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841.
by db48x 2y ago
Not really. At the time of the battle the complex covered several acres, with the buildings built in a squarish shape around a courtyard. The Mexican army burnt most of the buildings down out of spite as they retreated, and like most other
842.
by db48x 2y ago
Why does a building have to be large in order to be historically important?
843.
by db48x 2y ago
It’s a pleasant spot. Texas is dry and hot as a rule, but the river walk is a level below the city, right at the water’s edge, with trees providing ample shade for the whole length. If you are visiting San Antonio you will definitely want t
844.
by db48x 2y ago
He is talking about orbital mechanics, rather than free space. When you are in an orbit, the shape of the orbit is determined by your speed. At every distance from the center of the object you are orbiting (such as the Earth), there is a sp
845.
by db48x 2y ago
I think it's deeper than bicycles. They never went to college or university (though their sister did), but they were extremely well read and researched everything they did. Their first business was a weekly newspaper and printing press
846.
by db48x 2y ago
The _Path Between the Seas_ by David McCullough is really excellent. It starts with the French diplomat Ferdinand De Lesseps, specifically with the way his friendship with the king of Egypt enabled him to start the Suez canal project. It th
847.
by db48x 2y ago
Did you forget that you also have steam power? It is much more energy dense than accumulators, and there is plenty of fuel around.
848.
by db48x 2y ago
Biosphere was an attempt at a sealed ecosystem. It's not at all comparable to a building designed as living quarters for people who come and go as they please.
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by db48x 2y ago
They should do it somewhere shallow first, next to a large city surrounded by water where the land values are high. Requiring a boat for access would make it less feasible, so perhaps just a stairway and/or an elevator at the water’s e
850.
by db48x 2y ago
It was probably a manager that said it wasn’t in the spec, but yea, that is entirely plausible :(
851.
by db48x 2y ago
That has to hurt. I would really love to read an in–depth analysis of the problem.
852.
by db48x 2y ago
That’s just a simple linear congruential generator < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator >. In principle it’s possible to devise one that prints anything you want.
853.
by db48x 2y ago
You’re welcome.
854.
by db48x 2y ago
It’s just a little cpu and some nonvolatile memory running a program. You can send it messages, and it will send back replies, but you cannot control which program is running on it. Of course this is vague enough that it could implement alm
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Futurama's Oldest Mystery Solved: Was Nibbler in the First Airing of the Pilot? [video](youtube.com)
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856.
by db48x 2y ago
I had to shorten the original title from “Futurama's Oldest Mystery Solved: Was Nibbler's Shadow in the First Airing of Space Pilot 3000?” for reasons.
857.
by db48x 2y ago
If the language you use don’t have any way of dealing with this problem then one day you will be dealing with heap corruption because a library you (transitively) depend on changed the size of a struct. This is the fate of every C and C++ p
858.
by db48x 2y ago
Yep. In principle you can examine the crates before you use them and pick ones that won’t ever expose you to that pitfall. In practice, of course, things are not always so ideal. But at least if you end up with incompatible versions then th
859.
by db48x 2y ago
Rust does name mangling, and it basically just adds the crate version to the mix when it mangles the names. So if crates A and B both depend on X but different version, then A can only call functions from its chosen version of X while B can
860.
by db48x 2y ago
Yea, that was a mistake. Rust handles it transparently; if the program you write happens to depend on two versions of something, it just downloads them both for you.
861.
by db48x 2y ago
Rust fixes the problem at the language level by allowing your dependencies to use different versions of their dependencies. It can be a little rough on the size of your binaries, but you can end up with as many different versions of the com
862.
by db48x 2y ago
That is the only sensible way, in the end. Ultimately you have to fix the bug in your product, even if the bug comes from a library. Users won’t generally like to hear you make excuses of that kind.
863.
by db48x 2y ago
It is perfectly legitimate to be exasperated at victims who complain about being taken advantage of, but never even try to do anything about it. Besides, it’s easier than you pretend. The form you have to fill out is literally two pages lon
864.
by db48x 2y ago
Small claims court never takes days. The whole point of small claims court is that time and money and credibility are not an advantage, since the whole trial takes no more than a few minutes and consists of little more than both sides prese
865.
by db48x 2y ago
That’s the whole reason that small claims court exists.
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by db48x 2y ago
Only a few would actually have to do it. But if everyone lets them get away with it, then I have no sympathy.
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by db48x 2y ago
They are.
868.
by db48x 2y ago
That is very nice. Almost wish I had a use for it.
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by db48x 2y ago
A mere engineering problem.
870.
by db48x 2y ago
As someone who has productively worked from home for over 25 years, this is nonsense.

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