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by bch 4y ago
See too the “salami shot”[0] - illustrative of the phases that a single extraction goes through. [0] https://youtu.be/_yIpi5KPUys
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by bch 4y ago
Emergent behavior…
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by bch 4y ago
The nature of UDP
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by bch 4y ago
> "Am I doing this right? <panic>" I can appreciate that. I also bet that everybody would appreciate the effort even if things didn’t proceed like a scene from a movie.
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by bch 4y ago
I’ll trawl my archives and maybe have a Christmas present for you.
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by bch 4y ago
I think Mike Pall wrote up a whitepaper with the gory details years ago, but I can’t find it atm.
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by bch 4y ago
> Apple doesn't even treat upstream BSD with respect, it's insane to think that they would respect Linux. Meanwhile from Microsoft: * https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ * https://www.netb
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by bch 4y ago
Enjoy the new environment. I used to be a “competent” vi user, laughing at the Emacs vs vi jokes, until I realized I didn’t really know Emacs. I gave myself a 4-week challenge where I’d use nothing but Emacs, for the challenge, and to lea
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by bch 4y ago
Kamloopsian here - TIL. Story of Alice Bettridge[0] is chilling. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops
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by bch 4y ago
I wanted you to tune in next week for the thrilling conclusion? ;) Thx for the amendment.
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by bch 4y ago
beans != beans + rice; See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564109
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by bch 4y ago
> complete protein source On the “complete protein” concept, by a famous popularizer of plant-based protein-combining[0] —— There is no need to combine foods at individual meals. “In 1971 I stressed protein complementarity because I assu
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by bch 4y ago
No - found a reference: https://www.msrgear.com/stoves/stove-accessories/heat-exchan...
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by bch 4y ago
There used to be (still is?) a sort of vertical chute/collar available to put around camp pots. Think mountaineering applications. The idea was that they would capture heat energy escaping off the bottom of the pot that would rise&#x2F
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by bch 4y ago
It doesn’t necessarily mean you have the skills, but it can inform the process. I can’t think of a case where knowing your materials would be detrimental to working with them.
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by bch 4y ago
> let us bake pizzas with non-fungible toppings. Not all of us are that averse to mushrooms.
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by bch 4y ago
> A cache miss and going to RAM is usually fast enough that we as software engineers don't care about it, and in fact our programming language of choice may not even give us a way of telling the difference between a piece of data co
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by bch 4y ago
With the utmost respect, I’ve never heard “blocking” described as “takes some measurable amount of time” (which is how I’m reading your above statement); by that definition, async blocks to a degree too. You’re throwing traditional blocking
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by bch 4y ago
My “paper programming” experience was about the same, but on the Vic-20 and Commodore-64. Only later did I realize the mnemonics could be coded directly, rather than me getting the decimal opcodes from a table and POKE-ing them into memory.
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by bch 4y ago
> I don't think the data supports the notion that there is a collapse. It’s not a collapse of “the ocean” , but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
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by bch 4y ago
Beautiful - the ways I’ve never considered composing…
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by bch 4y ago
> webrings are still a thing and there’s a bunch out there worth checking out Oh wow. As an in-my-head joke, after I read the HN title, “web rings” was my answer to myself, casting my mind back to 1995… Imagine my delight to hear it’s st
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by bch 4y ago
Do you consider that decision as contributing to an arms race?
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by bch 4y ago
> feels slick and homely. I presume “homely” is this context means UK “familiar and pleasant, as in a home”, and not US “not attractive or good-looking”.
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by bch 4y ago
I remember in the 1980s Bicycling or some such magazine wrapped a road bike in concrete, called it a composite bicycle and did a full review. Needless to say, it scored poorly.
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by bch 4y ago
I recall one manufacturer popped the hood so that it could act as a shock absorber should a pedestrian land on it... Found it - Nissan has an actuator[0] that lets the cars hood be used as a damper for unlucky pedestrians in case of collisi
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by bch 4y ago
> I would have gone with a helicopter as the system but that would require domain familiarity Would you give it a try?
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by bch 4y ago
> version control /me waves constructively, solidly at `brlcad Your list looks good until “version control”, for which at least sccs[0] began representing in 1972. I’m not used to catching `brlcad out at… anything, usually. Thought
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by bch 4y ago
> Humanity has been using ceramics for ages, and we haven't found any adverse affects yet. Ceramic glazes have been problematic [0]. [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/08/563808
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by bch 4y ago
With the right (lack of) attention, cast iron can evolve to rust. After enough time, you'll never cook with it and have things stick (you'll also simply never cook with it).

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