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by jabl 3y ago
Isn't that the point? Disney counts on having more $$$ and more lawyers than some random artist who might or might not have intruded on the remaining copyrights? So they can bully the artist into submission regardless of whether they a
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by jabl 3y ago
I would imagine in many games randomness (e.g. through throwing dice, or pulling cards from a randomized pack) add noise, but the underlying strategy (including processing data, calculating probabilities etc.) still help. In such a game eve
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by jabl 3y ago
> I'm also somewhat skeptical on the idea that the death penalty _should_ cost more than life in prison (assuming that sentence carries at least 20 years for the remainder of that person's life.) It would seem to me that there
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by jabl 3y ago
When my country was tendering for new fighter jets a few years ago there were a lot of ads on various social media. Since random civilians like yours truly seldom impulse buy $100M latest generation fighter jets, I presume the goal was to i
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by jabl 3y ago
People at a cloudstack conference think cloudstack is great and want their customers to use it? What's next, a survey of people attending the annual dentistry conference shows that they think dental health is important?
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by jabl 3y ago
> I've seen estimates of $1000 in reduced cost due to reduced copper wiring What about aluminum wiring? Lighter, cheaper, though bulkier than equivalent copper. Aluminum wiring got a bad rep back in the day, but it seems with curre
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by jabl 3y ago
Well, that's a "real" Saab, the newer ones are just built on the GM standard platform with a bit of Saabish styling.
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by jabl 3y ago
Would have been more interesting to see some analysis what caused the change in performance.
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by jabl 3y ago
> Decades ago, Sears sold magnesium stepladders. I've used one, and it's freakishly light, a 6-foot step ladder that you can walk around with balanced on one finger. As a slight aside, magnesium is also a very interesting mater
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by jabl 3y ago
If you want to nitpick, it was first done by Ubuntu and then later upstreamed into Debian (from which other child distros, as you correctly point out, inherit it).
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by jabl 3y ago
Back in the day I was doing some GCC development while upstream was still using SVN. At that time there was both Hg and Git mirrors, and while the GCC repo isn't that huge in the grand scheme of things, it's big enough that the &q
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by jabl 3y ago
The sort of obvious way is to slap on a decent carbon tax on fuels. But of course that is fought tooth and nail by a lot on entrenched interests. Even here in ostensibly progressive Europe, populist parties are riding on "Cheap gas!!!&
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by jabl 3y ago
> About the only real "success" of Itanium was wiping out the competing architectures. Arguably x86-64 would have wiped those out anyway, with or without Itanium.
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by jabl 3y ago
Looking at the archives of the netbsd-ia64 mailing list, it doesn't seem like the netbsd ia64 port is particularly healthy. The most recent discussion thread is a thread that was cross-posted to various ia64 related mailing lists, by t
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by jabl 3y ago
Per the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Processors nope, both Poulson (2012) and Kittson (2017) used the same 32nm process.
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by jabl 3y ago
> "I love my basement collection of archaic computer hardware" Nothing wrong with retro-computing enthusiasts, per se. From the Linux kernel perspective it's about the architecture having maintainers and not causing pain
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by jabl 3y ago
Most likely such Itanium systems would be running VMS or HP-UX rather than Linux.
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by jabl 3y ago
> Some Cold War era fighter engines were able to run diesel for a while, tge reasoning was to allow quick re-location of the aircraft to safety. They needed basically a full rebuild if run on diesel for too long. Interesting, haven'
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by jabl 3y ago
Modern Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD) is the standard road diesel in both the EU and USA since many years now. And with modern common-rail engines with electronically controlled direct injection, you no longer get the big black clouds of s
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by jabl 3y ago
From wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars ): > Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a British luxury automobile maker which has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG since 2003 ... &
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by jabl 3y ago
Nice, though since the entire point of SAF is to be a drop-in replacement for fossil jet fuel, this news is a bit of a nothingburger. (Of course, since this is aviation, best to test it so you don't end up with the engine(s) conking ou
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by jabl 3y ago
Wait, what? - Performance cars tend to be bought by people with risky traffic habits. And no, just because somebody thinks of themselves as having the driving skills of a professional racing driver, and have the fanciest wheels they can aff
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by jabl 3y ago
Banks already do a lot of stuff to prevent their customers from being scammed, or engaging in criminal activities like drug dealing or money laundering. Since this is pretty much what crypto currencies seem to be used for, this is just anot
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by jabl 3y ago
From TFA: > But Toyota's longer-range plan is to minimize profit on sale of the basic truck, and earn on the upfit potential. Eagerly awaiting the official Toyota Technical.
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by jabl 3y ago
I learned that 'pumping' is what you do to counteract the brakes overheating when going down a mountain and engine braking isn't sufficient.
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by jabl 3y ago
This article claims Tesla is going to a 48V electrical system with the Cybertruck. https://thedriven.io/2023/03/20/why-teslas-move-to-48-volt-e... It also says Tesla is doing a lot of 48V stuff in house. Like
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by jabl 3y ago
> If the copper is bound to the hull paint well enough, maybe it’s fine? Or maybe fine in fresh water. If it's bound up in the paint matrix it's kind of hard for it to poison those pesky critters, no? AFAIU all biocide based an
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by jabl 3y ago
Some level of scepticism is certainly warranted. OTOH it is possible to create reliable safety critical software, it's just very time consuming and expensive. For instance, many (most?) modern passenger aircraft are fly by wire, with n
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by jabl 3y ago
Newer review of silicone based FRC's: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03926
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by jabl 3y ago
Of course, the copper based antifouling that replaced TBT isn't exactly benign either. Though the new generation of siloxane based antifouling that work by being slippery and hard for organisms to attach rather than being poisonous see

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