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by hyperion2010 6y ago
For better or for worse, this is nothing new. It is a symptom of the fact that the FSF and other FOSS organizations have displayed a fantastic failure of technical leadership for over 3 decades. The political leadership has not been bad, bu
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Well now I know what CPU to get for my Dwarf Fortress machine! (5950X)
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Using public funds to teach students proprietary software or to force them to use proprietary software has always seemed undesirable to me, however if there isn't free software that is a competitive alternative (weasel words) it seems
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I switched to having only a single old phone with no apps and no sim on airplane mode as a clock in the bedroom. It makes it much easier to get going in the morning (as in a whole 30-40 minutes faster). I have all my sounds and notification
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
"Deal with" == "Not blow up" == "No RUD" in the event of a single engine failure. Manned space flight kind of has this kind of important additional requirement that things like ICBMs don't, which is that t
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Ah ok, this sort of clarifies the issue, which is that you can't really run more engines at lower thrust, and if you deal with the tank pressure issues from S8 then I imagine it should be able to go down on 2 engines alone without cata
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
For both SN8 and SN9 my brain is screaming at me "surely they need more than 3 engines?!" Is the ultimate expectation that the engines will never fail, because it sure seems like they can't deal with losing even a single engi
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Implementation experience reports come to mind.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
However bad people think X11 is, the engineering decision (or more likely lack of any intentional design decisions beyond the initial extremely narrow use cases?) to "replace" a huge portion of its functionality with windowing too
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Singer foot pedal sewing machine style power for electronics would be one possibility. Of course those would have to be scavenged too given the lack of skilled blacksmiths these days.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
The reason why tools like Protégé have not been sufficiently developed is because of infighting in the academic ontology community in addition to the reasons listed by the author. It has set the whole community back at least 5 years.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
git reflog?
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Hilarious. This is not something that employees and engineers have any control over, and framing it like this is passing the buck. Furthermore, user privacy is a fundamental top down engineering decision, not something that any individual c
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Someone at Elastic didn't do the math on this. Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to. Now that the gorilla has been enraged woe to the thing that pissed it off. We'll see if amaz
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I wish there was a sane way to bootstrap powershell without having to use an existing binary release. It is not surprising thought, you can't bootstrap bash using .net core either.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I was hoping it was a lego build, but having seen the layout I'm fairly certain that it could be.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Benjamin Franklin.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Ah, what a solid Mickens reference. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofou...
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
And for a slightly more comedic take there is Snatch Wars. https://youtu.be/vskHXtPuvBk
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Well this vindicates my years of keeping policykit and all that other nonsense off my systems (sadly haven't found a way to zap dbus). The less code you have the less opportunities there are to screw something up.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
This is from back in October.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
For context, if Texas goes for Biden, then the 538 model predicts some amusing things. 1. The next most likely state that Biden could win is South Carolina at 25%. 2. The next most likely state that Trump could win is Ohio at 28%. 3. Biden
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Solid work, but I find it quite concerning that there appears to be no discussion of potential false positive detections of other species beyond those specifically targeted. The research is still in a very early phase, and `wing-beat freque
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Fantastic. I watched this last night with my parents and we immediately wanted to know more about the decade long production history. This piece has more detail than I ever hoped for, and should probably be the basis for a production secti
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Buried in the wiki page for YBCO is a note that REBCO is a synonym of sorts. The superconducting tapes that are discussed in the talk thus would seem to be YBCO.
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
This happened after the invention of the printing press as well. Pamphlets and broadsides recounting (often fictitious) atrocities committed by protestant against catholic and catholic against protestant were circulated widely before and du
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
If you have never contributed to a properly managed GPL codebase, you might be surprised the kinds of things you will be asked to do. More it the point, it most certainly isn't a right that you can contribute however you want to whatev
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I might translate this to "If you don't understand what it's for, don't use it for what you think it might be for." Things like this exist, and they are exactly as absurd and dangerous as this, but they aren't
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Any approach to sharing and collaborating around a git repository that requires some convention inside that repository seems fundamentally broken to me. I understand why people want to do it that way -- self describing artifacts are quite h
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I just wanted to record for posterity that after 14 years of reading it as fomit frame pointer this is the post where I finally realized that it is -f omit frame pointer. What are are fomit pointers and what do they do!? Well now I know.

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