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by bsder 2y ago
> They didn't do this because they're incompetent but because they think it'll improve security. No, they did it because it reduces their legal exposure . Nothing more, nothing less. The goal is to reduce the rotation ti
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by bsder 2y ago
And may the devil help you if you do something wrong and accidentally trip LetsEncrypt's rate limiting. You can do nothing except twiddle your thumbs while it times out and that may take a couple of days.
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by bsder 2y ago
Linked lists get a bad reputation because they wound up being a default data structure--and that's almost always a mistake on modern computers. Back in days of yore, small memory and CPU meant that linked lists and arrays were really t
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by bsder 2y ago
What do you think is the data structure underneath a hash, stack or queue? It's likely a linked list. So, you are completely correct. The issue is simply that you are at a different level of abstraction.
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by bsder 2y ago
> After you insure your cargo, you take the exact route the bureau provided, and if something happens due to road conditions, government pays your damages. That is not how it works in Texas. Yes, the state gives you a route. However, it
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by bsder 2y ago
Stealing my wallet is generally worth less than stealing my phone even before you take into account the value of the data and the grief and expense of replacing my phone. The fact that parking systems won't install wireless credit card
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by bsder 2y ago
Yeah, I hadn't thought about it, but you're probably correct that height is the issue. The Jochenstein lock that was mentioned is 7.8m and they barely cleared under it. That would be quite a tall load and then you have to add the
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by bsder 2y ago
Why this huge roundabout route? The route looks like autobahn almost all the way. Fixed comment about weight: 200 tons is 400,000 lbs--it's heavy but not absurdly so. We'd put this on the road in the US without much fanfare. Yo
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by bsder 2y ago
Hey, guys, I have this crazy idea. How about we have people give small bits of paper to other people to pay for things? Or maybe even wave small cards of plastic in front of things that can read them? Maybe how about not using my fucking
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by bsder 2y ago
> No one in their right minds would want such a product. No one "wanted" computer gaming to be driven by how to maximize revenue extraction--mostly from addicted whales. Yet, here we are. If there is a way to extract money, som
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by bsder 2y ago
My point is that lead for batteries is aggressively recycled while lithium is almost exclusively pulled from primary extraction and rarely recycled. > Despite the smaller supply of lithium, a study earlier this year in the Journal of t
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by bsder 2y ago
> I am generally pro-union, but a side effect of unions, at least in my experience, is that you will have a proportion of incompetent people who can not complete anything and you can not effectively get rid of them. I am so tired of peo
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by bsder 2y ago
> Even ICE batteries is IMO not a valid use. Why? I would posit that lithium batteries do way more damage to the environment than lead-acid batteries. Recycling of lead-acid batteries is very prevalent because it is economically worth
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by bsder 2y ago
I know a lot of people who only bought the PS3 because it was the cheapest BluRay player for a remarkably long time.
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by bsder 2y ago
> Do people not realize it's the Dems that got the US Trump? The GOP has the power to stand up to Trump immediately with legislation or with impeachment. The Democrats are already on record as voting for impeachment. Trump has c
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by bsder 2y ago
Erlang looks weird--Prolog-base, tail recursive loops, extensive pattern matching. Also, a lot of the power of Erlang is the OTP (Open Telecom Platform) even more than Erlang, itself. You have to internalize those architectural decisions (
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by bsder 2y ago
> I think few people would argue that the upfront cost of rolling your own docs site could possibly be lower than the cost of deploying an off-the-shelf solution like Hugo. I'm not convinced. At some point, you will have to debug
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by bsder 2y ago
That's okay for the base OS that doesn't change all that often. However, that falls apart when you start trying to have lots of "toolbox"/"containers"/"docker" things that people want to use
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by bsder 2y ago
> immutability is still seen as exotic, and I don’t think it should be. Two big problems: 1) Because Linux filesystems still suck. You need efficient copy-on-write overlays (and the ability to handle lots of them!) with some level of de
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by bsder 2y ago
Your semi-regular reminder that Fowler and Beck were part of the brain trust involved with the gigantic disaster that was the "Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysle
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by bsder 2y ago
Quasiquoting is only necessary in Lisp because Lisp evaluates its arguments by default. Tcl does not do that.
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by bsder 2y ago
I think Cyc should worry that I can't distinguish whether real or April Fools joke ...
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by bsder 2y ago
Japanese vending machines are an act of engineering beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJnGjMAObA
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by bsder 2y ago
Because Lispers sneered at the microprocessors of the time while everybody else piggybacked on them. And, by the time that attitude changed in the early 90s, there were already socially entrenched languages that had the "superpower&qu
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by bsder 2y ago
Please don't recommend "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" without also providing a source. The prices people want for it are absurd if it is even available.
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by bsder 2y ago
> In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :) Infuriatingly, Tcl/Tk (and other things which use Tk) is still light years easier for doing basic GUI programming than anything that exists in 2025. H
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by bsder 2y ago
From where are you getting LBJ quoting? Even a cursory Google only coughs up Sam Rayburn. I actually have to look for LBJ using it in "Remarks at an Airport Rally in Wilmington, Delaware". Wikiquote seems to have the validated re
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by bsder 2y ago
"We don't have any evidence, but we just know they are bad people. Because ... reasons ... that we don't have to share with silly plebians like you." Perhaps this sounds familiar ... "While I cannot take the time t
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by bsder 2y ago
Different Texan--Sam Rayburn.
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by bsder 2y ago
In Zig, basic operations on vectors with standard operators work fine. "+", for example. const meta = @import("std").meta; test "vector add" { const x: @Vector(4, f32) = .{ 1, -10, 20, -1 };

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