shameless_1

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by shameless_1 13y ago
Scaling to a 128 bit system is pretty hard on the layout level. On current designs, something like 95% of the surface is metal interconnects. Where there's metal you're limited in freedom to place transistors. So with 128-bit syst
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by shameless_1 13y ago
The Peter Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
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by shameless_1 13y ago
Not meant to counter your argument, but at least one compiler out there (GCC) is - in my experience - very good at finding optimizations for x86 but fails most of the time for ARM unless you provide very clear and very strict hints in your
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by shameless_1 13y ago
1st Ave Machine used to have that feature, their site was (and is) rather heavy. They changed the website look and feel, had to look up the release date of the video for which I first saw this UI pattern (Sixes last by Alias): 2005 Edit: si
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by shameless_1 13y ago
For those interested in more info on this, this type of capacitors is a supercapacitor (the name is used only once in the article in a caption). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
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by shameless_1 13y ago
>> Do you, or anyone, have a link to somewhere not simply explaining the technical side of pointers, but their usage in idealistic and primarily real world examples? I often use them for parsing json on the fly in an embedded environm
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by shameless_1 13y ago
"Life" is like "species": different schools/universities/professors hold different definitions. Example in this context: a (bio) virus. It has no metabolism, without a host cell it's completely static. The
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by shameless_1 13y ago
> ... and may still be here but undetectable to our current technologies. I recently saw a nature doc where they were raising Panda cubs. Because the species isn't doing that well and breeding in captivity is problematic they try to
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by shameless_1 13y ago
As an engineering project this is truly a resourceful and rather elegant solution to tune a Kahlman filter for positioning. But on the level of privacy ... big consequences. The BSSID allows tracking when someone moves to a different place.
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by shameless_1 13y ago
> Google has harvested the location, name and signal strength of many millions of wireless networks across the world Don't forget that that dataset of wireless locations is updated continuously through crowdsourcing.
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by shameless_1 13y ago
I honestly hope they raise the cash. Some of the comments point out that they might not have thought the whole thing through ("basically it appear to me that you would want us to buy hack a day, and offer it to the current redactors, w