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by derekp7 7y ago
One example I've read about is that increased fuel economy requirements actually had a reverse effect in the case of the Ford Ranger. This is because the regulation was based on vehicle footprint, and in order to get the Ranger to mee
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by derekp7 7y ago
Actually, I believe they stand a decent chance of some future billionaire recovereing them and putting them into a museum or a private collection in a hundred years or so.
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by derekp7 7y ago
They are also available free online -- "PostScript Language Tutorial & Cookbook", also known as the PostScript Blue Book, is at https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF . There is als
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by derekp7 7y ago
One language that seldom gets mentioned is Postscript. People tend to think of it as just a page descriptor language, but really that is just the built-in graphic functions. So we have a post fix (RPN, similar to HP calculators) expression
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by derekp7 7y ago
One of my disappointments with the Pi 4 is that the official case for it got rid of any ventilation. Previous cases had vents and a removable top plate. I've found that the Primori fan shim works really good, but only with the cover
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by derekp7 7y ago
Well obviously, but again, why? Is it strictly for one handed data entry, or do you find it easier to move your hand from the home row to the numpad when entering a number mixed with text? (I.e., is it that common for touch typists to not
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by derekp7 7y ago
Why would you want two sets of number keys on the keyboard? Except for the case of one-handed exclusive numeric input. The biggest problem with a number pad on a laptop, is it puts the rest of the keyboard off-center from the screen. No w
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by derekp7 7y ago
My thinking is that this would serve a similar purpose to the trend for web browsers to warn users of insecure websites -- the more "in your face" the warnings are, the more incentive there is for providers to be secure. I've
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by derekp7 7y ago
I really wish that consumer OSs would mandate RAID (mirroring at the minimum), requiring additional steps to install on unprotected storage. This should have been implemented even back during the early days of consumer hard drives, or at t
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by derekp7 7y ago
If the court determines that someone is improperly using them for a shakedown, that person goes to jail. Best fix I can think of.
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by derekp7 7y ago
What do you use in-car wifi for, that you couldn't already use your existing unlimited cell data plan for? I have unlimited data, plus "unlimited" hotspot on my t-mobile phone for a really reasonable price (the unlimited hot
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by derekp7 7y ago
If you don't mind me asking, What time of night was that image taken? That looks like sunlight reflected off the satellites, so it must have been just after sunset or just prior to dawn (where the satellites are illuminated but it is
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by derekp7 7y ago
> - Use software leverage to your advantage. openssl's libcrypt has Base 64 routines in it.
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by derekp7 7y ago
The communications is handled via ssh, so yes I would use it over the internet as the transfers are streaming. A full manifest (list of file names and metadata [file owner, mod time, size, etc]) is sent over the wire, and a return list of
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by derekp7 7y ago
There is also Snebu (www.snebu.com, Github repo at github.com/derekp7/snebu). I wrote this about 8 years ago for my personal needs, because rsync / snapshot backups were running out of steam for me. What's different from
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by derekp7 7y ago
I don't see anything about the Starship design that would prevent a future version with the nose cone being sealed off with a bulkhead, along with and explosive bolts attachment mechanism and Super Dracos attached (plus parachutes). T
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by derekp7 7y ago
Do you really have ATMs that spit out $50 and $100 bills? Around here the highest bill is $20. And I've never run across any place that wouldn't take $20s.
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by derekp7 7y ago
You also have the case where natural ability is a hindrance. If the kid is used to not having to work at a particular sport, they will have trouble when they get to a point that they have to involve deliberate practice in order to get beyo
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by derekp7 7y ago
Ah, hear documents -- had the arrows pointing the other way. The problem is that you still have to worry about escaping some special characters, such as the dollar sign. Whereas by using the "declare" syntax, or the attached scri
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by derekp7 7y ago
In normal automation, Ansible (or similar) may be prefered. However this is for use cases where your app runs across multiple hosts, and some functions need to be done on the other host. An example is if you have something inside a KVM ins
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by derekp7 7y ago
Can you elaborate? The only '>>' notation I'm familiar with is to append to a file. The purpose of this technique is if you have a script running on, say, a master host, has a bunch of functions, but has a couple funct
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RPC (remote procedure calls) in BASH over SSH(gist.github.com)
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I was wondering, since Gnome has a lot of development sponsored by Red Hat, and IBM now owns Red Hat, would IBM have any business interest in helping with the defense?
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Those kids will be paying taxes the rest of their lives which go to fund education. Either directly (through property taxes on their home), or indirectly (the landlord has to pay property taxes, which comes from rent money). So in a way ev
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by derekp7 7y ago
That doesn't work, because Amazon comingles stock. You could still get bad product if the packaging looks the same between Amazon's item and a third party seller's item
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I think you mean there would be no internal combustion engine. According to Oxford, an engine is "a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion". So an electric motor is still an engine.
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That's why I like my Thinkpad X1 Yoga. Depending on the operation, I will use the touchpad, the trackpoint, or the touchscreen.
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Yeah, that's the thing they don't tell you up front. When you bail someone out, you are legally giving them that money. So if the money is owed to something else (such as fines / court costs, or a legal judgement) those fun
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by derekp7 7y ago
Sorry, I think I was misunderstood. Cell towers that work over starlink (i.e., use starlink as an uplink method) may be cheaper than cell towers that use a landline for an uplink. So the ideal situation would be Starlink for remote areas,
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by derekp7 7y ago
"Instead" refers to the exclusivity of eye candy. So I'd rather see additional features enabled instead of an exclusive focus on flaming or squigly windows. Both would be fine, but if I had to choose...

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