Delk

35 ms·

361.
by Delk 5y ago
> Sending probes is dangerous. You never know who is going to capture it and figure out where it was sent from. I'm not sure capture would necessarily be all that likely. Assuming a flyby and not a crash, capturing a probe would req
362.
by Delk 5y ago
> The interesting and difficult thing to process here is whether this is a provocation without turning it into 'whatabboutism' I don't know what you mean with whataboutism in this context, but traditionally non-allied Euro
363.
by Delk 5y ago
Notepad++ is GPL-licensed.
364.
by Delk 5y ago
A theoretical computer science analog to the physics crackpots might be semi-knowledgeable people who purport to prove P vs. NP one way or the other or solve some other open mathematical question or disprove a known existing result. Quantum
365.
by Delk 5y ago
To be fair, it might not be about the desire to belittle or to derive status. I can understand the frustration of those who are educated in a demanding field that also happens to attract people proposing uneducated and usually unsound theor
366.
by Delk 5y ago
Sometimes people ask because they're curious. Sometimes when people ask that, the question really seems to be "I think people should use my favourite tech by default, so I expect you to explain why you've diverted from the Ch
367.
by Delk 5y ago
Almost everyone's sympathies are with Ukraine now, and Russia under its current regime is rightly being sanctioned by measures that are intended to hurt. Sanctions that aren't felt are meaningless. When it comes to open source l
368.
by Delk 5y ago
I just keep my KeePass database synced in $generic_cloud_storage. Since the database is encrypted and decrypted on the client side using a password and a key file, and I'm not keeping the key file synced (I copy it manually to my devic
369.
by Delk 5y ago
There's no way Russia pissing Finland off to any conceivable degree would risk war or military retaliation from present-day Finland. None. The same goes for any other Nordic (and Baltic) countries. The current Russian regime likes to d
370.
by Delk 5y ago
For those who don't care to watch the video or find the actual report: it seems that the greatest loss of points for Apple came from actively opposing right to repair legislation and from supporting trade groups that oppose it. That&#x
371.
by Delk 5y ago
I've seen someone close to me have some kind of a cathartic process and get a lot better. It also required finally facing (at least some of) their emotional blocks or trauma, so it's not like venting alone did much of anything. Bu
372.
by Delk 5y ago
I agree, and that's among the reasons it seems shortsighted.
373.
by Delk 5y ago
EU countries generally aren't authoritarian regimes, and it's easier to argue that it wouldn't be as likely to be abused in the EU. The countries also have legislation and other controls to curb abuses of powers granted to th
374.
by Delk 5y ago
I'd kind of like to approach this the way I was taught to approach university programming projects years ago: shortcomings are fine if you document them, as long as you've written something that at least mostly works. Especially i
375.
by Delk 5y ago
> I guess "we" have decided that driving, and self-driving, is worth a number of deaths. Yes, although it has been that way all along, and not just with self-driving cars. Driving is implicitly seen as either an inevitability o
376.
by Delk 5y ago
Back when I was in the approximate equivalent of junior high school, one of the classic experiments done in chemistry was making ammonium chloride, which is used as flavouring in sweets [1] here. It was tasted. As the teachers were responsi
377.
by Delk 5y ago
Statistics can be just as obviously irrelevant to an individual as an anecdote to a big picture. A correlation between caffeine consumption and productivity or work well-being means nothing in case of an individual. Studies can't tell
378.
by Delk 5y ago
It's not quite right to portray it entirely as "ideological purity bullshit". Mozilla's trademark policy forbade using their trademarks with custom builds that weren't Mozilla binaries, or at least with ones that mi
379.
by Delk 5y ago
> Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop? For my personal laptop, my headset, USB flash drives and my external backup hard drives all use USB-A. So does the receiver for my old wireless mouse, alth
380.
by Delk 5y ago
Or "tame teams".
381.
by Delk 5y ago
> They offer nothing I cannot get elsewhere and thus I have no reason to switch. I'm not going to tell anybody else what their reasons are or should be, but for me voting against the browser monoculture was a reason to switch. Mos
382.
by Delk 5y ago
My memory isn't the best but I'm under the impression that not-quite-standard or otherwise crappy solutions were fairly common in major brand desktop PCs of that era. I'm not defending those solutions, and I don't know i
383.
by Delk 5y ago
That's pretty much what I'd know about it, too. IIRC its supposed purpose was to fix distortion on CRT displays caused by, uhm, probably something magnetically related. Exactly the level of "knowing" where I'd feel
384.
by Delk 5y ago
I don't know if this would affect the observed/reported differences between sexes, but there are also different levels of knowing. I would have known that neodymium is some kind of a substance, but I wouldn't have known or re
385.
by Delk 5y ago
When I start wondering why my laptop fan keeps spinning or why the battery keeps being drained even though I'm not doing anything resource-intensive on the foreground, the culprit usually turns out to be a web browser, or a web page th
386.
by Delk 5y ago
I didn't read the article thoroughly, and parts of it I only skimmed, but I kind of get the feeling that, for some of the issues he addresses, the author's great conviction might be a bit stronger than his actual arguments or info
387.
by Delk 5y ago
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
388.
by Delk 5y ago
I can't remember how buffers in DOS work, but that page seems to indicate that for input purposes they're used as some kind of a read-ahead buffer. That doesn't sound quite the same as keeping recently or commonly accessed da
389.
by Delk 5y ago
Fluency also requires learning the basic grammatical rules of the language by heart well enough that one can apply them without consciously thinking about them most of the time. Being able to communicate in a few everyday situations proba
390.
by Delk 5y ago
> subtitles are needed because people want to have the original audio + text I'm a non-native English speaker, and I like watching English-language content with closed captioning in the original language. There's often a lot lo

More ›