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It's naturally confusing, because a 4th spatial dimension isn't something we naturally experience. We can't really say what it represents because it's not real... it's not a model of reality.

We see in 2 dimensions and we infer the third from various cues. (The quote that we are "dimly aware of a fourth", which you may have heard, refers to time and is a different issue than a fourth spatial dimension.)

We have three dimensions, all orthogonal to each other. We can translate, rotate, and project things in between them.

So all we can do is apply those same principles and see what comes out - we shouldn't expect it to match anything recognizeable though.

It's just to launch the editor from the command-line.

IT's nothing new - sublime text 2 (at least on OS X) had the "subl" command so you could launch an edit session from the cli.. I assumed the rest had the same.

It's certainly not a new feature or anything to celebrate.

What you just described is pretty much universally handled by editor integration.... I can't imagine anyone actually develops lisp without this.

The editor is hooked directly up to a running image.. a keypress (or two) causes an expression to be executed in the running image... you can flip to the REPL and goof around directly and/or at the same time work from one or more editor buffers and selectively execute code as you desire. You can bust into the debugger whenever you feel like it, etc etc.

Someone else described it better above I think - but this image-based interaction is one of the most attractive things for many - it goes well beyond just having a REPL where you can evaluate code... lisp was basically designed around the idea of interactive development.

If you think this through to a large, complex project - you can have a giant running application, working in production, and still attach to it with an editor/environment and debug it live... that's hard to do with anything else.

It's not odd... it's traditional touch-typing. It should be your ring-finger for ( and your pinky for ).

Many people seem to type it the way you have just suggested (middle/ring) - myself included. I'm currently re-training myself to do that properly.. it feels weird at first, but I'm starting to get the feeling it will actually be faster.

Your touch typing can always be better, right?

I seem to recall an article from some years back about someone using welding goggles with multiple layers of a specific blue filter on a very bright day and being able to see near-IR.. or something darn close to it.

To your second point - I wondered about it to - as logically I think like you do here.

Interestingly, though, when I read this the first time, I thought that last comma was there. It was only when I checked again that I realized it was not.

The pause is very natural and normal - but the comma seems unimportant for practical purposes.

Bitcoin doesn't let me withdraw US $ from one US bank account and deposit it in another US bank account in bulk.

Bitcoin lets me transfer bitcoin around - which is fantastic and wonderful - but it doesn't address the problem at hand.

I have no doubt this is true of many organisations.

As the client, though - we uploaded via SFTP, the connections were IP restricted and the files were PGP encrypted.

I know that doesn't address what happens after we send the bank the file - but that's not our concern, right?

Not FTP - Secure FTP - SFTP.

When I was involved with this it was SFTP for the transfer, to a write-only folder (you couldn't list contents) and the file uploaded had to be PGP encrypted with a key the bank gave us and we verified over the phone before starting the process.

Even if it had been email, or plain FTP, the file was encrypted and only the bank had the key... even we couldn't decrypt it, due to the nature of Public Key encryption.

Plain old FTP is not considered secure by any means, and is largely disappearing - SFTP is standard now.

The concern isn't that they are producing nuclear fuel. It's that the plutonium needed for nuclear weapons is a by-product of those reactors. Plutonium isn't naturally occurring on earth - the only place to get it is from a reactor - either yours, or buy it from someone else who has one.

Yup. The test partial test ban treaty was signed in 1963 by all the nuclear powers at the time - everything after then, US or otherwise, has been underground, with the exception of, I believe, India, who was not a nuclear power when the treaty was drawn up - india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century.

This was done specifically because they realized they would collectively make the planet uninhabitable if they continued.

More likely it's just the issuer doing what they need to do... it doens't matter that nobody will use it again anyway; from an issuer point of view, the certificate should no longer be valid. time to revoke it.

Well.... not really.

Parimutuel betting, not sure - but there is always a house fee - that's how the house makes money.

A traditional bookie would have at least 5 to 10 % built into his odds as well (like if you were betting on even odds, liek a coin toss, it would be bet $110 to win $100 for either side (so the bookie has a 5% hold if he can keep the betting balanced, no matter who wins)

etc etc.

I wasn't aware there was any grey-area for domestic bookies... just because it's not sports doesn't mean it's not bookmaking.

Online poker is grey-area because the poker outfit itself is generally outside the scope of US law. If it were more legal, you can be sure their servers would be hosted domestically in the US where it's cheaper and faster.

