kirian
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Comment · 5 years ago
it won't have door handles.
Comment · 6 years ago
that's what Calico is for ;)
Comment · 9 years ago
I find this ironic this offering - "Bitcoin payments have been disabled for the Humble Book Bundle"
Comment · 9 years ago
When I heard about this previously I wondered if it's a way of developing tunnel boring technology and expertise that would ultimately be useful on Mars. Underground tunnels and spaces are likely to be useful for a Mars colony and Musk is trying to figure out a way to get someone to fund it here first.
Comment · 10 years ago
"No diaspora of English nobility, many of whom left rather than become subject to Normans" - do you have any other links or more information about this comment, i.e. which nobles and where did they go? I'm curious to find out more as was not aware of this aspect. Thanks
Comment · 10 years ago
This the the acronym Seagate uses for solid state hybrid drives - http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/
I don't think Backblaze uses any of these so likely they've just pulled a stock photo of a hard drive from somewhere.
Comment · 10 years ago
A recent article in the Washington Post (Wonkblog) making the case for "Why daylight saving time isn’t as terrible as people think". US centric. The argument uses the data of number of days with "reasonable" sunrise and sunset times based on latitude/longitude when using DST or not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/11/why-d...
Comment · 10 years ago
The Seagate drives do seem to be improving in reliability though. The higher capacity Seagate drives which I presume are newer models have better failure rate numbers than the lower capacity drives. The 4 and 6TB drives seem to have reasonable failure rates compared to the other manufactures - only HGST is better than Seagate for the 4TB and Seagate 6TB drive has a lower failure rate than the HGST 8TB. FOr >4TB drives the Seagate 6TB has the lowest failure rate.
6TB 1.89% 4TB 2.19/2.99% (depending on model) 3TB 5.1/28.34% (depending on model) 2TB 10.1% 1.5TB 10.16%/23.86% (depending on model)
Comment · 10 years ago
It's talking about Market Cap.
Comment · 11 years ago
Pinky and the Brain reference.
"Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mPrhwpZ-8
Pinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan to take over the world which ultimately ends in failure
Comment · 11 years ago
How about a Tardigrade - not exactly a complex lifeform but a few steps up from a bacterium. I wonder if these creatures could survive this type of event?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
"Tardigrades can survive in extreme environments. For example, they can withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 10 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce."
Comment · 12 years ago
The article suggests there was a worldwide climate shift:
"The scientists noted that, at about the same time that Hunshandake dried out, a major climatic shift was occurring worldwide that caused extraordinary droughts on all of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. "
Comment · 12 years ago
Reminds me of this article on the price of Rolex watches and how they have increased as Rolex watches have evolved from a professional tool to a luxury item.
http://www.ablogtowatch.com/rolex-prices-past-60-years-revea...
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes, $5,700 seems a bargain to uncover a flaw like this. Shows an interesting potential use of bitcoin, can act as a warning system to identify bugs or insecure systems, like a honeypot. If the bitcoins are taken you know there is a weakness somewhere.