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Pet_Ant
3y ago
I mean a $1M is crowd sourceable if there was a trustworthy person to do this.
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3y ago
Well you could use this PCB and add the Greek letters as extra columns. These are 6 row 9 column. https://keeb.io/products/bfo-9000-keyboard-customizable-full...
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3y ago
> My home's presence does not "threaten the natural world" as evidenced by the moose, the birds, the bobcat, the ermine, and countless other wildlife that we share the environment with. If your settlement isn't dense
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3y ago
If the number of threatened animal species and fragmented biomes don't convince you, nothing I can say will. It's a fact that most of the natural world is threatened. That we shouldn't pave over paradise and put up a parking
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3y ago
> We are nowhere NEAR saturating our landmass with people. That is true only if you think wall papering the earth from top to bottom with human settlement is acceptable and that the natural world has no value. In short, we have already u
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3y ago
> Please, for modern software UTF-8 everywhere is the way to go! I think the real answer is to have a String interface and then allow for different implementations. There are times when it should be ASCII 8-bit. Or UCS 4. UCS 2 is reason
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3y ago
> Gitea ... don't have CI/CD at all. That seems to be no longer the case? >> Starting with Gitea 1.19, Gitea Actions are available as a built-in CI/CD solution. ... It is similar and compatible to GitHub Actions, and
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3y ago
> So GitLab, Gitea, Fossil, ForgeJo, OneDev... the field is so balkanized Which ones are compatible with GitHub actions? To me that is the most important aspect. So much is done with those and I really don't want to relearn.
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3y ago
> the only group that was an even worse influence on the stability of the region than either of them: ISIS To be clear, ISIS is great for stability. It's not the stability we want, but they do definitely provide stability. We may no
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3y ago
Sorry, but an ordinary ad blocker will not block the ads embedded in the video. Apparently "SponsorBlock" actually solves that. Haven't of it before, but the description is promising. >>> SponsorBlock lets you skip o
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3y ago
> Nothing says “Fuck the System!” like solar panels and a wood burning stove I guess? Pithily put. I can definitely attest that this is my plan and the plans of a few others I know. Home baked bread and sour dough starter feel pretty ant
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3y ago
> The working world is still incredibly unfair to women. Is it unfair to women, or just the primary care-taker? This is a real world distinction single-fathers will understand. While the answer is "both", it is important to dis
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3y ago
For posterity: the term is actually "organizational scar tissue" not "institutional scarring". Surprised you found it despite my butchery!
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3y ago
> Another variation on the problem is the over-allocation of resources to preventing problems which actually happened once, versus those that are more severe but haven't happened yet. I've heard this called "institutional
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3y ago
What is a "DC bus bar" is this some sort of shared PSU that is shared amongst all the servers for efficiency or something?
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3y ago
You can walk to school year round in many parts of Canada. There is no bad weather, just inappropriately dressed people.
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3y ago
Because the W3C and the IETF should be vendor neutral organizations that serve the broader good and general interoperability. When it's really 2 of the world's largest organisations (we'll see how long Firefox lasts) it'
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3y ago
While it is submerged under 21 meters of water, apparently 10,000 years ago the sea level was 120 meters lower.
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3y ago
Sorry, but with increasing the complexity of CSS aren't we just adding complexity to the web stack ensuring that only Chrome/Firefox/Webkit are the only browsers to ever exist again? I can't imagine this ever being suppo
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3y ago
> It is difficult to find an economic argument for such activity but it bears a significant resemblance to a "tragedy of the commons" scenario. To me the canonical example of this is base-10 numbering system. If we were base 12
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3y ago
> The only reason Risc-V matters is that no one has to pay for licenses. Well it’s also a clean design that learns from the past 30 users and has got some traction with lota of material available and a rapidly growing ecosystem.
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3y ago
I would like to scrap the idea of a file and replace it with an object. If it's a "file" it just regurgitates it's contents, but it could also return aspects of itself, decrypt itself, stream from an offscreen resource.
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3y ago
Zachtronics is getting to roleplay the job I want to have instead of building enterprise CRUD apps. I get pride and self-worth from my Zachtronics work and money from my day job. (I went into IT because I liked solving challenging problems,
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3y ago
I mean if you want to be 1:1 with machine code, then don't look at the "J" Jump or "B" Branch instruction formats where the constant value is split into pieces and packed in around the registers. With a '='
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3y ago
In the English speaking world "billion" only means 10^9. See Wikipedia: > This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common i
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3y ago
Exactly. OP made him a "founder", but he wasn't a founder. Not in his heart. He played along for a while, but it wasn't in it. Founders need an attachment to their companies like it's their child... this was a step-
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3y ago
Elon rubs me t he wrong way often, but I appreciate the long term view and not getting lost in the quarter to quarter weeds. Just needs to make sure he is actually focussed on delivering and not getting distracted.
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3y ago
>> But there are...issues: cooling for one > That is super cool. ...so apparently not... ;)
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3y ago
Do you mean “Forth” perhaps?
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3y ago
Always wondered why Gambas never made it big. Seemed like it should have been a hit with the educational market.
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