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by eichin 2y ago
Debian has the packages and some decent README's for setting up a server. OpenAFS is a later version than the IBM AFS you might have seen in the 90s and it has all of the user-management and ACL-related features - which are quite usef
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by eichin 2y ago
Not merely inspiration, but https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera... is Budiselic et. al.'s paper on the hole count. (It's kind of a big deal to fans because he stopped
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by eichin 2y ago
It's only occasionally said out loud, but yeah, pretty much everyone selling warehouse robotics supports raising the minimum wage :-)
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So it's sort of like saying "techniques developed for nuclear weapons design" when all you mean is Monte Carlo methods?
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It is often surprising that most of the US is south of most of Europe (the common reference is that Chicago and Rome are both 42N. The jet stream complicates the effect on overall climate , but latitude is pretty much the only thing that
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by eichin 2y ago
if it was a decade ago, PXE/tftp booting was pretty common (at MetaCarta we shipped dell 2650/6650 servers around then, and while field upgrades were from DVD, the QA lab had some "synthesize keystrokes through a KVM to selec
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by eichin 2y ago
sure, but from actually using this hardware in the mid-80s and later, labs had QIC drives once they had suns, which was rather later on, and I don't think I ever saw a QIC drive on a VAX (a bunch of weird 9 track drives including a top
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by eichin 2y ago
Yeah, X had a lot of aggressive performance tweaking in ways that noone even understands today, let alone actually needs :-) Creating windows with zero round trips, event-shedding that let you sensibly run a remote window manager over
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by eichin 2y ago
Yeah, too early to be QIC (also, to run this, you needed a VS-100, and to run a VS-100 you needed a VAX 11/7xx to put the controller card in, and basically all of those had 9-track tape drives.)
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by eichin 2y ago
In manufacturing, maybe you haven't done ISO9000 but you've heard of it and have all sorts of regulated documentation as a baseline - a "bias for writing process details down" that is absent in a bunch of other industrie
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It's just an Iron Man(2008) movie reference. (Though it was the Big Bad saying that a problem wasn't that hard if Our Hero didn't need any resources - which doesn't exactly fit what the author seems to be saying here
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by eichin 2y ago
reminds me of the thing in model railroading, where actual IRL rail equipment is referred to as "prototype" for the model
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by eichin 2y ago
Hmm, can't find the paper (mostly clutter from language bootcamp results) but around a decade or so back there was an education research project that concluded that teaching SQL first, rather than any imperative language (regardless of
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by eichin 2y ago
Yeah, mid-1980s the thing incoming students had to unlearn was BASIC , not anything with curly braces. (Source: I was a 6.001 Lab TA at the time.) Of course, the next class on the rotation used Clu, where you had to unlearn "recursi
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by eichin 2y ago
Sure if you're (like me) a weirdo that uses an actual camera :-) Most people use phone cameras that go directly to $BIG_CLOUD and everything else is More Work. (Personally I use rsync (FolderSync) from the phone to a home server and p
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by eichin 2y ago
I vaguely recall a youtube comparison of "Ford F-150 lightning vs 3x Tesla Powerwall" and that the lightning was a better deal for the same amount of backup, even if you left it parked. (Different spot on the curve, you can'
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by eichin 2y ago
This is a different project from https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/index.html ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700256 ) (might be interesting for another angle on it, doesn't look like i
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by eichin 2y ago
Though it looks like it's not strictly against https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines , under "PLEASE ONLY SUGGEST NEW IDEAS. NO IDEAS TO “BRING BACK” OLD LEGO SETS." they say: > Don’t submit product ideas re
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by eichin 2y ago
Also we'll probably see footage from the other external cameras later like we did with the third launch... at very least, the opposite fin had one, and the interstage camera; plus there are 11 internal cameras...
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Even less than that - most of the station-keeping is supplied by visiting spacecraft; the thrusters on the (ancient, failing) Zvezda module appear to be rarely used.
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by eichin 2y ago
For off planet research: because ( https://xkcd.com/695/ aside ) we don't care if the robots "die". Human space exploration has an enormous amount of overhead to keeping the humans alive at all; even th
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by eichin 2y ago
or my portrait mode desktop system. Especially when "view source" shows all of the content got downloaded, it's just refusing to render. Get over it, scroll bars exist.
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by eichin 2y ago
ooh, you could probably do one of these solely on organizer apps (a friend once joked about a subscription-based organizer service where what you got from the subscription was an entirely new app every other month or so :-)
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by eichin 2y ago
If you're a relatively senior engineer, any reasonable company will want you to be doing knowledge sharing (or outright mentoring - which this isn't, but it falls vaguely enough in the same bucket that you can usually get positive
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by eichin 2y ago
NIO just did the expensive-to-automate part, it's not just theory... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w (Tom Scott demo/walkthrough.) Press release from April says https://www.cnbc.com/
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by eichin 2y ago
Literally another one: one of the things Google Meet replaces... is Google Meet (original) from 2017.
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On a plain search, click on more, click on web, and then look at the URL you end up on, it's right there. (So, in the most limited sense of the word, "reverse engineered" but in a way that is less work than finding documenta
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by eichin 2y ago
Mmm, even early versions ended up being more the "anti-multics" than actually simplified-from, despite the name pun...
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by eichin 2y ago
Ah, those appear to be entirely multi-device-sync problems. (I use logseq with git-autocommit for storage and backup - but since the multi-node sync stuff wasn't available for self hosting anyway, I've never tried it, and thus do
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by eichin 2y ago
and now there's pax (since POSIX looked at both of them and shuddered :-)

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