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by askvictor 1y ago
Australia's primary operator of payphones made them all free a couple of years ago. More as a way to keep them as advertising space than any particular good-will gesture.
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by askvictor 1y ago
It rated highly. But lack of community & ability to hire devs would be it's biggest problems. Rust isn't really mature enough in the embedded space just yet. So we'll be sticking with C/C++ for now D-:
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by askvictor 1y ago
How funny, I was just talking about and researching Ada at work this afternoon, while discussing what the best language for safety critical embedded systems would be
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by askvictor 1y ago
Many gates in Japan are open by default, and close if they detect someone trying to go through without tapping/inserting ticket/incorrect ticket. I'm not sure why it's not all of them though. But the whole system is buil
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by askvictor 1y ago
That's exactly what I was wishing existed when I was looking at these walls of text. There's https://ciechanow.ski/naval-architecture/ which is interesting, but not quite the same
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by askvictor 1y ago
Firefox mobile on Android gives "Cannot complete request; Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable" :(
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by askvictor 2y ago
The UK and Australia, which had 10% from the start, and didn't retaliate, get... 10%. Brilliant.
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by askvictor 2y ago
Diverse systems are more resilient. It's probably a good thing for IT in a general sense, even if it's not the most efficient
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by askvictor 2y ago
As I understand it, there is a trade embargo on Russia, so there's no trade to put a tariff on.
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by askvictor 2y ago
Sorry, no repair. Didn't really affect function though.
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by askvictor 2y ago
I provisioned several hundred x220's for the school I was working at, figuring they were the most bomb-proof thing at the time. The lid section you're talking about was definitively not bomb-proof. Thankfully, it didn't make
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by askvictor 2y ago
I'm using PopOS, so there's a chance that it's related to that, but no I haven't. And I've tried the gsetting that supposedly helps prevent it. I've only ever seen Zoom and VSCode do this; I get the feeling tha
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by askvictor 2y ago
Generally you're either killing _all_ of the bacteria the sealing the product to prevent new ones entering, or creating an environment that's too hostile for them to live (environments high in salt, sugar, acid, or fat, or low in
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by askvictor 2y ago
Even on gnome, I regularly have applications stealing focus when they decide they're the most important thing. As well as being really annoying, it's a security risk if an application steals focus while you're typing your pas
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by askvictor 2y ago
> you’ll surely find a few bad folks purposely fucking it up, but removing them is almost certainly not going to fix anything So you you think, without those few bad folks, these systems would not tend to break, or that these few bad fol
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by askvictor 2y ago
I appreciate the irony, but it doesn't have to be that drastic. In Australia we have the Law Reform Commission, which looks to gradually make laws better. Is the legal system perfect? Far from it. Does it get political? All the time. I
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by askvictor 2y ago
Where I currently live, in a medium-density area of town-houses (actually, pretty high-density for town-houses), seems to be the perfect density for community. I see my neighbours all of the time, just doing our things, and you say hi and c
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by askvictor 2y ago
I've tried unsuccessfully to get Rebirth running (on either Windows or Wine). Any modern re-implementations?
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by askvictor 2y ago
Same here. My main gripe has been address in the latest update - the icon! The old stylised 'Z' just didn't look a like a browser icon when alt-tabbing, and I had to think about where my browser is, rather than instinctively
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by askvictor 2y ago
Any simpler and it would not be effective for it's intended purpose?
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by askvictor 2y ago
I'm currently reading "The Windup Girl" set in a mostly-post-fossil-fuel future, where most energy storage is springs.
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by askvictor 2y ago
Not just to delay, but they're hope is that they'll be able to control it when it happens. Oil companies move fluids, using pipes and tankers. Hydrogen is a fluid. They want to keep doing what they've been doing. Electricity
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by askvictor 2y ago
While _on the whole_ I would side with doctors over random people on the Internet, I've had a number of cases where the doctor has been outright wrong, whether misdiagnosis, or not being up to date with current research.
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by askvictor 2y ago
Some years ago I read about a system to store solar (heat) energy in a well during the day (by warming water and pumping it down), and retrieve it by night. But haven't heard anything since - did anything become of this plan?
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by askvictor 2y ago
You seem to be saying all people are the same. Plenty of people get upset about Nintendo (and other consoles) being locked down. Plenty more people don't care and happily buy them (and Apple devices).
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by askvictor 2y ago
IIRC the underlying assumption was that you should be reducing inflammation (RICE is almost all about reducing inflammation). Since then, we've learned that inflammation is a good thing, and helps things heal faster.
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by askvictor 2y ago
Depends on your use case. We have this problem currently where I work.
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by askvictor 2y ago
I've often compared Anvil (it's web-IDE for web-apps in Python https://anvil.works ) to Delphi. I'm curious how you'd rate it on those qualities (off the bat it ticks a lot of those boxes
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by askvictor 2y ago
The problem is the following two lines produce different outputs, despite having content that means the same thing: console.log(JSON.stringify({ x: 5, y: 6 })); console.log(JSON.stringify({ y: 6, x: 5 }));
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by askvictor 2y ago
Another problem with signing JSON: you can have two different json objects that mean the same thing, and will do exactly the same thing in your code e.g. {"a": "foo", "b": "bar"} vs {"b": &q

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