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by thelucky41 4y ago
If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
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by thelucky41 5y ago
Consumer electronics are becoming more durable. Where once I might have replaced a cell phone every year and my home router every two, I now have had the same phone for four years and my router for six. Second hand sellers and repair shops
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by thelucky41 5y ago
> The last major reason the F-35 has seen so much criticism is that it was the first jet developed in the social media age. The paradigm shift, cost, and early problems, coupled with concurrency, led to an explosion of negative social me
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by thelucky41 5y ago
Peer-to-peer routing is challenging because you aren't sure where to send your data to reach your peer, even if you know their cryptographic public key and address. It's hard because the network physically is splayed out in a big
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by thelucky41 10y ago
My Take is that they circumvented the existing protection against brute forcing. The iPhone does this by implementing a countdown timer that prevents trying more than a few passcodes before the time between tries becomes unreasonable. If yo
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by thelucky41 11y ago
Chrome and firefox both store saved passwords in plain-text in easily accessible local databases. Don't rely on them to keep passwords safe. I have no experience with IE's password locker.
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by thelucky41 11y ago
Let's not forget Dwarf Fortress, which has several mechanisms that are accidentally turing complete. My favorite is the logic gate using animal behavior. [1] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Computing
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by thelucky41 11y ago
The benefit of this comparison is not that the languages have nearly identical performance, but that OCaml can be briefer while accomplishing the same task, with 47% less lines of code. Saying nothing about comparing LOC in an imperative&#x
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by thelucky41 12y ago
Being able to compile assembly directly into a C program is a very useful tool for allowing optimizations across embedded assembly. One way around it is use of intrinsics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_function
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by thelucky41 12y ago
That link has some good references and conclusions based from data. There is a very likely chance that professional programmers can have an impact that is many times that of their colleagues. The original article is the author's anecdo
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by thelucky41 12y ago
I dream of one day becoming a test pilot. Especially in ships during their developmental stages, unaccounted for situations will come up, and a human capable of assessing and managing these situations are necessary. For each of the technolo
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by thelucky41 12y ago
Thanks! I'll suggest this to the FBO I fly out of as well.
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by thelucky41 12y ago
It's a feature, not a bug.
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by thelucky41 12y ago
In the past century, the average retirement age has been steadily decreasing up until very recently when it began going up again[1]. People spend more time in school earlier, but education usually leads to working later in life as well[2].
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by thelucky41 12y ago
I'm using this wonderful operating system for my own sideproject for LED juggling props. Aside from the strong hardware support and large community behind it, Thingsquare has recently released it's slides from their training class
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by thelucky41 12y ago
According to Thingsquare, Tado is using their firmware [1], Mist, based off of the open source Contiki [2]. This is pretty cool, as it enables a ton of features like over the air firmware updates or running your own applications. I'm e
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by thelucky41 13y ago
This programming problem was what actually got me interested in compilers in the first place. When I was 16 and learning how to program in Java, there was an online competition for high schoolers, and this was one of the introductory progra
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by thelucky41 13y ago
I've run into something similiar on a different benchmark where inserting some 'nops' to the preamble for a function actually sped it up as much as 14% because it made the function align better with a memory boundary so the C
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by thelucky41 13y ago
Within 10 seconds of loading it up, I had already glitched into a wall and trapped myself in a box. Yep, that's nostalgia.
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by thelucky41 13y ago
>even older Russian and Chinese jets that can fly faster and farther and maneuver better Dogfighting is obsolete as homing missiles fly faster, farther, and are more maneuverable than the plane carrying them. Air superiority belongs to t
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by thelucky41 13y ago
"Hardware doesn’t need to become smarter, it just needs to be able to sync with our phones which can do the heavy lifting." General purpose computers are quite good at what they do, however, there are a large number of tasks that you want d
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by thelucky41 13y ago
Playing Starcraft is an excellent analogy to playing the piano while also playing chess. I won't speak for designers and Photoshop, but for general computer usage, both strategic thinking and expressive hand-eye coordination are particularl
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by thelucky41 14y ago
The article's title, "Freescale’s Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body" is entirely misleading. Has the IoT term really been watered down this much from its technical definition? The chip in question lacks
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by thelucky41 14y ago
I played to 37 wins with a friend to decide who buys the drinks tonight. By the end, he couldn't choose rock or scissors, and I couldn't choose lizard, and sometimes he would pick two things at a time. We decided that these are intended dep
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by thelucky41 14y ago
The main difference between AP tests and college courses is not the material that is covered (roughly comparable), but rather the format in which the knowledge of the material is evaluated. Like most standardized tests, the AP tests are inc
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by thelucky41 14y ago
Though a rarely brought up fact when discussing self-driving vehicles, planes have been on the right track for the last few decades with autopilot. The automotive industry should take some lessons learned from the government regulatory stru
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by thelucky41 14y ago
Was doing great until I ran across the Startup's lunch choice: Sushi Burrito. If that isn't a thing already, it needs to be.
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by thelucky41 14y ago
I am a pilot (not an airline pilot). It is absolutely mandatory for the pilot-in-command to have complete discretion when dealing with passengers on their aircraft. While I may have let this man board my own plane, this pilot-in-command use
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by thelucky41 14y ago
http://imgur.com/w9AaA I think I win this round....
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by thelucky41 14y ago
The first thing I'm doing with this is making it play minecraft.

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