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by eichin 3y ago
https://jsonlines.org/ was the first "this is trivial but let's write it down so maybe the name will stick" spec for it (from 2013ish)
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, I went to Switzerland in one of your followup trips to meet with the arms-length-contract cryptographers. (Which was legal at the time, but a loophole that got closed a year or two later because Sun's "ELVIS+" project
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by eichin 3y ago
The VXWorks port I did (as a Cygnus contract to some part of NASA that had gotten hit with a "security mandate" used basically that trick, because we couldn't assume the hardware had any realtime clock at all, so we had to st
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by eichin 3y ago
Not that the original article has anything to do with Kerberos other than design-by-analogy (not to knock the article, it's describing an interesting thing, and I'm always up for 90s nostalgia regardless of cause :-) but I think
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by eichin 3y ago
It's also "temporary" (moon's orbital radius increases ~4cm/year)
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by eichin 3y ago
Hmm, what plants do they have in mind? (google -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaccumulators_table_%E2%80... -> sort by accumulation rates) Turns out 29 of the top 30 are "oops, all Brassica" :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
ClearCase was basically a spinoff of Apollo's DSEE (same engineers), which didn't need kernel patches, because Domain/OS actually had an object filesystem and so the reference-to-repo was just a filesystem object. (As with
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by eichin 3y ago
(From the "history may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme" files: Berkeley releasing a new ftpd with fixes for a bunch of buffer overruns (in Fall of 1988, when this was a New Thing) was widely suspected to be a reason the M
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by eichin 3y ago
subtree might be better for exactly that? I have a project with about 100 repos, developing with them individually is so much saner, but every so often you want the one actual benefit of a monorepo: fast really-global search. So keeping
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by eichin 3y ago
it's simpler than that: it's just running `dpkg-source -x` on every `*.dsc` file it can find. So that's "all of the source used to build all of the debs" (using dists/stable/main/source/Sources.
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, a "small enough to kick out of your way" autonomous driving project is a one or two semester student project (if you're starting from nothing, Sebastian Thrun's old Udacity course was a good way to bootstrap throug
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by eichin 3y ago
also https://piaggiofastforward.com/ "gita" (I'm not sure what the market is for fashionable luggage-robots, but they're definitely going after it...)
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by eichin 3y ago
From over a decade ago: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/267/ (with just a pair of motors to point squirt gun at specific angles.) One of the (many) cases where a robot arm would be more
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by eichin 3y ago
... wouldn't that be k1s?
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by eichin 3y ago
I had to dig a bit, but MIT's "Transparent Horizons" (local description: "is neither") turns out to be Louise Nevelson's work, and "The Great Sail" is a Calder; turns out MIT didn't end up with a
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by eichin 3y ago
In particular, CBW ("Crypt Breakers Workbench") was a popular curses-based decoder "game" in the late 1980s - it would display a block, you'd start typing known plaintext, and it would constraint-propagate what was
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by eichin 3y ago
My "cheat" for "poke at chrome's sqlite database for current live state" is that they're always locked but none of them are that big, just make a copy and query the copy. `current-chrome-url` runs in `real 0m0
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by eichin 3y ago
Just for closure: back on the work machine and it looks fine. If I ever see the "pixelated" form again I'll get in touch (now that I know it's actually not supposed to look that way.)
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by eichin 3y ago
google chrome in both cases.
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by eichin 3y ago
It's actually a smooth readable (but tall-and-skinny) font on my personal laptop, and a pixelated mess on my work laptop; I've never figured out why... Oh, huh, they're using a custom font: https://xeiaso.net/
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by eichin 3y ago
Won't get invalidated even if what "apt-get install python3" does changes - the cache is only based on the syntax of the RUN string plus the previous layer hash, IIRC. (COPY actually invalidates if the file being copied chan
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by eichin 3y ago
I (and at least couple thousand other people) are still running code I worked on in 1987. Maybe we should do something for the upcoming 40th anniversary...
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by eichin 3y ago
... and once it works, it "earns" a name of its own, at least among people actually doing it. Even in 2024 there are Machine Learning Conferences of note.
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by eichin 3y ago
On mine it's a driver preference setting - there are a couple of settings like that which I set to "make the drive more ICE-like because I still drive ICE cars occasionally and don't want to be betrayed by developing EV-speci
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by eichin 3y ago
The polestar 2 does the simpler thing of biasing towards mechanical brakes for a little while at the start of every trip. (I suspect this has the advantage of detecting brake failure in more controlled circumstances as well, but that'
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by eichin 3y ago
My 2021 EV simply favors mechanical braking over regen for a short period at the start of each trip, specifically to avoid this. (Seems a trivial software feature once you have hybrid braking at all...)
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by eichin 3y ago
Looking at the samples, this isn't human readable either (long opaque id strings for linking dominate the syntax) and both syntaxes have vast amounts of punctuation and whitespace. And neither of them are particularly human writable.
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, didn't see any discussion in the other thread, do you have any notes on why this isn't SVG?
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by eichin 3y ago
It looks like it might be able to handle one of the tricks I do with dpipe running sshfs ( https://gist.github.com/bdmorin/5eb17828612e7d1b66e92550f428... is probably where I picked it up from) but I'm not sure (a
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by eichin 3y ago
What do you mean by READMEs here? Markdown readmes support embedding images from external files, which isn't really useful if you're looking at the readme directly (or do you use data: uris there? Last I looked they had too-severe

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