grandinj

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by grandinj 6y ago
And the Remote Desktop stuff needs to talk to each compositor to emplement copy and paste.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Except that, in the name of progress, various things are broken in the x11 world too on fedora, as a direct consequence of the wayland updates. Which is unfortunate
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by grandinj 6y ago
Something as important as education is always going to attract very strong emotion. When you get into "state schooling", it is also almost a religion - thought shalt not question the teacher, thou shalt not question the dictats of
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by grandinj 6y ago
I really like this, I just wish the email was re-arranged a little to make it harder for me to hit the "unsubscribe" link instead of the "go to my post" link
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by grandinj 6y ago
Because actually finding blueprints that reliably match what the helicopter is actually using can be a real problem that can take far longer, will __still__ require you to cross-check against the part because of human error :-)
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by grandinj 6y ago
This++++++. Nuclear reactors are primarily bug generators for chemists and metalurgists. The things that need solving mostly boil down to dealing with the insane chemistry and metallurgical problems that arise when you have a wide variety
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by grandinj 6y ago
Until recently I was booting into Windows and then remote deskoping into Linux. But Wayland has broken that functionality so badly I have just given up on Linux. When WSL gets this update that will mean I can do development on Linux again f
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by grandinj 6y ago
VS Code is the modern emacs.
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by grandinj 6y ago
We sell gear to find these kinds of issues. The best story so far, was a little old lady with an ancient table-side lamp, which had a faulty connection, which would sometimes arc, with just the right shape of wire attached to it to broadcas
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by grandinj 6y ago
I'd suggest finding a smaller company to work for, one that makes products, as opposed to doing integration or consulting. The money is less, you typically have to work on older stacks, and you don't get to learn a new technology
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by grandinj 6y ago
Yup, some people use spare machines lying around the office, some people buy a big-ass server that can be shared between the developers, some people (like me) buy a bunch of used desktop-class quad-core machines and run a little build clust
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by grandinj 6y ago
If you can get it to work (not guaranteed) icecream can make a very large difference.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Not sure if they still are, but for a while they were shipping Apple TV's with Apple CPUs which had half the number of working cores, but they were running it with higher thermal limits.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Apparently the video-link and audio-link access is atrocious. Making rather a mockery of court's public access requirements
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by grandinj 6y ago
Ah, Interesting memories. I worked on Beltel for a while, which was a South African copy of the UK version of this. As in, South Africa got a copy of the code, and developed from there. Ran over ordinary telephone lines using mostly 2400 ba
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by grandinj 6y ago
It strongly seems to me that the British establishment is incredibly pissed at Assange for the trouble he caused by holing up in the embassy, and is therefore making life as difficult for him as possible.
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by grandinj 6y ago
It's probably a 15+ year old application, which, if it was web-based, would be built on 2-3 out-of-date webstacks, badly joined together, with who knows how many security flaws. Compared to maintaining that, ncurses doesn't sound
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by grandinj 6y ago
This was a battle in a larger war. Presumably, they made the most of the available situation. For example, judges do not look favourably upon Holy Crusades. They tend to regard them as wasting the judges time. Which is an automatic strike a
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by grandinj 6y ago
I don't know why they are bothering to try and build this in the US. Between the insane regulations, the anti-nuclear lobby, and the NIMBYs, they don't stand a chance. Surely they would have a much easier time selling things like
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by grandinj 6y ago
Summary - more people, more farming. BUT. This appears to be different from before, where there was water, just in the wrong place, now the US appears to be coming close to using 100% of the available resource.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Languages are more than just syntax and ideology. The entire ecosystem of the language and how it interacts with surrounding software is important. You can have an awesome language with lousy interaction, and it's dead in the water. Co
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by grandinj 6y ago
Also south africa, grew up in malaria-hot area. The rule with malaria medication is that either you take it consistently or you don't take it at all. If you take it consistently, you don't get malaria. If you don't take it, y
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by grandinj 6y ago
What happened to that laser system to shoot mosquitoes? I soooo want one of those :-)
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by grandinj 6y ago
The more interesting result comes when you combine AI in a jet with : ( ) Not needing 2-5 years of expensive training. ( ) not needing space for the human and it's associated safety systems (*) being completely willing to sacrifice the
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by grandinj 6y ago
Up to a point yes. Decentralised is also nice if co-sited with substations because the utility can use it to flatten out spikes/dips and generally make other parts of the infrastructure happier, which reduces maintenance costs on those
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by grandinj 6y ago
Adding solar or wind seems pretty linear to me. As the % goes up past 20 you need various mitigations, but each set of mitigations is fairly small, and better tech keeps popping up.
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by grandinj 6y ago
Sounds like good old fashioned drum brakes would be better!
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by grandinj 6y ago
It's a right PITA open-sourcing a server component that ties into various back-end business processes, and a completely thankless task. Not at all surprised they didn't bother. It's not like they're swimming in money an
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by grandinj 6y ago
Yup. We have similar behaviour with cell phone companies here in South Africa. The big two have reached a stable state, are happy with their market share, and know that as long as they don't directly talk to each other when raising pri
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by grandinj 6y ago
There is a reason it was originally called (SEQUEL) Structured __English__ Query Language see the original paper at https://web.archive.org/web/20070926212100/http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs

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