Your local bookie, however, is in the same scope as a guy running a local card room -he's taking a cut off of people's gambling habit. Whether it's sports or not, it's still going to be bookmaking, and still trouble. Extra trouble if it's over state lines.

I'm pretty sure I recall hearing the NSA never lets anything leave their facilities intact when decomissioning or otherwise disposing. I've heard a story of brand new very expensive servers (big Sun machines I think) sitting in a loading dock, still on pallettes, having the project cancelled and having them destroyed unused rather than risk data leaving the building.

The partition part is about how tolerant your system is to a partition situation. Having massively reliable communications between systems will reduce your MTBF, but it doesn't address how your system will actually handle a partition. You do need to account for it one way or the other. If you get a partition, you can't keep operating with consistency across the whole system.

Now when you look at patient data .. sure, eventually consistent might be just fine.. but that's not consistency as referred to in CAP. So while it's perfectly acceptable to your app, it's not about making CAP invalid.

Isn't there some kind of inverse square law affecting the force between the walls and capsule? The closer you get to contact, the harder it pushes back?

It should be largely self-correcting.

AS13949.com would likely be a reference to AS13949, owned by markmonitor

I don't know what that has to do with google.. but it makes some sense.

Possibly they came along with one of the numerous google acquisitions? It's not uncommon for companies to own a pile of relatively random domains registered by early staff. It's generally seen as easier to just leave them be than sort out what has value and what doesn't.. and given google's size, 8000 odd domains is nothing.

I use it as well. It does seem to have slowed in terms of new features.. but it's the absolutely no-hassle, reliable, functional service that I just love. It's cheap, it does what it does properly, you don't get spammed or tricked into anything whatsoever, and if you do happen to have a billing issue or something, their support has always come through over email with no problems at all for me. They have their act together.

Out of the gate, Emacs feels clumsy and frustrating compared to ST or any other more standard text editor.

Where emacs shines is when you start to micro-analyze your text editing process and learn how to optimize it with emacs.

Until you get to that stage, though, which isn't always the beginning for many - emacs probably isn't for you.

It's not going to make you edit text faster just because you use it - you have to actively study and look at new ways of editing. Watch an emacs master at work, it will blow your mind.

While there was of course great variety... the most common would have been an email mailing list.

Maintainers of a piece of software would run some kind of VC repository usually, although not usually a distributed one like GIT - they were networked. Some people had commit access. You'd keep a changelog, just like today, and the group would tag and release, just like today.

What Git/Github brings to the table is really the combination of a distributed version-control system that gained large traction (GIT) and a system to leverage that to make common collaboration tasks easier (fork, pull request, tracking meta-data, etc).

Call it beta or whatnot... but Google was very up-front that this was the initial release of the product, and that they wanted to select a limited size team to get them out in the world, to people who would give them perspective. He wrote that he'd use it and blog/journal about it and whatnot.

If he wanted an end product that was polished, he mislead google and misled himself.

Can't we consider a fighter pilot's HUD augmented reality? That's not exactly new.

Was that fact noted by google pre-purchase? Because if it was..... again, google did nothing wrong.

The real question is were it's capabilities misrepresented - did they sell you something that didn't do what they told you it would do?

Because if not.. and if it was only your personal assumptions that were off despite google being clear about what it was you were buying.... that's your problem, not theirs.

From the consumer point of view, sure, sounds great.

Why would the vendor be at all obliged to let them return the unit in the first place though? Outside of misrepresentation and fraud and things that are not fit for the purposes sold, sellers in general have no obligation at all to take a return. You see retail stores always taking returns, but that's a business decision to stay competitive... they are under no obligation to do so.

If the terms of sale stipulates that you can return it for a refund, or if it was somehow completely misrepresented and then a fraudulent sale by default..... sure.

So if you bought a console dev kit, and it worked as described for the purposes sold (which aren't necessarily the purpose you bought it for) - the vendor is under no obligation to refund you.

Evidence introduced at trial, yes. Investigative materials and whatnot used to put the case together, things not directly used as evidence... perhaps not.

Sure.. but you can't hijack it, redirect it to another location, then crash it into a populated area.

You could perhaps... stop it?

And if you really want to cause havoc messing with trains, you go for cargo trains filled with hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic chemicals.

The pressure peaks in a sound wave don't really equate to a pressurized tunnel.. just a localized pressure gradient moving at the speed of sound.