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Yup, I can see it for computational experiments or "applied CS" fields. I realized this soon after I posted the comment, but I didn't bother to update my comment. However, this sti…

I like this idea, but I do not really understand who it is aimed at. The focus seems to be on reproducibility of scientific experiments and code, which is great! Many existing code…

Yes, they do. Microwave works on line-of-sight and weather patterns easily mess it up and drop the link. That's why you usually also run your microwave data over a fiber link as ba…

Another advantage of having the microphones (yes, there can be more than one!) near the ear itself is for DSP. Many hearing aids use multiple microphones to selectively amplify sou…

I too wear BTE's with glasses and most people are surprised when I tell them I wear hearing aids. They cannot see them. This is especially true of modern "Receiver In The Ear" (RIT…

A bigger issue with separating the microphone and amplifier is cosmetic: hearing aids sadly have a stigma attached to them and people are more likely to wear them if they are invis…

http://www.benheck.com/controllers/ Ben Heckendorn is known for very clever console modifications and has forayed into accessible controllers in recent years. He sells a custom mad…

This is exactly right. GNOME, KDE and other out-of-the-box solutions make sure to set the GTK and Qt themes so that everything looks pretty. When you use a WM (window manager) rath…

Thanks! Spacemonkey looks terrific and is pretty much what I envision! I often feel that with the move to "cloud computing" over the last decade, we have essentially made a dichoto…

This is a very interesting problem, espeicially since consumer computing devices quickly shunted to small storage space when SSD's arrived. A few years ago, a laptop with 500GB of …

Thing is, userspace networking is a lot like the GPU business. Often times, the software is free or even OSS, but the hardware is proprietary. I know Intel has software for their N…

I graduated in 2011 and my sequence used: Alice/Java => "101"-type class C/Perl/Shell => Intro to Systems C => rest of the systems branch Java => Data Structures Standard ML => fun…

My understanding is that XFS is now default because it has far better support than ext4 for large (hundreds of TB to PB) volumes. In addition, RedHat employs many core XFS members.…

That's true, and I completely forgot that you can do that. In fact, that's how I last deposited a check!

Schwab has been the only bank I have ever dealt with, and I have no intention of moving away. They are a professionally run outfit with focus on all the right things. As mentioned,…

Agree, this seems like a prototype of Subsonic. Note that I am not knocking this project. It is a great first effort and seems to fit in fit in with the rest of Cozy very well. Spe…

When you start the list traversal, you would have something like Node** link = list_head and as you traverse, you would do link = &(entry->next) Then, when you find the entry that …

True, but as you get used to seeing the vehicle cross from your center mirror to your side mirror, you get a sense of where it is. Your point of reference just changes from your ca…

I think this is because you are comparing the business laptop to the consumer edition. While I haven't actively shopped laptops for a few years, I have noticed that the business ed…

I believe double majors do not functionally require as much due to a greater chance of being able to double-count a class. Also, a double major typically means you get one diploma …

Agreed on DSL. I actually used Tiny Core at work recently, and was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use and customization. Although only power-users would seek to customize it, …

I felt the exact way when I read "The Andromeda Strain". For me, it was the exhaustive statistics and bibliography that sealed the deal. Still one of my favorite Crichton works.

Ah, that was an unfortunate ordering of sentences. I was just giving an explanation for my consumption rate, not a reason for why I wasn't affected. I should have proofread that. I…

Not necessarily. When I was in high school, I drank between 4 to 6 cups of coffee a day. It never affected me. The reason for this is twofold: It's just part of the culture in my f…