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by cyberax 2mo ago
A whip's end also breaks the sound barrier. It's not at all hard to do.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers. They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Cla
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> On the contrary, reMarkable's cloud and associated sync functionality is praised regularly in the unofficial subreddit Are we sure it's not just from bots? I tried to use reMarkable as a tablet with screen casting when teachi
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> A typical trip on the NYC subway is not 20 dollars haha. Yes, it is. It's a part of how urbanists hide the true cost of that "transit freedom". Divide the yearly budget of the MTA ($21.3 billion) by the number of rides (
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> You seem to have a axe to grind against cities. Yup. > And based on how you describe them, you actually never lived in a city with children. Nope. I also grew up in a city. > What do you think all that dense stuff is? It's p
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> Yes, in the Wilamette Valley the indigenous folks maintained Gary Oaks and prevented other trees from growing there. Yes, and that's a fancy way of saying "used periodic burns" to remove the vegetation to make the land m
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Technically it is, but in practice they often speak very obscure protocols over non-Ethernet links. Honestly, I think it's an advantage at this point. Way too much diversity to easily attack remotely.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Nope. The woods in Oregon (Willamette Valley) and WA were planted and/or allowed to grow by settlers. There are true old growths along the coast and higher up the mountains. If you want to specifically hike through the old-growth fores
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hydrogen sulfide, the compound responsible for the smell of
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> Causality goes the other way - it's not the compact nature that reduced fertility but the fact that dense neighborhoods are rare and pricey in the US. They're unfortunately not rare. And dense housing is ALWAYS pricey in the
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Look at Houston vs. NYC. Both have approximately similar populations but completely different approaches to city design. NYC is at 52 and Harris County (that contains Houston) is at 67 births per year per 1000. But NYC is also diverse, with
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Indigenous practice resulted in the deforestation of the American West so a lot of forests in Oregon and Washington are new growth.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
There really, really are not. Tokyo is the prime example of the urban density runaway spiral. Japan has a declining population, yet Tokyo prices are skyrocketing. Some people now live in "microapartments" where you can cook while
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by cyberax 2mo ago
And I can tell you that (a) is actually where the children _are_. And (b) is where the people go to die. > Sure, with big lots, kids have lots of space in their own backyards. And big cars make soccer-momming easier. But, when kids can e
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by cyberax 2mo ago
> I personally think it’s just opportunity cost. Nope. It's just time and personal living space. It's THAT simple. Go on, try to plan your day with transit and no car if you have 3 children (with 2-3 year age gaps). You'll
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by cyberax 2mo ago
I speak 5 languages, lived in several countries, and got my first car at the age of 30.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
No, they're not. They are places where cities go to die. Walk in Tokyo and try to find children there.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Keep building these bike lanes and 15-minute neighborhoods. So that people don't even think about having children. Make sure people have no personal space and no personal time. That's how we reduce the Earth's population!
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by cyberax 2mo ago
400 years is nothing. At this speed, all the Galaxy would have been colonized long ago. This subplot in the book is at least reasonable. Somehow aliens capable of pico-scale engineering can't make a telescope to observe the nearby sola
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by cyberax 2mo ago
If you're colonizing systems so stealthily that it's not visible, then why bother doing that at all? Even a single solar system has more than enough resources.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
You need to use antiretrovirals constantly to control the HIV. It's not worth it for the HPV that is mostly benign (and only rarely causes cancer).
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Then it's even weirder. Detecting planets around stars is trivial, yet nobody is running to get that prime real estate? Still makes no sense.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
"Dark forest" doesn't work from a game-theoretical standpoint. It assumes that it's cheap to destroy entire planets and solar systems. Yet no-one seems to be colonizing other systems. The optimal strategy in this case is
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Microsoft in the 90-s and early 2000-s was a serious company. Windows NT and Office were engineering marvels. Windows 95 was a brilliant hack that allowed 32-bit GUI programs to run on hardware with 2Mb of RAM (Windows had 4Mb of RAM as the
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Unions sound great in theory, but they aren't working all that well in practice for high-paying fields that require specialized knowledge. It negates the main advantage of that: being able to move between jobs without losing the salary
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Forgejo has a better PR UI. Github has degraded so much that its UI can't even _show_ _the_ _fucking_ _diffs_ without clicking on "Load Diffs". Github is just the laziest default. It's not _terrible_, but it's also
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Here's what I did. Step one - migrate my build workflows to Docker. My Github actions are now basically: "checkout / set env vars from secrets / docker-compose builder run make". I used large machine runners to run
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Not really? They would likely pass through Earth completely invisibly.
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by cyberax 2mo ago
There are very few computer-era symmetric ciphers that were truly broken. RC4 is probably the worst example. There are no reasonable attacks even on the good old DES. And by "reasonable" I mean attacks that would bring down the co
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by cyberax 2mo ago
Just treat webhooks as a hint. Write your code to work as a "reconciler" that checks the state of the remote system and reconciles it with the local view of that system. Run reconciliation for the full state periodically using a s

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