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by _vdpp 4y ago
Being tall isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Always hitting your head on things, and being short of breath all the time because the air is thinner up there.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I feel like the use of astronomy and cosmology to model and understand sub-microscopic processes seems a little… backwards? Frankly, I’m ignorant of both but my gut feeling tells me it’s a bit of a scientific dead end. Would love to hear wh
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by _vdpp 4y ago
2 messages producing the same digest. That’s actually a really interesting question.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Really well said. I think a big difference too is how far one takes a hobby. I can enjoy a comic book every now and then, or watch the Simpsons, or play a video game. But I’ve known people who plastered their cubicles with comic books, or d
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I enjoyed the first Saw, but to me it played out as more of a murder mystery than “torture porn” ala Hostel. It was dark in the same vein as Seven, but what made it interesting was the “whodunnit” aspect, not the horror.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
A QEMU book would be _very_ welcome.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
HGTV wasn’t a thing back in 1987
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I really like this.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
“Misinformation” is being used as a cudgel to suppress opinions or even facts that are, say - inconvenient - for someone’s narrative though. Completely reasonable differences in opinion about the risk, origin, or proper mitigation of COVID
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by _vdpp 4y ago
The “you can hose it out” meme took hold in my brain too for whatever reason. It’s the only thing I could have told you about it after “it’s boxy and probably has a Honda I-4 under the hood.”
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Ada syntax takes a little while to get used to, but replace {} with begin/end and it otherwise feels like any other procedural language out there. This is one of the better intros: http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada&#x2F
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by _vdpp 4y ago
One of the more experienced embedded Ada devs out there wrote this: https://github.com/simonjwright/stack_usage I’m not sure if it would meet your requirements or not.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Am I alone in wondering if quantum attacks on existing algorithms are still very hypothetical and may never come to fruition?
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Ada fits the bill well here, with zero-footprint runtimes available and also a tool for statically determining the stack size at compile-time: https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/toolsuite/gnatstack
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by _vdpp 5y ago
A professor told me “The key to good design is experience. The key to experience is bad design.”
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by _vdpp 5y ago
I was hoping this would be more like a car or airplane manual. “Failure to maintain adequate vitamin C levels may cause scurvy. Go to service center if this happens. Maintain blood pressure within limits (see specifications).” Etc.
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by _vdpp 5y ago
I used ProtonMail a few years back, it was kind of “spartan”. I had heard good things about Fastmail from other GMail switchers and signed up for their free trial account, and liked the experience. The mobile app is great, they support 2FA
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by _vdpp 5y ago
My advice - just rip the bandaid off and do it. I had anticipated taking a whole weekend to update the email address on all my accounts, but it was a lot less painful than I had anticipated. Changing over ~50 accounts took me about 3 hours
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by _vdpp 5y ago
This is the first time I’ve read “Zero DevOps” as a product feature, but it seems like a pretty good selling point.
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by _vdpp 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out RVA22 - I wasn’t aware of the initiative but it’s a great idea. I still have reservations about the core architecture but having some standards for the rest of the ecosystem is a big win.
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by _vdpp 5y ago
One more addition to my rant here - could we pick even more ridiculous, unintuitive names for package manager binaries? zypper? apt-get? yum? xbps-install? pacman at least kind of reminds you of “package manager”. This isn’t meant to dump a
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by _vdpp 5y ago
Package managers are a necessary evil on systems where installing software scatters a bunch of files all over because of a dogmatic adherence to an obsolete FHS. It’s a huge burden on either the distro maintainers or the developers to produ
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by _vdpp 5y ago
It’s also worth mentioning that gcc has a command-line flag -fdump-ada-spec that will generate an Ada spec (.ads file - Ada version of a .h) from a C header for easy binding with C libraries.
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by _vdpp 5y ago
VS Code: alt+arrow to move a line up/down alt+shift+arrow to duplicate a line or block of text above or below alt+ctrl+arrow for multi-cursor ctrl+d for select next instance of a word I have these baked into my muscle memory such that
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by _vdpp 5y ago
It’s not always clear. For instance pilots can log night hours once it’s civil twilight, but there’s also nautical twilight and then astronomical twilight, all defined by the number of degrees below the horizon the sun is. What we consider
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by _vdpp 5y ago
Their mobile browser is actually very nice, I’ve used it almost exclusively for 2 years now.