NetMageSCW

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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
If you think judges who are unaccountable and regularly abuse their powers are a solution for oversight of surveillance, I have a bridge to sell you. (I don’t have a bridge.)
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Yes, that bothered me. I think I’d want to add a rule that says the final order isn’t completely decided until all players have rolled.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Retroactive, but one thing that struck me since they were overweight for landing and their fuel dump was inoperative, why not turn on the leveling pump and pump fuel out the hole in the left tank anyway? It would have lowered weight and imp
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Difficulty in measuring since it was machined after installation?
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
The oversight was at the plant.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Because that is even worse for what he wants to allow.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Explain how that restriction is working in the face of NPs?
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Much of today’s world run on FOSS that says exactly the opposite. Gnu, emacs, Linux weren’t created for money.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
"Always two, there are. No more. No less. A Master and an apprentice."
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
risk aversion is driving wisdom. Rule #1 - never go if you can’t see.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
That’s how you start with emacs but as you need to do more complex actions emacs will be able to support you so your skills will grow if you keep using it.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Counterpoint: when you go to a coworker’s desk you shouldn’t be touching the keyboard or the mouse otherwise they are just watching you do their work. You should have them come to your desk if you want to be the one running the show. Everyo
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
I am surprised- I reimplemented Notepad for Windows CE and it was pretty much a wrapper around a standard Windows control. It was just a couple of pages of MFC code I believe.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Those were both amazing but so very niche.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Unless you own your own cell carrier and built towers across your country, you can’t own a phone.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
There’s (as always) an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/1807/
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
The problem isn’t AI slop, it’s you seeing AI slop under every bush.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
What are the odds that lack of maintenance would cause 6% of bases to fail and all units at each base to fail in the same way - by switching to defrost at 2am?
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Remote monitoring doesn’t imply remote management- one is sensible, one is a power trip. We are required to monitor our refrigeration and we did it with a distributed system of wireless sensor that upload to a cloud service. It’s independen
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
How’s that working against Russia?
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Guaranteed privacy is available off the shelf?
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Yes they were. I worked for a small computer company and decided to buy my own 21” monitor for work and was impatient and I spent $75 (back when that was ridiculous) having it FedExed halfway across the state so I could get it a couple of d
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
My first home computer was a OSI C2-4P and I wired it up with two jacks to certain keys and replaced the plugs on two Atari VCS joysticks for playing games on it. Later I bought an Atari 400 and modded it with a kit that replaced the membra
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
FromWikipedia: It is named after former NASA chief of astronomy Nancy Grace Roman.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
More science was done on the few hours spent on the Moon by astronauts than all the lunar and Mars robotic missions (lasting decades) combined. Robots won’t be comparable to human exploration until we have general AI and that’s far away. Ot
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Still wants an email address. No thanks.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Somehow makes me think about a Wankel rotary engine.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Erector sets now owned by Meccano came with pulleys and girders that could be assembled with nuts and bolts, but are not focused on these types of mechanisms.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
Windows 11 isn’t full of vibe coded AI slop because that hasn’t existed long enough to affect it much. It is full of poor decisions and poor programming the old fashioned hand made way.
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by NetMageSCW 1mo ago
And in 2018 the Pixel 2 was the Android flagship with 3 years of updates promised, with a Snapdragon 835 that was half the single thread speed of the corresponding A11 and slower in multicore with two extra cores.

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