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by ansible 6y ago
And accomplished jack-all. The real problem is not China producing cheap steel, but human rights abuses, and censorship. 45 hasn't done anything about that.
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by ansible 6y ago
He's paid taxes on... something. If he was just persuing licencing deals, but didn't land any, you'd think there would be no income tax that needs to be paid in China.
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by ansible 6y ago
These days, I fail to see any need to put anything in the .bashrc file. If there is some non-interactive use of bash, I just want a clean environment, and everything scp or ssh needs should be on the standard $PATH. There's no point in
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by ansible 6y ago
I had bought the hardcover when it first came out, but always wanted the CDROM version when I had heard of it. It is a shame it hasn't made it online somewhere convenient. I believe it remains one of the seminal works in SF, and holds
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by ansible 6y ago
> It's also quite problematic, in that this tends to create a lot of reliance on non-standardized compiler behavior and quirks. While that may be a problem in other communities, with Rust there is a general aversion to undefined b
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by ansible 6y ago
I would assume though that any software they release that might be useful to the general public will also have the cargo files. Which will then be well-maintained and in-tree.
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by ansible 6y ago
I wonder if this is why color printers won't print out black & white print jobs when they run out of color ink, even if they still have black ink.
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by ansible 6y ago
And it sounds like you are sure the laws of physics don't apply to aliens. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by ansible 6y ago
> The point is it's arrogant to say what's impossible for all time, because nearly everything we do today was impossible a short thousand years ago. I never said impossible , I said impractical . If you are content with rea
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by ansible 6y ago
> It's arrogance because you think that your current system of science is relevant. Civilization has been around for only 5000 years. So, if magic exists, there also might be aliens. Got it. > How do you know other planets do
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by ansible 6y ago
Eh, no it isn't arrogance. It is math and physics. Have a look at a few links. So first off, chemical propulsion is right out: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/why-chem... You really need some
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by ansible 6y ago
I did used to entertain the idea of aliens visiting this solar system. And then I better understood the stupendous energy requirements for a two-way trip to even the very closest neighboring solar system. And it is just not practical, even
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by ansible 6y ago
I switched to mousing lefty a long time ago. If you want to get up to speed, just play a few games of solitaire or something like that. Unfortunately, gaming while mousing lefty is often inconvenient. Many games are set up assuming your l
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by ansible 6y ago
There was still a punch card reader in the terminal room of Math/Sci, but I had never seen someone use it. When I visited ISU a couple years previously, they were still using paper tape for storage on one of their PDP-11s. So I just m
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by ansible 6y ago
I'm old, but I'm just young enough to have missed that era. I think they still had some paper terminals somewhere, not sure. Even my dorm had a Lear Siegler ADM 3 in the basement for students to use, right next to a Wang word
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by ansible 6y ago
For me, a lot of those use cases are covered by GNU screen. I can quickly switch between multiple terminals (which I label with names like 'edit', 'build', 'run', and 'console'). I've experiment
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by ansible 6y ago
> We divested networking back in the ‘90s, we divested PCs back in the 2000s, we divested semiconductors about five years ago Motorola followed that path. They sold off their computer business in the early 1990's. Analog electroni
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by ansible 6y ago
IBM killed their own PC business by going with the MCA bus, and not allowing 3rd parties to make expansion boards without a license. And the PS/2 series was quite expensive at the time.
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by ansible 6y ago
Kudos for trying this out! This is a topic that I have pursued on and off over the years: http://partiallyappliedlife.blogspot.com/2010/06/writing-cod... The phone development environment, even with the excellent
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by ansible 6y ago
Yes. That would have been worth a trip on its own. Though it is a lesser priority, I'd still enjoy seeing the full-size Gundam they're building in Japan. https://soranews24.com/2020/08/07/japans-new
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by ansible 6y ago
> The same with 3D movies, if you don't want to look directly at what the director wanted you to look at, you end up getting seasick. They could do statistical gaze tracking on a 2D version of the movie scene using a small test au
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by ansible 6y ago
I was using Coherent, a Unix-like operating system famous for its thick manual in the early 1990s. I eventually switched over to Linux due to the limitations like networking. I had wanted to set up an NFS server at home. I bought a set of 5
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by ansible 6y ago
You can use video game mode to disable additional video processing, which also lag time (incoming data to display in screen).
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by ansible 6y ago
I am quite capable of "serious, violent crime". Have I ever done so? No. I've had a relatively easy life, all things considered. I've never been truly desperate. I've never wondered where my next meal will come f
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by ansible 6y ago
It seems it will be necessary for DO to put more of a burden on potential t-shirt recipients to prove that they are making valid PRs and acting in good faith. A first step would be to only allow contributions to selected projects that have
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by ansible 6y ago
Though there doesn't seem to be much activity there since 2015.
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by ansible 6y ago
I must congratulate you on having a settings icon not be a gear, or even a less meaningful tool of some sort.
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by ansible 6y ago
> The process name doesn’t have anything to do with the physical dimensions of the transistor. It’s a marketing term, a lower number implying a newer node. It seems I'm definitely in grumpy old man territory these days when things
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by ansible 6y ago
Going 3D will help with physical density. But it doesn't give as much benefit to factors like cost and heat dissipation. It may be worth it for relatively low power uses like memory. And minimizing signal length.
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by ansible 6y ago
> At each node, process cost and complexity are skyrocketing, so now the cadence for a fully scaled node has extended from 18 months to 2.5 years or longer. In addition, fewer foundry customers can afford to move to advanced nodes. So

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