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by daveslash 2y ago
Yes, but it's more like UDP than it is TCP. TCP has acknowledgements and retries. UDP is "fire and forget".
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by daveslash 2y ago
Woah Woah Woah Woah.... Space Jam should not be in this museum. That's an image of it today! (/s, https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html )
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by daveslash 2y ago
In my RnD testing, when I just need an arbitrary port, 666 is my go to . (a) It's almost never used by anything else and (b) <3 Doom Unfortunately, I showed some software in a sprint demo once, using 666 as an arbitrary port. I w
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by daveslash 2y ago
My favorite video so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHEpNwkWc8
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by daveslash 2y ago
I moved from the north east corner of the US to the south west corner. That threw me off. It used to be "everything in the US is to the south-west of me", whereas now it's "everything in the US is to the north-east"
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by daveslash 3y ago
Friends mock me for my basic 2011 Nissan Sentra. Aside from not having a car payment anymore, I love it because of it's touch dials and CD player (CD Player that can do MP3/WMA discs). I can adjust all the climate and media contro
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by daveslash 3y ago
Funny enough, when I've tried to introduce (indoctrinate) friends to DOOM, "how do I aim up" has consistently been the biggest hangup. This makes sense when I try to indoctrinate my teenager who grew up on Halo and Call of
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by daveslash 3y ago
The quickest way for most is to look at the leaves/needles. Coast Redwood needles look more like a fir tree - flat and extending from a central spine. Coast Redwood cones are about the size of a small marble, about the diameter of a fi
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by daveslash 3y ago
Typo on my part. Fixed. Thank you. Take my upvote.
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by daveslash 3y ago
"There are an estimated half a million -->redwoods<-- in the UK and more are being planted, partly due to their public appeal. In the wild, they are endangered with fewer than 80,000 -->giant sequoias<-- remaining in their
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by daveslash 3y ago
No, they don't tail notch berried female lobsters where I live. But I know what you're talking about. I'm diving for Spiny Lobster in California. I think you may be thinking of American Lobster (aka Maine Lobster). Same Order
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by daveslash 3y ago
I'm not a font expert, but I do appreciate good typeface. I view typefaces like shoes - different types for different uses. I have my running shoes, my hiking boots, my beach shoes, my dress shoes, etc... I have my mono-spaced typeface
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by daveslash 3y ago
I think we can all agree... it's Arial Helvetica problem! I think it may be Terminal. I need someone to Consolas me.
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by daveslash 3y ago
When I was a kid, my dad was driving us home along a rural road from cub scouts. We came across a neighbor who needed help loading a bear into his truck. He claims that he hit it in the road and injured it so badly he had to put it down. It
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by daveslash 3y ago
Regardless of how one feels about marijuana use or legality, it clearly does not meet the definition of Schedule 1. Schedule 1 definition: " Accepted Medical Use: None, Potential for Addiction: Drug is not safe to use, even under medic
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by daveslash 3y ago
Also off topic, but your comment "It's like giving a tank to a soccer mom and telling her to have fun in traffic" reminds me of the 1995 San Diego Tank Rampage where a guy stole a tank from a Nat'l Guard base and took
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by daveslash 3y ago
Well, I did say that I was no expert. This explanation makes sense. Thank you.
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by daveslash 3y ago
Not sure. But I'm guessing that the finder patters represent a pattern that is not possible in the data encoding. That is, according the the encoding scheme you couldn't have data that, just by chance looked like a finder patter
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by daveslash 3y ago
You're right, they do. And I'm certainly no expert, but I have a more difficult time imagining a tire coming off the wheel intact without some catastrophic "blowout" impeding it's ability to smoothly roll than I do
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by daveslash 3y ago
I like dd MMM YYYY just fine, especially in documentation. But truthfully, I much prefer YYYY-MM-dd. I know that by using dd MMM YYYY you avoid the ambiguity of dd/MM vs MM/dd, and avoiding the ambiguity is important , but I thin
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by daveslash 3y ago
I also take it to mean that it's either work others are often unwilling to do, or something that's really difficult, or something that I've been wanting for a long time but haven't gotten anyone to help me with. For exam
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by daveslash 3y ago
Order some new Pod Bay doors HAL.
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by daveslash 3y ago
This is a nitpick, but I learned something. I've always thought "Capital" referred to assets, whereas "Capitol" referred to government. And it irked me that the headline used the wrong version, as I thought D.C. was
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by daveslash 3y ago
You called him out on not catching the reference. You Wrecked Em'! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czFnIvKOJY
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by daveslash 3y ago
I'm going to get this quote wrong, but there was an author (Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov? one of those folks) who said something along the lines of " We were lucky to be the last generation to be able to read all science fiction that
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by daveslash 3y ago
FANTASTIC documentary! Beautifully made, engaging, entertaining for those well familiar and very accessible to the layperson. I caught it by accident, right at the beginning, while flipping through public-access TV and spent the next hour+
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by daveslash 3y ago
This knowledge applies to Sperm Whales. The space probe was specifically looking for Humpback Whales. The continuum is doubly safe for now.
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by daveslash 3y ago
I think it's interesting to speculate on how an alien civilization might develop technology, and in what order, if they were to originate on a planet with different ratios of elements than Earth, including access to these super heavy e
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by daveslash 3y ago
Discussion from April 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691
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by daveslash 3y ago
In addition to: (1) Real world vs. Virtual (2) The Stress and Anxiety of the Pandemic, there's a (3) thing that I observed. Both my kid and my wife (who's going back to higher education) both experienced instructors who were very

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