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by arghwhat 2y ago
The 70cm band is just 30 MHz wide in the US. The point was that none of these other allocations are wide enough to be useful for things like WiFi, which is currently using up to 320 MHz channels and needing several of those channels to avoi
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Ants and bees are not showing selflessness, they are showing strict hierarchy and chain of command. Entirely different concept. Not to mention that ants are very, very far from dogs, dolphins and humans. There is no reason to think that a d
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Ask your dog about their intelligence, and they will reply If your dog replies, you either have a truly exceptional dog with human-like vocal cords, or need to see a psychiatrist. That we are more intelligent is nothing more than an
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Sure, there are sites that mistreat names in ways you describe, but that does not make it correct. > I do in fact want a properly functioning service to use my name in a vocative case. ... I also don't want to know to specify the co
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by arghwhat 2y ago
This is a problem specific to languages using Chinese characters where most only know some characters and therefore might not be able to read a specific one. Furigana (which is ultimately what you're providing in a separate field here)
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Suppose you have a unicode blob of my name in your database and there is a problem and you need to call me and say hi. Would your customer representative be able to pronounce my name somewhat correctly? You cannot pronounce the name re
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Unfortunately, whether or not a client is sanctioned for use on Signal-owned infrastructure is entirely up to the Signal organization, and they have been rather hostile to such clients.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Presumably because the old API was broken/lacking/etc. Calling the resulting porting work "unnecessary" without even considering why the API might have been changed is not fair. The pidgin project is 25 years old, and li
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> This example shows that the access.log file is being read at the speed of 37.4MB/s but gzip is writing data at only 1.74MB/s. We can immediately calculate the compression rate. It's 37.4/1.74 = 21x! No you cannot: 1
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by arghwhat 2y ago
As said elsewhere, it’s not that a plane can be kept in level flight with an artificial horizon that matters. As with the airbus pilots, it’s the surprise - especially when it happens in already stressful situations. In this case we’re also
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Have you flown a modern fighter jet while suddenly your helmet integrated flight displays and navigation went out and you had to reorient yourself and rely entirely on nothing but your knee-mounted false horizon mid-maneuver, while attempti
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> In this case the F–35 has three independent displays that can all redundantly display the same information This is not true. The standby display is just a tiny artificial horizon by the pilot's right knee, so when HUD and primary
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Again, a very easy judgement to make when you’re not the one strapped to the rocket in what the documents describe as “challenging conditions” as your displays you were flying after go dark. He only had “ basically working” comms, which se
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by arghwhat 2y ago
That really, really depends on what conditions you are flying under. This is not a naturally stable aircraft flown at relatively low speeds far away from any obstacle, and it is not being flown from a couch with a gamepad. Even if he fucked
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The purpose of mentioning the older patents is to argue that they are not relevant as prior art. Whether that is true is another story.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
I fail to see the justification for not considering this a (super)tribe. I wouldn't think of Cat's Cradle as the authority on social dynamics, but "granfaloons" refer to people that have no connection, whereas everyone i
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by arghwhat 2y ago
This unfortunately only holds when working purely on open source. Shipped binaries for aarch64 are still not super common for proprietary things within the enterprise space.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Which, to be fair, is something like tens of millions of Linux desktops. Several orders of magnitude less than the other types of Linux-powered computers out there though. No one cares what the relative numbers are. As long as there is enou
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by arghwhat 2y ago
> Apple really did not have to make Rosetta 2 available for Linux. The kinda did - offering good Linux dev environments is now a fairly big feature for both of the major Desktop OS's nowadays.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
I’m confused: You start by saying that tribalism isn’t human nature, but then you describe that tribal behaviors are natural. People are indeed loyal to their local communities - which includes having ideologies that would not greatly offen
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The effect of coalitions is in political execution rather than in ideological separation. The concern here was entirely about the social impact on residents, not the political efficiency. Coalitions can partly negate the benefit of the “spe
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by arghwhat 2y ago
I’m sorry, but I don’t see the relevance of your question. Does it somehow make it less relevant to fix a cause of death because more people die of other unrelated causes? Far more people die in accidents than any other causes of death in t
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Looking purely at the cases where an abortion is required for health reasons: Emergency abortions required for health reasons are often needed when things go wrong, and when that is the case it might need to be performed either soon or imme
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by arghwhat 2y ago
Tribalism is human nature, as social success - a key survival criteria - requires alignment. The reason it becomes a problem is that there the only options for each "tribe" is one of two extremes, and that these are perceived so f
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by arghwhat 2y ago
There is not a distance that is good or bad to focus at. Having little variance in focus distance throughout the day (long or short) can be bad, while focusing to either end of your visual limits can be tiring.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
No, but you need to be able to write a well-formatted diff, which is pretty much the minimum requirement for sharing changes. Emailing the entire new file every time will not work in anything but local tests as it cannot handle change confl
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by arghwhat 2y ago
There is an existing, well-established patch email workflow which git natively supports. Using that, and extending it when necessary, would make more sense. See git-send-email and git-am.
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by arghwhat 2y ago
The only valid reason for still having files stored in legacy ANSI encodings is that their only use is input to software that has not been maintained for ~30 years and cannot be updated. That's fine because they're just binary inp
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by arghwhat 2y ago
What cursed madness have you hit that spits out UTF-32 under normal conditions?! That can only be a bug - UTF-32/UCS-4 never saw external use, and has only ever been used for in-memory fixed-width character representation, e.g. runes i
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by arghwhat 2y ago
In 2024, if you don't get the correct result decoding a text as UTF-8, the bug is the text, not the decoding. And luckily, adoption of UTF-8 in the past 30+ years have gone will enough that you don't need to worry. Caveats for cur

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