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by jujube3 2y ago
Dirt works fine for shielding, when you live on a planet whose soil is already toxic to life. And yes Mars is radioactive, because it has no magnetosphere. Especially when there is a solar flare.
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by jujube3 2y ago
Oh look, Google is shipping their org chart again. > What problems are Editions solving? > > In short, nothing really (for end users). The introduction of Editions > is the result of major Google-internal refactoring o
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by jujube3 2y ago
What is wrong with launching a water-cooled reactor to Mars? Or more likely launching the materials needed to build it. The active components of a reactor are quite tiny -- most of the bulk is in the shielding, which won't be necessary
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by jujube3 2y ago
I can explain. But first, we have to talk about parallel universes and half-button-presses.
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by jujube3 2y ago
Building inspectors? The guys who complain when you move your toilet 2 feet to the left from where it was on your plan? Those guys use Java 1.0.
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by jujube3 2y ago
I don't understand the outraged tone. Asking developers to write actually good software shouldn't be viewed as some kind of crazy imposition. We don't have to write everything like it is running on a spacecraft (which I never
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by jujube3 2y ago
OK, for a billion dollars I will write a program that deals with KOI-8 or any other text encoding from the 1960s you care to name. Please pay up front.
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by jujube3 2y ago
> It depends on the circumstances. It might be the least bad thing to do. Or not. It is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
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by jujube3 2y ago
Actually, I can just assume UTF-8, since that's what the world standardized on. Just like I can assume the length of a meter or the weight of a gram. There is no need to have dozens of incompatible systems.
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by jujube3 2y ago
Well, the Apple ][ was actually GOOD. So yeah. Not like what Humane is selling.
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by jujube3 3y ago
The subtitle is "why you can't build Apple with venture capital." But... Apple was built with venture capital.
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by jujube3 3y ago
I wish you well, Paul, and I'm glad that you're making open source work. I was just saying that what Bruce Perens is suggesting isn't open source. In fact, what Bruce is proposing is a "source under glass" license.
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by jujube3 3y ago
The freedom to use means the freedom to use without paying. So it is you who is confused.
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by jujube3 3y ago
What if we collected money from users in exchange for a license to use the software. Then, that money could go to an organization: call it a "company." Then the company could use the money to pay the developers! We could call this
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by jujube3 3y ago
Voters can certainly be selfish, in the sense of wanting something that might conflict with the greater good. For example, I might not want a new sewage treatment plant in my neighborhood, even if that is what the greater metropolitan area
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by jujube3 3y ago
AI is coming for radiology
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by jujube3 3y ago
In other words, the government cannot do bad things, only private companies can do bad things. A very enlightened point of view. Great that you corrected the people with actual experience.
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by jujube3 3y ago
Look, I'm not saying you should rewrite it in Rust. But you should rewrite it in Rust.
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by jujube3 3y ago
"Building code to be consumed by others" is literally all programming languages are about though. So... time to move to Rust then?
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by jujube3 3y ago
The interstate system is almost profitable for the government. Fuel taxes raise somewhere around 30 billion to 40 billion a year, and the amount spent in interstate system maintenance every year is about that amount. If they increased the t
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by jujube3 3y ago
"We plan on chasing fads and paying ourselves huge salaries until the last of the Mozilla money is flushed down the toilet," added the CEO.
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by jujube3 3y ago
I think it happened when the Borat movie came out.
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by jujube3 3y ago
vibes on HackerNews
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by jujube3 3y ago
No.
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by jujube3 3y ago
Yeah, this is ridiculous. This guy is trying to claim both the Intel has good power consumption numbers, and that Apple should have added more fans to their Intel laptops. Has Intel discovered the secret of creating heat without using energ
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by jujube3 3y ago
Tether's business is very profitable right now because they don't have to pay interest. They can park all the money people hand to them in exchange for tether in T-bills and earn 5%. Meanwhile the people holding the tether get not
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by jujube3 3y ago
The front fell off.
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by jujube3 3y ago
Look at that subtle off-white colouring of the project landing page. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark!
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by jujube3 3y ago
Python's changes between releases are not limited to removing deprecated APIs. Sometimes semantics changes in breaking ways, or new reserved words crop up, etc. etc. It certainly is Russian roulette trying to run python code on any ver
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by jujube3 3y ago
Is there any reason to use the format package rather than printf? Aside from C++ people who claim to hate C needing to save face?

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