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by bregma 3y ago
Lithium is quite common in the ground. Mines are a dime a dozen all over the world. Mining it is the easy part. All processing is done by a handful of plants in China. It needs to be shipped to China, and the products need to be shipped fro
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by bregma 3y ago
Pop song lyrics may be getting more repetitive, but that's the way (us huh uh huh) I like it (uh huh uh huh) [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
723.
by bregma 3y ago
Well, if we start by assuming the bear is perfectly spherical and there is no friction...
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by bregma 3y ago
That sounds more like the Brits have been socialized into letting the toffs get away with stealing. After all, that's just the way it's always been.
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by bregma 3y ago
Is it an intolerance to the fungus itself or to one of their metabolic products, like a particular complex sugar or fusel oil, that end up being metabolized by your own intestinal flora to your detriment?
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by bregma 3y ago
The VS Code behaviour you're describing is "focus contextual" rather than "modal". Modal behaviour means the behaviour can change modes within the exact same focal context.
727.
by bregma 3y ago
Wait until you find out what baby food is really made of.
728.
by bregma 3y ago
Plot summary: a man swims in a series of other people's swimming pools while working through some personal issues. The story is allegory. The movie uses cinematic techniques to enhance the presentation and the acting is of high quality
729.
by bregma 3y ago
You're gonna need a bigger boat train.
730.
by bregma 3y ago
> Do you need to keep custom structures for each network socket that maintains a snapshot of the state of how things are progressing? That's one way of doing it. Ideally, you track state for every connection (you need to do this eve
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by bregma 3y ago
I'll just store the last ones beside my DECUS tapes. It'll be handy for after the apocalypse when we need to restore civilization.
732.
by bregma 3y ago
A sighted person who is not blindfolded can do the same thing, relying on reconstructing their 3D environment from the way electromagnetic radiation affects the rhodopsin in their retinas rather than the movement of hairs in their cochlea d
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by bregma 3y ago
An array of slots that point to a name is actually a description of the ELF PLT (procedure lookup table), which is how it does dynamic relocation. The difference is the PLT usually points to the GOT (global offset table) not the name, becau
734.
by bregma 3y ago
So it goes.
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by bregma 3y ago
Ah, yes, good old A/UX. I remember taking half a day to reinstall it on a Mac II from a box of floppies, staring at the counting fingers on the screen while waiting for the instructions to swap disks.
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by bregma 3y ago
30 years ago I was using vi and the shell on a Wyse 85 terminal. Nowadays I used vim and the shell in one of many terminal windows on one of many workspaces. Every now and then I try an IDE but I always find the loss in productivity and the
737.
by bregma 3y ago
By 'government' do you mean banks and large industrial concerns (like the "industry" in "military-industrial complex")? The latter are where all the big iron and massive compute power has always been. If course
738.
by bregma 3y ago
The math tells me that all forest canopies should be Voronoi tesselations. And apparently, in some not-too-dense monoculture forests of similarly-aged trees, they observably are. Where I live, in the moderately dense mixed second-growth for
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by bregma 3y ago
Sure, they have to pay for those who get an education. In return, they get doctors to help them when they are sick or injured, lawyers to aid them when they are wronged or do wrong, engineers to make sure buildings do not fall on them, and
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by bregma 3y ago
> Isn't it more useful to think of code not as an asset but as a liability? In the same way a factory should be accounted for as a liability. You spend to build the factory, then it depreciates to zero value, so all you've done
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by bregma 3y ago
As an undergraduate we had to use ed for all our editing needs after we moved away from punch cards because vi was considered too resource-hungry. Four years of ed on an IBM 3101, and to this day 4 decades later I still prefer a green-on-bl
742.
by bregma 3y ago
Maybe it's because the technology has progressed to the point where any idiot can make an ad, so now ads are made by idiots. It's not the first industry to be so affected.
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by bregma 3y ago
Information wants to be free.
744.
by bregma 3y ago
The Free Software movement is about "free as in speech, not as in beer" and control by the end user. The Open Source Software movement is about value leveraging in the marketplace for the profit of the vendor or distributor. This
745.
by bregma 3y ago
Amen. That kind of secret data collection should be reserved for profiteering capitalist oligarchs. Government is bad because it's government, but if you can generate personal wealth by exploiting others it's admirable.
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by bregma 3y ago
Aspergillis is commonly known as mildew. It's black.
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by bregma 3y ago
> This means that all source code files has to be compilable on all platforms And then it hits the real world and you need to switch to a tool that handles it.
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by bregma 3y ago
"Hoist upon his own petard" is from Shakespeare and refers to the eructation of flatulence so violent it lifts one from their chair.
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by bregma 3y ago
> You'll see a whole bandwagon of people saying things like, "supporting old hardware is BAD! It takes time and money that nobody has!", as though someone needs to be hired to sit around and do nothing but pore over code a
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by bregma 3y ago
Water that's been sitting in a heater tank is oxygen-deprived and tastes dull when you use it for food preparation. That's the main reason to use aerated cold water instead of water from the hot-water system.

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