RagnarD

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by RagnarD 3y ago
Uranium can be endlessly and economically extracted from seawater - and maintains an equilibrium from continuously dissolving rock. In light of that it's perfectly reasonable to dub nuclear fission power a renewable resource. Commercia
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by RagnarD 3y ago
One option is to use DVD media designed for archival use, with a non-oxidizing gold layer, e.g.: https://www.verbatim.com/prod/professional-optical/archival-...
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I suspect if only merit was involved, Fossil would be in more widespread use than Git. https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Short answer: absolutely not. The whole idea actually originated in wholly mistaken idea that Newtonian mechanics implied that the universe was a big clockwork, unfathomably complex but still predetermined. This rests on the false philosoph
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I think it was Fred Brooks, in the classic The Mythical Man Month (all the back in 1975), who noted the importance of not interrupting programmers' trains of thought. One of the general recommendations was to turn off phone ringers, fo
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Wow. Try studying all of human history, especially the past century. There's many thousands of books, as a starter. Look at the history of disarmament and why it's done by tyrannies. Do you imagine for one nanosecond that North Ko
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by RagnarD 3y ago
There's more to the world than web oriented programming, and more possibilities for Ruby than Rails.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
- Most works by Heinlein esp. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Tunnel In The Sky, Time Enough For Love - Many other works by Asimov - The Rama series by A.C. Clarke - Gateway and other novels in the same universe, by Fred Pohl - The earlier n
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I've programmed in both Ruby and Python. I like both, but ... It should never be forgotten that the ultimate purpose of programming languages is to make specific usable programs. It's sort of fashionable to ignore performance but
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by RagnarD 3y ago
That such an email led to a positive resolution for him should be a giant red flag to Apple. I doubt this is just a corner case, so it means that Apple's systems are badly flawed and need to be corrected.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'd like to know if there's been any effort to use high resolution 3D scanning to capture the images.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Ignoring reality is stupid.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm curious how the creators would compare this to the capabilities of Unreal Engine 5 (as far as the display technology goes.)
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It matters when you get sued.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Is this really within the TOS of Shopify?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I stopped using Dropbox years ago after they had the gall to delete some of my files and email a warning that pirated files weren't permitted. Except that they weren't pirated files - they were MP3s ripped from my own CDs for my o
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I use CarPlay everytime I drive and haven't had any of the mentioned supposed problems. Then again I don't drive a GM ...
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Google screws up every business opportunity, including wantonly buying small successful businesses and killing them. Dishonesty is a fundamental part of the company.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm curious if he's self-taught. I get that vibe from seeing his desk.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
So rather than making China dependent on a U.S. supply chain, clearly the USG should block products and motivate China to spend billions to develop their own native chip design and manufacturing. Good thing they don't know how to make
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Screw HP. I dumped them a few years ago for an Epson and haven't looked back.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Arbitrarily low speed limits for political reasons including cynical revenue generation have certainly caused more accidents. Interstates were designed to be safely driven at much higher speeds than 55 or 65. Causing traffic to pile up is c
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by RagnarD 3y ago
He deserves it simply for being so incredibly stupid. Was he sure the area of the crash was clear of anyone walking around? That it wouldn't go up in flames and start a massive forest fire? It was dumb luck that those didn't happe
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Terrible. Why bother? This should be acutely embarrassing for the people responsible.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
This is the first time I can recall seeing an overt scam posting here.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A fantastically productive system back in the day. It was a joy to use.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
When AI is working well enough to have a virtually unlimited context window, and doesn't hallucinate, or much, wouldn't it be interesting to feed it the entire corpus of law for a given territory and have it identify contradiction
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Do yourself a favor and use eM Client instead. It works extremely well, including playing nicely with Exchange. It was the only Window client I found that could completely replace Outlook. https://www.emclient.com/
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Structure and patterns are great. I've love to see some structural classification of tools based on the nature of tools, not the quantum mechanical patterns of electron orbitals of atoms. :)

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