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by aftbit 3y ago
Relevant XKCD as always: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by aftbit 3y ago
Wow a lot of people have very strong feelings about this. Parent comment is fine but some of the replies are quite out there, calling this "arrogant" and "dumb". Let me provide my own opinion. IMO content over style. Nob
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by aftbit 3y ago
C# has an unsafe mode if you need it. I've written some low level hardware twiddling code in C# before. It can also be very fast. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
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by aftbit 3y ago
I always hated that one near the apartment buildings on 80 (or is it 580) by Central (north of El Cerrito). It was blindingly bright and constantly moving. Should be illegal.
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by aftbit 3y ago
I personally like Quart, which is like Flask, but with asyncio. Django is also incredibly popular and has been around forever, so it is very battle-tested.
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by aftbit 3y ago
But now that he has published this as a blog post, could I rewrite it, cite his blog post and whatever sources he cited, and repost to wikipedia?
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by aftbit 3y ago
I like having the application on my machine so I can use it without permission or contact with the remote server, at least after licensing is completed. I find myself working offline more than you might imagine, and I also run desktop softw
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by aftbit 3y ago
Okay, well... then it is broken in THREE ways. First, the link no longer leads to the search, as the redirect seems to strip the parameters. Second, searching the github for "no-one-left-behind" gives no results. Third, this _is_
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by aftbit 3y ago
They are 100% flying DJI drones on 1-way missions. Even a relatively expensive DJI drone costs less than an artillery shell. War is hell in many ways, not least of which is the sheer expense and resource consumption it demands.
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by aftbit 3y ago
If you want to know more about the state of the art here, read more about the Ukraine war, preferably on Slavic language sites. It seems the main defense is electronic warfare, either jamming the GPS or the control signals. This is leading
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by aftbit 3y ago
Most things aren't necessary. Many things are net detrimental to society. We still allow the vast majority of them, because people are free to do what they want with their lives in this world. Just because you have kids doesn't me
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by aftbit 3y ago
Do a search on "non line of sight imaging" (aka NLOS). Here's just one public paper.[1] If this is what is being published, what do you think the intelligence agencies have? 1: https://www.pnas.org/doi/fu
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by aftbit 3y ago
Thanks! I'd never heard of this.[1] Just shows that everything old is new again, and we really need to appreciate the Lorites[2] among us. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q... 2: htt
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by aftbit 3y ago
no-one-left-behind[1] was not even a year ago, and yet the link on npm[2] explaining why it was removed is already broken. Classic JS ecosystem. 1: https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/858 2: https:&#
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by aftbit 3y ago
Does anyone have any ideas on doing the opposite, using something like Asterisk to dial into WebRTC meetings or interact with WebRTC speech recognition services?
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by aftbit 3y ago
I believe you but this never made sense to me. A random internet search shows that there are on the order of 100k gas stations in the USA. It seems like FEMA could come up with on the order of $20M to buy generators for all of them and make
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by aftbit 3y ago
Don't get a Mercedes if you want reliable. Spoken from second hand experience at least. Toyota and Lexus are hard to beat.
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by aftbit 3y ago
Hi! I'm one of these people. All three of those conditions are true for me, and yet I don't own an EV. Why? Because it seems like the technology is going to be much much better and cheaper in 5 years or less, and I'd hate to
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by aftbit 3y ago
>At the end of the year, there is nothing to report and nothing to pay. That is what I was reacting to. You still need to file taxes in the EU right? I know they have streamlined it a lot in most countries, but there is indeed something
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by aftbit 3y ago
This is an especially weird place to complain about length bounds checking, as no user-provided data is used here, and all the sizes are static at compile time. curl is putting a base64-encoded 16 byte random string (which turns into 25 ASC
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by aftbit 3y ago
The EU doesn't have income tax? I think that's false.
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by aftbit 3y ago
While I'm here, does anyone know of a good trustworthy RAT for Windows machines that I can control from my Linux box? I have some relatives for whom I provide technical support. I'd love to just put an EXE on their desktop that wo
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by aftbit 3y ago
>Unregulated markets, such as cryptocurrency, privacy, etc. seem to cause most of the problems. Can you expand on this a bit? This feels a bit like a cause and effect confusion to me. Perhaps the unregulated markets are just where the &q
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by aftbit 3y ago
Dunkelflaute (dark and calm) is indeed a real problem for a renewable-only future. If you want to maintain current reliability statistics with solar/wind only, you need to overbuild both storage and generation to such an extreme level
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by aftbit 3y ago
Ah I see. Let me write up a few thoughts about the "big 3" nuclear accidents. Chernobyl was a very poor design, with a positive void coefficient of reactivity (i.e. temperature goes up, steam goes up, reactivity goes up, leading t
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by aftbit 3y ago
Thank you for the quotes. Can you provide the source too? Google search returns only this page for quoted searches for this text.
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by aftbit 3y ago
>So why bother with all this when the Python would be like ten lines? Why not just write the Python to write this? Seems like you could add things like functions and generalizations to your meta-programming language and generate simple P
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by aftbit 3y ago
This is one small benefit to working on a lot of Python 2.7 software. It never breaks anymore. Of course the deps are no longer updated and security issues are starting to pile up, but if your software doesn't process the wrong kinds o
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by aftbit 3y ago
Datetimes are naive in my database. The fundamental problem with the change you recommend is that I cannot then compare those two different datetimes. For example, today I might do: user_over_30d_old = user.created_at < datetime.datetime
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by aftbit 3y ago
I remember when I lived there, they had to get a special exemption to use self-checkout machines made by 3M in the Berkeley library. I don't remember why 3M ended up on the bad boy list, probably something related to nuclear weapons th

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