dmead

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   by dmead 5y ago

   it was for sure called gaim. one of the only usable aim clients that worked on linux in the 90s.
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   by dmead 5y ago

   Should we do this? My understanding is that solar installation is the next (semi?) skilled labor that could potentially be careers for many people. It doesn't seem to be the most socially stable thing to cut out humans from this job ma
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   by dmead 5y ago

   so would a database, or a linked list, or literally any data structure... again, a solution looking for a problem.
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   by dmead 5y ago

   okay, so i'll just relay that to the south philly rubes that told me they went. /shrug.
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   by dmead 5y ago

   Bodes badly for international peace prospects.
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   by dmead 5y ago

   Why?
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   by dmead 5y ago

   In Philadelphia, there was a trump rally organized on the east side of city hall before the 2016 election. Turned out it was organized entirely in Facebook ads and groups paid for by proxies of the fsb. So, to answer your question 20. In my
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   by dmead 5y ago

   It was also safer to sell shovels in san francisco than it was to go to the Klondike and dig for gold. the analogy is correct.
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   by dmead 5y ago

   can you comment on your setup a bit? I've been using cartes du ciel over remote desktop to my laptop with serial connections to the telescope. it's not super performant (neither is stellarium). I'm thinking about using the as
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    by dmead 5y ago

    yea, but i'm using it to control my backyard observatory. it needs local tcp or serial access. so far this performs better over remote desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartes_du_Ciel
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    by dmead 5y ago

    I believe this is it. here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jWi6WQQ9wo
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    by dmead 5y ago

    It's been part of american culture since the 50s to accuse people of being in league with the russians. so no, they aren't friends.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    It kind of stinks using this over remote desktop because it relies so heavily on opengl.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    There's a ted talk out there that supposed that people who develop als all spent time in forests/streams.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    wow tough crowd.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    oh hey someone is getting hacked on hacker news.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    I'm there with you. Unfortunately they had ww3 in star trek.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    I just mention that as a way to illustrate they they were not reinvesting their capital into verification/quality and R&D or focusing on their core competency. this was during the period when intel was riding the IOT hype train and
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    by dmead 5y ago

    it was an intel product when it was shut down because of the wrist expositions.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    I have a basis peak in my desk that says otherwise.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    But they have mba'd themselves to death.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    This will be a fun cat and mouse game when sats are rigged to catch one of these and explode.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    Probably not. I was under the assumption we could build a Dyson swarm however.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    To be fair, what was called Haskell prime and ended up being I guess Haskell 2010 also took forever. Haskell users have strong opinions about language syntax- I suppose moreso than your averaged user base. It may take a generation as Doug c
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    by dmead 5y ago

    I was a Haskell user for about 5-6 years in the 2000s That's wild they allow dot notation now. That must have taken some convincing.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    brutal. the last figure I remember seeing was 30%. that must be ancient at this point. is there a chrome derivative that isn't going to shed tracking data for everything? or is that what I should be looking to safari for?
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    by dmead 5y ago

    sources on it losing marketshare? I've used firefox since it was called pheonix and have no plans to switch away. I'm unaware of the actions of the company though, outside of starting rust development. Why do people pick up chrome
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    by dmead 5y ago

    Nice. enjoy it. The weather alone makes the south bay a great change from the northeast.
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    by dmead 5y ago

    You should take Caltrain to San Francisco and see if you enjoy the ride, Assuming you're not from the bay already. Castro has a lot of really nice restaurants. I say that being from the Philly area and used to a nice food scene. The sh
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    by dmead 5y ago

    pretty much lisp macros with the constraints of a compile language. haskell templates are similar.