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by aidenn0 8mo ago
It takes me longer to clean than it does for me to make a mess, so if I always start with a clean workspace, I will spend more time cleaning than working.
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
1. This was mostly a joke; Pascal's wager is about gods and many people talk about future super-AI as if it were a god. FWIW I had to google Roko's Basilisk 2. Plenty of humans are smarter than me and many of them, at least occas
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
That's approximately what TFA is about?
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
Of course this is subject to a similar rebuttal to Pascal's Wager (Consider a universe in which the deity punishes all believers): What if a capricious super-intelligence takes over that punishes everyone who didn't buy into the h
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
One thing I've wondered about is: Suppose a civilization (but not species) ending event happens. The industrial revolution was fueled (literally) by easy-to-extract fossil fuels. Do we have enough of those left to repeat the revolutio
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
I remember clocks in my school would sync up by all running forward to 12 at noon (and presumably midnight). I don't know if it was a radio or wired signal.
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
I strongly suspect that GPS time reception is going to use far more battery power than polling NTP.
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
The loopstick antennas used in many inexpensive WWVB receivers have a fairly strong null, so rotating the clock 90 degress can make reception possible.
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by aidenn0 8mo ago
I had a clock where the second hand was not properly balanced and it would miss steps fairly reliably in the second-half of the minute (when the heavier side of the hand was going up). I added some tape to the counterweight to fix it.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Yes, the original comment that this problem doesn't exist in Nix is wrong for a typical user environment. It does contain the issue a bit though: I'm running isync in a systemd service, yet the program "mbsync" is not in
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Shell is already memory safe, so there's not even "we replaced C" to lean on.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
If it's a one off, you just use something like "nix shell" to add it to your path for running the script. For non one-off sorts of things, you would substitute in the nix expression "${gnugrep}/bin/grep" t
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Yes with a but: NixOS simultaneously smooths the path to using absolute paths while putting some (admittedly minor) speed-bumps in the way when avoiding them. If you package something up that uses relative paths it will probably break for
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
FWIW, the test for the gifted program at my elementary school normalized their entrytest results for age.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Depending on your threat model, your check is insufficient, since dd |hexdump will be all zeros even if you just trim all the blocks for a drive that is trim-to-zero. Securely erasing flash drives with a threat model of "someone will d
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
1.21 Gigawatts doesn't sound silly at all!
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
I do remember running Word on an Am386DX-40 and later an i486DX2-66 and there was an issue that wouldn't be a problem with faster hardware; the widow/orphan control happened live so if you made an edit, then hit print, there was a
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
I live in a climate where, for most of the year, the daily high-low temperature range includes 20C, so I'd like a whatever sized one is needed to average that out, and run most of the year without any active heating or cooling.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
rclone is not as good as rsync for doing ad-hoc transfers; for anything not using the filesystem, you need to set up a configuration, which adds friction. It realy is purpose built for recurring transfers rather than "I need to move X
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
I'm agnostic as to the harms vs. benefits of smoking marijuana, it's the smell that bothers me. I personally love the smell of frankincense, but I would understand if my neighbors objected to me burning it regularly.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Smoking tobacco got rarer here, but smoking marijuana has gotten much more common. I don't know if it's just that I grew up with tobacco, but the skunk-like smell of marijuana bothers me a lot more.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
You can make them still images by going into the accessibility settings
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
I have a non-shallow clone and the .git directory is less than 3GB.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
> I am lucky enough to live in a household with fiber-optic internet, that merely shrugs at bandwidth of up to a gigabyte per second... Probably a typo, unless the author really has 8gigabit network
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Mildly surprised to see critical darling Shadow of the Colossus as low as position 40 (though at 91/100 not a bad rating).
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
I suspect many PS2 games were mostly written in C or C++, which greatly simplifies things. Games that used the interface libraries from Sony for e.g. managing input will greatly simplify things as well. One notable exception is the Jak an
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
If a motion adaptive 3d comb filter (which requires comparing successive frames) was present on a TV, you can bet that it would be plastered all over the marketing material for the TV.
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
Or Is this the real life? / Is this just fantasy? / Caught in a landside / No escape from reality
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
This is a lot of print on the question of why a specific lake was chosen as a location in a poem, and it happened primarily because of the prominence of the poem in question. I imagine that there are many poems deemed less important that c
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by aidenn0 9mo ago
36 years ago: A Wyse branded AT clone 12.5MHz 286 with 1MB of ram, a 10MB hard drive and a Hercules graphics card (it was a decommissioned CAD machine from my dad's work).

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