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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Webbed - it's fairly short, but it has both a charming story and great mechanics.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
For everyone asking why they don't just provide a download link: that bundle of open source software is probably treated as engineering work product, given a P/N, and stored in their PLM system with all the other design data for t
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
I remember this from way back when, even the channel icons, but it had blurred together with Digitally Imported. I didn't realize it was a separate entity until now.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
J. Katz, and Y. Lindell, 2015: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 583 pp.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
These days I've lost interest. My point was that availability affected what I ultimately spent (and did not spend) my money on.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
You would think they would be incentivized to fix this problem, even though it has been going on for years now. People will lose interest eventually and spend their money elsewhere. A few years back I was going to build a gaming PC, with an
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Alpha Centauri 2
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
I've read lots of sci-fi, but never Foundation. Knowing how well-regarded it is among fans of the genre, hearing it described as "people sitting in rooms talking" is the best hook I've heard in a while.
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
We're living in a novel environment. Being unable to imagine the juxtaposition of rocks which would shield your turned back from view of the sabertooth tiger, for example, could have very different outcomes depending on which side of t
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
Elsewhere in this thread people were talking about imagined sounds or music, and a specific impairment in their ability to hear music in their heads. An anecdote: I'm in the middle of learning the bass part for a piece of music. Having
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by cartoonfoxes 4y ago
I suspect this has something to do with which parts of your brain are wired into your short-term memory, and the ratio of connections to each. My conscious visual imagination can produce hallucinatory "front-buffer" effects - like
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
I think it was 2001? that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) replaced their SGI workstations with linux boxes running RedHat 7.5 and powered by a Nvidia Quadro2 gpu.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
Bankrupt (2006), acquired by Rackable Systems (2009), then aquired by HP Enterprise (2016).
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
That's an odd way of saying Chinese state actor.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
>But you should be aware that there is no actual reduced inflow of air due to mask wearing Huh? From https://weintraubcenter.dentistry.ucla.edu/n95-respirators-t... >Pressure drop is a measure of the resistance that t
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
I've used the analogy that NFTs are just a fancy notary public, and exactly as exciting.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
A/B testing has been de-rigueur on the web for a very long time now. What makes you think Microsoft aren't playing the same tricks?
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
It's still thousands of dollars per seat.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
It's also great for killing wasps. You can squirt the high-concentration stuff all over as you flinch in terror of the winged interlopers, and it evaporates safely off any expensive electronics that get caught in the crossfire.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
Console Tape as an alternative to masking tape for labeling things. It's faster than prints for simple labels, and unlike masking tape you can remove it years later without knives or scrapers. It's a low-adhesion paper tape often
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
> USB to serial/paralel adapters are good enough for most hobby projects but aren't suitable for professional or latency critical applications like industrial, audio, arcade retro-emulation and CNC machines. That doesn't s
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
Good machinists are something akin to lion tamers. CNC machine tools inspire a special sort of horror. They're mechanical beasts that growl and groan, ready to lunge at a moments notice with sharpened fangs, and will disembowel you if
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
The pros are well aware of the gains made by phone cameras. Sensors and pixels aren't the primary factor for choosing say, a $10,000 camera, over an iPhone. Reliability, battery life, form factor, control ergonomics, lens compatibility
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
All of the above.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
They're useful for parallel construction. I.e. in identifying designs to be validated through more conventional and computationally-demanding methods.
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
I've never encountered UML in the wild, but could say a few good words for SysML, which is built on top of UML. Working on embedded software / hardware projects I've found SysML to be quite useful for systems design and docum
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by cartoonfoxes 5y ago
>"Running Java" requires detailed system engineering / ops expertise specific to how the JVM works and can be tuned > almost completely disregard how that code works on the JVM As an occasional clueless programmer, I&#x
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by cartoonfoxes 6y ago
Centralized/lock-optional, and very large repositories.
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by cartoonfoxes 6y ago
Indeed. The virus itself may not have been weaponized, but the aftermath most certainly was.
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by cartoonfoxes 6y ago
At that price it makes me wonder if there's a market in vanity satellites for the wealthy.

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