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Some people have serious difficulty with some naturally occurring levels of heat. The CEO of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, has credited air conditioning with allowing his (tropical) country to develop economically; and in recent years, as I age, I find myself suffering increasing levels of impairment and ill-being from the Buenos Aires summer. But air conditioning has some disadvantages. It requires large, capital-intensive machinery; it consumes a lot of energy to cool large spaces, and a lot of power to cool spaces with a lot of surface area to a hot outdoors; and it isn’t portable to many places people would like to go.

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What I have most of are ideas, that and paranoia about evildoers imperiling their realization with patents, or using patents to force them to be realized in ways that strengthen the existing structures of oppression. So here are a few ideas, in case anyone else is interested.

• Programmable self-reproducing robots from inorganic raw materials, of course, are the absolute most important thing that anyone could be working on right now. This is the crucial missing piece that keeps us constrained to a political structure where the owners of

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user@debian ~/dumpulse $ make test
cc -fPIC -g -Os -Wall -Wpedantic -std=c89 -o dumpulse.o -c dumpulse.c
cc -shared dumpulse_so.o dumpulse.o -o dumpulse.so
py.test-3 test.py
===================================== test session starts =====================================
platform linux -- Python 3.5.2, pytest-2.8.7, py-1.4.31, pluggy-0.3.1
rootdir: /home/user/dumpulse, inifile: 
plugins: hypothesis-3.0.1
collected 1 items

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The World-Wide Web, for apps

-- Other candidates

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Content-addressable blob stores for persistent, self-certifying trees

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test 0046...[HTTP, get cookies and store in cookie jar]

 46: protocol FAILED:
--- log/check-expected	2015-08-11 20:26:26.601137712 +0000
+++ log/check-generated	2015-08-11 20:26:26.601137712 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GET /want/46 HTTP/1.1[CR][LF]
 Host: 127.0.0.1:8990[CR][LF]
 Accept: */*[CR][LF]
-Cookie: empty=; mooo2=indeed2; mooo=indeed[CR][LF]

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    private Flaunch(OrderManager om,
            List<Duration> taus,
            List<Duration> futureTimes,
            long samplingInterval) {
        this.om = om;
        this.samplingInterval = samplingInterval;
        for (Duration tau : taus) {
            filters.add(ExponentialFilter.create(tau));
        }
        forwardDeltas = new long[futureTimes.size()];

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patch-shebang: /gnu/store/p5k561811xx6ipqqiz5anz5qjqhfdaa4-gzip-1.6/bin/znew: changing `/gnu/store/nx4zd42igyb7ghmv4mxv6ncg8wr7ypa1-bash-4.3.33/gnu/store/nx4zd42igyb7ghmv4mxv6ncg8wr7ypa1-bash-4.3.33/bin/bash' to `/gnu/store/nx4zd42igyb7ghmv4mxv6ncg8wr7ypa1-bash-4.3.33/bin/bash'
phase `patch-shebangs' succeeded after 0 seconds
starting phase `strip'
stripping binaries in "/gnu/store/p5k561811xx6ipqqiz5anz5qjqhfdaa4-gzip-1.6/bin" with "strip" and flags ("--strip-debug")
phase `strip' succeeded after 0 seconds
starting phase `validate-documentation-location'
phase `validate-documentation-location' succeeded after 0 seconds
starting phase `compress-documentation'
compressing documentation in '/gnu/store/p5k561811xx6ipqqiz5anz5qjqhfdaa4-gzip-1.6/share/man' with "gzip" and flags ("--best" "--no-name")
compressing documentation in '/gnu/store/p5k561811xx6ipqqiz5anz5qjqhfdaa4-gzip-1.6/share/info' with "gzip" and flags ("--best" "--no-name")

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: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; cat modtree.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys

def main((_, modname,)):
    showed = set()
    for depth, name, filename in mod_tree(__import__(modname)):
        print ' ' * 4 * depth, name, filename if name not in showed else ''
        showed.add(name)

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: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; ./guess
I’ve chosen a number from 0 to 100.  Try to guess it.
: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; ./guess 50
Your guess is too big!
: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; ./guess 25
Your guess is too small!
: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; ./guess 37
Your guess is too big!
: user@debian:~/devel/dev3; ./guess 31

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// This is an attempt to paper over the keycode differences between
// Gecko and WebKit (e.g. Iceweasel or Firefox and Chrome or
// Chromium), somewhat following the model of Mousetrap:
// <https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap>.
// The mapping tables herein are far from comprehensive, implementing
// more or less only what I need for this calculator.
function decodeKeyEvent(event) {
  return decodeKeyEventProperties(event.key, event.keyCode, event.shiftKey);
}