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TheGorramBatman··on Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
False. If you check Intel ARK, you can see, for example, the i7-2860QM has a max RAM of 32 GB (and this is a processor from 2011). Heck, the i7-8809G supports 64 GB.
TheGorramBatman··on Game Theory: Open Access textbook
It's a pretty intro level book, but a great one.

I'd say its suitable for maybe junior level undergraduates.

TheGorramBatman··on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
This sounds like an ad.
TheGorramBatman··on What happened when I opened a restaurant in Portland
Relevant article on pricing: http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/03/menu-pricing-vegan-vegeta...
TheGorramBatman··on Casper went to war with popular mattress review site, then financed its takeover
Was this Leesa to replace the Casper? If so, that's a tiny amount of time for it to last.
TheGorramBatman··on Casper went to war with popular mattress review site, then financed its takeover
I'm in the market for a new mattress, and Purple has great advertising. But as far as I've seen in reviews, it hasn't lived up to the hype. That being said... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/69yukn/purple_mat...
TheGorramBatman··on Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine
Elsevier is from the Netherlands, not the USA.
TheGorramBatman··on Who Owns England?
Have the same on Mac OS 10.12.5 with Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)
TheGorramBatman··on My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
https://danluu.com/why-ecc/ is a decent read.
TheGorramBatman··on JPEG Huffman Coding Tutorial
JPEG2000 used Arithmetic coding. But, you'd have to re-write the standard and evaluate it to get JPEG to use Arithmetic coding (e.g. does the way JPEG coefficients are read out still make sense with Arithmetic coding)? There are also other algorithms for universal source coding that exist -- theres nothing to say that arithmetic coding is a good choice, esp. given its relatively complex compared to say Asymmetric Numeral Systems (Duda; arXiv:1311.2540 [cs.IT], though I don't remember where it was published) or (Recursive) Interleaved Entropy Coding (Klimesh and Kiely; NASA/JPL IPN Progress Report 42-146).

Arithmetic coding is just the one everyone knows since its taught in information theory 101 (e.g. Cover and Thomas).

TheGorramBatman··on First Map-Based Car Navigation System Debuted 14 Years Before GPS
This is way older than GPS -- similar systems were out in the 20s and 30s: http://99percentinvisible.org/article/analog-gps-scrolling-w...
TheGorramBatman··on AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
MathJax integrated asciimath long time ago: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/asciimath.html
TheGorramBatman··on Unlearning descriptive statistics
Who the hell would consider Tukey a fringe statistician?
TheGorramBatman··on Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
There is some level of trust when you read books like this (or really any technical book); for that reason I'd probably pass on it for something by an authority in the field (or their recommendations).
TheGorramBatman··on Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX
Checkoway et al. wrote a paper "Don’t take LaTeX files from strangers" in Usenix ;login: a few years ago; People forget that LaTeX isn't just a text file -- it is basically a programming language for typesetting.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/73506-che...

TheGorramBatman··on “Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design
Memberberries...
TheGorramBatman··on Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off
Relevant: https://www.usenix.org/node/184422 "iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED"
TheGorramBatman··on Realistic alternatives to Apple computers
I'm not convinced by his "need" to have Thunderbolt 3.
TheGorramBatman··on “Removal of powerpc as a release architecture”
Its not linux, but NetBSD still has its macppc port. And Gentoo.
TheGorramBatman··on Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
Shoulda called it "Deep Dicks" or something.
TheGorramBatman··on Pardon Snowden
I'm kinda suspicious of this site -- none of the ACLU, HRW , Amnesty International links work at the bottom. And none of those organizations use whoisguard.
TheGorramBatman··on Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
You don't need chanserv and you don't need nickserv. Efnet isn't dead -- it's just coughing up blood. (yes, it has ChanFix).
TheGorramBatman··on Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda
They have Coca Cola Life. Stevia + Sugar. Not particularly great though.
TheGorramBatman··on U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
Needs some error checking. John Hine didn't go to Rice, he went to Luther Rice which is a seminary in Georgia.
TheGorramBatman··on Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again
There are several textbook writers who have made significant profits from their books. James Stewart of Stewart's calculus fame, for example: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/02/04/the_house_that_ma...