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by jmbwell 3y ago
I can understand the Itanium community feeling like they are trying to do The Open Source Thing by volunteering to keep it alive, only to be (what might feel like being) summarily dismissed by the rest of the community. I’m afraid that the
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There's one in Galveston in addition to the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at JSC in Clear Lake?
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This scenario has been the case for more than one brand. A brand doesn't necessarily have cloud/IoT expertise, so they partner with someone else. Time passes, business crap happens, the partnership fails, and the brand itself is o
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> Mastodon's federation policies Perhaps you're referring to the policies of individual instance administrators, as "Mastodon" has no centralized "policies" as far as I know. I run more than one instance, an
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Okay, but one requires reading pages of specifications, and the other would fit on a sticky-note.
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If Flexential and PGE aren't sharing information or otherwise cooperating as much as Cloudflare might like, then going public with some speculation might be an attempt at applying some pressure to get to the bottom of what happened. It
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The top half of the sphere is not the reflector. The reflector is a diaphragm membrane inside the sphere that forms an efficient parabolic shape when pressurized correctly from above and below.
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The Wikipedia article captures relevant facts from the blog post, in a tone consistent with Wikipedia's standards, for what that's worth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io I admit I never considered the prove
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Yeah when I lived in San Antonio, we used to go out to Hondo to see the milky way and explore the skies with our homemade telescopes. LOL today
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For those who misread the title as I did, this is not Dave Coulier. Moreover, it is not Dave Coulier wearing stonewashed jeans and a mullet, making Full House era jokes, in a forgotten Microsoft promotional video about Windows 95.
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What explains the pulsing exposure? It seems mechanical in its regularity…
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I have no problem with thank you notes; I think they’re courteous and easy to send. It never hurts. If you don’t get hired you lose nothing, and if you do, you’re starting on a pleasant note. But I would definitely want to know more about t
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by jmbwell 3y ago
A searchable, browseable meta-index of all my disparate cloud and local, mounted and unmounted file repositories is certainly interesting and has been a bit of a holy grail for some time. Digital Asset Management is nothing new, but it is n
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Doesn't seem like one would preclude the other. I guess I'll have to take a video next time I see it.
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I mean, I'm referring to things I've had to deal with. Failure isn't obvious until the user complains of random disconnects, and then you find that although everything looks fine from the outside, you can wiggle the wafer ins
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3) The most fragile part (the wafer in the center of the receptacle) is on the expensive-to-repair device, while the least fragile part is on the cheap-to-replace cable. HDMI makes this same mistake. With USB-A, at least the plastic part on
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I have my primary display in the center, directly in front of me. Whatever needs my primary focus for my current task goes there... Outlook for email, vscode for code, Terminal for admin, web browser when web browsering, etc. To my left is
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by jmbwell 3y ago
They call it electro-convulsive therapy now, or just ECT. The objective is to induce a seizure. The idea is that electrical activity in the brain has been observed to be more stable following a seizure. ECT is still applied and apparently t
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Siri and “results from the web” already use an Apple internal search engine. It is crawled by AppleBot and integrated with the OS. There’s just no web form front end.
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It's among the things Gatekeeper does, isn't it? As configured with PPPC?
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The comment was in response to parent's stated complaint, namely having to wait for someone else to resolve issues with popular packages being broken after an update, which has been the experience of more than one user.
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I wish more of those 10k people would help get others off of a package manager that is so fragile and convoluted that updating so often leads to popular things breaking. Things like macports and pkgsrc do things in an arguably much simpler,
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They mean they haven’t tried another package manager for Mac, like pkgsrc or macports.
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SIP means not messing with the system files, enumerated thusly: /System. Enumerating what I do want an app to access is handled by Gatekeeper.
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Printing and transferring files: two operations that computing will never solve once and for all
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Yeah. Look, I’m a booster for XML. But I recently worked on a project to interface with Microsoft Office documents. So many conflicting namespaces. So. Many. Conflicting. Namespaces. Often for the same “kind” of document, at least as far as
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> It's one of the reasons I LOL hard whenever I hear tech people saying they will "retire and become farmers", these people have no idea what it is like to work on a farm for real. When I hear this sentiment expressed and&
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Judging by the thread here, the very premise seems difficult to imagine today. But there was a time, indeed, when end users regularly logged in to a Unix system as themselves, and their shell specified the program they could run, like a lin
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Yeah, I don't quite get the outrage at this particular useless thing being on store shelves, among so many other useless things. The outrage should be that anyone who wants the safe and effective option is treated as a potential meth m
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You know, I shouldn’t malign it. It’s really not bad at all in and of itself. I just wish it was as well integrated and as polished as some of the others can be.

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