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by chasil 4mo ago
There is a wiki on pair-instability supernovas. Antimatter (in the form of positrons) is a key factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova
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by chasil 4mo ago
Perhaps what you are seeking "retrotransposons," an endogenous retrovirus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon#Endogenous_ret...
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by chasil 4mo ago
Not all are? Largest eukaryote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa largest prokaryote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomargarita_namibiensis
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by chasil 4mo ago
Well, Cygwin and Busybox have shown me that fork-heavy activities are about 100x slower on Windows than Linux. The Windows approach may be correct, but it suffers in performance from the POSIX perspective. I have heard that WSL1 iimproves t
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by chasil 4mo ago
These are/will be the fundamentals of quantum logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate
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by chasil 4mo ago
Bash itself is an odd duck in scripting, with some dark historical crevices: http://tiswww.case.edu/~chet/bash/POSIX A better option is a pure POSIX shell, the best-known of which in Linux is dash, but there is an
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by chasil 4mo ago
From the site, "there's some advantage in using the 64-bit executable busybox64.exe. In particular, it can be quite a bit faster."
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by chasil 4mo ago
Busybox helps you avoid this nicely on Windows. When you run one of one of its shells, it uses all it's own builtins in preference to anything external. Get the 64-bit version: "there's some advantage in using the 64-bit exec
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by chasil 4mo ago
Windows is also a rare bird in UTF-16. "UTF-16 is used by the Windows API, and by many programming environments such as Java and Qt. The variable-length character of UTF-16, combined with the fact that most characters are not variable-
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by chasil 4mo ago
Fully-qualify the path to the target program, and it should be no concern.
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by chasil 4mo ago
No .DLLs would be the primary reason.
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by chasil 4mo ago
This one might interest you, although it's quite old. https://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Busybox's shell is ash, but the above set includes an old zsh IIRC. Note also that the Frippery Windows busybox is available
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by chasil 4mo ago
Heat is a huge problem? Heat radiation elements must be designed as part of the structure? Sophie Wilson has famously said how easy it is for active silicon to get hotter than a nuclear reactor.
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by chasil 4mo ago
Jeremy Alliston (assuming that my memory serves me) is the foremost to decide if this should be done.
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by chasil 4mo ago
Exactly.
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by chasil 4mo ago
There is also a (stub) web page: https://www.openrsync.org/ The problem with this fragmentation of rsync is that Apple and Android will prefer it, but the Linux and greater GPL world will adhere to the original implantation
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by chasil 4mo ago
The best interests of the customers of Microsoft is an immediate apology, a payment of at least $100,000, and a signed agreement pledging that no (further) legal action will be taken. The denial of Microsoft is just as harmful as the exploi
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by chasil 5mo ago
You should all be aware that Lenovo (the owner of Motorola Mobility) has some dark moments in its past. https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty...
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by chasil 5mo ago
Android allows both keyboards and mice, either via USB On The Go adaptors, or Bluetooth.
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by chasil 5mo ago
I was expecting to see a longer list of medical uses, but the wiki says that nicotine has performance impacts on cognition, improving fine motor motion and memory. The pharmacology section is sophisticated. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by chasil 5mo ago
There is one in Corpus Christi (Texas) that I've seen. https://www.visitcorpuschristi.com/blog/post/things-to-do-on...
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by chasil 5mo ago
Is this a play on the rail safety videos? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-GYfRjxhM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJJws3kgzY Edit: Yes. "The
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by chasil 5mo ago
Sees Candy made the wiki. Services & retailing: Ben Bridge Jeweler, Business Wire, Dairy Queen, McLane Company, NetJets, Oriental Trading Company, Pampered Chef, See's Candies, Star Furniture, WPLG Manufacturing: Benjamin Moore &am
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by chasil 5mo ago
Berkshire Hathaway has this attitude, with the proviso that the corporate management at the acquired firm must be competent, and the firm be profitable and protected by a "moat." It's amazing that they trot out Sees Candy eve
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by chasil 5mo ago
One interesting aspect that I remember about this is the internal NNTP server with a newsgroup known as "Bad Attitude" where frustrations with the products, culture, structure, and other elements of Netscape were shared. IIRC, &qu
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by chasil 5mo ago
How is this dissimilar to the Ukrainian "Spider Web" attack on the Russian TU-22M and TU-95 aircraft? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb
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by chasil 5mo ago
Thanks for that post. Checking MSN is a good alternative to archive.ph, or otherwise searching for the author and title?
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by chasil 5mo ago
Well, if there was a "Three Body Problem" civilization looking for a new home, we have not been inconspicuous. I think we can rule that out.
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by chasil 5mo ago
I think that an atmosphere with measurable oxygen gas is a far longer lasting, pervasive and interesting signal that by itself could prompt investigation. The oxygen has been here for far longer than us, sometimes at much higher levels.
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by chasil 5mo ago
A name for this is the "ailiamentary canal," which redirects here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract

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