A few days ago, I blogged about the effort of Austin Sendek of UC Davis to get the SI people to recognize “Hella” as the nomenclature for 10^24 power. It would seem that some of the nerds over at Google agree!
If you want to find out what 1 hellameter is click here.
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Sweet.
Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much further than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal.
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The experiments [...]
I think this is pretty fucking cool! In fact, I think it’s HELLAcool!!
I have no idea what the fuck that this “The Official Petition to Establish “Hella-” as the SI Prefix for 10^27” will do or what impact they can possibly have but click the fucking link and show your support.
As science becomes increasing [...]
The geniuses, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell of Sysinternals (formerly Winternals before bought by Microsoft in 2006) have release a new utility for their suite of fucking awesome utilties.
If you are a sysadmin, then you know about them already. If not, suck it.
Process Explorer and BGinfo are standard on all of my machine images [...]
TL;DR: Kid gets a weeks worth of detention for having a jolly rancher from another student. School loses all common sense. Should be horse whipped.
ORCHARD, Texas – A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher.
School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The [...]
A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer.
A proof-of-principle test run of a discrete Fourier transform — a common calculation using spectral analysis and data compression, among other things — [...]
I don’t know if you have tried to parse an URL yet for some sort of application. You might think it’s a relatively trivial excersize in string parsing. However…take a look at this:
<scheme>://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<path>;<parameters>?<query>#<fragment>
Here is a tutorial on the structure of an URL and all the characters and parameters that go into constructing one.
As [...]
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