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Is there really a need? Most serial protocols can really be considered 'open'. For low bandwidth there is RS232/UART/JTAG. Then there is I²C/SPI for networked. I²C ranges from 100k…

You can put the other people in the VR experience too. Google at IO/2016 showed some experiment with schools using cardboard where they raytraced where each student in a classroom …

> They can allow users to achieve the same goals by distributing the device un-flashed There is the possibility of the device being intercepted before it reaches you. Or before you…

Just spent half an hour trying to figure out why 256 color mode stopped working in Vim. I'm blaming you =P In all seriousness actually trying to get 256 colour mode auto detecting …

That is just how chip manufacturing works. In theory you make 1 model of chip. You manufacture them. You test them. What clock speeds are they stable at. Are any of the cores fault…

The buttons are on the fucking ceiling and your 'stylus' is a broom.

I'm not an expert but in the gamedev domain, control over memory is fairly vital. It seems like it would be for lots of the other stuff C++ is used with too. In C++ I can allocate …

That might be fine for a carton of eggs or milk but most things now days have heaps of ingredients in them. The problem with this is you have to know enough to be able to make that…

> applications tend to "borrow" the OS's, and no OS I know of uses a design taken directly from NIST. Windows has support for it (although it's up to applications to choose to use …

It isn't going to be able to record without a battery...

Moore's law only states that the number of transistors doubles for a specific size of silicon every 1.5 years. When it does end, we will move onto other forms of computing, memrist…

I put mine facedown at night to stop the annoying blinking light. They are curved to prevent scratching.

Wouldn't rm as part of GNU binutils, be more likely written in Emacs?

Have a look at MusicBrainz Picard. They have a massive community database with audio fingerprinting. It's not %100 though so you do have to do a quick verification that it got the …

I could see it being potentially being much worse. Some could buy a phone for every tower, set them up to wait for a trigger call that when received will cause then block every cal…

Charging for encryption now days is horrible. We should be encouraging devs to put encryption everywhere. It should be the default. Personally I don't like it when projects mix mon…

I think a worse programming example is when inheritance is taught. It's always Car>Vehicle>Entity kind of structures, which actually sucks and in most cases composition should be d…

> If you don't trust the hardware, then you've already lost, no matter what algorithmic construction you are using. How are you going to trust your random number generator if 1 + 1…

Except if /dev/urandom is using a hardware based random number generator, then you have to trust that the hardware hasn't received some NSA alterations at some point during the des…

I think they land things like Dragon, they have a concept Red Dragon capsule design. But they would probably need to look at having some rockets on Mars, otherwise what happens if …

Which is exactly when websites want users confused. I remember Real Player had a bunch of 'opt-in' email options, they where in a scroll box. By default the visible ones where unti…

'Quantum communications' isn't a real thing outside of scifi (and generally the crappier kind). It's sometimes (inaccurately) used to describe quantum entanglement (or quantum encr…

Personally I prefer a humorless HN. A culture of humur on the internet devolves fairly quickly into 4chan themed cat pictures and nothing but funny pics.

It has been possible to produce dupes of keys for ages now the old fashioned way. 'Printable' keys is just adding novelty. More of a concern is bump keys and the fact that Lockwood…

I would hardly describe requiring people to spam as cool. More like fucking annoying. Also you have no idea what the content will be until you have propagated the spam, it could ju…