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by hooby 2y ago
nasa@earth:~$ ping voyager.1 PING voyager.1 (###.###.###.###) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from voyager.1 (###.###.###.###): icmp_seq=1 ttl=inf time=44.8 hrs 64 bytes from voyager.1 (###.###.###.###): icmp_seq=2 ttl=inf time=45.1 hrs 64 b
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by hooby 2y ago
Wait... is that law still in place? Do they still mandate all their trucks to advertise invest.com? Making a mistake is one thing... mistakes happen all the time. But then not fixing it for 10 years - that's something else.
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by hooby 2y ago
noice but apparently the NES is a lot more limited, in that it wasn't really designed to accept enhancement chips. still absolutely amazing that he can run emulated SNES games on real NES hardware! but the SNES actually had that abilit
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by hooby 2y ago
I wonder what you could do with modern tech, exploiting that ability of having "enhancement chips" in the cartridge. The SuperFX is mentioned to have it's own framebuffer and copy the whole thing over to VRAM. Does that mean,
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by hooby 2y ago
I'm skeptical of both the people who claim we'll achieve AGI and self-driving cars in just a few years - as well as of the people who claim it can't be achieved by LLMs at all- ever. I feel that we don't understand well
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by hooby 2y ago
There are two types of such big projects out there. There are those grandiose mega projects purely for the rich, purely for vanity and showing off wealth and meant attract outside attention... like "The Line" for example... ...but
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by hooby 3y ago
> This engagement taught me that a lot of so-called technical problems are in fact rooted in human issues, and those usually come from management. Kinda weird how often that sort of conclusion pops up, in otherwise completely unrelated a
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by hooby 3y ago
The Streisand effect is named after when Barbara Streisand's attempts to get a picture of her private house and garden removed from the internet, instead causing it to go viral. Nintendo as a company does greatly benefit from people ta
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by hooby 3y ago
Just out of curiosity - why are there so many duplicates? Like 4 nearly identical IE icons. 6 very similar PC+Keyboard icons. 6 very similar trashes?
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by hooby 3y ago
It's not just emulators. People have gotten cease-and-desists from their lawyers for drawing fan-art of their characters. Streamers will get strikes/takedowns for playing their games. And similar stuff... If you don't want to
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by hooby 3y ago
> Video game developers and publishers will look at this as an example of leaving money on the table, since people continue to enjoy the game without having to pay them any more money. Yes, the tail is long, but it doesn't end up wi
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by hooby 3y ago
Makes me wonder if there's an offical "knot tyer" position at NASA. Never thought a job title could be both so wondrous and wholesome at the same time!
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by hooby 3y ago
That's a very funny take - but I wonder how architects feel about it, because I'm pretty sure that there is similar stuff happening when designing houses... The biggest difference though probably is, that the architect who creates
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by hooby 3y ago
Here where I live they've definitely been completely displaced by berries that grow on just shrubs or even less.
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by hooby 3y ago
My grandmother once told me, that she had never known strawberries in her childhood. She had known those tiny wild ones - but not the large garden strawberry we today know as THE strawberry. Her favorite childhood berry was the mulberry -
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by hooby 3y ago
Funny. The question asks "what is the best fruit?" - but the answers only show you what the most widely available fruits are. Anything that's lesser known or more expensive to mass produce or harder to ship fresh - is a compl
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by hooby 3y ago
I think, error messages should put way more focus on what can be done to make it work - rather than on what went wrong. The user wants to achieve something, and the general job of the software is to help the user achieve their goal. If the
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by hooby 3y ago
The article is 100% correct in it's assessment that VR is not a very well-defined term, and it's not always perfectly clear what constitutes and doesn't constitute VR. Still, trying to open it up to basically anything that&#x
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by hooby 3y ago
Why "flop"? It was a fashion trend that lasted for more than 100 years! Sure, fashion moved a lot slower in medieval times, making 100 years somewhat short-lived for the time. But even so, including the less ostentatious non-padde
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by hooby 3y ago
It seems like that's truly becoming the only option for people who want to some semblance of control over what happens on their computers.
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by hooby 3y ago
Two questions: 1) Do I have to actively use Edge - or does this happen automatically in the background - even if I never open an Edge window? 2) Does any of the data gathered that way find it's way into Windows telemetry (anonymized or
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by hooby 3y ago
Maybe the discussion should be about how much changes regulation should allow being done to a plane, before it must become a new type. The 737 Max is like double the size of the original 737 - roughly twice the passenger seats, more than tw
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by hooby 3y ago
It's not just the plane that needs recertification. All the pilots will need to get a type-rating on the new plane type as well, before they are allowed to fly it.
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by hooby 3y ago
Afaik, the crashes were caused by the software mistakenly believing the plane was in a stall due to a single faulty sensor and pulling down the nose - while the pilots had absolutely no clue what was going on (because they never were told t
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by hooby 3y ago
Engines got a lot larger over time, more fuel efficient, more reliable, etc. On a 737 those engines cannot be placed in an ideal position, because that would mean they'd clip into the ground. The engines are being put above and I think
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by hooby 3y ago
May I draw your attention to the light-mode/dark-mode toggle-switch-button-thingy of this very blog? ;)
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by hooby 3y ago
"Error: unmet dependencies" I swear, I haven't run into this.
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by hooby 3y ago
I really do not agree with this comparison. Yes, it is true, that on Linux there are many, many things which are best done through command line fiddling. But installing a system update, that update borking things, belching up a totally cryp
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by hooby 3y ago
But shouldn't it still be a rational decision? The imho rational thing to do, would be to compare the pros and cons of each option and find a conclusion that way. Comparing only the pros of one solution with only the cons of the other,
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by hooby 3y ago
Reading the responses/comments in here, a question arises... Are things really that black and white as people here paint them - with monoliths unavoidably and necessarily becoming a tangled mess of spaghetti, and micro-services being t

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