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by bisby 9y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847882289581359104 as of 1.5 months ago. > Considering trying to bring upper stage back on Falcon Heavy demo flight for full reusability. Odds of success low, but maybe worth
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by bisby 9y ago
"It's that guy in the ski mask and santa claus outfit again" sadly makes you MORE identifiable (unless you can talk a ton of other people into doing the same).
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by bisby 9y ago
I wanted to be able to suggest using something like ubiquiti or mikrotik. But then I realize that I have no idea how secure/private those are either. I imagine pfSense is good (or any of the forks) for privacy. But that can be pretty o
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by bisby 9y ago
damned open source update monitoring tool, where you can change the verbiage if you really don't like it. if you like the idea and not the verbiage, change it. if you like the idea and dont mind the verbiage, no issue. if you dont li
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by bisby 10y ago
That works for me. I wasnt trying to discredit the machine, I was asking with genuine curiosity, since I knew that there was a difference between emulators and "reference" hardware. Cheers :)
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by bisby 10y ago
I know hardcore retro gamers consider "on hardware" and "on emulator" to be separate categories. I remember getting super mario world to memory jump to the credits on actual hardware was a big thing. Where does Analogue
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by bisby 10y ago
Old IP is fine. Breath of the Wild it up. But when your business model is "do nothing to adapt to the times, and try to ride the coattails of the success of 30 years ago", i stop feeling sympathy. So either it's old and unimp
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by bisby 10y ago
I don't generally condone piracy. But I also believe that when a company makes it hard to enjoy their games, or tries to milk money out of games that are 30 years old, that I've probably paid for several times over the years, then
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by bisby 10y ago
I received this call last week. I sent a message to a friend, and received a phone call about 10 seconds later, and without thinking I answered without even glancing at the caller ID. I assumed it was the friend. I got the whole "havin
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by bisby 10y ago
perhaps "This is a requirement for any premium subscription video service that wants to interact with popular studios because if you don't interact with popular studios people don't view your service as premium." Premium
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by bisby 10y ago
I honestly don't remember where I had seen/heard this. Which admittedly makes my claim far less credible. But it was something along the lines of being able to play some netflix content on some player without DRM being applied to
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by bisby 10y ago
Because the studios are the ones demanding DRM. I was under the impression that netflix original content is actually far more relaxed on restrictions (I don't recall where I heard this). They don't want DRM necessarily, but if the
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by bisby 10y ago
> taking quizzes where any moron with the ability to type would get 90% correct -- and then sharing the results with their friends. This bothers me so much for some reason. Title a kindergarden math quiz "Only people with an IQ of 1
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by bisby 10y ago
And theyve done that with some devs. rocket league obviously being the big one, where valve went to a linux dev and said "hey can you help port this" And the point still stands that this is a future investment for them. They aren&
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by bisby 10y ago
they also push those platforms as their only game platform. and try to discourage devs from using other platforms. Valve isnt trying to discourage devs from using windows. Windows is still their main income source. Linux only devs aren&#x27
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by bisby 10y ago
a ton of major issues have been recently fixed. It doesn't seem to be on the back burner at all, it's just that building/updating an entire OS is a bit different from building/updating just steam. Also, a lot of fixes ar
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by bisby 10y ago
For the topics of stuff like coding, image manipulation, file manipulation, etc... would a raspberry pi cover your teaching needs (That IS what they were made for). The pros I see would be: size, price, similarity to desktop environment vs
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by bisby 10y ago
Makes sense. System76 will make Linux work, but not blob-free Linux. Which makes it no better than Windows for you. It's not "harder" or "easier" per se, but having Ubuntu guarantees nothing over Windows. I often fo
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by bisby 10y ago
Out of curiosity, where do you go for pre-built Debian systems, or completely OS-less systems? I would think that merely having the promise of Ubuntu support out of the box would make it better to install Debian, than on some random Windows
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by bisby 10y ago
The booster landings are all lumped together, but they all have very different parameters. They've never failed a landing on land. and since they succeeded at sea, they've only failed once since then, and that was coming in from G
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by bisby 10y ago
I had found it odd, knowing that SpaceX ignites engines at T-2 (and releases clamps at T-0), watching the Arianespace launch earlier in the week. They ignited the main engine at roughly T-1, then revved it up until T+7, and then fired the s
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by bisby 10y ago
u2fzero is "Currently unavailable" on amazon. And the lack of housing makes me question how durable the device would be. The last thing I want is my u2f dying and locking me out of a ton of accounts.
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by bisby 10y ago
If you have to cross lanes of traffic, you have to wait for a light. If you are merely "changing lanes" you just have to wait for right of way. (in my state at least) you're allowed to turn left from a one way to a one way on
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by bisby 10y ago
So basically: * if you have a job that requires X work be done. The more productive, happier employees still get X work done. If I'm happier and suddenly don't spend 2-3 hours of work time on reddit or hn, I can actually get MORE
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by bisby 10y ago
What if an all electric car was equipped with a complete battery swap out mechanism. Stock up a bunch of batteries. Pop out the dead one, pop in a fresh one, begin charging the dead one to reuse in a few hours (you may need quite a few spar
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by bisby 10y ago
If only they could use a server to cache the requests until Monday, when they do staff someone to receive it.
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by bisby 10y ago
That's a great analogy that I'm surprised I haven't heard before. If I write a book called Gary Potter, about a boy who finds out he's a wizard and goes on (specific) adventures with his friends Jon and Germione... I&#x2
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by bisby 10y ago
I feel like Musk said that transit times to Mars would be 3-4 months at the transfer velocities they were shooting for, and a slower transfer for something like Curiosity was 10 months. How different would 12 months in orbit be from 4-10 mo
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by bisby 10y ago
horace and pete was great, but it was definitely not for his core audience. it's not comedy or really a show. It's more like a filmed stage performance. A lot of people I know bought the first 1-2 episodes thinking it would be hys
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by bisby 10y ago
i didnt realize that ^W did words (and i didnt know what "ETB" was either). But thats a useful one to know!

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