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by bb88 1y ago
Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point for development.
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by bb88 1y ago
One thing I don't like about the default mac keyboard is the weird placement of the command key. If you are a touch typist and learned by rote to type with your pinky, the command key placement on the mac just sucked. I'm not say
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by bb88 1y ago
The last year it's been a mixed bag. One issue is that seller warnings would appear on Prime delivered products, which meant that the risk is then pretty much zero for the buyer. The ratings gradings system wasn't very reliable ei
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by bb88 1y ago
Reminds me of AREXX on the amiga. REXX was an okay enough language for the time, but the real benefit was not needing to install a compiler -- which required more memory typically than my Amiga had, IIRC. Meanwhile in college everyone had t
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by bb88 1y ago
IIRC, something similar happened in the 1980's/90's with the phone landlines. The FBI/DEA made an anonymous toll-free tip line for people to call with tips on the cartel activity. The cartel was able to get the phone re
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by bb88 1y ago
I moved from Linux and MS to Mac this year. I didn't know if I'd like it, but the fact is that battery life always sucked on linux and running things like fusion 360 always felt like a workaround. I used Jeff Geerling's ansi
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by bb88 1y ago
I think it makes sense if you see "star" as the unix glob character, "*".
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by bb88 1y ago
All plastic is going to warp over time. So that probably seems like overkill unless you're planning on abusing it. That said, I would give PETG-CF a try. I've made parts with that and it's certainly been good, and is defini
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by bb88 1y ago
Meshtastic isn't very good (at least before their 2.6 release) [3]. It's clear they didn't research any historical mesh network schemes (ALOHAnet [0] and other MANETs [1]) when writing it. And flood routing more or less kind
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by bb88 1y ago
> Even worse it has a community full of elitism and obscurantism. I've never experienced that per se, I have experienced it in other fields or orgs where the bar to entry is super high. And keeping the bar to entry is often the goa
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by bb88 1y ago
I don't think it's fair to say C++ is safe and reliable as is. The only way it could be made safe is with a restricted version of C++. I'm reminded by mozilla's sign "You must be this tall to write threaded code.&q
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by bb88 1y ago
Get on a bike in Boise, Idaho and "blow through a red light" (making sure to stop and yield to oncoming traffic, first). It's not necessarily as small as you might think. And you know, don't ride your bike on the inter
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by bb88 1y ago
A lot of things don't have to make sense for them to work. Idaho is solidly in the top half of states safest for bicycles. They are the 18th safest state for bicycles in the US.
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by bb88 1y ago
SPARK formal verification is a big win. Ada is also simpler than C++. However, the tooling for Ada was never as good as C++ tooling.
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by bb88 1y ago
Idaho has the "potato" laws for bikes, and they typically work out pretty well. The laws were made with the observation that cars kill more cyclists than cyclists kill cars. So allowing bikes more freedom in the street is typica
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by bb88 1y ago
> Obviously a person can easily cycle 20mph, but it just isn't the kind of thing you do on in a crowded area. I've seen many road bikes do exactly this on a crowded bike path of pedestrians, scooters, and e-bikes. I've al
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by bb88 1y ago
Right, but then go combine the two and see what happens.
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by bb88 1y ago
Tailscale at least on Linux is a mess of surprise configuration and netfilter rules. It's not for everyone, but if you're into control of your netfilter tables, it's certainly not for you.
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by bb88 1y ago
To some extent playing pinball is hacking the machine. Nudging it just enough to not cause a tilt. Manipulating the ball to get a high probability of points. Etc. If you could manipulate the flippers to cause a stack overflow, would that
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by bb88 1y ago
There was a lot of pseudo science being published and voted up in the comments with Ivermectin/HCQ/etc and Covid, when those people weren't experts and before the Ivermectin paper got serious scrutiny. The other aspect is tha
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by bb88 1y ago
Male cops have changed from being thin and fit men (or average man) in the 1960's to large men with muscles, and sometimes roid rage. People earn good money playing video games now (that wasn't the case in the 1980's) or stre
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by bb88 1y ago
I would tend to think that the government setting up illegal wiretaps on private citizens would be worse than doing the same for citizens in public offices likely holding TS-SCI clearances, and possibly even asking for those people to sign
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by bb88 1y ago
I don't know. I would argue that since type checking in python is optional, the type checkers shouldn't care unless the programmer cares. A more interesting case would be my_list.append(2.45) or my_list.append(Decimal("2.0&
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by bb88 1y ago
Humans are fungible, typically -- or at least that's the thought process of management. Sometimes management are literally removing an unnecessary department or need to merge departments because of market conditions -- and they really
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by bb88 1y ago
The mountains in California are basically huge water collectors in the form of capturing snow and slowly letting it melt into waterways. And it costs tax payers and farmers $0 dollars for the desalinization and transportation. What's
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by bb88 1y ago
A co-worker in NJ had a 4 hour commute one-way because of the I-80 potholes. This is just so he could sit in an office while all of his teammates were remote in other locations.
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by bb88 1y ago
Step 1 is simpler. Get rid of farming in the desert first. This a fight going on in Idaho right now: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/ar... https://archive.ph/X9
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by bb88 1y ago
Etherium also went to proof of stake. Apparently it's going swimmingly.
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by bb88 1y ago
Well, I mean IRC is typically a cess pool these days. So there's a very high likelihood that something may be scanning urls you send across. DCC was a thing back in the IRC days of old, but CGNAT pretty much ended that. I think what&
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by bb88 1y ago
I think that's what's going to happen over time. We're going to be writing more and more code, but supervising an AI mostly. The big problem is that we're treating the AI as an all knowing oracle. And probably what we

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