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by VLM 5y ago
The Earth is objectively and unironically flat from the point of view of some, in fact many, narratives. Certainly the architectural drawings of my house do not include a "bulge" in the basement due to heretical sphericalness. All
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by VLM 5y ago
Conspiracy theories are merely spoilers now.
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by VLM 5y ago
> a MASSIVE public health issue Its not. Its the kind of topic made for karma farming on social media.
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by VLM 5y ago
Most of the discussion was decades ago. I've been playing around with Orbiter since it was new (and back then the hardware reqs to run were very expensive, not so much today). (edited: to emphasize, I've seen a lot and read a lot
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by VLM 5y ago
I live in a recreation state, and to provide some numbers there are well over three times as many registered boats in my home state than there are naval O-6 rank ship captains. Just in one state. Admittedly "beaching" a nuclear a
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by VLM 5y ago
Not really a linux story, its more "crowd funding doesn't work as an effective market in the presence of crooks" And in a "bad money always chases out good money" crowdfunded projects seem mostly composed of noobs&#
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by VLM 5y ago
Supply and demand. We're not running out of dirt and not running out of water (east of the mississippi) or running out of farm labor. So if your farmer neighbor works 7x10 and you work 6x8 you are going out of business. Side job make
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by VLM 5y ago
The UAE does not have a Mississippi river. One side of the country is a desert unsuitable for growing crops, naturally stubborn Americans grow crops there anyway at staggering economic and environmental cost. Meanwhile on the other side of
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by VLM 5y ago
Its a culture clash. The Java people have the ISO9000 engineers who are extremely proud of their documented and approved 175 page procedure explaining every detailed step of how its an enormous amount of extra work but technically possible
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by VLM 5y ago
Legit Critique: "This is exactly where cargo cult programming (CCP henceforth – it would have been funny to have another C in there, before the P) stems from." Cargo Cult Computer Programming CCCP is the joke that's been arou
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by VLM 5y ago
I'll try to empathize with the original author by providing an example "from real life" or from my life anyway LOL. Blog posts are too small to provide a lot of information. So in 2021 if you're programming a STM32 you&
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by VLM 5y ago
Earths surface is 70% water so if there's an incident then there's a 70% chance you'll be landing in water. Its possible to build a land lander that would not survive an ocean landing. So if for safety reasons you have to mo
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by VLM 5y ago
Latency always goes up with technology. Think of streaming or video on demand services where its now up to five seconds to change.
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by VLM 5y ago
OP will have to speak for themselves, but the policy looks like boilerplate I've had to include for 3rd party crash reporting services. So if the stack trace for a null pointer somehow vaguely includes some kind of PII as a side effect
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by VLM 5y ago
Good point, although Amazon is a huge company with their finger in every pie. Given those fingers in every pie, they have some kind of carrot to go with this carefully edited stick? I recall the horrific fad maybe ten years ago of forcing
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by VLM 5y ago
To amuse a client who did "security by checkbox" everyone needed some entry level comptia certs, even old timers who "wrote the book" back in the old days LOL, so I took some proctored tests live at a testing center rece
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by VLM 5y ago
Those reciprocals are too small. Lets see if the kids know how to multiply fractions: factorial(256) times ( 1 divided by factorial(256) ) equals ? And yes, there will unfortunately be kids trying to brute force it by typing it in instead o
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by VLM 5y ago
Can anyone find the unique amazon specific definition of "Personal Game" complete with peculiar capitalization? My guess is we're seeing the stick with all mention of any carrot very carefully edited out. I would further gue
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by VLM 5y ago
C encourages simplicity. Code is either clear and simple, or extremely obscure and safe, or kinda in between is complicated but not complicated enough such that its not safe. "Simplicate and add lightness" aerospace mentality peop
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by VLM 5y ago
A chromebook. People don't do "on device" anymore outside of unusual situations.
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by VLM 5y ago
Around here its the same brands and same cardboard boxes at the farmers market, the upscale supermarket, and the organic supermarket, although they mark the price up at the farmers market because of the extra labor and substantial fees the
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by VLM 5y ago
To summarize: 1) They just signed a bill into law to provide various grants and such to increase BB. Its bad law to change everything every month. They wanted $200M but shrunk it to a pilot program $20M and want to see how that will work
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by VLM 5y ago
> more than one computers where in each computer my user has different ID Decades of network filesystem users have had many solutions to that.
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by VLM 5y ago
Blenders are probably the loudest kitchen appliance. The glass is loud but seen as required for visual effects and cleanliness. In theory there should be a way to blend that is not that loud, or at least is insulated. Even if it wouldn&#x
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by VLM 5y ago
Most firearms accidents happen during normal operations like carrying, cleaning, disassembly, and so on. In comparison table saws are extremely versatile and can do many operations some of which categorically prevent entire classes of acci
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by VLM 5y ago
Thankfully the patents are starting to expire in 2024. Nothing holds pack progress quite like the patent system. The problem with causing $300 of destruction and lost work time vs possibly saving a limb is there's no fine woodworking
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by VLM 5y ago
There's a certain lifestyle aspect where my high school friend dropped a pulled junkyard engine in the bed of his truck and shoved it into place and strapped it down and he doesn't care about the interior of his truck bed, its &qu
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by VLM 5y ago
I come from a railroad family four generations and went EE so I find things like transporting giant transformers by rail to be pretty interesting, since I was a kid. I'm probably one of few people who as a kid had a model railroad HO
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by VLM 5y ago
Technically it was only the approval process.
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by VLM 5y ago
Responsible IT operations in the 20s, is optional in the same sense as OSHA compliance was optional in the 70s or SOX compliance was optional in the 00s. Ignore at your own peril.

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