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This paper produces a good result: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2007/ph210/otey2/ . If you game is OK sounding synthetic, I've had good results simulating a string plucked off…

I wish comparisons like this would include unicode coverage. I have code that uses the symbols, arrows, etc. to avoid needing image assets. Or some non-English text that need accen…

The Cypress PSoC might be of interest. It's a combination FPGA and microcontroller, the low-end demo boards with USB programming get as low as ~$10. Though most of what you can do …

You can theory-craft a non-malicious justification: Insurance trusts Dr. Hibbert will perform the procedure without complications and has negotiated a fixed price of $1K. Insurance…

I usually filter by "Retailer: Walmart.com" for any common and/or name-brand item (and price/shipping is usually better than 3rd part sellers anyway). You still have to take your c…

My experience with HW HSMs has been that the FIPS process is so expensive that companies are only willing to put out a new FIPS-certified version once year. Also the certification …

Is there a product between Erector sets and 80/20 extruded aluminum? I.e. generic components for building structure that are easy to disassemble and modify during prototyping and s…

We typically assume that loans are taken for some immediate use (rather than just having cash on hand). Thus you get the following scenario: Bank loans $money to person A. Person A…

If you attempted to sell those treasury bonds now on the secondary, you would have to accept the same $99 the shares of VFITX are worth. The immediate, liquid value is the same eit…

Isn't that the logical approach to teaching it though? Start with the base case, analyze how it functions, then start looking it how it changes when you remove an assumption. Simil…

If I'm reading the post right, it's stricter than that: > ...distrusting certificates whose validity period (the difference of notBefore to notAfter) exceeds the specified maximum.…

I can't speak specifically to SHA-1/2, but typically the criteria for the standards takes into account lower-end hardware that must be able to execute the algorithms with limited m…

At the last place I worked, we were looking for an entry-level developer and routinely turned down computer science graduates. They knew their theory, big-o, algorithm names, and s…

That's not necessary malicious on the part of the power company. At a previous job, we built a system for a company that prepared batteries through multiple charge/discharge phases…

This strikes me as a far more important consideration than the loss of revenue or potential harm being discussed in the other topics. Blacking out Google's front page will reach 38…