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Yeah, they have badly linked documentation from there. Most of their plans are on their wiki, ex: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube_v15.6 . The plans assume you ha…

This immediately reminded me of Yvon Chouinard quote from 180 Degrees South documentary: "Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on for…

It is because of the template class code. In C++, a template is not really a class or a function. https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/templates#templates-defn-vs-decl

Reminds me of a habit I have which made me end up on tops of mountains occasionally. I guess the algorithm can be called "observable ascent": 1. Look around 2. Find a relatively cl…

Here's Vapnik's story, I first forgot where it was from, then I remembered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... quote: Now, the history lesson, all this…

Its speed is most likely relative to Sun. Earth moves at about 30km/s relative to sun. So that's your minimal starting speed.

It is _the_ book on knots, although it does miss knots invented later in the 20th century, like the Zeppelin bend. I was amazed to learn that it was used as a reference book by mat…

Lovely. Armies A1 and A2 destroying each other with confirmation messages.

And after the internet age, when the facts hit the people who were not even aware of it went "Oh shit, did our military really do this to those people?". If it wasn't for internet,…

Unfortunately they are not roughly equivalent. A solid shell or a ring around a star is not a Dyson sphere. The correct Dyson sphere is composed of many separate orbiting elements.…

On the contrary, if you consider that supernovae make our version of life possible, maybe life will happen someday at M82 because of this explosion. We are all supernova dust, afte…

Andrea: Unhappy the project that breeds no coders. Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the project that needs a coder.

I agree with you. I am calling them total bullshit on the scientific part. They could at least try to put the Alpha Cassiopeiae and and Beta Cassiopeiae in the same "general" direc…

A bit of clarification, I think the orbiters are in sight of Earth for most of the day. It is Curiosity that is not in sight of the Orbiters, again because of their low orbit.

According to wikipedia article, the power source is designed to create 125 watts of electrical power from 2000 watts of thermal power. (It might look inefficient, but they are usin…

Like most people here, I just don't like the fact that some people are trying to put digital walls around me. To buy my nexus 1 phone, I had to use a machine in US. I bought some o…

tarballed beta programs should really install themselves on /usr/local imho.

Thank you. There is attention to detail here. It actually amused me when I watched Andrew Ng's videos at 1.2 or 1.5 speed that his voice didn't become squeaky because it is frequen…

I think the problem might be a deeper problem. The writer of the article is asking generally about how a system's rules can be exploited to the point that the original intention of…

In the real good old days, many internetworking attempts failed because they tried to have a point of central control. Only the current internet protocol survived the evolution.

uname -a shows Linux (none) 2.6.20 #3 Sat May 14 19:08:30 CEST 2011 i586 GNU/Linux

The first study I know of is the 1996 book "The Road to Excellence" http://www.amazon.com/Road-Excellence-Acquisition-Performanc... . I got it after I read Peter Norvig's essay on …

I discovered last year that this is still a field where good honest money can be made since everyone is bitching about the fact that there is not a good solution. I just wanted to …