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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I've been programming in Common Lisp for a quarter century and that list item made me cringe.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I've noticed that a lot of objective measures of image quality prefer blur to ringing, but many subjective measurements tilt the other way.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Car keys usually use a wavelength of 1 meter; networking on your phone is going to be typically shorter than 15cm (though varies widely based on geographic region and carrier). A faraday box for your phone might not work for your car keys.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Seems like that would significantly raise the center-of-gravity making it less stable?
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Maybe a Multiple Use Labor Element?
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Did you see the 26 minute long video?
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
It took several hours to do the first time, and it will take several hours to do the next time. Sounds repeatable to me :)
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Had he acted in real life the way he did on c.l.l, I strongly suspect he would have been punched a lot more often. Certainly one eulogy I read of him led with the sentence: "Erik Naggum was the first person I killfiled in GNUS."
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I'm not sure how much of this is complicated because of NixOS; going this far off the beaten path would be rather complicated in any distro. I'd be a lot more sure if the author had posted their nixos configuration somewhere...
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Yes, I was wondering if they really last longer than sodium-vapor lamps, which last about 5 years at a 50% duty cycle.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_...
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I have never lived in SF but I have failed similar Chinatown-during-lunar-new-year tests in all 3 places I lived for more than a year. I have no doubt that an AI, particularly one that continually gets traffic update from some external sou
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Is Troup bowling without using the thumbhole? That was a no-no when I learned bowling, with conventional wisdom being it would put a ceiling on your performance.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Besides electrical noise, there are mechanical issues as well. I've seen systems fail memtest86+ after being moved, and the issue being fixed after reseating the DIMMs. ECC can catch mis-seated DIMMs very quickly.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I really liked their comparison matrix, it's honest about what it does and what it doesn't do. I'll probably go with Kobo + Koreader when my current ereader gives up the ghost, but given that 4" ereaders seem to be all
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Dinners with my extended family are like this (everybody talking at the same time, most people participating in two simultaneous conversations). After moving away for college, my sister would not talk during dinners when visiting because s
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I wear an analog watch; I've never spent over $200 on a watch, despite being a bit picky (I insist on a day-of-week feature). Seiko doesn't seem to make the movement in my watch anymore (5M83), but the equivalent automatic-winding
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
USB 3.0 Hubs have always been pretty "meh" for me. I think the quality control, even on name brands, is poor.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Then they start calling it "buproto" or something. Firefox has a trademark too, but that didn't stop debian from distributing the same thing under the name Iceweasel...
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
RE: SQLITE_BUSY: I would replace "often" with "nearly always." On top of that, it's often not fixed even when pointed out. "This software only has one writer, so we don't need to handle SQLITE_BUSY"
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
With 8kb of registers for just this one feature, what does a modern process-control-block look like?
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I encountered that on exchange to a Gymnasium in the '90s. I liked it better than the Palmer I learned in the US.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
+1 for the rollerball recommendation. It's hard to describe what it's like using something like the STABILO worker after using ball-point pens for years. Compared to a ball-point it feels like the ink is jumping out of the pen, a
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
I believe liability is an issue too. In aviation (as compared with autos) the manufacturer is often found partially liable for an accident, so they can be on the hook even if it was mostly the fault of the operator.
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Not to mention they are spending an awful lot of money on developing anti-satellite missiles for having a working directed-energy weapon that can do the same. I'm sure they are experimenting with directed-energy ASAT technology though,
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
IMO All it exposed was writing past the end of buffers. There was no memory corruption previously due to partially to luck, and partially to heavy testing (which would have exposed most forms of memory corruption). I think it is fare to s
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Many problems can be solved with either macros or higher-order-functions. The advantage of macros is two-fold (macros also have disadvantages, and Lisp allows you to use either solution; deciding which to use is often a matter of taste): 1
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
Japan has a history of train-driving sims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_simulator#Driving_simula...
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by aidenn0 3mo ago
What I described was for bugfixes, not features. Features were set in stone way before this. I also maintain that it is impossible to know which changes depend on other changes. In one case, applying a bugfix that changed the order of all

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