kanox

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by kanox 6y ago
> sit white-knuckled until I die in a food riot. This is nonsense, food production on a per-capita basis is increasing and population is leveling off.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Rising temperatures will lead to huge portions of the planet that are currently densely populated that will no longer support humans. This does not seem likely, the bar for a region being "unable to support humans" is very hi
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by kanox 6y ago
There are lots of claims that Tesla self-driving features are dangerous, is there any data to support this? The fact that their detection of driver attention is worse is only one factor, the cars should be evaluated on overall accident rate
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by kanox 6y ago
> There's also what's known as the "geometry" problem - 1 self driving car takes up as much space as 1 human driven car. Human-driver cars consume parking spaces at the destination, self-driving cars don't have
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by kanox 6y ago
The boring company is a bet on improving tunneling machines for speed and cost. This might not be realized but there's no good argument that proves it to be impossible. There are fields where physical limits were already reached, for e
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by kanox 6y ago
Because tunnels can go under buildings, roads and other tunnels with very little interference.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Agreed, but self-driving cars would enable self driving buses and they could be great. Self-driving cars would enable self-driving taxis which would be superior to both private vehicles and public transport. Imagine if there was no nee
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by kanox 6y ago
Such experiments are already running and there are statistics available comparing the rate of accidents with human versus computer driving.
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by kanox 6y ago
> I put the self-driving car in the same category as the flying car and jet pack. This one just happens to have VC funding. Flying cars and jet packs are limited by physics (specifically energy density) and progress in this area is almos
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by kanox 6y ago
I really wish people would stop claiming that the solution to cars is walking or public transport. I don't have a car either but claiming that people should "stop driving" is not a serious approach. Cars are extremely useful
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by kanox 6y ago
My experience with TCL is from scripting tools which picked it as an extension language many years ago. Tools like that have their own object-like systems and are likely not going to migrate, ever. Maybe if TCL had a single standard OO libr
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by kanox 6y ago
If you want to resize the remote terminal it might be easier to determine the size locally with an ioctl and only execute "stty cols/rows" remotely. It might also help to export the local TERM value remotely because it's
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by kanox 6y ago
Unpopular opinon: I've used TCL and didn't like it and wouldn't recommend anyone use it. The shell-like "everything is a string" is seductive at first but in practice you spend way too much time messing up your quot
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by kanox 6y ago
> Also, in Java it is easy to end up with resource leaks whereas PHP always starts from a clean slate for each request. Way less headache for operations. That assumes you're running a new separate PHP processes for each request and
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by kanox 6y ago
> if your customers need to be able to build a shared library on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, and all the BSDs Are there even any notable commercial projects that use autotools? Autoconf solves problems that existed in the 90s unix market
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by kanox 6y ago
This is not true, many of those companies have cheap mass-market products.
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by kanox 6y ago
My guess is that this is what JIT people asked for.
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by kanox 6y ago
Arm v8 is the "current" 64-bit version of the ISA and you almost certainly have it inside your phone. You might have a version older than v8.3.
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by kanox 6y ago
Is there even a good reason for bluetooth support to be implemented inside the kernel?
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by kanox 6y ago
This sounds dubious, isn't it easier/more reliable to just block parts of the hardware using fuses?
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by kanox 6y ago
> And the US granddaddy of them all (excluding vehicles only available to fleets) is the GM EV1, released back in 1996. Yes, GM deserves much more credit for the EV revolution than Tesla.
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by kanox 6y ago
Depending on the parser you can also use them to call arbitrary code. This used to be the default behavior of `pyyaml.load`.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Could France have fully de-carbonised it’s grid without international trade to less developed nations producing many things it consumes? Doubtful. France uses nuclear power, what makes you think that this is somehow difficult to scale?
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by kanox 6y ago
The solution to such problems is a better standard for the handling of numbers, not dropping support for numbers altogether.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Yocto goes to a large amount of effort to make for repeatable builds, something which docker is actually quite bad at Is this something that yocto itself helps with or just something accomplished by a thousand people hacking at .bb scr
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by kanox 6y ago
Yocto and various derivatives can be used to "build software" in the same way that Dockerfiles can be used to "build software" but using yocto is a much worse experience.
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by kanox 6y ago
And shell scripts solve the problem of starting and stopping daemon, but not particularly well. The boundary between a binary tarball and the rest of the system is very poorly defined.
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by kanox 6y ago
It is still useful for humans to have a well-understood way to input typed data. If you make everything a string then the interpretation of "no" as boolean true or false is left to each tool, and there are even tools which have di
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by kanox 6y ago
This is satire, right?
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by kanox 6y ago
We have it today for JSON, it's called JSON Schema and many IDEs support it.

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