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by jnurmine 7y ago
Robert Zubrin figured out a plausible plan to put a colony on Mars, yet the article fails to mention Zubrin and his Mars (Semi-)Direct plans. Colonizing Mars with a small team of experts is possible and within our technological and financia
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Is the monorepo/multirepo choice really the most important thing to consider? Branching: monorepo or not, if a feature-incomplete development branch for one of the supported targets can "hold the entire organization as a hostage&q
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Good point! Indeed HashCash is very similar. And probably where I actually got the main idea, as I'm absolutely certain I read about HashCash long ago. Seems that the idea was left to ferment in my head after all these years. One diffe
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Spam works great because it's cheap to send and because the SMTP protocol and everything around it is rather simple to fool. Just think about mails with "From: admin@your-organization.com" or "Subject: lab grade 1,2,3,4,
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by jnurmine 7y ago
But still, why VMs? A container seems even better suited for this purpose, since the only thing really required for this use-case is a certain configuration of system software as well as a separation from the rest of the system. Lxc/lx
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by jnurmine 7y ago
The Wikipedia list does not mention Tampio, an OO language where programs are written in proper Finnish: https://github.com/fergusq/tampio As an example, here is kertoma.itp (an example routine to calculate a factorial
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by jnurmine 7y ago
This is a great thing to hear!
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Exactly. Anyone remember when Firefox extensions broke recently? I thought it was a rather horrible experience. If the new Firefox Preview can natively block advertisements, whitelist sites, disable third party cookies, prevent and hide soc
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Wouldn't one have to encase this in a diamond shell or something to avoid scraping it?
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by jnurmine 7y ago
After some googling for what Suter is, it seems to be a system which detects electronic emissions sources, compares these with the known emitters to ID them, then somehow it accesses the enemy communications network to jam/disrupt&#x2F
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by jnurmine 7y ago
I see what you mean. To avoid the sheets being too far apart, the torus would have to have a big radius. And then the non-torus stack of sheets would have to repeat many times i.e. it would have to be very long. Maybe there's a better
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Triggering civil unrest and such is not really required to reduce population sizes: as we seem to be tracking ca. +3.5 C increase in average temperatures by 2100, the reduction in population levels will happen automatically by extinctions o
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Disclaimer: I have no clue about the mathematics and physics behind this to even speculate anything. Stupid question: could one recursively stack and twist these layers and ultimately join the head with the tail while keeping the property o
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Yeah, could be. I thought it might be possible to effectivize intracity rail traffic via an on-demand mini-tram service, given self-driving trams and computer-optimized routing. Kind of "packet routing", if packets were trams.
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by jnurmine 7y ago
I agree with you and I doubt we'll see self-driving cars before we see self-driving trains (like trams in cities). The problem space is vastly more simpler for self-driving trains; trains move on rails, rails do not move, trains/t
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by jnurmine 7y ago
I take it your card is pretty old. There's always an option of staying at an older OS (like Ubuntu pre 16.04) to keep fglrx. What is your AMD card, by the way?
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Accelerated video support is in the amdgpu driver which supports va-api (and vdpau).
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by jnurmine 7y ago
There is a benefit in starting to restrict fossil fuels early. It has to be done at some point anyway because the backing resource is limited and contributes to the human-hostile terraforming of our planet. Continuing with burning coal and
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Personal opinion: the biggest problem of Europe is the marketing, or rather the lack of it and its ineffectiveness. USA completely owns this. Just look at what the Silicon Valley media-integrated marketing machine can do. A complete fraud w
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Free text? You can just as well pipe structured binary data (such as audio or images) through one or more processing elements. The processors need to understand the data, of course. There are also other IPC mechanisms, like D-Bus.
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by jnurmine 7y ago
I think I don't understand. Is there something preventing people from experimenting and craftsmanship at this very moment?
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Yeah, it is a toy example on purpose. Macros really shine when you need to do a bit more complex stuff, there is certainly a cutoff between ease of regex "from the top of my head" vs. spending time formulating it.
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Maybe you can cover macros since they are conceptually very simple and very powerful. They may seem a bit complex but are quite simple. Basically you just record your editing movements and play it back. How macros work: press q x to record
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by jnurmine 7y ago
"When all these factors are considered, each Tesla emits 156 to 180 grams of CO2 per kilometre, which is more than a comparable diesel vehicle produced by the German company Mercedes, for example." Well, since they are considering
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Why, you know, it's like a tiny and shiny vinyl record!
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Well, if bandwidth or transfer quota is a big issue, it is always possible to use a CDROM or DVD with the packages...?
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That was the one I think!
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In a normal situation it would not make sense but: > if the situation becomes so bad that government-issued money is worthless If you are receiving a salary (!) in a non-gold currency, and have an effective method of converting that curr
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by jnurmine 7y ago
Maybe it is a tool issue? For example, if developers using Linux are asked to teleconference using tools built solely with Windows in mind, sometimes it will work with a VM, but often it randomly doesn't. If I remember right, Intel use
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by jnurmine 7y ago
I never understood why, if the situation becomes so bad that government-issued money is worthless, would people prefer gold instead of, say, water, toilet paper, medicine, access to a dentist, and so on?

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