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by lstodd 8mo ago
This is all well and good, but the problem is that those systems leak left and right. No amount of politics can stop that. Back in the day when first ALPRs went into operation (I don't remember, was it 10 or 15 years ago) it took about
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by lstodd 8mo ago
LNG aviation does not make any more sense than H2 aviation. Even LPG does not make any sense since you neither can haul 16 bar fuel tanks, nor can you realistically maintain temperature for 1-2atm pressure. And any leak is not 'oh. loo
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by lstodd 8mo ago
You mean 1991 Elite Plus? The whole series has been reverse-engineered to death and back. Maybe you mean some other game? Anyway, for those old titles I don't think not having source is that much of a problem. I participated in two rei
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by lstodd 8mo ago
It's.. not a compiler (besides I had Forth on my C64). Maybe one can call it a translator to ad-hoc bytecode. I also had USCD Pascal on that C64 which translated to bytecode. This was more JVM-like. So nothing hard about it.
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Hm. So all those "security systems" are defeated by a $1 jammer?
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by lstodd 8mo ago
> Does that imply that the merge of two lanes is still too costly? Yes. This one https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.88495/37.47959 was built from scratch not very long ago. Notice how merges/splits a
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by lstodd 8mo ago
MKAD, the 101km circle road around Moscow had almost exclusively this style of intersections up until 2010s, when congestion got absolutely unbearable. Then all of them got rebuilt, typically adding overhead ramps, tunnels, and crazy-long
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by lstodd 8mo ago
I was rewriting a mod for Rimworld recently. As Rimworld is built on Unity, it's all some sort of C#. I heard people say it's a wrong kind of C#, but since a) I had no choice and b) I never wrote any C# before I cannot tell. First
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Cf. wirehead, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
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by lstodd 8mo ago
> absolutely fascinating book Indeed. Thank you for posting this link.
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Well I guess you can do the same with zulip, redirect notifications somewhere else that is. Never hosted zulip, but it should be more or less staightforward when hosting it yourself, the 10 free looks like a limit when using their endpoint,
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by lstodd 8mo ago
> At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: "Then let them eat brioches."
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by lstodd 8mo ago
There are data structures in Redis? They may be its point, but I frankly didn't see much use in the wild. You might argue that then those systems didn't need Redis in the first place and I'd agree, but then note that that is
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Takes a team of 3-4 in my experience. One person doesn't cut it when the talk of percents of uptime starts no matter what scale. (and no matter cloud, dedicated or on-premises).
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by lstodd 8mo ago
I don't get why most everyone insists on comparing cloud to on-premises and not to dedicated. Why would anyone run own DC infra when there's Hetzner and many others?
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Why this fixation on Nix? You don't need Nix to run bare metal.
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by lstodd 8mo ago
Because mobile notifications require integration with operators and cost money. This is not about the ones that are pushed over IP, this is about mobile push.
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by lstodd 8mo ago
There are power meters like KWS-303L that will tell you how much manufacturers lie with their numbers. For example my ancient tplink TL-WR842N router eats 15W standby or no, while my main box, fans, backlight, gpu, hdds and stuff -- about 8
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by lstodd 9mo ago
Yeah, lawyers, politicians and MBA types all usually have solid foundation in humanities. Not exactly known for concerning themselves with ethics or philosophy though.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
I think the point is that copyright should not be exclusively about publisher's profits from big stars.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
Most infuriating is when they do it based on GeoIP. So what I'm in Istanbul currently, I know maybe a dozen words in Turkish. But no, and also they insist on having broken language switchers.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
In Moscow? Never. It's been usually a month in soviet times, two weeks max nowadays, usually sometime in late June - early August. edit: also on heating question - Moscow's electricity is provided by 40 or so big gas-fired steam t
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by lstodd 9mo ago
Well yes, the history of Arab-Israeli conflict is fascinating. Sadly those who shout "Gaza Genocide" seem incapable of even thinking of reading up on the topic. Non-aligned is China nowadays for what it's worth, given that UN
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by lstodd 9mo ago
Ha! I remember disk copy programs which read these bad sector patterns and then replicated the error pattern in software (not on physical disk obviously). Similar stuff was later used for CDs IIRC.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
Actually "build something on 10 different distros" is not a problem either, you just make 10 LXC containers with those distros on a $20/mo second-hand Hetzner box, sick Jenkins with trivial shell scripts on them and forget ab
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by lstodd 9mo ago
> The genocide in Gaza is not "sponsored" by the "west". US, maybe. Well, Hamas was for decades sponsored by entire West via UNRWA while their "from the river to the sea" slogan is as clearly expressed inten
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by lstodd 9mo ago
As has been mentioned here, there are internets within internets. They are by definition harder to find and join. They exist. This particular lament is nothing new, and is also known as Eternal September, first described in 1994.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
The answer would be 42.
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by lstodd 9mo ago
I did set up GPFS tadam... almost exactly 20 years ago. I wouldn't say it absolutely required fancy networking (infiniband) or was extraordinary complex to set up, certainly on par with NFS when you hit its quirks (which was the reason
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by lstodd 9mo ago
> A car mechanic is never in the business of building tools. Oh, don't say. A welder, an angle grinder and some scrap metal help a lot. Unless you're a "dealer" car mechanic, where it is not allowed to think at all, o

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