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by _0ffh 3y ago
You got it exactly right! I worked on a simulation model of the complete optical setup of a laser terminal with movable mirrors and all including the fricking servo motors and a simple orbital model for the relative satellite positions. Plu
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Nah, I once did a job for a guy and they did LEO-GEO distances alright iirc and LEO-Earth in the mid-end 2000s, which has to deal with some pretty high angular velocities, if not as potentially high as LEO-LEO when they don't happen to
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Yeah rules are important. I was making the point that rules and enforcement mechanisms do not require the kind of exploitative constructs that are ruling over you right now, and for whom you are little more than lifestock.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
You don't need a coercive territorial monopolist with ultimate decision-making power over all conflicts within its territory to have rules. And a lack of rules is called anomy, not anarchy.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Lol, there was commerce without government regulation for the longest time and international commerce is still largely regulated by private arbitration courts (e.g. https://fee.org/articles/the-law-merchant-and-internat
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by _0ffh 3y ago
The shorttermism is also the result of a monetary system that rewards this kind behaviour.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Getting rid of government is the solution. They sell it to you as a protection against big business, but in reality it's the tool big business uses to stave off free markets and consumer choice.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I think there's a reason why historically many cultures in a time of crisis tend to choose a leader to take responsibility until the crisis is dealt with, like the dictator in republican Rome. Pirates often elected and even unelected t
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by _0ffh 3y ago
It seems nowadays a lot of politicians are effectively groomed for such a career from their teens when they see early success in some youth organisation. Sometimes a part of that process is to acquire some kind of academic background for th
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by _0ffh 3y ago
At some point in the past it took me nearly an hour trawling the internet to find this piece of code, though it's not quite identical. "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward "\eO
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Imagine drawing your ancestry tree, parents, grandparents, etc. you will of course have as many male as female nodes. The higher variance of male reproductive success makes it likelier for two given male nodes to be filled by the same infiv
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Here's another, superficially quite perplexing one: Your female ancestors vastly outnumber your male ancestors.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
The point of the analogy was that a calculation might involve mathematical concepts that from some point of views may seem iffy on the face of them, but still arrive at a result that does not involve any of the intermediate perceived iffyne
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by _0ffh 3y ago
> So if "nonsense" breeds meaning, is it really nonsensical? How bad would the analogy be to a calculation with imaginary numbers that still yields a real result?
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I mean, he's the guy famous for listing his computer as co-author on some of his papers, so I guess being pro-computational figures. =)
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I think it's not quite NISC. There's no microcode alright, but there is a predefined instruction set that is decoded into the appropriate control signals. OTOH instruction scheduling and hazard control is indeed handled by the com
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by _0ffh 3y ago
User programmable real time signal processing. It runs a fixed one instruction per cycle (but it can issue multiple operations per instruction) and the machine code is deliberatly not turing complete similar to eBPF. Loops must have a fixed
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Great to hear! I got a design running on a Xilinx devboard, though it's a very specialized architecture, not the general purpose CPUs I used to do as a kid.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
As a kid I designed a few imaginary CPUs, complete with instruction codes with bit fields for memory and register addresses and so on. Fun, but definitely not with a lot of scientific rigour. Never implemented one though, until relatively r
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I get that the C syntax is very awkward, compared to Pascal's. Are there more reasons that make C compilers more complex than Pascal ones, and would you tell which, please? I'm curious.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
These could easily be ferreted out by synthetic agents scouring the internet and posing as kids.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Yes, without a temperature and cooling schedule, how can it be annealing? It's in the name. It may sound harsh, but I'd call it an abuse of the term to do hillclimbing but call it annealing. It also seems lazy, since doing it righ
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Same here, I just get a beep on "enter", nothing going...
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I'd really love to use an IDE, but I haven't found any modern ones that I don't hate. Which is curious, since I used to love the Borland IDEs (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C). Maybe I'm just spoiled, but all the IDEs that I'
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Even better, she effectively says that anyone who does not advertise the "correct" bias is untrustworthy. Do these people have no shred of self-awareness?
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CryptoStorm.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
You can set up routing between PulseAudio an JACK manually, with pulseaudio-jack.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Yes, and that's 100% okay for /tmp. For /var/tmp it's a bit more complicated, but it hasn't bitten me yet.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I understand there's lots of consultants who are paid for giving an opinion in a fancy way, preferrably with slides or on a white board, but there's lots of different kinds of consulting. I've done a lot of it, and for me it
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I myself know very well what the technical meaning of the term is, no thanks to your unasked for condescension. My remark was clearly about it's meaning in common usage (in the last few decades btw, not just "last year"). Als

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