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541.
by imglorp 2y ago
If you are debugging your work too much, maybe it's you. Obligatory Kernighan’s law: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition,
542.
by imglorp 2y ago
In theory, if every QR in the building was different and they had the right sensors, they could also try to pair your browser fingerprint to your Bluetooth Mac, WiFi Mac, and your face. That pairing would have value on its own.
543.
by imglorp 2y ago
The Framework website right now: You are now in line. Thank you for your patience. Your estimated wait time is 7 minutes. We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit the amount of u
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by imglorp 2y ago
We were told the machines would free us from repetitive or injurious work, letting us pursue more meaningful and prosperous lives. Or at least they would be our partners we could leverage. Instead, will they be the tools of our enslavement
545.
by imglorp 2y ago
Yeah, caution with GPL is understandable if you're shipping it or making it a part of a hosted service. But internal use is not the intention of GPL, so a blanket ban like that would put that shop at a disadvantage, like the other comm
546.
by imglorp 2y ago
Curious, which license can't you use at work for a simple shell tool? Considering you're not linking against it, even GPL3 should be okay, right?
547.
by imglorp 2y ago
Asm is 10x faster than C? That was definitely true at some point but is it still true today? Have compilers really stagnated so badly they can't come close to hand coded asm?
548.
by imglorp 2y ago
Some of these vacuums will work without the Wi-Fi. You will have to do without automatic features, for example you have to push the button every time to get it to start, but if you just want it to do the whole area it will run and return to
549.
by imglorp 2y ago
Disbanding of both the legislature and judiciary would be on any dictator's playbook from the last N centuries. I can't imagine either of those bodies would be ok with getting shuttered but it seems they are both pushing for it. W
550.
by imglorp 2y ago
To be clear, someone will/can track WHO you talk to. Right?
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by imglorp 2y ago
Right and also there's a full linux under there with numerous processes running, waiting for touch and other i/o events, updating the display and RAM. Not great if you want weeks long battery. I would like to imagine an e-ink oper
552.
by imglorp 2y ago
The LPF tried to warn everyone. /r/stallmanwasright https://web.archive.org/web/20031013020204/http://progfree.o...
553.
by imglorp 2y ago
HP42 on Android checks out
554.
by imglorp 2y ago
Economics wins, despite public policy and misguided ideology. Fossil loses in a windy, sunny state in a fair market.
555.
by imglorp 2y ago
> Amazon has occasionally [1] removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or [2] edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers. 1. Not remotely ok but we understand that contracts expire somehow
556.
by imglorp 2y ago
In other situations the normal vertical separation is 1000ft. In this situation ATC was depending on the visual conditions for the pilots to "see and avoid", but it's especially nuts if you factor in wind shear and wake turbu
557.
by imglorp 2y ago
Dear autocorrect - it's never "duck".
558.
by imglorp 2y ago
Yes, that's where we went wrong. I feel that early on, we should have had the foresight to press the microtransaction option much harder. There could have been a widely adopted standard where you load your browser or UA with money and
559.
by imglorp 2y ago
Yes. This is merely another stab at competition while increasing their own user activity profile corpus. It's so transparent and ludicrous, at first I thought it was an Onion or April Fools post.
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by imglorp 2y ago
The pessimistic viewpoint is the hardware vendor would not mind if you felt your machine was slow and were motivated to upgrade to the latest model every year. The fact that they also control the OS means they have means, motive and opportu
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by imglorp 2y ago
It's also a critical part of the national air transport system -- nothing flies without a METAR -- not to mention maritime, agriculture, commerce, etc. Some things are just reliable, public infrastructure like roads or electricity that
562.
by imglorp 2y ago
"In the year 2030, no one will remember Kubernetes." I feel like this prolog missed an important point. Kubernetes abstracts data centers: networking, storage, workload, policy. Containers implement workloads. They're at diff
563.
by imglorp 2y ago
Second supersonic flight test in progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcMB5kb-PUM
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by imglorp 2y ago
The new administration has removed the memory safe programming languages memo. https://web.archive.org/web/20250118013136/https://www.white...
565.
by imglorp 2y ago
The point is, big. I've seen a "small" dam in person, which was about 2m high and 10m wide. Such remarkable animals. They need to have a long term plan involving the topography and where the water will be when they're fi
566.
by imglorp 2y ago
I was curious about the phrasing of the Elisha Otis (of elevators) memorial: "inventor of the upended street". > Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a thi
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by imglorp 2y ago
> the ability to change code for the purposes of rooting out fraudulent payments or analyzing disbursement flow Or making and hiding fraudulent payments.
568.
by imglorp 2y ago
Is asteroid mining profitable? I'm assuming you would smelt in space and then use the metal in space, although reentry could be cheap if you form it into a lifting body for re-entry and are willing to lose some from ablation as it glid
569.
by imglorp 2y ago
Fun! 453 first try, using a dumb greedy algorithm.
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by imglorp 2y ago
Great, and how many fake accounts are there which don't declare themselves as AI?

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