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by antod 8y ago
Comparing UFW to pf is apples and oranges. Using a more apples to apples comparison, pf is way simpler than iptables. By bringing up UFW which is an iptables wrapper, you're not looking for a pf alternative so much as a pf wrapper. But
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by antod 8y ago
Static force analysis is independent of the materials (well except for the weight of those materials). It is working out what the loads will be on each member. Designing how those members resist/react to those loads is dependent on the
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by antod 8y ago
Not necessarily. Static analysis means a specific thing in structural engineering. Pin jointed frames with diagonal members (eg trusses) are easy to analyse with just geometry (statically determinate). But moment resisting frames without di
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by antod 8y ago
I can't help feel that most of that fun was the relative novelty at the time. Without that novelty, it's not so fun any more. Although I miss Usenet more than GeoCities and webrings etc
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by antod 9y ago
17.10 you mean? I haven't enjoyed that release at all, for me personally Ubuntu's Gnome 3 (could be everyone's Gnome 3 - I dunno) is just clunky and buggy compared to Unity. I'll upgrade to 18.04, but if it isn't an
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by antod 9y ago
Good point about the benefit side of the equation, but also on the cost side even though Google probably knows much more about me I'd still trust Google more than Facebook to not leak that data to someone else.
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by antod 9y ago
Or to try and explain that better... It's not a chart library, but a framework for wiring up dynamic data to collections of DOM nodes (either HTML or SVG) in any way you like. eg you can write specific chart libraries using it. It is o
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by antod 9y ago
I hope this makes sense: It's not so much for people wanting to make new 'instances' of a visualisation. It's more for people wanting to make new 'classes' of visualisations.
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by antod 9y ago
They must've meant AROS http://www.aros.org/
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by antod 9y ago
There are plenty of examples of the word 'discover' being used to describe finding out things someone else already knows. eg the cops discovering who a murderer is, or the legal process of 'discovery' etc etc. It isn&#x2
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by antod 9y ago
And as a developer you could get a basic v100 (or was it v120?) 1U 'server' from Sun really cheaply. Sure it was a single CPU with a PATA disk and no hotswap or redundant components, but it was a cheap SPARC you could test your st
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by antod 9y ago
Are you talking about the on site engineers supervising the project build (kinda menial work), or the up front design engineers working with the architects? For the former yeah I can kinda see where your coming from, but for the latter ther
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by antod 9y ago
> the structural engineer's trade is no different than any other construction trade, and has a contribution -- framed in financial terms, or in terms of common good -- on the scale of that of a (qualified) tradesman. Not sure how
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by antod 9y ago
Would it be too presumptuous to assume you have less structural engineering experience than you do with software? You seem to be forgetting that vast majority of software development is churning out the same old buggy barely maintainable CR
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by antod 9y ago
Based on the location of the epicentre, there was no way of getting a 60 sec (or any) warning if you were in Christchurch that day. It would've been useful in the 2016 Kaikoura quake though - watching the models* of how that fault unzi
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by antod 9y ago
I can also vouch for the T530 working perfectly (Ubuntu).
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by antod 9y ago
The first Microsoft software I ever used was on the Amiga (AmigaBASIC). And while it was kinda cool for a BASIC implementation in those days, it was pretty damn buggy.
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by antod 9y ago
My first job was AutoCAD drafting in the early 90s with pen plotters. I can't say I missed them when we replaced them with A1 inkjets and A3 laser printers (for quick small drafts). Very slow and noisy when you needed to get work done,
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by antod 9y ago
Can something be effortless and a bother at the same time?
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by antod 9y ago
"We didn't feel we had conquered Everest, we felt that Everest had relented."
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by antod 9y ago
I don't know about others, I want my police force judged by their worst interactions rather than the majority of their interactions. I want the standards set high enough that all those bad things practically never happen rather than so
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by antod 9y ago
It's not supposed to install via "apt upgrade", as that command won't pull in new packages or remove packages. Unlike most, kernel packages can co exist so they are all separate packages. Thus need the extra "apt-ge
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by antod 9y ago
I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel. ie it was about comparing different styles of running free/open source projects.
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by antod 9y ago
Not in all the really old photos I've seen. Lots of stern serious looks there. Smiles came later.
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by antod 9y ago
I was under the (possibly outdated) impression that Amazon wasn't really backing Xen much anyway, so AWS changing hypervisors might not mean much to Xen anyway. I haven't used Xen for a while, but seemed to recall that Amazon fork
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by antod 9y ago
I liked Aldus Photostyler back in the day (mid 90s) for it's nice features for cloning between different images etc. But then Adobe bought Aldus and buried it.
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by antod 9y ago
> I could just as easily flip this and claim that Linux development is all backwards because it's still done on the command line Except that it is isn't an equivalent comparison for that point. OTOH if you made the point abo
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by antod 9y ago
Reminds me of that old mid 90s fractal image format that never took off. When you zoomed in, the photos started turning into shapes of colour blocks rather than raster pixels.
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by antod 9y ago
> Sailing along upwind on one tack could do that. Probably explains why they were going around in circles for so long.
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by antod 9y ago
I think you're overestimating the competence of some (not all obviously) of the people who end up doing the actual last mile part of these operations: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&o

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