alkonaut

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by alkonaut 2y ago
It seems sketchy as hell legally. The problem is that unlike e.g. car manufacturers, there is no specification or standard for what consumables must satisfy (like SAE10W30 engine oil). If you use the right oil, you should be fine. If someon
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Luckily for laser, the warranty is likely to last as long as the original toner for most users. I don't think it's right you can't use third party toner/cartridges, but I also don't expect manufacturers to honor war
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Anything that can be done in a follow-up shouldn't have to block a PR. But if the architecture is wrong, it's better to fix before than after. You are speeding your teams throughput by pointing out the problem earlier rather than
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes, I have 2 (nuget and git). But I obviously have many more text based configuration files than those. They just happen to have a name with a dot.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes windows. That’s my point: dotfiles are synonymous with ”configuration files” on Linux/Unix but not elsewhere so making a ”cross platform dotfiles manager” seems like a contradiction almost.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
At least on Linux they do yes. But this is cross platform. A Normal total number of dotfiles on a windows system is about 0 or 1.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Is this using ”dotfiles” as a general term for ”text based configuration files”? Is this a thing? I only have two actual dotfiles on my system (git and one more)
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> There’s no point in designing a new engine if it doesn’t significantly improve on the state of the art Oh but there is. I would love to see more European alternatives to US designs even at 5% less efficiency and power. Surely it can’t
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Why translate 1-2 words? That makes no sense. Words don't map 1-1 or 1-2 or 2-1. It would make sense to enter a sentence, select 1-3 words as important, then highlight the same 1-3 words in the translated sentence. But translating the
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Is there no vetting of people who either hold office or senior government positions in the US now? One of the most basic things you do when doing a security clearance is checking that you don't have any bad things in your closet. Subst
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Most businesses aren't going to be well-capitalized startups. Because that kind of capital usually goes to businesses that can scale very quickly and to a large size. But say I have an idea for a business, where the total number of cus
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit2/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. That’s… certainly a low bar for not sucking
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Patent troll level 10/10
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I think you are on to something here
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The photons will also create heat and that heat can be used for useful work at any time, even when there are no photons hitting that side of the earth. For example it will evaporate water which will later condense into rivers, where you can
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I thought it was obvious but apparently not. Sarcasm is only funny when not tagged with the /s.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I did some back of the envelope calculations for this and it turns out that almost all life will eventually evolve to have reasonable protection against it. Except in Australia.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Lucky enough to get really quick relief from over the counter migraine meds (triptanes) at even tiny doses. Life changing when I realized I didn't have to do just obscene amounts of ibuprofen and coffee for pretty poor results, and eve
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If we do the fusion in zero g then we have solved the confinement issue. The problem is creating conditions for fusion in zero g. The simplest way would probably be aggregating enough material to a single spot that gravity itself creates co
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What does it mean to pick a number at random between zero and one? Does "picking a number at random" even make sense for an infinitely large set where you can't describe most items? Isn't "picking" the act of
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Brake systems have already gone from mostly mechanical/hydraulic to more and more electronic with ABS, radar-autobraking, individual wheel braking with ESP and so on. The drivers brake pedal is just one of many inputs to the eventually
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by alkonaut 2y ago
As far as I'm aware, any online identifier, even a random number created by me, falls under the GDPR. This answer lays it out pretty well https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/82133/are-auto-gener...
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by alkonaut 2y ago
They salt the values and compute id = hash(daily_salt + IP + UA). Then they remove those every 24 hours. I think it sounds like a perfectly reasonable solution.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The arc describes the full motion, and the solution we seek is when F(x)=0 which is when the ball hits the ground. There is no mathematical curve that starts at my hand at (x=0m, y=1m) and ends at the ground. We use the full quadratic curve
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> (Pseudo) anonymized attribution is a bit of a solved problem and you can do it with or without cookies. How is it typically done without cookies then? > any probabilistic approach is either relatively inaccurate reduces it's u
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If I toss a ball at a 45 degree angle then the motion it describes is a quadratic parabola. That means the solutions for where it hits the ground is going to be either a positive t, and a positive x (It lands somewhere in front of me, after
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I mean you can probably do something clever with this like rainbow tables on fingerprints or something like that which is more probabilistic so you never store individual fingerprints. Would be interesting to know what the solution is.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Does the no-cookie thing mean you can't count e.g. unique/returning visitors? Or is there any privacy-friendly way of doing that?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
How do people who use periods disambiguate it? It’s simply ambiguous without context.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The field is final, not it’s contents. It’s not a ”final list” on that field, it’s a (mutable) list that is the final assignment of a field. Mutability or immutability is part of the type not the field so you have 4 combinations in total L

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