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by dexen 7y ago
>We should charge the man with the duty of looking up the purpose of the fence in the archive A fine sentiment, but still falls short of preserving & benefiting from the wisdom of the yore. In the eternal battle of the new & be
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>building blocks Yeah, we seem to have strayed a bit too much towards the turn-key end of the spectrum. IMO both have their rightful place on an open market. The problem with managing building from blocks is that it requires innovati
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To counter, "first lightbulb", "first automobile", "first airplane flight", "first color photograph" etc. are always arbitrary thresholds; much ink has been spilled over who, when, and where; over wh
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>modern pressurized airliner cabins It's a good reference point, even if there are some key differences worth mentioning. First up, an airliner fuselage is specced for tens of thousands of pressure cycles; needs to sustain the wea
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>where mass is the dominant cost factor. The compounding importance of mass is one factor here, but only half the story. The other half is how SpaceX' quick iterations and ability to retire vehicles early allows ample room to expe
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>They designed and built a custom welding machine _and_ a custom x-ray machine for building tank domes in four weeks? That's feasible due to the requirements being narrow and specific, and also well understood by a team close to
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>When is the last time you used a GOTO in code? Just yesterday in fact, while implementing a state machine. Except the developers of that particular language explicitly did away with GOTO, so I ended up approximating it with a SWITCH&
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by dexen 7y ago
computer languages also experience similar shifts? Partly, but less so. Human language vocabularies approximate Huffman Coding - the more frequently used words (and phrases) tend to be proportionally shorter. This is a gradual process for
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Imagine an old PS/2 mouse with a mini Jack cord & plug. Non-standard but works. I mean, on GNU/Linux: ps aux Party time: rsync -rave ssh SOURCE DESTINATION
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>but rc doesn't have built in regex and doesn't have hash tables That's an advantage; Plan 9 provides awk for those use cases. There is a clear separation, and a simple yet powerful language for communication (pipes, f
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UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful , http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ (see the linked PDF, http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf ) Another example: the modern Bash shell vs the
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>The political bias of wikipedia editors There is the problem of sourcing. Per the Wikipedia's policies[0], any contributions must be grounded in reliable sources , which in case of recent events boils down to big name news publi
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Archived version, since access is blocked for european readers: http://archive.is/Sy521
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Intel Management Engine 12 is broken down. CNP PCH has been unlocked(twitter.com)
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You are right, and thank you for pointing it out. My intent was to satirize the incredulity or even outrage conveyed in certain comments; should've chosen a better format for that.
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Some comments read to me as if they were trying to say, >I want to benefit from the latest technology >I want to enjoy the bleeding edge tech >bugs? Why are there bugs in the bleeding edge technology? >misfeatures? Why ar
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>a lot of things I'd be interested in are censored Same for me. Frankly I accept HN is a space to discuss a limited range of subjects, and keep other subjects to elsewhere. It's annoying to a degree, but it the longer run it
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>The only way Way to start with a false premise. The main way on HN is efforts, both by mods and by users, to buoy up good content, and push down bad content. >[is to] remove some of the anonymity Not even close. Preventing chea
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>For dealing with "bad actors", the problem is anonymity I wish it was this simple :^) Consider Facebook, where people post mostly under their own name and photo. Even a casual visit to Facebook quickly reveals your hypothesi
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>Firefox says they will [properly support extensions on mobile] The most relevant extension - uBlock Origin - works just fine on mobile Firefox. It's a real game changer, especially with screen real estate and energy usage being q
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Strict Structs in C(flak.tedunangst.com)
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>all of these sites have analytics. The analytics is most likely blocked by common adblock rules. And present-day Firefox users are quite likely to be advanced users, running adblock. Thus Firefox ends up being under-represented in the
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>LCDs typically use color filters, which in most cases tend not to fade. The older LCDs were backlit with (cold cathode) fluorescent lamps, and those lamps do fade out and shift in color over time. With those you do want to adjust cali
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Reminds me of the yesterday [1] tool from Plan 9. Pretty much what the author expects, except with textual interface rather than a slider. OHTF Vg'f uneq gb hfr guvf pbzznaq jvgubhg fvatvat. -- [1] http://man.cat-v.org&#x2F
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>The F-35 was not built for dogfighting. It is supposed to sense and launch long before the opponents are even in visual range. The very same hubris caused trouble in Vietnam, which were fixed with rapid re-introduction of guns to fig
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Reminds me of Hans Rosling's talks, for example https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve... .
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>a successful underground propaganda attack You could make the exact same argument about the ecological movements opposing nuclear power generation. Not sure if that goes along, or perhaps across, the point you are making.
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The SR-71 did take off with much less than full fuel load; IIRC to keep the mass low enough for safe T/O abort or maybe for a safe go-around. As for books, I wholeheartedly recommend the excellent https://www.barnesandnoble.
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>but I do think Windows seems to do a little better software-wise too Windows 10 does a little trick to speed up boot - when you perform a shutdown, Windows 10 saves a mini-hibernation image to the hibernation file. When you perform no
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>Are supersonic aircraft more or less efficient Surprisingly enough, supersonic planes have good fuel economy while supercruising - thanks to thin air at the high altitude, and speeds around Mach 2 ... 3 being good for turbojet engines

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