jimbobthrowawy

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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I sorely miss that menu search feature from macOS, even though it was unity's HUD on ubuntu that got me used to it in the first place. It's a shame it didn't become a more common feature, especially for programs with hundreds
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Does using something like APE by jart work? It's a single executable that's also a zipfile. (I assume a replaceable .dll inside the archive is LGPL compliant) I know it's a bit of a tangent, but on platforms like macos the &q
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Do you mean iOS the iphone operating system, or cisco IOS the router operating system?
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think some github employees have written code that went into git, but it's not an official affiliation. The quotes on "official" imply non-official to me. i.e. official seeming to people who don't know any better.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
If there were to be an arms race like that, my first attempt would be infinite-checkboxes or similar. Would probably run absolutely horribly on anything but the beefiest machines, and cost thousands of dollars for bandwidth. Would need to c
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think most layout differences come from back then typewriters and word processors were the most that was available, and nothing got changed due to inertia. Going back and forth between " and @ being capital-2 daily is probably the on
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Cool idea, I am surprised nobody came up with it sooner.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
You need to have about 50% more range than just the distance between airports (really, enough for two failed landings and a diversion to your most distant alternate) for the sake of having a safety margin, but I see what you're getting
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Still does. It's called gnome sushi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_sushi I discovered it accidentally one day long after I started using gnome, because I had a macos work machine and regained some muscle mem
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Why the sun? In terms of delta-V that's the hardest target to hit in the entire solar system, since you have to zero out all of earth's orbital velocity.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Odd that github archived the repo claiming it contains malware. Was any of the malicious code even in the repo? I would guess it's only on the server they're serving the polyfill from, since it has very specific conditions for tri
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
There's also a sample container inside the rover intended to be sent back. The cached samples exist so that more can be taken, and so it's still possible to get samples if the sample container in the rover fails to open for some r
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I don't see how it's wrong to use an if statement to check that nobody's passing in a zero to your function that later does division using that variable. c has a whole load of footguns in this area, as UB can impact code appe
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Is there an American unit for power? I thought J/s is universal. 0.017433 Horsepower? I had expected them to make the title more clickbaity, but that number is about right for a modern lightbulb.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think this is less marvellous nowadays with ARM0 chips being super common, and micropython already being ported to many devices containing them. Edit: I hadn't watched the video yet. This thing is not an ARM chip.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
They have also gone back and changed scores in light of more recent information. Like parts-pairing in more recent iphones decreasing its score months after the initial review came out, despite the part seeming easy to swap. I appreciate th
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
This post seems to be over a month old, I wonder when this feature is coming. I hope regular windows users start using git more often because of this. It'd be pretty killer in an office setting.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Tar isn't a great archival (by which I mean combining multiple files into one file) format for most people, since it emulates tape by putting records of what file you just read right in line with the data. To access a single file from
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
It'd be especially weird for them to pull out of the EU when it contains two of the countries most of their revenue flows through.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Cool as hell. It's kind of a shame the pins live in different places, so you can't put the board into the DIP slot on an actual uno. Not that there'd be a serious reason to do that.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
If the QR code is in an app of some kind, any one I've seen maxes out the brightness while it's onscreen. Orientation data is built into QR codes anyway, so that's a problem with the reader.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
It's great to see these distributed data gathering projects actually be popular and succeed in their plan. There's one for tracking lightning strikes globally too: www.blitzortung.org
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
> There are reasons there hasn't ever been even one other human-rated craft to use solid rocket motors. That's about to not be true. Atlas V + starliner has flown two people and has strap-on boosters, I think it only gets the r
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
They dealt with this for third-party keyboards by barring them from connecting to the internet, they could do something similar to replacement on-device models. Even if that meant the "ask chatgpt" option wouldn't be availabl
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I checked using godbolt, and when compiling with -O2 (like his makefile) only the parse_chunk_pp version is in the emitted assembly and is called regardless of the -P option. I think compilers have done this where applicable for a long time
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
libwget exists too, and is licensed under LGPL. The wget/wget2 tool itself is GPL3 licensed. The "MIT" license is less complicated to comply with than LGPL, but that's probably not why it's getting chosen.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Browser vendors are rightfully scared of "breaking" websites. I don't know how you'd define non-trivial javascript in a way that couldn't be circumvented.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
It was actually Poettering that authored the fix I saw. (refuse to do anything if no arguments are given) I think this change was only made in this release version too, and it wouldn't do that if you ran the same command on v255.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
What is even the purpose of preventing photos being taken of the controls in a commercial power plant? I thought all of it was documented elsewhere already and pretty standardised across the same model of reactor.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
If the price swings were frequent and steep enough, you could probably have your batteries send power back to the grid when the price gets high. I doubt the economics work, but I'd love to live in a world where a lot of the grid's

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