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by ansible 7y ago
I'd have liked to have Android Auto for my Prius, but overall it isn't too bad, because I have the super-basic version of Entune. It plays BT and USB audio files, and has dedicated buttons for voice command, call and hangup. The v
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by ansible 7y ago
The Walmarts I've been in recently have improved considerably on the presentation front. Shopping at a local Walmart 20 years ago was an unpleasant experience. Junk in the aisles, which were quite narrow, making it hard to maneuver pa
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by ansible 7y ago
Moore's Law is indeed dying. But consider this... The valuations of Intel, Nvidia, AMD and other chip makers are tied to Moore's Law, right? What's the point of buying a new GPU card, if your old one is good enough to play g
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by ansible 7y ago
Scott Manley has a reaction video to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D353IVwY_1g He seems to think it holds promise and is looking forward to playing it.
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by ansible 7y ago
As a programming language dilletante, who has poked around in most interesting languages and dipped into many communities, a major syntax change seems like a very bad idea. That said, if you're going to get rid of parens, look at Haske
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by ansible 7y ago
Gyrocoptors have been, and still continue to be a thing, for like... 85 years. The design has not been ever marketed as a "flying car" (to my knowledge), though it does have a relatively short takeoff roll compared to conventiona
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by ansible 7y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't get it. I can understand if you want to do something wacky with FUSE. Something like mounting a PostScript or JSON file, and using the filesystem interface to observe and modify the co
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by ansible 7y ago
From what I've seen, I believe that Fuchsia is intended to eventually replace GNU Linux based Android as the mobile platform for Google... eventually. The idea is to have a good platform for VR/AR apps (soft real-time processing
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Crazy Engineer's Drawing Robot / Arduino GRBL CoreXY Servo Drawbot(arnabkumardas.com)
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by ansible 7y ago
Where are people going to go if they want to do science? OK, the ESA, Japan, India. Maybe China. But is there anywhere else to go in the USA?
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by ansible 7y ago
In the case of CockroachDB (a distributed database), it has the same wire-level protocol as Postgresql. So if your programming language has a Postgresql driver (and it likely does), then you can also talk to a CDB database as well. The SQL
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by ansible 7y ago
The latest I've heard on /r/SpaceX is that the propulsive landing is completely off the table for this vehicle. I suppose they might retain the ability in case of a chute failure, but that would be it. I'd still like to
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by ansible 7y ago
As long as I don't have to do hardware development, the Windows Services for Linux works pretty well for me with regards to command-line tools. I've been un-installing cygwin on my systems recently.
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by ansible 7y ago
> This is also solvable by Android taking a slightly different approach. Isolating the OS and security framework so that it can always just be updated. I think that is the plan with Fuchsia. The core of the OS is small. The drivers ca
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by ansible 7y ago
On the Toyota Prius (2016-) you can have the lane departure warning on, while turning off the steering assist. The steering assist was one of the first things I turned off on it, otherwise it might activate literally every time I drive home
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by ansible 7y ago
I've been suspicious of TikTok since I've heard of it. So you're making some social media / video sharing app... not that the world needs another one, but fine, whatever. Why on earth do you need to spend money on advert
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by ansible 7y ago
I said "impractical", not "impossible". Yes, it can be done. The question is if it can be done economically. > ... we can do big oil rigs on the shelf than in fact we can do solar panels like this with a submerged o
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by ansible 7y ago
This is a cute idea, but every part of it sounds impractical. The sea brings with it storms and waves (as mentioned in the article) but it also brings: saltwater corrosion, barnacles and other sea life trying to live on your equipment, serv
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by ansible 7y ago
I encourage people to put up bat houses, one of the mosquito's natural predators.
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by ansible 7y ago
Gah. Cold patch. That stuff seems to be next to useless, with approximately the same effectiveness as just pouring gravel into the pothole. It just spreads out everywhere.
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by ansible 7y ago
I'm learning it now. The async / await stuff is great to have in the core, but isn't something that was otherwise holding me up from learning it. I believe that after I fully integrate the Zen of Rust, that I will be writing
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by ansible 7y ago
> I think it's a myth that a person can choose whether or not they're a hard worker. It's most likely a matter of neurochemistry far beyond conscious control. There's debate as to if free will exists at all. If the
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by ansible 7y ago
They do this for the 2nd stage of the Electron rocket, though the batteries are not recovered. Scott Manley video: https://youtu.be/U5k1mlu6A7I?t=106
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by ansible 7y ago
We used to ship a lot of plastic waste back to China in what would be otherwise empty shipping containers. The movie "Plastic China" shows what the other end of that looks like: https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Chin
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by ansible 7y ago
Plastic pollution is a general problem for everyone, including in the USA. If we're talking specifically about plastic pollution in waterways, the USA is nowhere close to the top of the list for that particular problem . In the USA, w
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by ansible 7y ago
Damn, that's... phrases like "searing injustice" don't adequately convey the gravity of it. I can't imagine living in such a situation. One day, you're a fine and valued member of society. And then your (ofte
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by ansible 7y ago
In general I think that programs using the POSIX API to deal with system calls, threads, and signals is unnecessarily hard to do correctly . Especially if you want good performance. I'd welcome some completely new operating system AP
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by ansible 7y ago
I thought if you enabled the beta version, you could try any Windows game using Proton. I tried Proton a while back. My experience was hit and miss with my particular collection.
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by ansible 7y ago
In my note taking "system" (vim on a text file inside a GNU screen session) for work, I think I've only hit 1MB total for the last 10 years. If the OP is going to do a time-unlimited demo, it should be really small, like 5K o
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by ansible 7y ago
I'm on the Epic store because they have been giving away games I had wanted to play, specifically Transistor and What Remains of Edith Finch. It remains to be seen how much money I'll spend there. Most of my purchases these days a

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