Oxidation

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by Oxidation 4y ago
Ooh, yes that could be very good, and the age-of-sail/steampunk aesthetic would be a nice change from the usual gleaming-Imperial-navy/raggedy-Rebel-cowboy space look (Star Wars, Firefly, etc). The Revelation Space series would
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by Oxidation 4y ago
The co-orbiting telescope Xuntian is a neat idea in terms of on-orbit servicing and upgrade opportunities. Obviously as it's in LEO it can't do the intense JWST-esque ultra-deep-field shots, rather it's a wide-field telescope
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> and 'nothing more' Also it "follows along" when you commit to the branch. Named pointers that stay put are tags.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Red Mars could be an epic TV series (or a multi-part film). But probably getting a bit geopolitically dated these days unless it does a For All Mankind cold war retro thing. Also I imagine having half the crew being Russian wouldn'
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by Oxidation 4y ago
It doesn't even have to be a local maximum, just higher up some hillside will do (maybe it's even on a different hillside to the one you're on at the moment).
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I don't know if that's an issue for music streamers or not (I guess if you allow one person's thumbs downs to affect others too much and there are millions of them... Maybe?) But also seems like it would be a pretty trivial t
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by Oxidation 4y ago
How dare they not speak only English on your Internet.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Honestly, I think that if "git lol" was the default log command it would do the most to make things much more obvious to newcomers. git log --oneline --graph And git lola for a gestalt of the repo's recent state: g
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I know what you mean (deleting a branch in a remote is a very unintuitive syntax to me at first glance, especially), but these are perhaps not the best examples: > Why do you create a branch via the "git checkout" command? That
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Why would you want to avoid that? Get paid the GDP of Lithuania for a fairly stodgy messaging platform with a big question mark over how many real users there even are and then getting to look like a genius in comparison to the next guy&#
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Are you sure that wasn't Grimes' ex and the SEC?
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by Oxidation 4y ago
It's a heuristic (claims to be probably helpful). You might as well complain that checking string size first as part of an equality check of strings that demonstrably have a very large distribution of sizes is obviously dumb because ob
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I imagine we'll be seeing a few cases setting that precedent in the next 10 years, and it's likely that the kind of "aha I said finger, a thumb isn't a finger, so I win" argument favoured by sovereign citizens, 5-ye
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Perhaps, but if you told me a vertical farm only worked at a scale above X thousands of square metres due to economies of scale, I'd find that quite plausible. So I can see why an investor might not wonder too hard why the scale is s
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Some flavour of "git gc" after your reset is far more likely to crop up and ruin your day, that's true. As long as you stay on the statistical beaten path (i.e. you're asking about Paris), you will probably be fine, inde
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Ask it details about a little-documented event and it'll happily tell you plausible, but utterly false, lies, however. Apparently the "early 2011 Bougainville earthquake" was magnitude 6.3, at a depth of 21.7km, on the 20th J
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by Oxidation 4y ago
A bit like how Blade Runner's rain-soaked neon cybernoir now feels derivative!
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Maybe because no matter what I do, I cannot get current streaming sites to recommend music as well as they did back in the Pandora and LastFM days. And it's not just that I'm pickier and set in my ways, there are songs that I li
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by Oxidation 4y ago
That's pretty glib, because when they built large greenhouses, people probably said "the market already solved this for high value goods like tomatoes: buy them from Italy and use a fast clipper to get them here in time". Ver
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Wait, you get paid for Internet snark?
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Ah yes, the good old "your heuristic doesn't work on my carefully constructed pathological case" observation, wouldn't be the Internet without that. GP also said "probably". That's how heuristics work.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Hopefully it can put a bullet in it, finally. If anyone can generate infinite bullshit instantly for free, what value is there in being a bullshitter?
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by Oxidation 4y ago
It could also be very useful for ESL people: churning out thousands of words of copy can take forever in a second language and can also be absolutely miserable.
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> ChatGPT has been a dream come true for people who sell wantrepreneurship materials. I suspect they’re using ChatGPT to generate a lot of the materials, too. So then it can work, as long as the customer is credulous of a low-effory get
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I literally just printed on 220gsm card in a laser printer's feed tray today. Worked great. Before I had a pack of card, I was indeed cutting up manila folders. I only had ugly colours (that's a rule for manila folders, apparently
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by Oxidation 4y ago
> The real advantage of this is that it also is something my family can easily use. The opposite of this is why I like i3. Want to use my computer? Good luck: there's no start button and you'll have to guess the chord to open r
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Right? B-U-Y is just three letters from a 26-letter alphabet, and yet that's obviously possible to be advice. > Courts aren't stupid. They understand how human language works. Quick! make it a smart contract and we can get rid
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by Oxidation 4y ago
And I thought the Accelerando lobsters and Sheena 5 squid were out there!
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by Oxidation 4y ago
Copyright in general is far longer than most people expect. In most of the world it's at least 70 years after the death of the author. Most people will not live to see even their grandparents' generation's work enter the publ
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by Oxidation 4y ago
I thought getting money to places governments didn't want to get money to was one of the explicit aims of cryptocurrency.

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