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by flopsamjetsam 6mo ago
I checked out some subreddits on the mission, and left pretty quickly for that reason. It's nice to find some positivity and wonder at it. I love what Artemis II is doing, found the launch very exciting and a little nerve wracking, a
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
Game making is like film making in this regard: it's often a "passion job."
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
A^2I^2 or (AI)^2
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
> 2026 BMW i3 - 900km WLTP from a 108kWh battery. I had to do a double take: remembering the i3s as the little almost SmartCar-sized EVs. Great cars, I still see a few around here, but I couldn't imagine them extending the range of
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
> When money is gone, the military is gone. I feel like the lesson from other countries is that the military will be the last thing to go. Public funding of everything else will be sacrificed to keep the military powerful, and leaders w
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
An absolute mess of cords!
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
I fully appreciate the horizontal "stack" of modems underneath the desk in the second photo :)
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
Ah, I was wondering what that was. My knowledge of terminals is not good (I just guess VT100 for everything :)
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
"Analysis of the data suggests that a blue whale’s heart is already working at its limit, which may explain why blue whales have never evolved to be bigger." Incredible to think of the volume of all the blood it's pumping aro
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
PageMaker was an iconic program of the DTP revolution for me, along with the Aldus logo. We couldn't afford a Mac at the time, so I made cargo-cult copies of programs like this on my home computer, and pored over the screenshots I saw
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by flopsamjetsam 7mo ago
I am not a heavy user of GitHub at the moment, but it seems like every week or two there's an outage.
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
> But I don't think they will be switching away from Teams as quickly. I'm interested to know why Teams is so sticky for the team. Are there not good replacements available? I've used it a little, but am by no means a po
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
Fascinating, I never realised that's how they work. I found a list of characters and their waveforms. [1] [1] https://smartcheque.com.au/general-info/about-micr/micr-char...
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
From the GitHub page: > It boots on an x86 (i386) machine via the Multiboot 1 protocol Yes, it does need a compliant bootloader on virtual or physical hardware.
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
I love the case material. What is it? It looks like what they make the bulk post boxes out of here (if you ship a lot of material via post, they give you these boxes to put them in to/from the delivery centre), or corflute material (
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
Such a great article. I love a good postmortem. I also had no idea of the chequered history of Google's messaging apps. I'd heard some of the names before, but being an iMessage and WhatsApp user, I'd just stuck with those
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
Floating point was not supported in the Linux kernel to avoid having to save/restore FP registers.
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
I had heard stories of these from my Dad. He lived in country Australia (SA) during WWII, and the long-distance buses had been converted over to this.
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by flopsamjetsam 8mo ago
ABIAN was always my friends and my favourite, from our time on Usenet! His all caps .sig with "equivalence of MASS and TIME" is something I will always treasure.
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by flopsamjetsam 9mo ago
As a Swift noob, I would appreciate hearing what these foot traps are. This is in the context of Swift as a systems programming language?
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by flopsamjetsam 9mo ago
From the page: a global version is available too -- https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com
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by flopsamjetsam 9mo ago
Conway's Life? Or DNA?
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by flopsamjetsam 9mo ago
This reminds me so much of the old story about how a user called support to tell them their floppy drive wasn't working. When the tech got there, the computer had no floppy drives, and the user had been forcing the disks in the gap be
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
Dune: re-read the first time since I was a teenager. Mostly to compare my memory of it against the films. Foundation and Second Foundation: for much the same reason. Both very enjoyable reads, but quite different from the modern interpreta
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
> Chaos by James Gleick I read this quite a while ago, and can't remember it at all. What did you think of it? > The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Loved this when I was a kid.
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
I have read the first one many times. Such a great read, will have to tackle the rest of the series next year.
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
> Project Hail Marry by Andy Weir The only Andy Weir book I've read. Loved it.
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
I first picked up this style from the GNU C++ style guide, and it's so handy I use it in every language that accepts it.
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
I had completely forgotten about the existence of Eudora. Thanks friend, that lead me down a mental rabbit hole.
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by flopsamjetsam 10mo ago
I switched over to using it because (I think) it was much lighter on memory than the window manager I was using. I remember it being very responsive, and looking quite nice for the time.

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