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by ptrincr 6y ago
This isn't strictly true. The protocol ensures that there is on average a block produced every 10 minutes. As hash rates increase, and blocks are found slightly faster, the difficulty is adjusted upwards to ensure that the 1 block per
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by ptrincr 6y ago
> This is really beginning to concern me. I think we’ve created a fake plastic economy built on face plastic house prices. By stoking the bubble, the purchase and renovation of housing keeps pushing money through the economy. This has
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by ptrincr 6y ago
I use one for driving a ILI9341 TFT display. It uses a 433mhz receiver and picks up temperatures from a couple of commercial temperature sensors, uses pygame to display them to the screen, plus a few bits of other info. Pretty basic, but it
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by ptrincr 6y ago
> It should be noted that although it was terribly designed the Commodore 1541 disk drive was by far the most common peripheral sold with the machine. It was fairly uncommon for C64 owners to load off of tape unlike other 8 bit systems I
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by ptrincr 6y ago
I've not read Diaspora, but I have read Schild's Ladder. I found it difficult to follow in parts ( the science explanations ) but some of the themes it touches on are absolutely fascinating. Fans of hard science fiction novels wil
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by ptrincr 6y ago
I first heard of openstep from this brilliant post yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091588 ... and here it pops up again.
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by ptrincr 6y ago
There is an interesting answer here with regards to how the Pauli Exclusion principle is related to magnetism. https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/246439 As I understand it, with my limited knowledge, deeper down it in
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by ptrincr 6y ago
Indeed this does look very useful. I had a quick glance over this, but for contexts which are defined as remote ssh hosts, I couldn't see where the images are obtained. Are they being built remotely on the host, or are they being downl
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by ptrincr 6y ago
Apologies for the way this was linked to. The 6% is from this study: https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2020-04-24-sample-testing... "Our data from this week and last tell a very similar story. In both weeks, 6% o
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by ptrincr 6y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted: https://www.oxfordbiosystems.com/COVID-19-Rapid-test "In order to test the detection sensitivity and specificity of the COVID-19 IgG-IgM combined antibody test, blood samples were
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by ptrincr 6y ago
Not sure why, but this gave me asmr tingles....
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by ptrincr 7y ago
I was thinking the same, but more so with Frontier: Elite II :-)
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by ptrincr 7y ago
You are able to disable GC with: GOGC=off As someone mentions below. More details here: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/
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by ptrincr 7y ago
From a service point of view, you should be able to provide isolation between services using namespaces, istio and Calico. You can read about "Soft multi-tenancy" here: https://istio.io/blog/2018/soft-mul
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by ptrincr 8y ago
I'd like to know this too. The NIST page links to this site, which suggests no exploit is known of as yet: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107063/exploit
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by ptrincr 8y ago
Looks like this is the fix: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9060cb719e61b685ec0...
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Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by ptrincr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 8y ago
I assume we'll get some clearer images as more data comes in. I believe it is going to take until autumn of 2020 before we receive all of it.
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Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' Shape of Distant Ultima Thule Revealed(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by ptrincr 8y ago|2 comments
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by ptrincr 8y ago
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has tried it how well it integrates into their storage, load balancers, dns and firewall offerings. Prior to this, it was possible to manually setup a cluster with kops or kubicorn and configur
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by ptrincr 8y ago
The North African Christian church even had it's own schism, Donatism, between the 4th and 6th centuries, centered in Carthage. Donatism had its roots in the long-established Christian community of the Roman Africa province h
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by ptrincr 8y ago
I've had sleep paralysis but never had the feeling of the presence. I just know I'm stuck. As if some kind of force has frozen my whole body. The first few occasions it is extremely scary, I think after that you know what is happe
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by ptrincr 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Can I ask how you found your sleep paralysis encounters? (for want of a better word). Personally I've found them deeply disturbing. Throughout my life I have experienced moments of sleep paralysis at
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Diary of Merer(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ptrincr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 8y ago
Yep, completely agree. I've been using the do not disturb feature for a while now (2 years?), gets switched on an hour before I usually go to bed. As you mention, only calls, SMS and whatsapp is enabled for notifications, everything el
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by ptrincr 8y ago
I really love outlook as an email client, at least on Windows. On a mac it still needs some work. It's getting better as more features are added. Must admit though, searching is always a bit of a pain, sometimes I can't seem to fi
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by ptrincr 8y ago
Adam Curtis has made quite a few documentaries that are really worth watching. A few that spring to mind are: The Trap All watched over by machines of loving grace (Essential viewing for hackernews readers, I think this is his best wo
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by ptrincr 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, powerful stuff. Reminded me of the film "Waking Life" a little.
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by ptrincr 8y ago
"But an empathy box," he said, stammering in his excitement, "is the most personal possession you have! It's an extension of your body; it's the way you touch other humans, it's the way you stop being alone.&q
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by ptrincr 8y ago
From around the same period and close by in Northern Italy is the Voynich manuscript. Written in an unknown writing system which has yet to be deciphered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

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