Leonard_of_Q

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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Put dikes around it, make channels to collect the seepage, pump water out of channels over the dikes into the sea. Problem solved in the same way the Netherlands has been solving this problem for many centuries. The pumps can run on solar
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
It does work in driving the car where it is able to. Where it fails is in the 'full' part. After 10 billion miles driven on 'auto-pilot' [1] it is hard to claim it 'does not work'. Tesla would have been better
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Do you need to use Windows 11 though? If you're using Windows to drive industrial equipment I assume those machines are not connected to the internet? If so you should be fine running Windows 7 or - if need be - 10. There's plenty
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Just here around our farm in Sweden there is a village called 'Nygård' (translates to 'New farm'), an area called 'Hede' and one called 'Heden'. Saying you live in 'Nygård' won't help m
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
There is previous history with most administrations on this subject, e.g. the 'Biden' administration abused CISA to force social media companies to taking action against speech protected by the First Amendment. Obama abused the es
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
> I can live with Windows 11 being a little slow Why accept mediocrity when Microsoft has shown to be capable of producing something better than their current iteration of Windows? Whether you prefer Windows 2000 or XP or 7 or one of th
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Here's a more general command to turn off this and future annoyances. Works in Debian and other apt-based distributions. sudo apt autoremove --purge code It does have some side effects [1] but those are not as hard to deal with
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
> Who knows under this administration though. That does not add anything of interest so you might as well leave it out unless you use it as an identity flag. There's plenty of 'special' mobile subscriptions with all sorts
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Internet is handy but not essential, there are other ways to communicate. Back to the BBS, flash drives tied to pigeon legs, packet radio, mesh radio networking, etc. Taking away npm and its ilk would after a relatively short adaptation p
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
Back in the time when I frequented NYC I took the train to JFK, is that no longer a thing? the LIRR brought me a'clackity-clacking (haven't you Yanks learned about that new thing called welded rails?) past Rockaway to where those
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
> like cavalry in the tank era Ehhh, tanks are the cavalry of the tank era. Cavalry did not go away, it changed from its namesake horses to armoured battle vehicles but its task remains more or less the same. Drones and 'cheap-ish&#
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
The real question is whether you'd be able to continue doing your work if someone took your toys away and said "here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself a real computer". I'm not referring to whether you'd be able
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by Leonard_of_Q 6mo ago
I sort of get the appeal of fine-tuning the terminal environment to perfection but after fiddling with such things for many years - decades - I ended up using mostly stock settings with a very few changes. The advantage of that approach is
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by Leonard_of_Q 2y ago
The options were illustrative but the numbers are plausible, it doesn't matter whether you use wool and mutton or bits and bytes as illustrations. That is what this is about, not the last few percent but the grand scale of the margin.
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by Leonard_of_Q 2y ago
A and B are both close enough to the truth to indicate a profit margin of around 70%. There is room to quibble over the last few percent, no room to deny a hefty profit margin, hence It won't matter if they get it a few percent too lo
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We Caught the Rocket(twitter.com)
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