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Higher dimensional geometry can show up in lower dimensional problems. This numberphile video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yU9eJ0NxA ) involves a puzzle about throwing darts…

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Taking the difference between normal complexity and asymptotic complexity to the extreme you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm which do have the best asymptotic…

This seems to be similar to the usage of WAAS in the US ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System ), just on a smaller geographic scale. One of the bigger source…

personally I find "short reply OK" to be preferably. It comes across as less harsh, it tells the other party that you are ok with removing the random fluff if they want to. VSRE is…

I've had similar experiences with AVRs, they are quite robust and will handle shorts, reversed polarities and the like rather well. They seem to be rather conservative on the datas…

I second the recommendation, I've been using lean's service for a rather long time (I've go boards from back before he worked out the right purple color) and I've always been happy…

This is not entirely true, in an ideal world a CMOS device just sitting there not switching would use basically no power, but in actual application there is some leakage (both form…

I completely agree with the sentiment about high college costs, the state school I went to cost ~44k for all four years, add in various scholarships (some of which I got as I'm pre…

This is true, the flexibility you get form being able to reconfigure things does result in less efficiency (speed, size, power) than some dedicated hardware. An FPGA can be more ef…

The microcontroller being used can be setup to appear as a standard USB mouse/keyboard, so this should work with anything that supports a USB keyboard and mouse.

"It was very surreal. Just a small csv file emailed to the investigator." from Nate down in the comments section

The thing that drives me crazy with the new design is the separate scrolling areas, when I use the mouse wheel or hit the up/down arrow keys I want the entire thing to scroll, not …

I've seen the idea of a distributed DNS system mentioned a few times but I still don't see how it would work out. What happens in the case of multiple people wanting the same domai…

The new gmail interface really feels like it's made for a touchscreen, problem is a touchscreen UI feels awkward on a system with a mouse. Question for all you web people out there…

I had an internship at a company that made lithium battery packs. The control boards on the packs have primary cell protection provided by a specialized micro controller that monit…

A friend of mine recently got a lenovo thinkpad and it had a BIOS flag to allow swapping of the Fn and control key, sadly the physical keys are different size so you can't swap the…

I think a "geek" and a "non geek" view privacy differently a geek is concerned with their privacy in regards to how a company uses their data, they want it stored in a secure way, …

Seems it was selling domains (that's what happens when skimming and not paying attention to URLs) but blogger was being used as a placeholder and directory type thing, so that prob…

Selling accounts like he was seems to be in violation of the blogger terms of use, relevant section: "7. No Resale of the Service. Unless expressly authorized in writing by Google,…