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by eichin 3mo ago
The only ones getting paid this time around had registered copyrights (in the US at that.)
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by eichin 3mo ago
what's getting built is more like Asimov's Spacers/Solarians, though. (Vastly reduced population wielding thousands of robots each)
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by eichin 3mo ago
and "cookie clicker" is already taken :-)
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by eichin 3mo ago
Only vaguely related: is that tiny receipt printer at the end of the article real or is it itself a mockup? (It appears to be smaller than any of the ones I've come across, and google image search was unhelpful.)
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by eichin 3mo ago
The anecdotes I picked up in my early driving days suggested that red being more visible also meant it was more visible to traffic cops and get more attention - and thus more speeding tickets even for relatively small violations. (No ide
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by eichin 3mo ago
The "you'll get left behind" crowd has already made it clear that they're not worth engaging with, you're not going to find reasonable voices anywhere those threads are happening...
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by eichin 3mo ago
I recall one article mentioning that there's desalination gear on board (that's what the solar panel is for?)
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by eichin 3mo ago
I don't use it for my primary workflow, but I use the Android app all the time for "grab a couple of interesting shots to send to friends, from the parking lot right after a hike/nature shoot", and it's fine for tha
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by eichin 3mo ago
I don't really see this with modern graphics programming, but I was highly amused that my 1980s-1990s graphics skills (in particular, coordinate transform math) were very useful when I started working in robotics in the 2010s-2020s (
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by eichin 3mo ago
At least in the US (and this probably is different from Europe) it matters a huge amount how the asbestos is exposed to the environment. Asbestos that's sealed up generally gets (a) labelled so noone cuts into it (b) sealed up even f
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by eichin 3mo ago
Well, the .meow kickstarter raised €121,896 with just an assertion and a voucher system, so there's at least some community support for this kind of thing, without it needing to be a good idea :-)
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by eichin 3mo ago
Higher cabin pressure, but it is marketed in pressure-corresponding-to-altitude; Norwegian Airlines for example keeps their cabins at 6000ft, ie. equivalent atmospheric pressure to being at 6000ft. (Looks like "equivalent effective ca
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by eichin 3mo ago
Concorde is exotic , absolutely, but having seen the one at Udvar-Hazy I'm not sure I'd call it beautiful... not being an aircraft designer, my sense for this is of course biased by the way the average commercial jet looks like,
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by eichin 3mo ago
I had a round trip BOS↔LHR that was 747 eastbound, 777 westbound; I ended up on the upper deck of the 747, which was fascinating as an otherwise casual flyer. One especially memorable bit was landing - you're basically three stories
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by eichin 4mo ago
"valves" being british for vacuum tubes (though there's an entire generation of scifi where future computers are built around miniaturized valves even among american authors for some reason, Asimov in particular)
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by eichin 4mo ago
In emacs, c-x 8 RET prompts you for unicode character names (or hex) so for rare use you can just spell it out. There's also C-x 8 _ m for em dash and C-x 8 _ n for en dash. (Hit c-x 8 c-h to get a full list of those bindings, like
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by eichin 4mo ago
(having it right there mostly serves as a physical token/reminder that I don't want to get sucked in to my social media and other phone apps as much, so if I'm just using it to fill "politely waiting" time I can jus
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by eichin 4mo ago
It's way smaller than modern phones, though - I clip mine to the back of my Samsung (magsafe case) and it only blocks one of the five cameras. (phone: 288g xtelink x4: 75g.) (also: hasn't the x4-v2 already been announced that i
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by eichin 4mo ago
> with AI I imagine ... I think that might be just imagination - android autocorrect in particular got sufficiently worse that I finally turned it off (I still use it as a "typing assist" - it only displays choices that I can
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by eichin 4mo ago
I saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohImHa4f5U (Hoarder Sam, "I'm building a drone for the DARPA lift challenge") the other day and it was a pretty good discussion of the "shape of the envelope"
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by eichin 4mo ago
2016 - so, generic upsides of global capitalism, but nothing specific to the AI bubble?
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by eichin 4mo ago
wasn't some of that smoothness because it ran at a 100hz tick without any way of adapting it (and still running existing code)? That was the complaint I kept hearing from people attempting to make flash on phones viable (this led to lu
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by eichin 4mo ago
A long time ago I was doing some on-site programming at a swiss bank, and the only available editors were vi on a Sun, or EDIT on a VMS machine (the project involved both.) I learned rudimentary vi on the fly while waiting for ftp-by-mail
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by eichin 4mo ago
also , not instead of.
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by eichin 4mo ago
Arguably they (we :-) were right at the time. Around Ubuntu 16.04, the journal was Hot Garbage - to keep a production system working (as in, "didn't randomly stop logging, didn't regularly corrupt logs, didn't uncontrol
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by eichin 4mo ago
hmm, when did that get added? Last time I checked, the only timezone you could specify was UTC (which was one more than cron supported, but still insufficient.)
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by eichin 4mo ago
"We do not want your data. Please keep it to yourself." (I find that a refreshing perspective.)
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by eichin 4mo ago
it's tridge rsync; samba is another project by the same guy. (rsync was originally a PhD thesis...)
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by eichin 4mo ago
It's a big source of confusion with cp . One of the UI reasons to use rsync (for mundane non-remote copying) is that it doesn't do different things based on what's present on the target.
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by eichin 4mo ago
Ah, the name is a near-miss vs https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php (the SECurity USability SOciety research group at Karlsruhe) that makes the "Privacy Friendly Apps" suite for Android. (I don't

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