Roboprog

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by Roboprog 6y ago
The mask came off this last year for me. If you look, there is often a lot of video on the ground of these events, so that you can see beyond a single narrative. In the same vein, there is a lot of video of what happened in Kenosha leading
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Uneconomical, dragging a huge cone of air along with your plane. The pressure Wave in front of the moving plane moves away at the speed of sound, so it just stacks up.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Packed_BC... Earlier than the 60s. Had to work on a system in the 90s to “transpile” IBM minicomputer code to C. Useful for accounting since what you see is what you
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Here in CA (possibly the rest of the US) they want to put an app on your phone to use Bluetooth to track who is in the room with you, because it’s not enough to know which end of the city block you are on at all times. Cuz, COVID! Pardon m
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by Roboprog 6y ago
By doing twice as much in the same time, I guess.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Thank you. I pulled in moment.js 5 years ago for a suite of state death and birth certificate registration apps we are working on. Due to the amount of “business logic” and small staff size on these, they take years to roll out. I apprecia
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by Roboprog 6y ago
If corporations are people, they need to face imprisonment and capital punishment, too eh? Charters can be suspended or revoked.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Why can’t a state’s militia have its own military grade weapons and vehicles? Aside from the whole Civil War incident... I’m not going to argue if it’s a good or bad law, but as written, each state gets to regulate which residents get noth
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Those users don’t get past our single sign on app in the first place. The “ticket granting ticket” used to give out sessions in individual apps expires after a few seconds, presumably to discourage various kinds of attacks. Not every app i
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by Roboprog 6y ago
For anyone missing how little radiation that is, radiation is proportional to the 4th power of the temperature in Kelvin. 200 K is a bit below (water) freezing. 400 K is just over boiling. The 400 K object emits 16 times (2 ^ 4) more radi
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Upvoting this more for the discussion than the article. There are a lot of relevant opposing forces in this discussion. Reasonable people can disagree about where in the middle to meet.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Thanks. How does iMPC compare to something like BeatMaker? Such as: use of AUs and external MIDI, sequences/scenes/patterns with different tempos or time signatures? The bit on the App Store video to grab and move a chunk of a pa
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by Roboprog 6y ago
One thing I don’t miss is C style Wild West access. E.g., My coworker grabbed a word from somewhere, slapped a cast on it and proceeded to write into it. Hilarity ensues. All the burden of explicit compile time checking, but no guarantees
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I was expecting something about carpal tunnel syndrome or Dvorak keyboards as well. Then I realized it was Haskell zealotry :-(
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Reminder: strict type checking is more trouble than it’s worth for some of us. Ask yourself why dynamic type languages keep appearing, despite a fanatical resolve to purge them from the face of the earth? It’s almost as if some people pref
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Interesting. It’s attached to one of the VLTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope Unclear if they use the auxiliaries as part of the process.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Interesting. I don’t think it’s that hard to build a vessel full of warm radioactive pebbles to boil water. Sorting ore by chemical element, and then making a fluid / gas / solution of the fuel element to sort by isotope mass in a
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Is it that hard to enrich isotopes enough to make a steam engine that runs on radium, thorium or uranium instead of coal? If you know that radioactive isotopes exist, it sounds like steampunk, 1850s, level tech could build a power plant, bu
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Tutorial level civilization. You must complete energy collection on current planet for XP to advance to level 2.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
No, they are imaged in reflected light, rather than a transit (silhouette). The parent star is masked off, and I’m pretty sure it’s an image generated from multiple telescopes, “interferometry”, as others have mentioned.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
You keep that up, and you’ll be hell banned next. I hear you, but I don’t pay for this toy, and the owner(s) run it as they see fit. I do agree with you though that I dislike down voting.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I have been lucky, then. I pulled in moment about 5 years ago into our group’s stack, but we mostly use it for parsing and formatting date (only) strings for date arithmetic. The government vital records forms we are working with seldom de
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by Roboprog 6y ago
VST? Is that like an AU? Kidding, but since you mentioned iPad...
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Overlays were common on MS-DOS in the 80s. A typical scheme was to have a configuration file / script for the linker. You would list one or more blocks, each of which had a list of mutually exclusive .obj files to be swapped in and ou
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by Roboprog 6y ago
As to vertical size: how much crap are you going to put into one function, anyway? Other than perhaps some local (nested) helper functions.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I like it, but then I have adopted a style very similar to that in the last 3 or 4 years: format expressions to approximate their syntax tree, with closing symbols aligned with the line that opened the sub-tree. Essentially, K&R indent
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Ok, so that’s a real thing, and not just a Charles Stross / Laundry Files reference. I guess it’s not too surprising that you would want to keep an eye out for rioting. Missiles would be a whole new level of messed up, though.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
I’m so glad ES4 never happened. Bullet dodged. Nice to see that sometimes, at least, the industry avoids needless suffering. But I like that JS can be a primarily functional, rather than primarily object oriented, language.
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Exactly. This is the first time I’ve ever heard the name. Like the post above said, much of the Jet acquisition was likely really just to absorb the IP and expertise, anyway. That said, we recently ordered some patio furniture from Walmart
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by Roboprog 6y ago
Maybe it would be OK if all the Typescript people went Away to Deno and the few of us left who just want to run plain JS on Node, could, in peace. ... As long as there is enough interest still in Node to maintain it. Hopefully, there is st

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