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by chasil 8mo ago
To put a different shade on the meaning, this climate period is rare, easily disturbed, and difficult to restore even with vastly more powerful technology. The more common greenhouse state is unlikely to lead to a Venus runaway, but it will
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by chasil 8mo ago
What is generally not understood is that our current icehouse phase is rare. 'A "greenhouse Earth" is a period during which no continental glaciers exist anywhere on the planet... Earth has been in a greenhouse state for abou
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by chasil 8mo ago
Is it as good as Android's calculator? https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf&#x
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by chasil 8mo ago
I do love Oracle Database. Expensive as it is ($17,500/core on SE2, $47,500/core on Enterprise), the archived logs are mostly rock solid, and standby/Dataguard nodes are always correct (assuming that you FORCE LOGGING or are
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by chasil 8mo ago
We are accomplished in the infliction of suffering and death. Such a noble goal.
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by chasil 8mo ago
We invented so much technology, but drove it out of the country at the behest of labor cost reduction. We have so many smart people, but they are irrelevant in the AI that we are giving away. Is there any hope? I am not seeing it.
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by chasil 8mo ago
I have photographs from the Poblado district of Medellín, Colombia of a man who had strung a tightrope between two lightpoles of a side street, and tightwalked them carrying hoops and bowling pins that he juggled while cars passed below. An
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by chasil 8mo ago
This has been addressed in a few realms, primarily shells. One bash behavior oddity is that, when it is called as /bin/sh, this will work: $ cat pbasher #!/bin/sh alias p=printf p hello\ world!\\n $ ./p
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by chasil 8mo ago
A standards-conformant implementation of vi is absolutely required to be present and conformant to standards if the platform is certified by POSIX.2 (or whatever name the standard uses these days). The latest standard for vi (and the rest
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by chasil 8mo ago
Apple was not tasked with producing the very best supercomputer with the ARM architecture. That was Fujitsu. They each have their own specialties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)
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by chasil 8mo ago
The Sophons are actually more believable. Much has been discovered since the first book was written, and that was actually a very good guess. https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-co...
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Proxima orbits at a great distance from the inner pair of stars, around their center of mass. Proxima is also a small red dwarf star. This layout had to have been well-known by the time the book was written. This is perhaps similar to the p
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by chasil 8mo ago
Three Body Problem in the book set the alien world in Alpha Centari, which is not a three body system. Even a cursory analysis at the time of writing would have ruled out Alpha Centari. It was shockingly bad research.
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by chasil 8mo ago
The original "futurists" were Italian, eventually under Mussolini. That is a loaded term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_architecture
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by chasil 9mo ago
It won't be a chip, as higher densities are required. Then the heat must be removed. Then, stacking has to happen. Do we reach a synthetic neuron?
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by chasil 9mo ago
Why was George Clooney persuaded to make such a bad adaptation of Solaris?
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by chasil 9mo ago
The Kurzgesagt video on teraforming Venus is interesting. It only takes a thousand years, assuming perfect execution. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI
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by chasil 9mo ago
Life cannot leave, no. A radiation hardened, self healing computer could.
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by chasil 9mo ago
The Chinese built a much larger spherical telescope, so what was the point of rebuilding Arecibo? I visited Arecibo a decade before it collapsed. It was impressive and of great historical value, but could repair be cost-effective? Edit: It
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by chasil 9mo ago
I have upvoted you, and perhaps you are right that there are shades of pessimism in this perspective. The 2020s have not been known as reasons for great optimism. The pandemic and AI culling clades of the job market have been traumatizing e
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by chasil 9mo ago
Also, we've realized the scientific reality that traveling faster than light is likely impossible, and the vast distances to other habitable planets would mean tens of thousands of years of travel even with the most efficient technolog
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by chasil 9mo ago
You can configure client ODBC in the listener.ora, then use database links to access outside sources. Here is how I did it with SQLite, which was problematic with anything but basic types. https://www.linuxjournal.com/conten
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by chasil 9mo ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Friendship and obligation go hand in hand.
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by chasil 9mo ago
I read Jason Couchman's book for Oracle 8i certification, and passed the five exams. They left much out, so many important things that I learned later, as I saw harmful things happening. The very biggest thing is "nologging,"
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by chasil 9mo ago
In pieces of my code, I need to call setuserid() to manage some of the security that I designed in 2010. There was no Rust at that point, and I used the most basic tool that could do it. Could I have done this in Java with gymnastics of JNI
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by chasil 9mo ago
I am a DBA for Oracle databases, and XE can be used for free. It has the reference SQL/PSM implementation in PL/SQL. I know how to set up a physical standby, and otherwise I know how to run it. That being said, Oracle Database SE2
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by chasil 9mo ago
Someone pointed out to me a few days ago that mine is the last generation who were able to lose touch and reconnect after long periods of time. In the days of rotary & pay telephones the loss of communication was possible. That is no lo
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by chasil 9mo ago
Fun fact, sodium metal has also been used to directly make wire. It has some compelling properties. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/06/08/1827250/the-los...
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by chasil 9mo ago
I think it is removed from rhel10. I can check if you want. The entire 32-bit subsystem (multilib) is also removed from rhel10.
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by chasil 9mo ago
Every time I have a yearly physical, my GP will ask if I have feelings of depression. I know this road leads to SSRIs at the very least, so I always reply in the negative. The parent comment hints to me that this might be a mistake. I do no

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