karcass | 9 years ago | on: Venezuela’s currency is dying
Just like, say, Norway. Oh wait, Norway has the highest standard of living in the world.
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karcass | 9 years ago | on: Tech Jobs, Cheaper Housing: The New Silicon Cities
I've looked for tech jobs in Eugene and found virtually nothing. The only tech workers I know there have remote-work jobs in bay area companies.
karcass | 9 years ago | on: Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities
Rice or UH?
karcass | 9 years ago | on: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
Many credit cards have cash-back or other rewards. It's easy to see the dual appeal of the reward, plus a month's worth of float on the payment.
karcass | 9 years ago | on: Demon in the Freezer
There's no way to eliminate smallpox completely now that it has been sequenced, unless you can also get rid of the digital copies as well. It's getting easier and easier to print DNA and RNA. We might not be able to print a full virus yet but it's only a matter of time.
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
she is running in a chroot
karcass | 10 years ago | on: An integer formula for Fibonacci numbers
Hmm, I think there's an edge-condition bug. Starting with fib(0), its values are (0,1,2,3,5,8...) instead of (1,1,2,3,5,8...).
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Life at Low Reynolds Number (1976) [pdf]
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Dr. Memory: A Memory Checker Faster Than Valgrind
+1 for the Firesign Theater reference. Anybody else catch that?
karcass | 10 years ago | on: T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’
He's the Trump of Telecom
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Magic Leap raises $827M in Series C
I didn't see in the article -- what was the post-money val?
karcass | 10 years ago | on: The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era
Donnie Darko is, what six or seven of these?
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
*flair
karcass | 10 years ago | on: ES6 in Depth: Classes
Or more tersely:
myMethod = arg => this.value + arg;karcass | 10 years ago | on: Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002)
"I wonder which will become self-aware first -- Wolfram Alpha, or Stephen Wolfram."
karcass | 10 years ago | on: SpaceX’s Pad Abort Test
And 7 g's on re-entry ...
karcass | 10 years ago | on: Sixth DNA base discovered?
Methylation and other base modifications (there are 20+ last I checked) are taught in upper-level biology courses. I guess the people who write biology texts consider this advanced material.
karcass | 11 years ago | on: The plane that can fly backwards
I used to have a Piper Colt parked at San Carlos (CA) that had a 50kt stall. Occasionally I'd go out to the ocean on a windy day, catch the 60-70kt winds over the ocean cliffs, and fly backwards. :) It was a fun way to freak out passengers.
karcass | 11 years ago | on: China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
> the entire reality they see and what they believe to be true is heavily distorted--in that, it is defined by the vision of the oligarchy and information is carefully controlled to produce a desired set of beliefs.
That's pretty much how I feel about the Fox-watching population of the US.
karcass | 11 years ago | on: Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
It's exciting to see that fusion has gone from being perpetually 20 years away to being perpetually 10 years away. ;-)