bregma

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1. 151.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   I still watch OTA DTV. Tuning is instant. Maybe it's slower if you are on cable and there's a few round-trip handshakes to authenticate your subscriber account. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of round-tripping going on wi
2. 152.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   But what if the car was placed behind one of the doors by aliens? This would be proof that aliens had been visiting and maybe even influencing the production offices of daytime game shows, and possibly even those in prime time. The aliens w
3. 153.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   von Daniken's work inspired me to travel to Nazca PE and charter an airplane to see the alien landing strips for myself. Certainly a worthwhile trip. I may even have convinced the local guide I was a True Believer, of which I am sure h
4. 154.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   > What are the other limitations I should know about? It's completely inadequate for anything more than a memo or simple single-page note. Which is fine for many purposes a typical software developer encounters but quickly gets left
5. 155.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   Perhaps this is a different usage of the word "bra" than I am used to but it sounds uncomfortable.
6. 156.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   4 oz (a quarter pound) is 100 g or an amount about the size of the palm of your hand -- a single serving. It's not a small portion, it's recommended standard portion. If you were following the old food guide in use for the last 20
7. 157.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   Most of the world carries a 2 m tape measure with them. You're only normal in the USA, Myanmar, and Liberia.
8. 158.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   That would be 4.82x10²⁹ somethings wide.
9. 159.▲
   by bregma 9mo ago

   You mean gm⁻² ?
10. 160.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    Ever spread lard on toast? Do you prefer croissants made with lard? Is everyone's favourite dish these days lard chicken (I mean the Indian dish, not the Soul Food dish, which is of course popular in some locales). Nope. Butter is favo
11. 161.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    I have an induction range with touch controls, and I'll tell you they are the most frustrating thing about it (other than half my old pots not working, but that was a one-time hit). Why are they frustrating? Because every time I have t
12. 162.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    What customers say they want is a faster horse.
13. 163.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    Yes. Or as Chamberlain put it, "There will be peace in our time."
14. 164.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    Problem solved for me because no banks in my country provide an API for anyone or anything to download transactions directly. Not even Quicken. Banks here are stable . The only change they tolerate is increasing their fat quarterly dividen
15. 165.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    I started decades ago using Quicken. Then had to re-enter all my data when a new version came out and support for the old version was EOLed. So I switched to GNU Cash and re-entered everything again. Then there were migration issues with GN
16. 166.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    Or, to put it simply, the shape of the Earth can be considered flat for local mapping purposes. If grid north and true north are the same everywhere, it would be proof the entire Earth is flat.
17. 167.▲
    by bregma 9mo ago

    The problem is that when a final binary is linked everything goes into it. Then, after the link step, all the debug information gets stripped out into the separate symbols file. That means at some point during the build the target binary fi
18. 168.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    > We'll see if it reaches bare metal some time, instead of relying on QEMU You can already get a free license for QNX and grab a BSP (board support package) to create a bare metal image. You have been able to for quite a while. Peop
19. 169.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    It's not a hard-running race. PREEMPT_RT is soft realtime and if you rely on it for your brakes you're going to crash. AGL has not yet produced any kind of usable system that can be certified for functional safety under ISO 26262
20. 170.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    QNX was introduced in 1980.
21. 171.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    Aliasing can be a problem in Fortran too. Decades ago I was a Fortran developer and encountered a very odd bug in which the wrong values were being calculated. After a lot of investigation I tracked it down to a subroutine call in which a h
22. 172.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    > It can in certain circumstances encourage a market or normalise abusive behaviour. Just like the printed word. Books should be banned and burned. We should start with Orwell since his writing has been used as a manual for so much abusi
23. 173.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    Ah, yes, the gateway drug trope. Always a good one for asserting control indirectly. Inevitably results in increased profits for the purveyors of the gateway drug and no reduction in demand or consumption. Prosecutors and jailors get richer
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    by bregma 10mo ago

    Well, there's obviously the alien contact theory. If you've ever been to Nazca where the landing strips are only a few hundred miles from the Inca empire you'd be a believer. If you want to believe, that is.
25. 175.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health, and GMail what have the Romans ever done for us?
26. 176.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    Do you mean the catenary [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary
27. 177.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    Investor, yes. Mark, no.
28. 178.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    It's not a joke, it's just an observation. I work in the IoT industry and delight in making things work automatically. I live in a log cabin in the back woods with minimal technology and drive an older car with actual knobs and ph
29. 179.▲
    by bregma 10mo ago

    And they'd get away with it too if it weren't for that pesky orbital mechanics.
30. 180.▲
    by bregma 11mo ago

    Investor: Is this your debt, Meta? Meta: (hiding debt behind its back) No. It's Jimmy's. Investor: Now Meta, you know lying is wrong. Meta: No it's not. All the kids do it so it's OK.