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by ls65536 4y ago
Some might be offended by holocaust comparisons here, but if we are to really take the ideal of "never again" seriously, then it's absolutely crucial that we be free to openly discuss in good faith how situations gradually sn
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by ls65536 4y ago
The worst part is whenever bringing up such points others are often quick to dismiss them as wacky "conspiracy theories" or even just unfounded pessimism about the state of things as they are today. Merely bringing up comparisons
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by ls65536 5y ago
> Ignoring our own privacy, shouldn't we protect those people who the government/institutions/etc already squash down? And this should resonate even among the individualistic and self-interested who might believe they&#x27
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by ls65536 5y ago
Privacy may not be a goal in itself, but it sure would be painful to wake up one day and realise one has given it up for perhaps more trivial and ephemeral "benefits" along the way, especially if this took place relatively slowly
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by ls65536 5y ago
"Endurance was found just over four nautical miles (7.5km) and roughly southward of Frank Worsley's famous sinking position (68°39'30" South; 52°26'30" West)." [0] Truly a testament to the skill of Frank W
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by ls65536 5y ago
Two more I would recommend in addition to Lansing's that focus more on different specific aspects of that expedition are "Shackleton's Boat Journey" by Frank Worsley (who served as captain of Endurance) and "Shackle
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by ls65536 5y ago
> Indeed, in some cases, people bought software they pirated in college because by that point, they were used to it. This reminds me of some old reasoning for why many software vendors would often tacitly go easy on those copying their s
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by ls65536 5y ago
> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket. I don't think this analogy works very well here. What if the alternative is that the potential buyer would just never
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Education and Propaganda(martymac.substack.com)
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by ls65536 5y ago
I will admit perhaps I was a bit too loose with my own interpretation of the statement there. I think maybe this was influenced by my being tired of grand statements others have made in the past about the infallibility of writing code in Ru
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by ls65536 5y ago
> no C code in the system. This removes, by construction, a lot of the attack surface normally present in similar systems. Not to be too pedantic here, but it's important to note that the absence of C code, while arguably a benefit
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Bris Sextant(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ls65536 5y ago
And cancelling any such service should be required to be no more difficult than signing up for it was. For example, if you can sign up online with a simple form and a button click, you should be able to cancel online with a simple form and
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by ls65536 5y ago
I've been (slowly) cleaning up and releasing more pieces of my online sailing navigation simulator as free and open source software [0]. Always happy to hear from people about what they think, especially from anyone who might might be
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by ls65536 5y ago
Though written nearly half a century ago and in the context of what most might consider an otherwise completely antithetical system of politics and economics compared to what we believe we have in the West today, I can't help but see h
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Show HN: Weather data tile generator for Leaflet (and others using Web Mercator)(github.com)
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by ls65536 5y ago
Some of the news I've seen associated with Saildrone recently has really fascinated me, like sailing one of the drones into a hurricane [0] and returning back data (including video) from the event! Just wanted to say great work to you
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by ls65536 5y ago
You're right that they do often show the local magnetic declination's rate of change (around the time of publishing), but even that goes out of date eventually. For relatively short periods (maybe on the order of years or possibly
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by ls65536 5y ago
And this is why when doing any sort of navigation activity you should always check the publish dates on your maps/charts and act accordingly!
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by ls65536 5y ago
It probably depends on the specific application, but I would imagine the models/data that various devices in the field are using are probably updated as part of some periodic maintenance schedule. They don't change significantly e
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by ls65536 5y ago
Related to this topic, here's an interesting NOAA site with more details about Earth's magnetic declination and containing lots of data about how it changes spatially and temporally: https://ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag&#x
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by ls65536 5y ago
But you still get those guarantees and benefits in the Rust implementation itself, even if not at the interface (to non-Rust code). By a similar argument, a standalone Rust program "gives up" its guarantees whenever the process ma
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by ls65536 5y ago
The fact is that it is overwhelmingly more difficult to write and guarantee that your C code is "safe" to the same extent that a naively-written Rust program which accomplishes the same thing would be, especially as your software&
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by ls65536 5y ago
> modern chips are a lot more reselient against crashes according to the telemetry Microsoft collects Sort of a side point, but this got me wondering...Is there something inherently less stable about these older chips, or maybe is their
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by ls65536 5y ago
Or just too sensitive about the wrong things.
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by ls65536 5y ago
How about fake chimneys with some sort of fake stone/brick veneer on the exterior? Looks convincing from afar, but you can tell they're fake if you saw them under construction with the wood framing and plywood underneath.
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by ls65536 5y ago
Site seems to be unresponsive right now (overloaded due to HN?). Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20211012131321/https://conscious...
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by ls65536 5y ago
Your "computer" is no longer just a computer, it's a whole network of computers in itself!
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by ls65536 5y ago
This reminds me of an old Greek proverb: "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
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by ls65536 5y ago
Obscurity and secrecy seem to be so ingrained in the Apple culture that I don't see this changing anytime soon short of some kind of existential crisis or a major threat to a substantial amount of their revenue. And even then it isn&#x

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