... a list of high-profile projects that were under budget. Or at least minimally over budget.
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by oxalo 11y ago
Microservices: here be dragons.
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by oxalo 11y ago
I've been following this project for five or six years now. Fascinating stuff that EvilDragon has been doing, and his determination and perseverance is admirable. (CircuitCo, who makes BeagleBoards, screwed ED/Craig out of 200k eu
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PCI DSS v3.1: SSL and early TLS no longer considered strong crypto [pdf](pcisecuritystandards.org)
20 points by oxalo 11y ago|8 comments
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by oxalo 11y ago
I'd like to see the data on this, or a variation. First variation is with the candidates ability to solve the problem. Like you said, Microsoft and Google seem to have determined there's no correlation between that and job perform
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by oxalo 11y ago
But do you want your new employee to choke as soon as they see a new problem? To me, being able to solve the problem doesn't reveal anything; however, how they handle the problem can. I think its about context and what information you&
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by oxalo 11y ago
96k. Think about that for a sec. Most big name games for PC are ~10GB these days... 100,000x as big as .kkrieger.
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by oxalo 12y ago
Hopefully the article doesn't fall prey to exactly what it discusses.
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by oxalo 12y ago
Personally I don't want to give away my cell number as a piece of identifying information.
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by oxalo 12y ago
Read through the article and found myself nodding in agreement with a lot of the points. Read the first comment. The commentor mentions adding 512MB of RAM to his.. wait WHAT? 512MB? Oh the comment is from 11 years ago... the post was writt
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by oxalo 12y ago
Security is hard. I think the more important thing here is that Paypal fixed it quickly and honored the bug bounty. I'd be more worried if they tried to shove it under the rug.
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by oxalo 12y ago
Develop a game, either desktop or mobile Develop an app for the Android Wear watch I have Spend time on electronic music production Fix my M3 The list goes on and on.
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by oxalo 12y ago
Can someone tl;dw this for me?
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by oxalo 12y ago
Most salient point, IMO: "Don't waste time. Don't waste it." I have plenty of time to do the things I want to do, but most of the time I just don't have the motivation to get started and just do it. It's easier
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by oxalo 12y ago
Why are up speeds so abysmal? Is it a problem with infrastructure, or is it throttling because they think most uses for upload is illegal?
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by oxalo 12y ago
I think this is a very good idea. Anecdotally, I've had many people complain about having to do things they 'didn't learn in school.' But with any good idea, it's about execution. How do you build your user base, et
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by oxalo 12y ago
Yeah the phrase '...the US government's legal right to control encryption' disturbs me.
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by oxalo 12y ago
I've censored things I've wanted to say, but usually out of wanting to be a decent human being rather than any particular fear of the US government. On the flipside, there are things I have said that make me wonder if they'd

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