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epitomix

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About epitomix

Information enthusiast... Ok fine, Addict.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #15413057

    What's with the "force protection" with assault weapons? What exactly are they protecting from?

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    Comment #15128227

    I think that this statistic only makes sense if it is specific to the location. Otherwise, it is useless for planning purposes. If it is specific to the location then the birthday …

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    Comment #12745526

    Useless for removing CO2 from the atmosphere if we burn the ethanol. There are better methods of CO2 sequestration. That tidbit seems to have been thrown in there because climate c…

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    Comment #12745422

    I find that I am actually more productive with constant stream of minor distractions. Although I do find real work distractions to be more effective, e.g. background conversation, …

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    Comment #12727180

    I think you are missing the bigger picture. This is a story of a town dealing with the problems that arise in a failed state. The Mexican state and federal governments have failed …

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    Comment #9802686

    Maybe, but my wording is not his argument. Here is a blog version of the same idea. https://edge.org/response-detail/25450

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    Comment #9802436

    "Maybe this is really just a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about motion of particles or information transfer in the universe." Check out this TED talk on just that subje…

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    Comment #4856823

    Nice work, thanks. I can see now how the cloud will be important with these small devices. I wonder how OUYA (and similar devices) is going to manage data and what the lifetime of …

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    Comment #4856597

    Kingston lists the write cycles as 3000-5000, this would shorten your calculations by at least 20x. http://media.kingston.com/pdfs/FlashMemGuide.pdf Also, see this thread: http://w…

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    Comment #4854624

    I figured as much, thanks for the input. It would be wise then for the OP to make sure that noatime (turns off date accessed) is set in fstab for the filesystem, you don't want to …

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    Comment #4854583

    I'm working on a project where I have a rails site running on a beaglebone, it is populating its database with data coming from a usb device (~200 byte/s continuous). I am finding …