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by gecko 5y ago
The drastically higher speeds involved (250-300 knots airspeed, as opposed to more like 50-90 knots for GA aircraft), combined with drastically higher weights (think about the chutes needed for something like Apollo, which is nowhere near t
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by gecko 5y ago
French spelling is unidirectional. I can comfortably say any French word (albeit with a couple key exceptions, such as "et" or "clef", that break rules), but I can't reliably go from someone talking to how to spell
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by gecko 5y ago
The fuzzy thing with counting French irregular verbs is that there are so many that follow similar patterns that they really can't be treated as fully irregular. More, like...oddly specific variants of the -re/-ir/-er verb
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by gecko 6y ago
Aha! Yeah, that's the Java GUI client I mentioned. But yes, $2500 a seat is a bit more than I would like to pay for my use case. :) (I'm not saying it's Not Worth That, but I definitely would not get back my investment for wh
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by gecko 6y ago
WordPro was awesome. It came on my mom's ThinkPad back in the mid-90s (along with an optional partition of OS/2 that I immediately removed to make more room for Windows, and then restored, and then removed, each a half-dozen time
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by gecko 6y ago
Whenever this comes up, I always ask, even though I can anticipate the answer: has anyone cloned Lotus Improv, either literally or ideologically? The closest thing I've used recently that was close was probably Airtable, but that'
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by gecko 6y ago
Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low powered feature phones and Blackberries. I...what? Even if we want to ignore the iPhone for whatever reason, the Palm Treo, Nokia N900, and Windows Phone were firmly establ
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by gecko 6y ago
They do, but there may be residual gas or punctures that cause a gas leak. That's why each side of the plane has its own fuel tanks as well.
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by gecko 6y ago
Delphi is definitely 100% native. I'm not sure about Free Pascal's Lazarus; it looks native when I've used it, but I'd need to break out Spy++ or WinObj or something to actually poke at what's going on.
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by gecko 6y ago
Yep, and that's a very legitimate concern and why I'm certainly not bullish about hydrogen. I just don't want to reflexively throw it out; sufficient energy production from clean sources would make electrolysis quite reasonab
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by gecko 6y ago
Hydrogen as part is totally reasonable. It gives us hydrocarbon density without us needing to add to the CO2 in the atmosphere. The important thing to remember when discussing it is that it's an energy storage medium, not an ener
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by gecko 6y ago
I can very easily tell Bronx from Brooklyn from Manhattan from Queens, in some cases down to specific neighborhoods or cultures...but really only in folks 60+, maybe occasionally in people more in the 40+ range who had fairly isolated u
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by gecko 6y ago
Well, there's that line, which is brilliant, and then there's the fact that he clearly runs on a 6502, soooooo.....
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by gecko 6y ago
Eh, it's just saying whether we'll stay an extra +0100 from UTC or not. I don't see a big deal. If people prefer the extra daylight in summer overall, then I don't really see it making a big difference.
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by gecko 6y ago
The SNES, unlike e.g. the Genesis, had a really heavy history of using add-on chips on carts. In fact, its entire architecture was very specifically designed to permit and encourage this, which is why e.g. the Genesis 32X had to intercep
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by gecko 6y ago
So PS5 then.
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by gecko 6y ago
The thing is, in all aircraft (very much including this Airbus), there are procedures you're supposed to follow for certain failure conditions. They're generally in something called the Quick Reference Handbook, or QRH, but there
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by gecko 6y ago
Nope, but the fact that the Pixel 4a's screen glass is absolute shit compared to any other phone I've had means it scratches stupidly easily. This is kind of known, as far as I can tell, looking at forums, and Google notably was
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by gecko 6y ago
The way I'm used to seeing the GP's example made is set a pu set b ts $a$b "Hello!" which I think does a better job showing how the mixture of strings with interpolation allows for some slightly unexpect
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by gecko 6y ago
I've heard POWER engineers kvetch for the same reason about lm/lmw (Load Multiple Word, which is an equivalent instruction). I recall discussion about whether to deprecate it, but, as far as I'm aware, it's still a legal
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by gecko 6y ago
Huh? What's this do in JavaScript? (No sarcasm; I'm mostly in this ecosystem, but I have no idea what this is in reference to.)
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by gecko 6y ago
That's honestly an entirely legitimate point, but no nation, to my knowledge, at this point in time, has the ability to take out thousands of satellites, which is what either this or SpaceX's variant use. Besides which, taking
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by gecko 6y ago
Thanks for providing more information. It’s too bad, but I’m glad there’s a similar project. The true desire to follow the C128 made that a bit more interesting to me than the Neon816, but I’ll give that another look. One question: Bu
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by gecko 6y ago
He’s looked at a few on his YouRube channel and discussed what his issues were with them. Basically, the existing ones made trade-offs he’s wasn’t super excited about, and he needs some modern chip due to HDMI and the like.
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by gecko 6y ago
Dammit. I was really looking forward to this thing shipping. That depressing as hell.
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by gecko 6y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why the past tense for "Glade"? I thought that was still a completely viable thing to use these days, but I confess I haven't done any Linux GUI dev in several years.
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by gecko 6y ago
They did—or at least, are trying to. The issue is Apple is saying, based on unwritten rules, that Netflix is allowed to do it, while Hey isn’t. And that’s the crux of the problem
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by gecko 6y ago
Deno (a modern JS runtime from the same original author as Node) is heading this direction, albeit it’s currently more a traditional opt-in than OpenBSD-style opt-out.
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by gecko 7y ago
Is there any way to learn the ecosystem? Last time I looked, you couldn’t just spin up z/OS in VMware and start hacking, which made it hard for me to figure out how I’d actually learn.
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by gecko 7y ago
I agree that Windows 10 is better, but I would note that it’s only truly good for apps updated to the Windows 10 API (which differs from the Windows 8.1 one, which differed from 8.0), so I haven’t seen wide support outside whatever we’re ca

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