DanBC2
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This is a temporary (read only) account.
I use it if I set noprocast to a weirdly high number.
(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DanBC)
I welcome email - corrections, updates, information, requests to slow down, etc.
dan.bealecocks@googlemail.com
I'd love to see an enormous version of this harmonic motion demonstration. (http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyw...)
Here's a not very good example using hair and a car stereo (http://youtu.be/4s_lpBkdoNc)
Soylent is being sold as a complete food. We've seen a couple of mistakes during the testing process. The ingredients list is not easy to find, and the sources of those ingredients are not available, so we cannot check…
Yes, it has some grams of fibre. I'm not sure what form the fibre is in, or how much. It's on their website somewhere.
So you don't know? Yet you're happy for them to sell it as safe for everyone, as providing optimal nutrition, as bring people to perfect health, as being tested, when we don't know if any of that is true? (And we know…
> Why does everyone seem to think that Soylent is "for every meal, everyday"? Because they're selling it as that. Perhaps Soylent could consider reading these threads and improving their website information?…
> It's not going to kill you, or mess up your health How do you know?
To disrupt the industry Soylent need to know what that industry is. So far I haven't seen any sign that they have any idea about what going on in that domain. There's a bunch of stuff about "Hey! What if food was a…
> assuming it's not missing any major dietary component It has some fibre, but it's missing solids. Who knows if that's important or not? They claim it has a long shelf life. I'm not sure what they're doing to…
> prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age. Ritalin is nearly 60 years old.
Well, no. Now we know what we don't know, rather than assuming we do know something. And when we specify one font over another we can say honestly "Because I like it" rather than dishonestly "Because science tells us…
He crashed significant parts of the Internet, causing considerable alarm amongst sysadmins. His father was working for NSA at the time. I seem to remember he went to his father and was persuaded to own up, but maybe I…
> That means that if someone steals your card or your smart-ring, you’d better report it stolen pretty quickly. Well, yes. But you'd hopefully have a master passphrase to open the "smart-ring" device, making theft…
This is briefly mentioned in Clifford Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (which is great read). It's a fascinating story. I also like his father's (or maybe it was his?) idea for a spellchecker - using statistical analysis.
Passwords are lousy. Really lousy. As you point out the problem isn't with the security of them (when properly applied) but because it's all just so klunky and annoying and different websites have different…
Plea bargains are weird when used as a weapon to intimidate someone. There's something vaguely similar with people (at least in the UK) wrongly convicted and sent to prison. To qualify for early release they have to…
The ultimate story is of the Anandtech forums, where someone invented a woman, sockpuppeted her on the forums, romanced her on the forums, got married, had a child (or she already had one?) and then killed them both off…
Gnome overlays the root window, so anything you write to it is not displayed. Thus, they broke existing functionality. (http://galahad.armoredpenguin.com/rootwindow/)
You're getting a pretty hostile response! People are free to spend their money on whatever they want. I'd prefer them to spend money on meditation than on, for example, telephone psychics or homeopathy. Motivation is a…
Have you seen the Maximite? (http://geoffg.net/maximite.html) > The Colour Maximite is a small and versatile single chip computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory and eight…
There's a difference between "knowing" something and then experiencing it. Knowing that rent and taxes are high is one thing, but balancing the books really brings it home.
>The most crushing aspect I saved for last though. Taxes here are significantly higher than I’ve experienced anywhere. This means you’re squeezed both on your take home pay and your expenses. ...and some weirdness…
It's an optional filter. People can ask to have it turned off. It's a voluntary filter that the companies chose to implement before government forced filtering on them. It's baffling to me to see this described as…
Deep Blue was one computer against one human. The comment you're replying to is suggesting teams with two members: Computer A and Human A VS Computer B and Human B. Thanks for the link to the Blondie24 book!
I don't know if it's a law, but it's done differently to the normal filters. The Internet Watch Foundation provides a list of sites that are involved in images of child sexual abuse. While they're an industry group,…