User: snikulin

Re:Paris

On: A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet (gizmodo.com)

Indeed. Library of Congress is a well-established unit and should be enough for anyone.

How the car industry does it?

On: Massachusetts Senate Passes Resolution To Do In-Depth Study On Right-To-Repair (vice.com)

I honestly don't know. If I establish my own repair shop for Teslas, can I freely buy all the required HW and SW from Tesla Inc?

Thanks!

Re: ...security should have higher priority...

On: OpenBSD Disables Intel CPU Hyper-Threading Due To Security Concerns (bleepingcomputer.com)

Another proponent of the USA PATRIOT Act? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act)

m * g * h

On: Uber Shows Its Flying Car Prototype (cnbc.com)

mv^2/2 + mgh > mv^2/2

Re: Vim broken in OSX?

On: Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey (linuxjournal.com)

Thanks! This one fixed my problems!

Re:Vim broken in OSX?

On: Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey (linuxjournal.com)

"colorscheme ron" makes comments very light green.
That's about it.

Re:Vim broken in OSX?

On: Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey (linuxjournal.com)

in OSX "syntax on" produces different shades of green (in a homebrew bash session)

Vim broken in OSX?

On: Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey (linuxjournal.com)

How to enable color highlighting of source code in Vim OSX bash session?
Emacs works fine.
Hight Sierra 10.13.13

So, did he tip the bellboy after all?

On: Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million (theguardian.com)

Just curious :)

I wonder how the real Skynet will look

On: New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm (raspberrypi.org)

... if the real Terminator's arm looks so Hasbro.

Oook!

On: Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com)

The sound uttered by an Orangutan with soft leathery hands and kind eyes.

Firefly Ariel Ambulance

On: Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight (popsci.com)

Somehow the news reminded me about this one:
http://www.arielambulance.org/...

...and that wasn't easy

On: Windows 10 Now On 400 Million Active Devices, Says Microsoft (thurrott.com)

Win XP is still alive. I saw it just yesterday in an NPO I did community services for (I got 10 hours for shooting model rockets with my kids in a CA county park).

Some old GCC?

On: Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com)

Long long time ago (~2000?) I used GCC's bounds checking feature.
If I recall correctly, I had to compile my own GCC because it was the only way to enable it.

When Xcode will get it?

On: LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations

The current 6.4 "gcc -v":

Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0
Thread model: posix

Will wormholes work FTL in this flat universe?

On: Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat

If its surface is flat, what good a wormhole will do?

A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer?

On: Electron Microscopes Close To Imaging Individual Atoms

When can I order one?

The editor can't load arbitrary binary files

On: Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows

So for certain developers like me CodeWritght is still alive

"Vim is almost 4 times more popular than Emacs"

On: Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats

Stuff that matters!

Analog is actually digital

On: New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents

... but on a very micro scale

...slow down that speed

On: Scientists Slow the Speed of Light

Somehow it reminds me about US educational system.

Re:Cool, walk the walk!

On: Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots

Ordering to a butler does not require CAN

Re:It's got to be asked.

On: OpenSUSE 13.2 Released

Yes :(

Re:you can look up US case law on this

On: VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better

What's about Somalia law?

... modified version of Ubuntu

On: Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen

I assume they made all their sources available to Tesla owners, right?