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by daedalus_j 3y ago
The Forever War novels have this as a key plot point, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Oh man, there's a name I haven't thought about in a long time.... I think they may have been my first foray into the actual web from BBS'. I remember it being pretty dang cool that you could write your emails offline and then
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
"only works if you learn to touch type" So... "typing is only improved if you actually learn to type"? This "article" is a whiny blog post with exactly the same empty content that is always repeated and absolut
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
For what it's worth: I'm finding the general community vibe, as well as the features, to be better over at https://hardcover.app
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
> Boeing was rightly blamed for misleading everyone about the nature of the MAX8 Pilots I am personally friends with who fly for American, Southwest, and United, disagree. They feel they were fully prepped for the differences in the airf
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
My point is that Boeing will take the flak for what is arguably a pilot error situation with the MAX crashes. We should be very careful to distinguish between actual airframe issues and issues that are related to politics and poor decisio
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I was watching a video, I believe this one ( https://youtu.be/WhfK9jlZK1o?si=goQBueaF-5So3U0X ) that seemed to make the case that due to the door design it is much less likely, if not impossible, for the presumed failure here
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
There's a big difference between an unsafe airframe and pilot error/poor-training though. For example the recent crash in Japan. Airbus isn't getting railed for that one. I know several 737 pilots on US flag carriers. Even at
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
It's significant because it exposes that Boeing's assembly/QA process is not as bullet-proof as it was in the past. Assuming things work the way they should, this (combined with the other loose-bolts situation that recently h
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Depends on what "fix" means. Can it get people there to get out into space and turn some wrenches? Absolutely. Could it haul a new full-diameter mirror? No. It's constrained by it's diameter, and the cargo capacity is th
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I can exchange MMS to other Android users (and it's MMS, not RCS) that aren't ridiculously compressed, so I've always assumed it was Apple.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
It's really not that bad if you have GlobalEntry/TSA Pre. I've been through quite a few airports since getting it and never had an issue. Not as easy as when I was pound atd you could walk right up to the boarding gate to mee
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
When Apple eventually Sherlocks one into MacOS they'll do a whole section of the keynote about how innovative and revolutionary it is, and everyone will start writing fawning articles... But, in seriousness, I don't think they wil
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
You are not. I distrust almost everything on Wikipedia and verify from other sources because I've found so many examples of heavily editorialized content in the past. (and never mind actually trying to contribute, trying that years and
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Yes, we refer to them as "LastCenturyLink". The only Telcom ever to have literally told me "you're just lucky you have a dial tone".
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I will say that today, for the first time in a long time, I seem to be able to click this link and actually get the page to load... But it has been an issue for a long time. But, as an explanation: https://jarv.is/notes&#x2F
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
This. This is what Apple should ACTUALLY get punished for. I don't care that they intentionally lock down their service I wouldn't use it anyway as it's not as secure Signal. What I DO care about in that they intentionally de
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
The downside is that you then normalize pervasive and invasive monitoring... Soon people will be accustomed to it and expect it when they walk down the street... Not the world I'm looking for. Personally I'll take the grope. In fa
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
LLM's hallucinate so often when I ask them about software development issues that I don't even bother to ask them about areas I'm unfamiliar with. I think the major difference that makes in not just "elite preference&q
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Welcome to mandatory "secure DNS", followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome! They won't stop. Ever.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Tells you how much faith they have in that "feature".... I'd love to see some usage numbers on it, and perhaps removal of it when it turns out the usage is near zero... (Or maybe I'm totally wrong, which would be interes
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I completely agree with you, even though the situation is at least a tad better on the Android side... However, it's worth noting that Signal seems to consider this a feature and not a bug. I hate that. I use signal to chat with my fri
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
The community I live in has a decent number of homeschooling families. The kids socialize just fine with each other, and also with the regular school kids in the afternoons. In fact, I'd venture that the homeschooled kids are better
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I can only speak as someone who was homeschooled, as I haven't had a chance to practice it from the other side yet, but: I wouldn't have traded it for the world. However I was very lucky to grow up in an area with an exceptional
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I haven't read it, but I'll add it to my reading list! I suppose I have to agree with you that the statement itself is political, given your definition. In which case I'd simply re-phrase my argument. We used to have politi
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
The battery life one is interesting. I haven't installed windows on my Deck, but I would certainly expect that it wouldn't be anywhere near as good at managing the battery and hardware performance. That's fascinating. Persona
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Just as a counterpoint, the same games run better for me on the Linux/proton side of the same hardware. Haven't had any real issues with non-steam games either on my Linux desktop or my steam deck. It's interesting to note
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Only because some people /make/ it political. If you came into my FAQ and wanted me to put medical advice in it we would not see my refusing to engage with the concept with it as medical advice in itself. (I would not be seen as e
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
No, it just means take it to the right forum. The daily standup is not the right forum, for example. The pub after work? maybe. The previous part of the community statement gets the "we're going to be nice, and not discriminate, a
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Perhaps you're high enough up the ladder that those are simply the people you know and interact with? Move higher up and "personal city on the moon" becomes the status symbol. Move lower down and it's still cars. What t

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