FandangoRanger

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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I firmly believe that the literature produced which shows self-driving cars are safe or even safer, and there is scads of it now, is mainly down to the program's ability to make sure a safe following distance is observed leading to gre
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
And yet, as of today self-driving cars aren't nearly as good as a human even after 2-3 beers.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
There's just no way self-driving cars can meet the challenge with today's technology. These days the tests they are doing involve burying a wire in the road that the car can ride upon, which to me seems like covert recognition tha
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
After they abandoned my platform after supporting it and promising to always support it, and after they failed to support Linux, I decided not to pay for any of the newer versions and stop playing the game. Don’t get me wrong, it looks grea
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Whew this is a relief. I thought maybe Rob Pike hacked my Pi!
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
GNU is not Unix, the GNU utilities have all expanded drastically over the decades. Gnu ls has more LoC than the old Unix V6 kernel now. BSD, on the other hand, IS Unix, and its utilities remain much smaller and leaner than the Linux ones.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Police don't like to be spied upon.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I stopped using Apple products a while ago but as an OS X user I was struck by the amount of what appeared to be complete garbage taking up CPU and filling logs with error messages. All of my issues were extremely common if you searched onl
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
We don't know what Equifax has. Maybe there's no proof that they have access to Facebook and Gmail and the like, but they may well have it and there's no way to know they don't. These big companies have serious trust iss
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Unlike the RPL series, they don't integrate with the rest of the calculator. And unlike RPN calcs like the 41 and 42, you can't program in RPN which many people find very easy to do. TI's a fine calculator... for a middle sch
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
FreeBSD: Created by people who run OS X on their computers for Sony and Apple. NetBSD: Created and run by people on a huge variety of computers, big in Japan. OpenBSD: Created by its own users, fork of NetBSD, run by everybody who truly car
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zut/doi/10.7891/e-manuscripta-9... Note the Vice article doesn't link to the manual directly, and the site it DOES link to has an incorrectly formatted link to the manual. Pr
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Prime doesn't really have much in common with the RPN or RPL calculators. It has a legacy RPN mode suitable for four banger operations but it doesn't integrate well with the rest of the calculator. More of an afterthought.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
For me it just doesn't have enough on the DM-42, which I already own. Neat development though.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Seems the Pinephone is selling OK and that's basically what it is. I backed the Librem 5 and my batch is supposed to start shipping in late November. Most people don't seem to care but more are starting to as time goes on. Despite
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I think we're seeing a culture clash between people who come from a computing background where the terminal was either not used at all, or was a second class citizen, and people who come from a background where a terminal is the main w
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
If only there were projects that repackaged Emacs together with packages which adapt the program for people who prefer other keybindings. And failing that, maybe Emacs should include some facility for remapping key bindings?
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Stallman was right yet again. If people want to stop being shocked at the inevitable abuses by big tech, they should probably read his book and his blog.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Doesn't pass the switch test.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Emacs will never be a GUI-only editor, it was designed for a terminal and that is still a use case that many people take advantage of. Don't worry though - if you don't like Emacs you can use any of a number of other editors.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Is it really necessary to ascribe some negative quality of ageism to people who created and use software and then castigate them for it? Do you work for PeopleSoft? Makes your argument seem weak and flimsy, in fact arguments like yours can
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
If these employees would use their own devices on their own time to organize, they would probably be much more successful. Imagine if you worked at the FBI and you used the internal chat app to coordinate illegal activity, and then became s
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Isn't the core value of Swift in Apple's large set of libraries?
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Listen blogging isn’t easy so you, the reader, are going to have to pay one way or another.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I’ve been using Tahoe LAFS for years for redundant storage. How is this better? I’ve seen some articles about IPFS and it seems similar.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Liquorice is not licorice in the US. Only licorice has licorice in it. Liquorice does not.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Can’t wait until Amazon and Google and Twitter drones regularly patrol the neighborhood.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
The Byte benchmarks are still very useful today. They’re also old enough that it’s doubtful that compiler makers are going to accelerate them (we know Intel does this), because barely anybody uses them any more.
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
It seems many deaf activists hate it when another deaf person gets a cochlear implant. Will this engender the same response from blind activists?
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by FandangoRanger 6y ago
Good thing Microsoft isn’t voluntarily in the PRISM progra-

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