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Re:Ask HN: How can I stop forgetting “things”? on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:16AM (#10831069)
too much stress and/or reefers will reduce your cognition
Re:Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:31AM (#10830901)
thanks!
Re:Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:17AM (#10830847)
Cool project!

But i'm confused. On http://openage.sft.mx/ they say this is a reimplementation in C++14, but seems to be actually implemented in Python [1] ?

1: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/tree/master/openage

Re:Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:19AM (#10830140)
The name originates from this bread;

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zopf_%28Brot%29

Re:Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:51AM (#10626541)
I think you misunderstood me. I am saying the electromagnetic force can be fit the bill where we currently are trying to squeeze in "dark matter". Please be aware that we have not discovered dark matter, we don't know what its made of, its properties, or really, if it even exists.

But i get it. Thinking outside of the box is frowned upon around here. Lets all be fanboys, and fuck yea downvote me some more.

Re:Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:09AM (#10626396)
All this "dark matter might be here and there" articles makes me feel they are missing the point.

The article even fails to mention electromagnetism, which together with gravity causes matter to collapse on itself, causing black holes, which is the gravitational core of every galaxy.

Electromaginetic fields has also been dictating the galaxy cluster structures (aka "mega structures" that has emerged since the hypothesed event we commonly refer to as the big bang).

http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-work...

http://www.setterfield.org/Astronomy/Galaxy_Cores.html#elect...

Re:Test-Driven Development is Stupid on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @08:49AM (#10620643)
just a sorry rant about how OP tried and failed TDD, and then he points to some project from 2004 that to me seems to be missing code ownership (ppl afraid of changing code they dont fully understand), but to OP seems to be doing TDD wrong.

it's a waste of time to read, as it don't bring anything new to the table. i wish the OP would at least attempt to reflect on what TDD is, what it's not and why oh why, so many devs seems to like it.

Re:The Earth is not running out of oil and gas, BP says on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:35AM (#10614219)
what a load of bullshit.
Re:Chuck Forsberg has died – author of Zmodem on Thursday November 19, 2015 @05:36AM (#10593972)
or just use scp, which is part of openssh
Re:PageFair: Economist hacked on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:01AM (#10518618)
with dnsmasq

  address=/pagefair.com/127.0.0.1
  address=/pagefair.net/127.0.0.1
seriously, this only strengthens my argument for blocking all sorts of 3rd party crap
I suppose you mean the "Chrome Apps". they are just shortcuts to the web version of these tools, not the actual tools.
Re:ZX Spectrum Emulator Written in Small Basic on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:16PM (#10465279)
this is not an emulator, its an interpreter for the zx spectrum basic dialect...
Re:Things to Avoid When Writing CSS on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:40AM (#10451298)
the author seems to be missing what HTTP/2 brings to the table [1]

#1: https://http2.github.io/faq/#why-revise-http

Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:36AM (#10386500)
Thanks for your explanation. It seems my ability to communicate is getting worse every year :-/.

What I meant to say was that I helped my wife during her master thesis (~6 months) with R, in addition to spending an hour in one of the classes.

Her teachers also were novices of both R and Excel, and we had several issues with everything from how R processes csv:s, to just figuring out the proper syntax to have R do what we wanted.

Sorry if my comment wasnt helpful, i was merely attempting to add some reflections from personal experience to the discussion.

Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:07AM (#10386364)
i tried help my wife who use R in school, only to get quickly lost. also attended ~1 hour R course on university.

to me, R was a waste of time and I really dont understand why its so popular in academia. if you already have some programming knowledge, go with Python + Scipy instead

EDIT: R is even more useless without r studio, http://www.rstudio.com/. and NO, dont go build a website in R!

Re:Apple: Magic Accessories on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:51AM (#10380425)
... And I never understood why they didnt make a wired version without the numeric mess :)
Re:Apple: Magic Accessories on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:49AM (#10380411)
i recognize this.

i've been using only the apple trackpad for about 3 years now, and the "sensation" you describe was persistent for the first several weeks / months. the interaction by using the tip of your fingers is a bit wierd at first, but now i could never go back.

trackpad is very superior to a mouse, at least for non-gaming stuff, like coding & browsing the webs

Re:Apple: Magic Accessories on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:42AM (#10380374)
apple released a usb to lightning converter, which was enough to make European Union happy iirc.

www.apple.com/shop/product/MD820AM/A/lightning-to-micro-usb-adapter

Re:Nibbler 4 Bit CPU on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:14AM (#10380170)
to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]

1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology

Re:Computer Virus Infection: Is NSA Vulnerable? (1985) [pdf] on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:38AM (#10302551)
Gotta love how it is censored.

For example on page 8 of the pdf (page 54 on the footer)

"Considering the above mentioned specific vunerabilities, the steps toward preventing trojan horse implantation is as follows: CENSORED"

And a bit later on page 10 (56 in footer):

"This paper is essentially a call to arms for all computer system research and support groups to focus attention to this very real problem."

Trying to neutral (its NSA after all), i get the impression the authors of this paper did want to raise awareness of the coming armageddon.

Re:Mortality in People with ADHD [pdf] on Thursday September 24, 2015 @11:59AM (#10272349)
I started with the process of getting a diagnose less than a year ago, and am next month meeting up with doctor nr 4 and 5. It is a long and painful process.
Re:Goto in Python on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:24AM (#10251196)
You can resolve this in basically every language by reworking your code in smaller pieces, and simply returning from a loop. Jumping left and right should only be signalling that you are Doing It Wrong (tm)
Re:When Treasure Hunting is the Family Business on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:11AM (#10232325)
friends of me run another father-son treasure hunting business over at http://www.oceanexplorer.se/
Re:Wine Staging on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:07AM (#10226225)
brew install wine --devel

or

brew install wine --HEAD

Very cool project! But I agree with the comments about the name is unfortunate
Then this might be worth checking out, video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM

story: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-you...

Not sure how you could _not_ find small gps units nowadays. Have a look here, for example: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/17

Re:DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge on Saturday August 15, 2015 @08:18AM (#10065189)
thanks!
Re:DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:57AM (#10065039)
using "LASTORYBCDEFGHIJKMNPQUVWXZ" as alphabet yields "xkaajeskmkddnkhavkqkgtbcctnfbcklferettksnkorkfchomhbsm."
Re:DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge on Saturday August 15, 2015 @05:12AM (#10064803)
I'm confused by the "WFST HDXE HGY BNK BAWH QJG PSOR WNFATG IDDW OQUHVNKINGCY GQG CTUK." vigenere cipher.

if decoded with "LASTORY", i get "lfaatmzthofnwmqaeocsieswyiwhptoppmydqcohwmxnojkpsvcbbw."

how did they come up with "WELL DONE GET THE BLUE KEY PASS PHRASE FROM OPPENHEIMERS BIG BANG."

http://www.cs.du.edu/~snarayan/crypt/vigenere.html

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