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by inejge 2y ago
> Annexing Canada is the US equivalent of Russia retaining control of Ukraine Yes, if you disregard a few hundreds of years of history. The reverse, Canada absorbing the US and restoring the continuation of the British Empire, would be m
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by inejge 2y ago
Pics or it didn't happen. (Seriously, I'd love to see that unholy train.)
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by inejge 2y ago
The heroic version of the story is now almost 40 years old[1]. (One HN mention with the link to a HTMLized version is here[2].) In both cases, the upshot is that as long as you have a running shell with root privileges, at least one existin
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by inejge 2y ago
> At the same time, neither QUIC nor HTTP/3 are included in the standard libraries of any major languages including Node.js, Go, Rust, Python or Ruby. .NET omission notwithstanding, one of the languages in the list is not like the
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by inejge 2y ago
Myanmar, alias Burma. They're having a hot civil war since 2021. (They've had tensions and insurgencies for as long as they've been an independent state.)
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by inejge 2y ago
Calculators, especially scientific and graphing calculators, are a niche product these days, almost exclusively limited to education and exam-taking. There is no impetus for changing the approved models, given the mountains of materials ada
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by inejge 2y ago
From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition Starting with FDR and ending with Reagan? I think that the history of US antitrust is more complicated. The first round of trust busting (She
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by inejge 2y ago
As an example this is used for the Russian GPS system so their satellites can sit in high earth latitudes for longer needing fewer satellites to cover Russia. It's used for communications satellites and is called the Molniya orbit[1]
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by inejge 2y ago
taken without consent; every constituent who voted for every representative who ratified the 16th amendment is now dead Isn't it nice when you get nerd sniped by complete nonsense? I wanted to see what amendments would get invalidate
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by inejge 2y ago
I don't think it's particularly problematic, uv the concurrency library and uv the Python tool cover such non-overlapping domains that opportunities for confusion are minimal. (The principle is recognized in trademark law -- some
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by inejge 2y ago
> That’s not really the same as what’s being discussed though it’s still troubling. GP mentioned anti-royalist protester arrests and threats of arrest, you asked for a citation, I provided a link to a BBC article discussing those. How is
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by inejge 2y ago
Several examples, including blank piece of paper: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62883713
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by inejge 2y ago
> Denali is just the word for 'tall' in some local dialect. It is not exactly pregnant with meaning. Look up the etymology of Mont Blanc or the Himalayas -- not especially pregnant with meaning either. The point is that using t
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by inejge 2y ago
(Not related to the sculpture, just a bit of pedantry.) I appreciate the attempt to render the name of the locality in the present-day local alphabet (Czech), but the diacritic above the 'e' in "Vĕstonice" is wrong: the
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by inejge 2y ago
It was France: https://www.businessinsider.com/french-california-high-speed... Doubly delicious since the French have a long and not very nice colonial history in North Africa, sowing long-lasting suspicion and grudges, and
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by inejge 2y ago
I'll try to dig up the criteria someday, if they're written down, but I imagine that "anything that triggered airbag inflation" is a good approximation.
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by inejge 2y ago
Ireland is the most NIMBY, which is why its population is lower now than in the 1800s Uh, are you sure that you haven't disregarded the Great Libertarian Sociological Experiment of 1847 in your reasoning?
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by inejge 2y ago
[...] they mention supervised traffic, so presumably at some point people standing outside next to speeding traffic and radiation. It can be supervised at entry/exit points, which is what I infer from the text. A bit like the highway
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by inejge 2y ago
People talking about API design: zillions of good discussions online, papers written, standards created, thousands of hours of talks at dev conferences, heated debates that nearly venture into philosophy. People implementing APIs: return a
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by inejge 2y ago
> No one knows why the CEO was killed. Whatever the shooter's motive was, you can't deny that the public mood is ugly. There was scarcely any sympathy for Thompson, just an avalanche of gleeful mockery and complaints about heal
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by inejge 2y ago
Art design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the space suits. I thought it was Moebius (alias Jean Giraud) who designed the Alien spacesuits? E.g., see [1]. (Perhaps he did borrow bits of sa
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by inejge 2y ago
> Maybe I'm not understanding the use case. I don't want to "take the train". The use case is routine. A lot of people, most of the time, do indeed want to "take the train". Heroic feats of real-time plannin
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by inejge 2y ago
I once read a great foreword to a novel lamenting the loss of "good bad books", citing Dracula as an example. It's an article/essay by George Orwell (actually titled Good Bad Books ), available online.
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by inejge 2y ago
If yours is the only tab, "close tab" will usually close the whole window, potentially leaving you with an empty desktop. Being caught staring at nothing would be suspicious in the situations where "exit page" is suppose
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by inejge 2y ago
All those cells have a zinc anode, which used to be amalgamated with a small amount of mercury to prevent corrosion and leakage[1]. (Mercuric oxide batteries certainly contain even more.) [1] https://www.epa.gov/mercury&#x2F
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by inejge 2y ago
The original battery tech uses some sort of legendary toxic battery that is no longer permitted due to hazardous chemical regulations. Alkaline button batteries used to contain mercury, which has been phased out in the last 20-25 years. T
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by inejge 2y ago
> Hot take Uh yeah it is. A writing system needs a flat surface, a writing implement, and a mind prepared to learn. If enough people think that the new alphabet is a good idea, fonts and layout engines will follow. For Adlam, they did. (
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by inejge 2y ago
The Valentine is famous among the designers, but the truly popular model is the Lettera 22[1]: many journalists and writers, famous or not, used it, and of course it had a hipster revival. (Also a beautiful machine.) [1] https://
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by inejge 2y ago
The glaring question is how and why it was rolled out everywhere all at once? Because the point of these updates is to be rolled out quickly and globally. It wasn't a system/driver update, but a data file update: think antivirus
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by inejge 2y ago
I don't think that actual history supports that assertion. 30 years ago, cellular networks were really taking off and people were starting to use mobile phones en masse. Always on, pinging the base stations, delivering that data to equ

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