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by ansible 7y ago
I had a former boss (a couple decades ago) that was also fond of the "open the kimono" saying. Ugh. WTF is wrong with saying "full openness" or "full disclosure" or something else that sounds appropriately bu
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by ansible 7y ago
Agreed. This is all crazy what we've been doing to the educational system for the last 30 years, and if we can produce functioning adults from it, it will occur despite the emphasis on test scores, rather than because of it. We had o
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by ansible 7y ago
I'm (still) in the process of re-purposing an old laptop for a home server. 2TB laptop hard drives are a reasonable price, and on older laptops with a CD/DVD drive bay, you can usually get an adapter caddy to put in a second driv
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by ansible 7y ago
Yes, it all sounded reasonable and scientifically plausible, speaking as a guy who's not done much beyond high school chemistry. (Though I did get A's!) The idea that we could take random carbon-based materials and turn it into us
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by ansible 7y ago
Years ago, there were high hopes for technologies like this, such as from Changing World Technologies. [1] The idea was that the thermal depolymerization process would yield useful hydrocarbons and enough methane to run the entire process.
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by ansible 7y ago
Yes, on the one hand, traditional gaming (FPS, etc.) is most of the market now. Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc. But we're on the cusp of VR/AR really taking off. The current all-in-one VR systems are almost good enough for a lot
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by ansible 7y ago
There have been exclusives for other platforms that have eventually made their way to the PC ecosystem. I just saw Halo Reach advertised for the PC. I played the heck out of it when it came out, so I don't have a desire to buy it aga
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by ansible 7y ago
Hah. I still have a Panasonic RX-DS20, purchased around 1990. This is a late-era device, with a CD player in addition to the tape cassette, and digital tuning for radio. It uses 10 D-cell batteries, plus another four AA to store the radi
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by ansible 7y ago
Yeah, I've been eyeing that as a good gift for family. Or myself. I like the old-school stuff that isn't tied to movies or whatever.
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by ansible 7y ago
I feel that Costco is worth it just based on bulk-buying toilet paper, dish detergent, and such.
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by ansible 7y ago
Perl 5 will continue to be the official "Perl". Development on that continues, and it has an extensive community, though not nearly as large as Python, which was once its peer. What was Perl 6 will, moving forward, be known as &q
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by ansible 7y ago
Long running transactions? I didn't think the article implied doing something like that. The job state changes shouldn't take long to execute.
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by ansible 7y ago
Yup. Even disregarding the problems mentioned in the linked post, it isn't going to work well for real-world applications. Fresh or saltwater, any vessel is subject to corrosion and the accumulation of grime (or worse, like barnacles)
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by ansible 7y ago
I'd recommend going with Digilent for FPGA development: https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-for-beginners/ For some products, such as their Zynq 7000 dev boards, you can also get a cheap time-limited copy of Xilinx
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by ansible 7y ago
Huh, that's neat. I'm imagining a follow-on version of this, where the Pi Zero has a battery backup built into the case. So at any time your can just unplug it, and it will go into a low power mode, like sleep on a laptop.
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by ansible 7y ago
I've been using rsnapshot for a decade or more. For a modest amount of data (a few TB) the performance is adequate, and it is easy to verify the backups. It is also easy to restore files, just go into the directory corresponding to t
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by ansible 7y ago
Yeeeeaaaahhhh.... I don't see these as being successful in the short to medium term. Unless it can act exactly like a human (to the point were most / all people can't tell the difference) I think it is going to be too creepy
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by ansible 7y ago
> The only real problem at that point is ocean acidification, which I think won't be reversed by cooling things down again. From what I understand, it will help... eventually. If ambient temperatures come back to normal, then the
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by ansible 7y ago
Agreed. After getting used to that model for building up a particular commit, I wouldn't want to go back to the mercurial way. I used to use mercurial back in the day, before git took over the planet. Switching back to it would be sl
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by ansible 7y ago
The best user interfaces (which include some video games) have great discoverability for new users, while rewarding the user with greater speed and efficiency after learning the app after a time. With all the things mentioned in this thread
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by ansible 7y ago
Few people around here won't think that software patents (at least) are a cancer upon society, draining resources and wasting everyone's time.
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by ansible 7y ago
I was trying to find a way to do that from my desktop system, and could not. I ended up following the link via my Android phone to use Google Pay. Welcome to the mobile world! Insert a joke here about how I'm so old that I remember w
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by ansible 7y ago
As others have mentioned, BrickOS already exists as alternate LEGO Mindstorms software.
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by ansible 7y ago
Ten years ago, that was the only substantial game written in Haskell. That you're citing that same game now is a bit telling. Note the upload date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jYdu2u8gAU
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by ansible 7y ago
The early 2000s Brit tech scene seemed like such an interesting place, but that was based mostly on what I was reading from Need to Know (ntk.net).
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by ansible 7y ago
I wouldn't recommend buying anything that you might ever need to return to the store...
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by ansible 7y ago
> Fry's Electronics .... Oh my gosh, I was in my local Fry's last week, and the store was in such bad shape. It was mid-afternoon on a Saturday, and there were only a dozen cars in the parking lot. So I thought that was stran
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by ansible 7y ago
I don't know if I'll buy any more technical books anymore, even in electronic form. O'Reilly doesn't sell e-books directly, which made me mad. You can get their subscription service, or buy the paper version. I ended up
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by ansible 7y ago
Spectral efficiency is super important. Especially with IoT, because there are going to be so many devices. Trying to do that with old pager network bandwidth would quickly overload the network.
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by ansible 7y ago
I wonder if dual-SIM phones have the capability of setting call acceptance rules based on a schedule.

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