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by jascii 6y ago
While TCL is definitely an odd language, with plenty to alienate the modern programmer, there are some killer applications for it. For me the thing that sucked me in was tcl/expect a simple but powerful tool to control CLI's. At
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by jascii 6y ago
We got a offered a small reimbursement for needed tools and materials, I haven't really taken advantage of that since I already had a full workplace setup for on-call shifts.
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by jascii 6y ago
"but the impending end of the world seems like a more pressing concern". While climate change may lead to a mass extinction event that will likely wipe out a lot of species, including our own, it will not likely lead to the end of
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by jascii 6y ago
That is an interesting idea, however one caveat I see is that the same warming that is killing the corals also changes the ocean currents and heat distribution in ways we can't fully predict yet. I can see this making the site choice d
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by jascii 6y ago
As a matter of fact, corals themselves provide a lot of historical data in a manner similar to tree growthrings: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/picture-climate-how-we-can-le...
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by jascii 6y ago
Thanks for engaging instead of what seems now to be HN's standard response: downvote anything they don't know/understand... The standard has been stable for 23 years however various implementations are under active use and d
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by jascii 6y ago
Oh, this article is not about ML (the language) It is about Machine Learning... Can we just call Machine Learning Machine Learning, to avoid confusion?
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by jascii 6y ago
I would be in the market for a powered/bluetooth speaker that doesn't sound like shit. For the price I'd expect (near) audiophile sound, however little in the marketing even seems to mention sound quality, it just seems very
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by jascii 6y ago
Not directly relevant to this discussion, but I think it is worth pondering about: While I greatly enjoy the freedom that comes with voluntary association, I think it is worth realizing that it has few protections against the creation of to
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by jascii 6y ago
It is only a criminal allegation if there were indeed laws against it at the time and in the jurisdiction at hand. Playing "practical jokes" with each others systems was a fairly common occurrence in the hacker-scene back in the d
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by jascii 6y ago
I'm a bit saddened by the lack of built in keyboard in this iteration. I see the modular bit, but it kinda takes away from the "terminal in your pocket" idea.
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by jascii 6y ago
I started out with binary switches and led's. A hex keypad was an improvement... Later I got a loud surplus mechanical tty, my mother was not happy!
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by jascii 6y ago
Eek, talking of legacy code! Legacy code determining life or death at times..
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by jascii 6y ago
Ah, the venerable 1802, the stackless wonder! My first computer was an 1802 based project published in a dutch radio amateur magazine called the "The Cosmicos" mostly build using "engineering samples" I begged of of manu
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by jascii 6y ago
It is one of the few radiation hardened processors available and still finds use in defense and aerospace applications.
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by jascii 6y ago
Ultrasonic buzzers? I kinda fail to see how that would help, shouldn't be too hard to filter out the ultrasonic range noise.
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by jascii 6y ago
My gut reaction response to this is that is a false equivalence as one can have a chilling effect on free speech by a corporation, while the other constitutes a useful safety rule by a government that is supposed to have our consent to gove
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by jascii 6y ago
"If this post gets removed then I know I have not fully achieved my ownership goal and it might be time to just host on a pi." If the post does not get removed you do NOT know that you have fully achieved ownership. The simple fac
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by jascii 6y ago
This. I never understood the "every idiot can do it gui server" thing, just because everybody can doesn't mean everybody should . Have we already forgotten how Microsoft Exchange singlehandedly launched an entire spam indust
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by jascii 6y ago
I read that more in a context of "teaching oneself". However, I think he's at google atm: http://herpolhode.com/rob/
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by jascii 6y ago
But somebody needs to plan for those and arrange the logistics. Then, they end up being useless when LEO moves you elsewhere, and you probably lose them at the end of the day. I can stick a LOT of earplugs in my med-kit and hand them out wh
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by jascii 6y ago
That's pretty absurd! And did get reversed in appeal.
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by jascii 6y ago
I have worked as a UN human rights observer in several countries and have in that capacity been in vehicles in angry crowds. Standard operating procedure has always been to not engage and wait it out, and this has always worked well for me.
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by jascii 6y ago
You don't think It'd be all over "Fox News" if it did?
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by jascii 6y ago
I'm sorry if I made you feel like you were being trolled, that was certainly not my intention. I got triggered by the phrase: "i'm hitting the gas till i see daylight" which seemed indiscriminate and excessive to me.
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by jascii 6y ago
While citizen's arrest is a thing, it does not automatically give you the right to detain someone. A use of force (as would be required to detain a subject) is often only legal to stop a direct felony from taking place.
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by jascii 6y ago
From personal experience I can say that well-fitting earplugs did bring a significant reduction in pain-level. That is ofcourse a very limited and subjective observation, however: sound is sound, the laws of physics still hold.
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by jascii 6y ago
Or you could bring earplugs..
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by jascii 6y ago
I'd seriously doubt any court will consider a defensive move like deflecting sound waves while under duress as an assault. On top of that,the effectiveness of a single point-source falls with the inverse square of the distance so the e
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by jascii 6y ago
The simple fact is that no people have been killed due to a protest blocking the road. People have been killed by police violence. Theoretical grandstanding over an unlikely hypothetical scenario to condemn protesters is being obtuse.

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