georgefrowny

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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
For the reader, Kobos are a solid choice that can run open source software (and the software exists, it's not theoretical). My problem with physical books is mostly the physical storage space. I have to be really careful not to fill th
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
Also if you can get away with it, all drug traffickers would soon have an online order for their package so if stopped they can just say they're an innocent courier.
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by georgefrowny 6mo ago
You can also SSH into it because it's just running Linux. So you could even just git push.
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
I remember when Google promised Gmail storage would increase (quote) "forever". A mind blowing at the time 1GB at launch in 2004 to 2GB only a year later. Then 4 GB in 2007. This was prime Google doing cool stuff constantly time.
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
This is where China has it right. You can pay 1 yuan by WeChat no problem. Scan the QR code, enter "1", the shop terminal says "1 yuan paid" out loud, job done. And yes some things are 1 yuan, for example picking up a pa
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
I really don't know why EVs necessitate a new software platform. Car makers are shit at software. Actually nearly everyone is shit at software. I know they want to turn their cars into mobile subscription-based analytics platforms for
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
He's talking about schematic editor though. Personally I don't drag single parts with the mouse because it's two clicks for the same thing, so it's irrelevant which action that does. KiCad's best usability innovatio
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
Drag with connections is the default in KiCad 9?
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
Binary Cadence import is a big one. You no longer need Allegro Viewer for looking at dev board design files and no more license for exporting either.
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
Chobukubashi would make being left-handed decidedly annoying.
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
Quite. It will in fact make a lot of problems for you if it gets attacked as then you need to decide if you've just had war declared on you and have to decide what to do about that. Escorting shipping through the Straight isn't li
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
As the UK chief of defense staff commented drily: "we have an aircraft carrier, it's called Cyprus".
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
I suppose in a way it's like saying diesel engines killed passions for sailing. A career sailor on a sailing ship who finds meaning in rigging a ship just so with a team of shipmates in order to undertake a useful journey may find his
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
But what are they actually pushing for? Like, what does the UK spiralling into a right-wing basket case actually provide to these people? Is it simply that they reckon they can be the metaphorical kings in hell rather than servants in heave
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
It's also incredibly annoying that Amazon slurped up AbeBooks way back in 2008.
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
The disappearance of real metal Meccano is really crazy. I know metal is expensive, but also bulk processing of it has never been cheaper or faster. It's also a shame because it's really good for mechanical rapid prototyping and y
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
In terms of creativity of model options, the Chinese compatibles are stomping them. You can even get a model of post-explosion Chernobyl. Not to mention all the sci-fi tie in from Star Trek to Warhammer that real Lego hasn't signed con
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
Indeed, the people who would like to spend hours and hours hanging out in the digital world like something out of Snow Crash are not generally the kind of people to want to hang out in a simulated corporate lobby under the watchful gaze of
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
I think it's more like that you are signalling by your use of HTTPS at all, and the packet body itself is encrypted nonsense. Hiding information in the protocol layer while the bulk content that is "supposed" to contain the m
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by georgefrowny 7mo ago
I'm always reminded of Asimov's Lord Dorwin: "[the linguistic analyst] after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications—in short all the goo and dribble—h
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
> the old rules-based international order At most that was a couple of decades, it's not like that's an ancient status quo.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
The big three will love this. They'll implement the feature, then they get to dob in Linux and friends and get them buried in regulatory lawsuits. All three already have identity linked accounts. Windows practically shoves it down your
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
In none of their statements do they say they won't do the things: > we cannot in good conscience accede to their request. That's very specifically worded to not say "under no circumstances will we do this". > Two s
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
You'd think at some point a government would say "for fucks sake" and sling an FTE at that kind of thing for a year to get it done. One guy shepherding an MR is cheaper than whatever contracted out app would cost, and you nee
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
You joke, but this is something of a concern now that self hosting email is quite difficult (both for incoming spam and getting blocked as a spammer yourself).
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Which is funny because for years they'd gleefully charge you 30 quid to print one at the airport if you dared to turn up with only a PDF.
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
I looked up kerb cutting machines and it's interesting how much of the process is cutting through cast-in-place kerbs with special saws. There are hardly any of these in the UK, for example, and kerbs are nearly always made of kerbston
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
That's exactly the point. It's a state (that of being boiling) that matter (some water) is in. Which is not the same as "state of matter", the compound word that is in the dictionary. In talking about the validity of the
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
One wonders if you could prefabricate kerb ramps and drop them in, rather than (I assume) casting them in place. Maybe they'd settle badly if vehicles drive over them, kick up in the opposite corners and become a trip hazard. The UK mo
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by georgefrowny 8mo ago
Funnily enough, "nominal syntagm" is, itself, not in the OED or Wiktionary. But Wiktionary has "syntagme nominal" as the French translation for "noun phrase". You really have to love the human messiness of lang

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