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601.
by ansible 6y ago
Yes. The only thing I'd suggest is to call for volunteers from "sane" subreddits that seem to have a good moderation policy and reasonable moderators. The problem there is that the above people are already likely quite busy,
602.
by ansible 6y ago
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
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by ansible 6y ago
I was really excited about Java back in the day. My friend and I back in the 1990's started working on a STEM website that would have made use of Java applets. The idea was to present algebra concepts with graphing applets where you
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by ansible 6y ago
Back in the day, playing /usr/games/hunt against other people would hone your VI movement keys muscle memory rather quickly. On the multiuser Unix systems at Purdue, it was typical to have at least half a dozen people on the
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by ansible 6y ago
I was worried about something similar. I was wondering if the artist at least applied some tape or something to the inside surfaces of the glass to prevent the shards from separating.
606.
by ansible 6y ago
There are things like the Epstein drive that is nearly "magic". It is as if you had some device that could do direct matter-energy conversion with 99.999999999999999999999% efficiency. Beyond that, they do treat maneuvering in sp
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by ansible 6y ago
While I loved the show, the science was particularly bad. For example, in the pilot episode, they pass by a Reaver ship while enroute to another planet. The encounter occurs slowly enough for the crew to get a long look at the Reaver ship a
608.
by ansible 6y ago
From what I understand, all the developers have day jobs or are independently wealthy and can afford to work on it without (much?) pay. They haven't accepted VC money, even though that would likely have sped up development considerabl
609.
by ansible 6y ago
HiFive Unmatched has up to 16GB of RAM: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched But it is a little pricey.
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by ansible 6y ago
I would be happy if they just released a instruction-level simulator to play around with. It would also be super-nice if they released at least a Copper or Tin core (low-end) that can be synthesized to an FPGA for people to try out.
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by ansible 6y ago
> Is there anything about RISC-V that is "better" simply because it is a later design than others? A lot of it is because it is newer, and the designers have learned from previous architectures. It is a relatively clean and
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by ansible 6y ago
> It is a low-cost, low tech way to verify that the camera is not picking up usable images. It is definitely not low cost . In the hardware business, we count pennies. We count fractions of pennies with the costs of various compone
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by ansible 6y ago
> I'd label the potential risks as "AP" as in artificial psychopathy, but that would be OUR fault, because we set the conditions for the emergence of those. I'd say we're at a decent risk of something worse tha
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by ansible 6y ago
> ...but with a good Wayland compositor... Up until 2020, I didn't use screen sharing all that much, so the lack of support for that wasn't a big deal with using Wayland. Now days though... this is a problem. I feel sorry fo
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by ansible 6y ago
> Having an opinion you strongly believe in is not enough to make it true or right. Of course it isn't enough. That's why the media outlets in question will make up facts, or really slant things to appear to carry sufficient
616.
by ansible 6y ago
Let me be very clear, I do wish there was an objective set of facts that are agreed to by both sides. But that doesn't seem to be true anymore. > There are good statistics on the number of deaths and positive tests for Covid. Ther
617.
by ansible 6y ago
While you may believe that NPR is mostly balanced, I assure you that one side does not. They view it with derision, and believe it is the epitome of bias. And they will view just about any media source not aligning with their view similar
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by ansible 6y ago
And I do have a very strong opinion on all that. I just wanted to note that the "other side" that I'm not on, also believes basically the same thing with regards to my side.
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by ansible 6y ago
Almost everyone (including really terrible people) don't want people killed. That is why it is often necessary to de-humanize the enemy. We give them labels, make them not worthy of the protections of civil society, and then it is
620.
by ansible 6y ago
Welcome to identity politics! There is "us", and there is "them". If you are not a part of "us" then you are an enemy. Some of the most dangerous enemies are people who previously appeared to be part of &quot
621.
by ansible 6y ago
I'm glad they halted that. But it reduces the common area we can even discuss anything going on this week in politics. Taking a step back... We've got these two sides. Regardless of the merits, each side believes they know the t
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by ansible 6y ago
5.25in drives did not vanish immediately. The transition occurred over a period of years. What really got things going in PC compatible land was the PS/2 series of desktops from IBM, which couldn't even fit a 5.25in drive in the
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by ansible 6y ago
Yes, the 5.25in drives were phasing out by 1990, in part because of the IBM PS/2 series computers. It wasn't uncommon to buy software that had the option of either (or in some cases both) in the early 1990's. What was really
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by ansible 6y ago
Even the ZX80 / 81 had far more usefulness than Atari BASIC. People wrote video games for it. Puzzle games like Black Box, board games like Chess (yes, I know the 2600 also had Chess, but you couldn't develop a Chess program on th
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by ansible 6y ago
What I don't get is why anyone would believe that the Presidential election was stolen, yet not also believe that down-ballot races were also stolen. Oh, right, because they weren't. Yes, Dems, barely managed to flip the Senate.
626.
by ansible 6y ago
Yes. Also consider that 45 is not the typical poor defendant, who cannot afford adequate representation in court. He is (theoretically) a billionaire, and can afford $1K/hour constitutional law experts. The fact that 45 and his crack
627.
by ansible 6y ago
Usually as part of the impeachment vote, the Senate also decides if the President should be banned from holding office ever again. This would prevent a 2024 run by 45.
628.
by ansible 6y ago
Heh. This reminds me that there was a link to an interview about a dramatic shift in funding models for content creators. The person being interviewed was really in it for... 1.5 months. The "veterans" were in it for less than a
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by ansible 6y ago
If you want to learn clustering with physical hardware, and you don't have the power and size constraints, you're better off buying some off-lease business desktops. These i3 and i5 systems with 4 to 8GB of RAM can be had for les
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by ansible 6y ago
Fortunately, the 737-MAX / 737-8 is visually distinctive from the previous generations of 737. Or you could just avoid all 737s.

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