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811.
by lambda 11y ago
> Do we really have excess capacity compared to the peak demand? Put another way, how many people own a car and aren't using it at e.g. 8:50AM? At a complete guess I'd say maybe 5%? As I said, when I look out at my residential
812.
by lambda 11y ago
If you need to leave to go to work at 8:00 AM, to get there at 8:30, it's a 5 minute drive from your office to my house, and I need to leave at 9 to get to my job at 9:30, then an on-demand driverless car can take care of both of us. I
813.
by lambda 11y ago
The installer from https://www.rust-lang.org works fine on Debian stable. Right now, you can just use the upstream rustup.sh script for platforms that don't yet have it packaged (like Debian stable), or install from your di
814.
by lambda 11y ago
It is unfortunate, and it is a good question to ask why Rust is attracting so few female contributors. To assume when asking that question that the project is misogynist is a bit of a stretch, however. It's worth checking the project&#
815.
by lambda 11y ago
What benefit would Docker images have over the existing upstream distribution or distro packaging? The Rust compiler doesn't have any particularly complicated dependencies, either installing the binaries directly from rust-lang.org or
816.
by lambda 11y ago
It's an arms race, and the users are the losers. Either they disable the ad blockers, and their browsing experience is filled with so much junk you can't find the content within it, or they enable the ad blockers and lose content.
817.
by lambda 11y ago
Isn't that the one I linked to? It's just the final unredacted version, but I don't know how interesting the redactions would be.
818.
by lambda 11y ago
It's a different game, but it seems to be in the same genre. The blurb even describes it as "similar to Civilization". It's reasonable to ask for two games in the same genre, and with the primary description of one as be
819.
by lambda 11y ago
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/merrill-v-lynch-unredact...
820.
by lambda 11y ago
So, right now you've paid $180 for two $9 computers. Assuming they do actually fulfill their rewards, you will wind up with 6 or 7 $9 computers (unclear if the second alpha was just an extra, or if that counts towards one of your 5), p
821.
by lambda 11y ago
Hmm? This is Medium doing a reasonable thing. They comply with Do Not Track, but people can embed videos on sites that do not comply. Here they do a reasonable thing, and show a message to people with "Do Not Track" enabled, letti
822.
by lambda 11y ago
The thing they seem to be missing here is that the CHIP isn't a sub-$10 computer. They did a sub-$10 Kickstarter as a marketing effort, but their BOM on this chip is over $10, so it's apparent that they were doing the Kickstarter
823.
by lambda 11y ago
That's a graphical console, not a serial console.
824.
by lambda 11y ago
For some reason, while I always see Adam Cadre mentioned along with Plotkin and Short among the innovative modern IF authors, something about his writing style just rubs me the wrong way and I've never been able to enjoy his games.
825.
by lambda 11y ago
No, I don't own an iOS device; I refuse to support walled gardens financially. So I don't play any iOS or console-only games.
826.
by lambda 11y ago
Why do you need to need to be using the full capacity of your computer, if you are having fun? One of the real advantages of interactive fiction in the modern era is that it can afford to take more risks, narratively, than a AAA title. Sinc
827.
by lambda 11y ago
No, Red Hat and SuSE do not apply such onerous restrictions. Canonical says that you must rebuild the binaries, even if those binaries don't contain any Canonical trademarks. Red Hat merely requires that you remove the trademarks in th
828.
by lambda 11y ago
How is it protecting their brand to say that I am not allowed to redistribute the libpcap0.8 binary package that they built, written by other developers, licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, packaged by Debian developers, and the only r
829.
by lambda 11y ago
What is SatNOGS? I know that GNU Radio is a software defined radio toolkit. From the diagrams and "Sat" part of the name it seems like SatNOGS is some kind of thing for keeping antennas pointed at satellites. But it's hard to
830.
by lambda 11y ago
It's common in the hacker circles to refer to people by their usernames, and it was long a convention that people go by their initials as their username (at least in the East Coast, MIT influenced groups). Thus Richard M Stallman goes
831.
by lambda 11y ago
Don't think about the laws in terms of a single monopoly. The laws should be more accurately described as anti-trust or competition laws. A handful of large players, each with less than 50% market share, can also distort the market and
832.
by lambda 11y ago
No, it is a problem before that. When it becomes a problem bad enough to warrant government intervention is another question.
833.
by lambda 11y ago
> actually available Define "actually available" Most public defenders offices are so oversubscribed and underfunded that they can't really provide good representation for the majority of their clients.
834.
by lambda 11y ago
I had assumed it was this Graphite: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects... , probably because I'm a font and writing systems geek.
835.
by lambda 11y ago
Not really prescient. Cryptographic cash has been something that people have been talking about for a while, and there have even been startups trying to commercialize it. Chaum's ecash was invented in 1983, and he was in the process of
836.
by lambda 11y ago
Hmm? Their time is valuable. You are being asked to pay for their time. If there's a broken traffic light in the city, do you expect some workers to come and spend their time fixing it just because it's broken and it's a good
837.
by lambda 11y ago
I work at a company that uses a large amount of free software. For much of it, if we find a bug, we either fix it ourselves locally, or go through the normal process of submitting a bug report, possibly submitting our own patch, and waiting
838.
by lambda 11y ago
Have you never heard of SUnet, the scsh web server/framework? It's been around since 1997. http://scsh.net/resources/sunet.html
839.
by lambda 11y ago
Rust's model is similar to a cleaned-up and guaranteed safe use of modern C++ smart pointers and references. A few of the improvements that Rust offers are compiler enforced move semantics by default, so assigning, returning, or passin
840.
by lambda 11y ago
Indeed. When I'm doing a technical interview, and I ask a question, I want the person I'm asking to tell me if they don't know the answer. If they tell me that they don't know the answer, I'm more confident that whe

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