abstractbeliefs

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by abstractbeliefs 1mo ago
30,000 split 50 ways is 800lbs per cow (270kg), seems not unrealistic. Even if you halve the yield to 400lbs then it's only 100 cows
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by abstractbeliefs 3mo ago
If you want a world where the data you present like this matters, seed it. Even if google doesn't use it, the collective internet applying this kind of metadata makes the web fertile for non-LLM-scraping competitors to provide an alter
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by abstractbeliefs 6mo ago
Yes, 50% of shuttle losses were due to SRB failures (Challenger)
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IRCv3 Downgrades(libera.chat)
5 points by abstractbeliefs 6mo ago|0 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 10mo ago
No open source, then I'm not playing. I use Zim wiki for everything just now and I don't like it. I'm in the market for a replacement, and would even pay like with how Immich does it. Unless the source code is available or yo
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by abstractbeliefs 11mo ago
I think it's important to understand the early development. It's true that you can (and always could) use avr-gcc and libc, but the core sale was what makes it not this. The "locked in"/captured API and IDE were dir
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by abstractbeliefs 11mo ago
Arduino has long been fraught with governance and licensing issues, but at its core has been supported first and foremost by a community of keen amateurs and patient professionals teaching in their off time. This is a reminder - never sell
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The End of Tiny Tiny RSS(community.tt-rss.org)
4 points by abstractbeliefs 1y ago|1 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 1y ago
Magic/More Magic switch required.
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by abstractbeliefs 1y ago
ArchiveTeam is working on backing up selected channels/videos to the Internet Archive, where they can also be watched via their Wayback Machine. You can help them decide what is culturally or historically important enough to save. Arch
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"Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told(bbc.co.uk)
36 points by abstractbeliefs 1y ago|13 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 1y ago
for what it's worth, I strongly disagree with the various right wing theories about the _cause_ and specifically the idea that there is intentional exploitation of the demographic shift, but it's not controversial that falling bir
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by abstractbeliefs 1y ago
It's a statement of fact, which is neutral on its own. Where it becomes a right wing talking point (or a discussion about the socio-economic future of a country) broadly comes down to how you present the causes, implications, and neces
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
I'm not sure that source code verification is such a problem. It feels like it's definitely easier to write code to solve a problem than to verify some code written by someone else is correct and fault free.
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FSF to auction off original GNU drawings, RMS award, and historic tech(fsf.org)
18 points by abstractbeliefs 2y ago|5 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
It's not one-or-the-other. You can achieve all that customisability without having to edit the code, while also leaving it as an option for those who want to take it further.
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be." No open source, not selling me as a customer. If you make your entire product about customisation, you're doing me a disservice to not let me adjust the
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
The very first line of the article states that this is a retrospective of the August '23 incident, hence the downvotes.
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
I don't know about this instance in particular, but the vertical scale in similar maps is often exaggerated to make it easier to differentiate the different floors. At the cost of distorting elements with a vertical dimension, it means
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
Forgotten not in the sense of lost knowledge, but more that the individual is not known proportionally to the importance of his work, or perhaps consistently when compared to his peers. While specialists in his field know his work and his n
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Shenzhou-18 crew video on life and work in space aboard Tiangong Space Station(youtube.com)
7 points by abstractbeliefs 2y ago|0 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
No free software no support. You don't have to merge it upstream right away, but publish it for others to study and use as permitted by the license.
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
It's not so funny, because this article was written at the time freenode was burning to the ground, and the article suggests that it would be very easy for everyone to move to libera if it turned out to be the better option. And that i
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
It's a surprise, I'm a UK citizen living in a UK dependency and will shortly be returning to Great Britain, and I can't access it. Huh!
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
You can do it in a virtual machine, and people frequently do. The software can't detect nor escape it. Unrelated (seriously), there's also OARC, the online amateur radio club. It's on discord (boo, proprietary), but it's
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
Yes - the CFAA as a criminal issue requires "mens rea", the intention to commit a crime. Very few laws (such as involuntary manslaughter) have exceptions to this. If you break someone's shit by accident, they can still sue yo
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
Gating access is compartmentalisation. If you're being brought onto, say, missile development, you absolutely will have to submit to both vetting (knowing who you are prior to access) and compartmentalisation (permitting access only to
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
You can say "poorly architected" all you want, but it's true. Military capability is frequently determined by software-implemented behaviours, not data you can plug into a generic public framework. >19 year old developer w
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
The problem is that not all the secrets are so easily extracted - sometimes the design/software is the secret. If you put all the design up for nuclear weapons but just kept the nuclear codes secret it's great that no one can fi
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by abstractbeliefs 2y ago
My objection is: > Your typical color TV effectively created "pixels" by their use of shadow masks and three separate beams. It's true that almost all colour TVs are pixelated and have shadow masks and three separate beams

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