cydonian_monk

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by cydonian_monk 9mo ago
I've been native IPv6 at home for a few years now. That worked flawlessly until a recent Windows 11 update somehow broke IPv6 in ways that I don't entirely understand. All the other Linux and Apple and et cetera things in my house
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by cydonian_monk 2y ago
That article is paywalled and locked to National Geographic subscribers only. I'm not sure we have the same definition of accessible.
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by cydonian_monk 2y ago
This depends on how high the operating costs are in Europe. If their profits are approaching zero in the market, pulling out of it entirely would have less of an impact. Obviously that isn't the case, but operating costs for the market
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by cydonian_monk 3y ago
I suspect this is for a few reasons, and somewhat agree with your conjectures. One of the reasons being the platform's popularity and quality of work, which has allowed them to attract higher quality talent (which in turn costs more).
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by cydonian_monk 3y ago
Even they're not exempt from being messed with. I had an HP color laser printer which, when purchased, would print on any paper size that would fit in the printer. (Specifically used it to print to US Legal Size.) A firmware update som
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by cydonian_monk 4y ago
It's difficult to explain to people today just how good Microsoft tech support was in the early-mid 1990s. We had a similarly complex issue with DOS 6.something that I don't remember the full details of, and I think I learned more
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by cydonian_monk 4y ago
The Affinity products on Mac are some of the cleanest, polished, reasonably easy to use, responsive, and stable pieces of commercial image software I've used in years. Very impressed with what they've done so far.
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by cydonian_monk 5y ago
So that's what happened to those. I knew I wasn't completely crazy and that I'd heard and/or "bought" some early Ray LaMontagne music, but last year when I was trying to find it the tracks I was thinking of wer
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
I wish I could recommend "For All Mankind", but I can't. And while I feel the first three episodes were strong and well produced, I just really really didn't agree with where it ended up going. I'll still watch the
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
The way the natural gas issue has been explained to us over the last two days is there are two issues. First: natural gas is prioritized for home usage, which has understandably skyrocketed over the last several days. There was not enough l
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
I'm not 100% sure if it was intentional, but there was a span of time when AT&T's customer service queue (for land lines) behaved like this. You'd call in, your call would be placed on hold (with their terrible hold music
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
That's actually a rather nice looking building. I suspect if something was built here in the States for a similar purpose, not only would it not have such an attractive exterior, but it almost certainly wouldn't have public access
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
It worked really well when I used it. It replaces a bunch of the stock navigation tools, and takes a bit of learning, but really seemed to be a good n-body simulation engine. It's been well over a year since I touched KSP though, so I
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
Your second paragraph about start-up governments makes me wonder how the court system of the "Republic of Texas" quasi-government [0] (not to be confused with the actual state government) is doing these days. While I doubt they ha
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by cydonian_monk 6y ago
In this project, Blue Origin is working with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, while Dynetics is partnered with Sierra Nevada Corp. So it makes sense that Blue Origin received a much larger chunk of money than SpaceX - they're some
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Even 35 years ago when I was in the 7-8 age range and still living in my childhood part of the US, being left at home all day without supervision would have resulted in a visit from Child Protective Services had anyone found out. Just being
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
... and we already have an increasing number (5+) of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the greater Houston area. I do wonder if we'll end up cancelling the Rodeo part way through.
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Yes, but the other Apple Originals I've watched don't have much if any product placement. Granted it would be anachronistic in something like "For All Mankind", but I don't recall seeing any in "See" or wh
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I agree, but aside from a couple edge cases (again avoiding spoilers) I'm not sure I'd categorize any of them as particularly villainous. That show does a good job of showing broken humans as the complex messes they really are. An
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Do we work together? (I'm assuming not.) Some guy where I work does the same thing, same truck. Usually he's still thousands of feet away when he starts it too, maybe even still in the office. Or maybe it's just a Houston thi
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Those meetups where everyone is decades older than you? Many of them have children that might be your age. Make friends with both. Some of my best adult relationships are from older folks with similar interests introducing me to their child
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I had the same reaction. I first read "Snow Crash" and "Brave New World" around the same time (circa-2000), and was happy that both missed the mark. Looking back at them now I feel like the modern world has become a blen
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Wow. Now _that's_ something I've not even thought about in decades. Those were irritating when trying to BBS in somewhere at 2AM and you didn't want to wake the whole house. (Not many of us had dedicated data lines then.) I r
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
This was actually one of the reasons I ended up going with a (hybrid) RAV4 instead of a smaller pickup. I don't need a pickup for durability reasons (98% of the time I'm on paved surface), but I do need a way to move board as I do
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
It's the usual refrain: "How dare you like this [popular thing] I've never done and have no interest in." Usually followed by: "People like you are the reason [other thing] is gone." I'm not sure it's
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Cultural reasons. Legal reasons. And sometimes (rarely) the changes you might make to these basic infrastructure tools are of a proprietary nature. It's frustrating at times, but mostly it comes down to whether management or the legal
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
This, your other examples, and spacekit as a whole are absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing this link.
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Cheat-sheets are also far more "real world" than the fake environment many schools cling to. I don't know a single practicing engineer that doesn't have a note scribbled somewhere. My engineering school recognized this d
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I can't find a link to the story at the moment (I'm on mobile), but I read recently they've started doing just that - doing image analyses on aerial/sat map data - to find cars and other things submerged in the Bayous he
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by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I had to replace my SE battery earlier this year (well, I didn't absolutely need to, I did it because I intend to get another two years out if it). Otherwise mine is still chugging along perfectly well. Software wise it's a perfec

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