ThenAsNow

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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
I'm struggling to understand the vitriol toward this. It is a thoughtfully-crafted license, eminently readable, written by a skilled legal practitioner in this domain. I have no affiliation with the author of the license, but do appr
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
Here's a contrary voice for an underappreciated option, despite the villain in this story. I wanted a networked color laser MFP that could be used from within Linux without proprietary binary drivers, i.e., needed to natively support P
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
Understood. I wasn't trying to shoot down your point with a drive-by, just want more people to be aware that PEX, which is quite common in new construction for household drinking water plumbing, is a questionable choice for at least t
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by ThenAsNow 5y ago
Research indicates PEX leaches significantly. E.g., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
> Par for the course in embedded development. It may be, but I don't don't see why it must be that way any more than it must be that way on the desktop. At least give me full exposed control over whether and what connections i
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Exactly this. I'm not sure how wanting a device that can connect only as per my requests/configuration requires that I instead be OK with it willy-nilly connecting to whatever it wants.
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I have spent time on the IRC channel and it is clear the founder/project lead (whom I'm not criticizing) has a different idea of what privacy means than what I do. He doesn't necessarily view connections to Google servers th
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
This would take out a certain number of them, but there are hardcoded IP references ( e.g. , to their DNS servers), use of Google systems for things like NTP, and so on. These are findable and patchable, but you will still be building your
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
This team is doing "the lord's work". Anyone thinking you can use a "de-Googled" Android distribution, like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, or LineageOS and actually be de-Googled in anything but the most superficial way (as
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. I spent some time looking at how "de-Googled" GrapheneOS is. If you define "de-Googled" as meaning the phone makes no connections to Google servers that you do not explicitly acknowledge/p
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I've spent some time with the GrapheneOS sources and found quite a few places where the connections to google servers are baked in, like Camera and Gallery reaching out to google maps, the use of Google SUPL servers which has no real a
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
> these can be completely de-Googled Is there actually an easy way to do this? There are so many places in the Android sources where uses of google servers, services, etc. are baked-in. Even one of the "de-Googled" Chromium f
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Would you say there are real CS advances when it comes to LZ family compression algorithms and containers? Wasn't LZ well known prior to the past 10 years? And is there any kind of fundamental or theoretical advancement in containers
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
The semantic error you're making is redefining the general term compression as the more specific "isentropic compression". The process by which the compression takes place is not prescribed just by the term "compression
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
The basis of the disagreement hinges on your original claim that "compression is a process that is adiabatic, generating no entropy" which doesn't have any valid basis. Nothing about even the definition of compression that y
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Parent just said "compression heating" which no one takes as a claim of isentropic compression. Shock-driven compression still qualifies as compression.
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Look, where does this idea come in that compression "as normally considered, does not generate entropy"? The inlet of a supersonic aircraft or a ramjets/scramjet performs non-isentropic (shock-based) compression. You'r
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Replying to myself since I guess there's a thread depth limit. Now what you are saying is making sense, your original post did not. Irreversibility (increase in entropy) across the shock does cause a significant temperature gain (and
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Compression due to a shock is not isentropic. Parent is incorrect. This is basic gasdynamics. An accessible reference: Modern Compressible flow, by Anderson.
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I can't make sense of your claim. Compression could be done adiabatically, or not, but that doesn't mean it's isothermal or somehow inherently adiabatic. In fact, for it to be isothermal would require the transport away of
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
There are really two axes that everyone seems to conflate into one. There is funding, as in whether or not there is sufficient funding to achieve certain outcomes. Then there is competence, as in managing the resources to achieve certain
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
There are more dimensions to this question than "are they behind or not?". In most areas, western technology and capability, given the will, still leads China. However, China excels at getting capabilities fielded and generally b
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
The saddest conclusion that occurs to me (not really addressed in his article) is that mechanisms for accountability aren't working very well, if they exist at all. A corollary is that accountability mechanisms are really gross in nat
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
When we determine if an aircraft trims, or a boat floats, it is not correct to say it is statistical engineering test of the probability of failure. You formalize the properties the system must have in order to not fail, and you use conser
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
> That is clearly wrong if one is willing to take a moment to stop gazing at the wonder of pure mathematics and look at the outside world. There is no notion of "correctness" for the pyramids of Egypt, the dykes of the Nether
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I believe the premise of many of these panelization/pre-fab companies is that manual labor is minimized within the factory through automation and also reduced on-site. There is also the waste reduction aspect. Definitely does seem th
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I honestly have not, but the aesthetics of log homes don't really appeal to me. I hadn't thought of the potential performance benefits though.
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
While this is fine as the high-level answer, the interesting question seems to be why the as-installed cost would be the same as typical wasteful North American "stick building"? I've spent some time thinking about better wa
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
Serious question: what alternative would you recommend for access to NAS volumes from unix-like OSes (Linux, *BSD, MacOS) over LAN? Other than doing discrete file transfers over a channel like SSH, I'm at a loss for alternatives here
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by ThenAsNow 6y ago
I've gotten started with Pelican recently, and so far so good. Looks it has enough flexibility to do what I can reasonably conceive of wanting to do. However, its documentation is unfortunately weak for someone coming into it fresh.

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