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byRichy_T
2016 @12:52AM
(#51451789)
Attached to: Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage
I've thought of something similar. I tend to buy cheap cables off ebay (and elsewhere) and I've had some bad ones (and a lot of good ones). Generally, it's been a risk I'm willing to take but it would be nice to know ahead of time the bad ones (and some work fine in one situation but not in others)
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byRichy_T
2016 @12:49AM
(#51451783)
Attached to: Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage
Have done this myself wiring up a USB port with the pins the wrong way around and smoking a USB drive. Fortunately, nothing of value was lost.
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byRichy_T
2015 @01:50PM
(#51051511)
Attached to: Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis
Just realized that that would probably require a second push of the button so not so user-friendly.
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byRichy_T
2015 @01:49PM
(#51051499)
Attached to: Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis
Correct. The way to do this would be to take the lowest 5 bits and if it's 20 or over, re-roll.
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:23AM
(#51050081)
Attached to: Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis
If it at all interests you, I'd recommend looking a little closer at QM at the academic level. It's almost 100% mathematics.
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:18AM
(#51050033)
Attached to: Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis
It looks like it is random. For controlled conditions, there's no room for any hidden variables that would affect it. Einstein famously said "God does not play dice" but it looks like he does.
Now, it's possible that some new physics could open up that might show differently but there's no reason to expect it will.
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byRichy_T
2015 @09:53AM
(#51026367)
Attached to: Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining
And as much relevance as your comparison of an act of voluntary association to one of compulsion. Which was the point.
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:47PM
(#51024711)
Attached to: Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act
Yep, moved to the Ingram building. Wish I'd have known. I went quite far out of my way to visit last time I was in the area.
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:44PM
(#51024695)
Attached to: Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act
Hmm. I may be mistaken. It may just have moved. I didn't see any signs for it though. Oh well...
78976459
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:40PM
(#51024689)
Attached to: Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act
It doesn't even have a physics department anymore. Sad to go back to where I spent so many years of my life and find it replaced by an architecture department. I think they abdicated their claim to have a say.
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byRichy_T
2015 @11:35PM
(#51024663)
Attached to: Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining
Or try opening a business in a gang run area then demand all the benefits of the gang's protection (i.e. not having your store burned to the ground) while paying none of the dues.
Voluntary association. It either is or it isn't.
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byRichy_T
015 @11:22AM
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Attached to: UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them
He's still in power.
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byRichy_T
015 @07:14PM
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Attached to: Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support
Definitely. I remember being excited going from a 486 to a Pentium and how much it sped up the X session (which was already snappy enough to work with). It seemed like zero lag user interaction was just around the corner. Instead, we joined Windows in its laggy unresponsiveness. This wasn't just PCs either, even an Atari ST could run a usable monochrome X server. Instead of thoughtful coding, it's frameworks all the way down now.
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byRichy_T
2015 @06:46PM
(#50690231)
Attached to: Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support
With latency, if you click, then the display updates then it processes the click, your click goes not where you want, but where the GUI is now. This I find happens more often than I'd like in web "apps". With tree based systems, sure the widget moved, but the assignment of the click to the window was latency free, so your click ends up correctly on the now-moved widged.
IOW tree based systems are superior. Many toolkits abandoned it for compatibility with non tree based systems. What we have now is actually fundementally worse in high latency environments.
Man, this explains a lot. Mainstream Linux GUIs have been going backwards for a long time. But at least we have, uh, well, we already had most of it back then, come to think of it.
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byRichy_T
2015 @05:58PM
(#50418019)
Attached to: Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality
Woot, Slackware.
I upgraded from 10.something to 14.1 a while back and I'm loving the changes.
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