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Just hosted. cmr's github page says he works for Mozilla.

Isn't the BLE112 already certified? Or does integrating it into a product require you to get the entire product certified?

systemd is first that pops to mind. They're at 212, I think. Though given they seem to skip any point versions, that may be seen as "cheating".

The difference is that upstream for upstart is open to BSD/Hurd/etc. ports, whereas upstream for systemd is pretty strongly opposed to them and it does not seem they would assist in the effort.

Some could have been stolen from a compromised server.

Can you go into more detail? I often wonder what issues people have with GIMP's UI.

As a programmer I find the concept of simply automatically updating libfoo 2.1.x to libfoo 2.1.y because "the developers say it does not break compatibility" scary. Software is written by people, developers accidentally break compatibility all the time, or write software which depends on buggy behavior, behavior which later gets fixed by other developers, thus breaking said software. Thus all common Linux package managers are themselves broken by design. They are only acceptable if you accept that occasionally some things will just stop working after a system update.

Sounds like you'd be interested in NixOS.

I experienced this myself recently. The Netflix metro app decided that something was wrong with the DRM path on my two-day old install of Windows 8.1. After much googling, I ended up having to re-install the OS. It was a very similar experience to when something breaks on a Linux install, except that I had less ability to go digging into the internals (not that that would be helpful for someone who doesn't know a lot about computers).

I think the primary difference with Linux is that developers are fairly content mucking about with things, so breakage that would be a showstopper for someone who is not intimately familiar with computers goes somewhat unnoticed. It's hard to step back and say "what would I do if I didn't know about <x,y,z>?" in daily life.

The developer of SpaceChem also created The Bureau of Steam Engineering http://www.zachtronics.com/bse/bse.htm and The Codex of Alchemical Engineering http://www.zachtronics.com/alchemy/alchemy.htm which are both free.

Incidentally, I didn't realize that he was the creator of Infiniminer. For those unfamiliar with the game, it is what inspired Notch to create Minecraft.

What's the opposition to MSG? I was under the impression that it was fine, though that there was a possibility that some people have adverse reactions to it — but if you're not one of those people, it's nothing to be concerned about.

Hosted e-mail pricing is broken. "/yr" should change to "/<length of time>" when you change from yearly to monthly/biannual.

Unfortunately while the CPUs themselves are quite reasonable, motherboards tend to be far more expensive and less available. I wonder how much of a markup Intel has on the server chipsets vs. desktop ones; it'd be interesting to know whether Intel or motherboard manufacturers are making bank on the boards.

Were it not for the current shortage of 280X cards due to Litecoin mining, one could build a similar Hackintosh for quite a low price. Though you'd be stuck with 3GiB of memory per card rather than 6GiB (at least until MSI releases their 6GiB 280X, which they have listed on their site).

The D700 doesn't have ECC? I'm surprised by that one. That seems like one of the defining features of workstation cards.

He specified "beginners", where I think a GUI makes sense. I know I found it somewhat helpful.

Something I've heard about is integrating Guile into Emacs. Will Guile become the primary language for Emacs with Emacs Lisp as an option, or will Emacs Lisp remain the "default" choice, with Guile for those who want it? And does anyone know what sort of timeline we're looking at before Guile support is released?

Last I checked, drivers for nVidia at least don't yet support cheap scaling for it.

Are you sure that's correct? I was under the impression that virtually all GPUs have hardware scalers that wouldn't harm performance.

My mistake, I didn't see the video on mobile.

Why not link to videos of the game? After reading the copy, I still have a very incomplete idea of what the game is like.

Microsoft hasn't acquired Nokia yet, AIUI.

Google has a pretty large news presence, and a history of both remarking on notable anniversaries via doodles, and posting relevant news in small text on its home page. It's much more in line with Google's history.

Here's an archive link, as that thread will presumably 404 pretty quickly: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38432928

100W is done via 5A @ 20V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_Power_Delivery_specifi...

I wonder if that image is in public domain. Might be nice to add to the page.

A shaft passer refers to a wheel that can rotate even if a shaft is held between spokes; the image in the wiki page shows one.

The device used in mines is somewhat similar in that it seems to allow solid objects to pass through each other, but it is not a shaft passer as it is not a wheel with "penetrable" spokes.

Yes, the third compile is effectively a single very large test.

Possibly an eccentric orbit.

How would video compression work in that case?

Apparently the video decoding and other client-side stuff is done purely in JavaScript (and in particular using WebGL), no <video> tag or plugins or anything like that. I presume that all the server-side stuff is still native code.

I'd still like to see a demo page with their JavaScript decoder.

using a mechanism known to be insecure

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you're referring to.