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by burfog 7y ago
thedonald.win has a couple posts about software development: https://thedonald.win/p/4AjIzHU/im-a-coder--there-are-many-o... https://thedonald.win/p/46BjSob/want-me-to-build-a-mobile-ap..
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by burfog 7y ago
Attach a filter to a snorkel mouthpiece.
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The simpler solution is a seal that works inside the lips. This works much better even for people without beards. It's also smaller and lighter, which matters for all the times the gear must be carried but not actually worn.
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by burfog 7y ago
You mean "better" I hope, not "worse". Nobody else comes close. It's hard to say exactly what "living memory" should mean, but let's call it WWII. The worst would then be FDR, followed by LBJ or Obama
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by burfog 7y ago
Carter Page was not the real target. FISA warrants cover two hops. If person Y communicates with both X and Z, a FISA warrant on person X will allow spying on person Z. In this case person X is Carter Page, and person Z is Donald Trump. It
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by burfog 7y ago
LaTeX is indeed better at doing a bad thing. That is, LaTeX is somewhat less unreadable than other implementations of justified text. Humans stumble over hyphens. Humans stumble over irregular spacing. It was a silly idea to implement these
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by burfog 7y ago
It's a case of running the Common Internet File System on top of the Server Message Block protocol. SMB isn't just for filesystems. It is also used for printing, among other things. CIFS is the filesystem. Outside of Linux/Sa
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by burfog 7y ago
SMB was first. CIFS is a rebranding that happened when Microsoft was forced to release documentation for the protocol.
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by burfog 7y ago
Society doesn't need baristas. Machines can do the job, or people can drink something else. Being a barista is a reasonable job for a 14-year-old. Adults shouldn't be taking jobs from teens.
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by burfog 7y ago
nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills
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by burfog 7y ago
One was taken down by 12.7 mm ammunition. Clearly the Su-25 was not an extremely robust aircraft. It even has turbojets (hotter exhaust than turbofans) that are completely visible from the ground. A bit of armor around the pilot doesn'
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by burfog 7y ago
I mean we need to question "military doesn't want", not that we need to question "forcing the military to buy". We may have a situation where the military really wants the equipment, but isn't permitted to admi
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by burfog 7y ago
With current ammunition the gun will not quickly and reliably take out modern tanks. Guided ammunition has been done for 12.7 mm ammunition. The A-10 carries 30 mm ammunition, so it would be no problem to supply it with guided ammunitio
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by burfog 7y ago
For a high-speed modern aircraft like the F-35, the gun is primarily for signalling intent to a non-responsive aircraft. The gun is fired so that the tracer shells pass within view of the non-responsive aircraft. Preferably it is noisy enou
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by burfog 7y ago
That classic example is poor. The idea is that congress is forcing the military to buy things that the military doesn't want. We need to question that. The military follows orders. The president is commander in chief. If the president
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by burfog 7y ago
When the very natural human desire for retribution is not satisfied by the law, people will obtain retribution outside of the law. This is how you get people torn apart and burned by angry mobs. Civilization thus requires that the law act t
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by burfog 7y ago
Native bitfield support is the only way. Everything else is awful to use. There should be a way to specify an ABI by adding one or more attributes to describe layout. Standard ones should include: natural alignment (by smallest power of two
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by burfog 7y ago
This is no joke. My father used a map of likely nuclear fallout when choosing where his family would live.
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by burfog 7y ago
With property lines being about 100 feet apart, that comes to 100 houses. It's just $15,000 per house. The road should last 50 years without heavy truck traffic, making it $3000 per year per house.
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by burfog 7y ago
Of interest is iopl() becoming emulated and losing the ability to grant user code the ability to disable interrupts. I wonder what user code might have broken. The trouble with interrupts being disabled was that it wasn't too well defi
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by burfog 7y ago
https://soylentnews.org https://lobste.rs If starting a new site, note that pipedot.org is a clean reimplementation of slashdot.org that didn't gain a critical mass of users. Source code here: http://
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by burfog 7y ago
Relating it to humans gets far more awkward than you might guess. Ponder any implications of what Wikipedia dares to say about the matter: The changes manifested by the tame foxes over the generations, moreover, were not only behavioral bu
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes. He doesn't supply references for the crazy things he talks about, so digging up sources isn't easy, but he tends to be right. It is interesting and scary to think about what pesticides and other weird new chemicals might be d
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by burfog 7y ago
I think it is crazy this was even attempted. The hazard of delayed firing is extreme, and there were so many other obvious solutions to the problem. Probably the sanest fix is to put the guns out on the wings. Firing through a center hole i
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by burfog 7y ago
There are many more. It would be difficult to enumerate them all. Nearly anything that causes an exception is easy. Examples: The 0xf1 byte, an "icebp" or "int1" instruction In 32-bit code, use an FPU stack underflow In
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by burfog 7y ago
It's weird feeling surrounded by web programmers who think Python and Javascript are the lowest you'd ever want to go. C++ is annoyingly high-level if you are trying to write code to go in a flash chip. The code starts running at
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by burfog 7y ago
Perhaps I can give you something weirder to read. The other big complaint I have about C++ is that it is too high-level. It isn't very good for low-level control. :-) Writing start-up code and linker scripts to support C++ code running
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by burfog 7y ago
I'm still wondering why you picked the bridge when you had a tent and didn't like the bridge. Did the tent have a huge leak? Was there baseball-sized hail? Were you on concrete or something else, and did that make the difference s
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by burfog 7y ago
I found the story about sleeping under the bridge to be interesting. You had a tent, and you determined that the bridge made you sick, so why be under the bridge? It doesn't seem to offer any shelter advantage in the conditions. You lo
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by burfog 7y ago
I gave up on C++ in part because the language changes too much. I paid for lessons on it. The std:: stuff didn't exist, templates were a recent invention, and people were starting to agree that putting the overload keyword everywhere w

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