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Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band(astrobites.org)
188 points by aragilar 1y ago|185 comments
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by aragilar 1y ago
I personally find anything over 100 is annoying, 120 is definitely in the more frustrating range for me. I'd much rather a soft limit of < 75 and a hard limit of < 90. I wonder what it is that makes different people choose differ
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by aragilar 1y ago
Which is interesting (as according to the LWN article) it seems like the general issue of what is sent is an ever-present one for StarDict, as apparently the earlier issue was around the defaults for all dictionaries, whereas the new issue
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by aragilar 1y ago
I'm not sure how Wayland specifically prevents the privacy issue on its own (it can't block network calls), it seems it's down to not implementing the required Wayland calls, but I would be surprised if there was no portal or
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by aragilar 1y ago
It's been in Debian for more than 20 years (see changelog here: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/s/stardict/changel... ). It's not clear to me if said "autosend off clipboard conte
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by aragilar 1y ago
But then StarDict would still be sending your selections out. Personally I think the X11/Wayland distinction is moot, given this appears to be an explicit feature of StarDict, and it seems more likely it just hasn't been ported to
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by aragilar 1y ago
I'm told there were better spreadsheet software back in the day, but that Excel basically won accounting/finance by allowing itself to be shareware (i.e. effectively free), in a similar way to how Microsoft has at times turned a b
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Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request from Emerson for Debianutils(lists.debian.org)
1 points by aragilar 1y ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 1y ago
If upstream makes no releases in that time, then there'll be no upgrades.
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by aragilar 1y ago
I think they mean the LTS kernels, not Debian's LTS.
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by aragilar 1y ago
And yet, most of what people end up doing ends up being effectively OS and application scripting. Most ML projects are really just setting up a pipeline and telling the computer to go and run it. Cloud deployments are "take this yaml a
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by aragilar 1y ago
Isn't this just a specific example of the general rule of pulling out repeated use of the same operation in a loop? I'm not sure calls out to C are specifically slow in CPython (given many operations are really just calling C unde
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by aragilar 1y ago
I think if you had chased every single latest hotness then you would have hit lots of breakages, but depending on what you are doing and where you are running (and what dependencies you are using) then I think you could easily have somethin
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by aragilar 1y ago
Are you actually sure it's solved? I note that Julia proponents have a history of claiming that an issue has been solved when it is apparent that it has not been solved (see e.g. https://danluu.com/julialang/ ).
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by aragilar 1y ago
What specifically did you think was missing? It seems to me to be a summary of existing work, and for specific details you'd go read the cited works?
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Governance in Gnome(bassi.io)
2 points by aragilar 1y ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 1y ago
If you've got some cheap dob with no tracking it makes sense to do it in your backyard (where the point is to look through eyepiece, not take photos), but $20 per night for everything but the actual scope at a high quality site is pret
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by aragilar 1y ago
I did look, hence the question, and the response I got was sufficient to tell me what I needed to know.
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by aragilar 1y ago
tmux is probably already there (ubuntu always includes it), wezterm won't be. If I need to connect to a random machine, I first try tmux, then byobu, then screen. If one of those is not there it's most likely a fairly weak machine
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by aragilar 1y ago
I think it's notable that when ubuntu runs an upgrade it starts a tmux session for this reason.
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by aragilar 1y ago
I asked what test suite they used to ensure they had the correct behaviour, and they were fairly dismissive, so I'm not sure what you're basing that on. I think they're far more interested in a specific set of features than g
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by aragilar 1y ago
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I don't know why you'd want to run tmux locally as an alternative to using tiling wm/tabs/other equivalent feature of your terminal emulator? I use tmux in two ways: 1. Persistent long-run
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by aragilar 1y ago
Sadly after experimenting with a bunch of "modern" terminals I'm forced to consider that their primary audience is more interest in ricing than actually implementing the terminal commands (or connecting to anything other than
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by aragilar 1y ago
It's a bit unclear what the limitations of the non-screen/tmux alternatives are E.g. how does the scrollback work if I were to disconnect and then reconnect with a different machine, can I view the scrollback like screen/tmux
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by aragilar 1y ago
Yes, you are. You may not want to do that (and instead do it per user), but that's what you asked the computer to do. There's nothing stopping you from doing what you like in your user space, but similarly it's no-one else&
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by aragilar 1y ago
No. If you want to treat it as some unknowable machine god from science fiction that's up to you, but all these programs are executing algorithms which we can understand.
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by aragilar 1y ago
This doesn't sound like anything new, see Edward Tufte on the Columbia disaster and the role powerpoint played there.
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by aragilar 1y ago
Because you're making system-wide changes which affect more than just your user? There are and there has been distros that install per user, but at some level something needs to manage the hardware and interfaces to it.
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by aragilar 1y ago
Because they want to do ChemE rather than CompSci more than they care about their pay?
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by aragilar 1y ago
Except: 1. It's Wayland-to-Wayland (which means you're much more limited to where it can run than X-to-X, where's the MacOS or Windows or BSD Wayland build?). 2. It's not integrated with ssh (X forwarding is part of the

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