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by ansible 3y ago
Yes. If the PC support folks don't need the manual, just send it along with the monitor to the end user. Why did they need to throw the manuals away so fast?
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by ansible 3y ago
We're dealing with fundamental limitations of I/O though, which is causing the delays. I want to write stuff to disk (SSD these days). I can issue a request, then have to wait tens to hundreds of milliseconds (in the average case,
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by ansible 3y ago
> later, when I tried to extract some large files from the backup, I saw that they had been replaced with some text files, containing a message that the download of those files failed. That's a really asinine failure mechanism. At
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by ansible 3y ago
The "spin the entire stack" was an interesting approach to staging as well. It is theoretically very simple and elegant, by just using the existing RCS thrusters for separating. It wasn't clear to me if this also obviates th
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by ansible 3y ago
The timing for the staging is interesting. On the one hand, you want to light the Starship engines (the 2nd stage) while the SuperHeavy (1st stage) is still accelerating the entire stack. This is to keep the propellants at the bottom of the
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by ansible 3y ago
Symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning is a quite interesting field. I think the design choices of projects like wikidata.org and CYC severely limit the application of this though. For example, on the wikidata help page, they talk
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by ansible 3y ago
I bought a Pixel 6a earlier this year, and traded in my Pixel 3a for $150 USD off the $300 sale price. Other than the fingerprint reader being kind of terrible, it was worth it to get a new battery and OS updates for the next few years for
98.
by ansible 3y ago
The final assembly, while it doesn't cost nothing, isn't that expensive. What does cost more is final testing, to make sure all the components work together. It is cheaper to do that well at the end of the assembly process before
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by ansible 3y ago
I think this is an interesting approach. A child may collectively spend hours looking at toy blocks, to train themselves to understand how what they see maps to an object in three dimensional space. But later on, the child may see a dog for
100.
by ansible 3y ago
If we are to develop understandable AGI, I think that some kind of (mathematically correct) probabilistic reasoning based on a symbolic knowledge base is the way to go. You would probably need to have some version of a Neural Net on the fro
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by ansible 3y ago
On some monitors (more typically the older ones), the EDID is just stored in an I2C EEPROM. So it may be possible to just re-program it. I don't know what they do on newer monitors, it could just be something listening to the I2C in t
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by ansible 3y ago
I've been listening to the Aubrey / Maturin book series by Patrick O'Brian, narrated by Patrick Tull. To my untrained ear he seems to do a good job with the various UK accents of the different characters, as well as various o
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by ansible 3y ago
If I wanted to use my stove, microwave or dishwasher (all flat buttons), I might try to put a little Sugru on the surface to outline the important ones like the +30 seconds button.
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by ansible 3y ago
Yes, Chandrayaan-3 definitely did not performance a hoverslam, the landing was much more conservative than that. With a hoverslam, everything has to go exactly right. A valve that is slightly sticky can be enough to wreak everything.
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by ansible 3y ago
> Can we please not value people's life in money? It feels quite icky to do this, but it is necessary when making policy decisions. Every day, governments and corporations decide to spend (or not spend) X amount of dollars to save
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by ansible 3y ago
> rehabilitation ... That's politically pretty unappealing Here in the USA, yes. Some EU countries take this quite a bit more seriously, to good effect.
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by ansible 3y ago
It helps a lot that the Moon's gravity is about 1/6th of Earth's.
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by ansible 3y ago
Yes, it was a very conservative landing trajectory. But it is very, very difficult to get a hoverslam right the first time, or the second, or the third... I did like seeing the live images captured during descent, I also hope those get made
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by ansible 3y ago
Link to the Scott Manley video - The Real Reason Why Chandrayaan 2 Crashed on the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngVl6iO94c
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by ansible 3y ago
Yep. But the LDS Church is apparently being very systematic and crafting the mission for a specific intent that is not what it purports to be.
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by ansible 3y ago
I recently read an interesting and very cynical take on the LDS Church's proselyting missions, which actually implies the opposite of assimilation into the larger society. The goal is for these young people, naive and hopeful, to go ou
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by ansible 3y ago
The GP would need to see if they have ever used any Transunion service. There is probably a click-wrap agreement that you can't sue for basically any reason. Maybe it will go to arbitration, where they won't do squat for regular p
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by ansible 3y ago
Many consoles had quite a learning curve for developers. And you see some drastic improvement in quality between early titles in the console lifetime and the last major exclusives for them. (There are more than a few examples of poor quali
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by ansible 3y ago
While most of the major consoles for the 9th generation are basically just locked-down PCs, there are still interesting innovations going on. One of the interesting tradeoffs with AR/VR systems is that there is less emphasis on just fr
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by ansible 3y ago
Almond milk or oat milk?
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by ansible 3y ago
I assume this issue is the same with almond milk? I'm almost always buying oatmilk, though.
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by ansible 3y ago
What's the overall Scheme community look like these days? How much are new libraries targeting the specifications (like R6RS) vs. just targeting a specific implementation like Racket, Guile or Chicken Scheme? What forces are keeping th
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by ansible 3y ago
Yes. If you need to do some text manipulation in a shell script, `sed` or something like that is what I'd reach for first. (I haven't used `awk` or Perl for quite a while.) I'd think even `ed` would be a more straightforward
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by ansible 3y ago
I've never used those features, and instead rely on GNU screen (or `term`) to manage my terminal windows. Sometimes I also use horizontal / vertical splits with GNU screen, but it is a bit clunky.
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by ansible 3y ago
In that vein, you are probably fine with whatever version of Vim is installed by your distro. But if you want LSP support for more cutting-edge stuff (like Rust), you probably need to install the latest release of Neovim by hand, not using

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