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by maccam94 6y ago
You can still be contagious without obvious symptoms. And allergy season could help spread the particles even if the virus isn't triggering coughs/sneezes itself.
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by maccam94 6y ago
I think this needs to do a google search for each word before assuming it doesn't exist. I got "glosscoat", which is a type of paint/coating (typically hyphenated, but non-hyphenated examples exist). Wow, the links are j
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by maccam94 6y ago
Facebook's problem is that a subscription fee would drastically limit adoption and prevent them from monopolizing the social graph. They see more potential to make money without charging users directly.
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by maccam94 6y ago
Docker doesn't use user namespaces by default. They have been working on adding support for a while, but it makes permissions on volumes difficult, and things kept changing in kernel land for years. Root inside a non-userns container i
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by maccam94 6y ago
Have you tried making them small? Rust doesn't optimize programs for size by default, there's a lot of easy ways to shrink binaries (like stripping symbols). https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
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by maccam94 6y ago
With a two-week asymptomatic incubation period, there is basically no way to eliminate the disease just by sheltering. It's impossible to enforce that every person in the world self-isolates for 3 weeks, so as soon as we "return t
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by maccam94 6y ago
The free LiveCDs were great marketing. As a teenage computer geek, it was way easier to convince casual computer users to try it out when I could lend them a nicely printed CD. And it looked way better than handing them a sketchy CD-R with
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by maccam94 7y ago
Wow, thanks for the heads-up on ActivityWatch! I used rescuetime a bit a few years ago, but I really couldn't justify using it on my work machine (where I spent most of my time).
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by maccam94 7y ago
You can mute topics in Zulip, which should keep it out of the way unless you decide to open it specifically. You can't really have topics if no one sees when they get created. Streams (similar to slack Channels) are not automatically j
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by maccam94 7y ago
You can edit the kernel entry at boot time in grub, which can be useful when you need to troubleshoot a non-booting system.
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by maccam94 7y ago
Dropbox announced they plan to be GAAP profitable by the end of this year: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/dropbox-dbx-earnings-q4-2019...
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by maccam94 7y ago
I recommend using Flexible I/O tester (fio) to run burn-in new disks: https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html#running-fi... It will give you both performance statistics and catch checksum verificati
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by maccam94 7y ago
For some context, we might have a shortage of over 100,000 ventilators in the US if we fail to flatten the curve (or over a million if we don't take any precautions). Some numbers for a conservative estimate where only low-risk people
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by maccam94 7y ago
You're talking about HTTP cache control headers, which is a use case that typically avoids storing stateful data in server-side caches. Caches are also used outside of HTTP however, and sometimes those caches can have state (such as ex
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by maccam94 7y ago
There is still risk for people outside the high-risk segment. Let's say that it's only 0.2% risk of death without a ventilator for the general population (based on https://www.latimes.com/california/story&#x2F
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by maccam94 7y ago
Browsers provide a cross-platform runtime allowing users to run remote code in a sandbox. Users don't have to download and install executables, and developers don't have to worry as much about getting people to update their client
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by maccam94 7y ago
Basically to drive down the cost of payload mass as much as possible. First you have to build a lot of rocket to get anything up into space. If it only launches 1kg of payload, that's going to be a very expensive kilogram. As you conti
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by maccam94 7y ago
One nitpick: AFAIK the issues at the city/county level come from service contracts that guarantee exclusivity in return for things like providing service to sparsely populated (unprofitable) areas and discounted rates for the poor&#x2F
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by maccam94 7y ago
No, Preview does have reader mode. A blue dot appears on the menu button when it's available and then the toggle is at the bottom of the menu.
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by maccam94 7y ago
Here's the logic: If space launches are expensive, you spend more on your satellite to make it worthwhile. Give it more features, etc. Then spend even more to make it extremely reliable, because replacing it would also be expensive (bo
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by maccam94 7y ago
On the other hand, Starlink is going to make use of their next-gen Starship, and with a viable amount of business space launches will become cheap enough for launching lots of cheap specialized space telescopes.
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by maccam94 7y ago
> Has SpaceX even had a successful manned space flight yet? That flight will likely happen in the next quarter. Meanwhile, while SpaceX has been wading through NASA design reviews and red tape (some of which is probably good for them!) f
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by maccam94 7y ago
The Starship Hopper flew a couple hundred meters up into the air using the new Raptor engine, hovered, and then landed. A full size prototype had a fuel tank fail a pressure test due to some bad welding. The most recent fuel tank pressure t
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by maccam94 7y ago
True, traveling on public transit is just more efficient in terms of space and energy.
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by maccam94 7y ago
This isn't the most readable changelog, the main takeaway is at the bottom: The package has been completely rewritten.
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by maccam94 7y ago
> “Dell always uses Intel for a reason” That reason sometimes being that Intel paid them off to block AMD from competing in the market: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/business/23dell.html https:&
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by maccam94 7y ago
I was active in the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community (LoCo) Group from ~2007 - 2009. We had occasional meetups in Boston, did some release parties where we handed out some nice Ubuntu swag, had installfests at the MIT Media Lab, and hel
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by maccam94 7y ago
The cameras are running at higher fps, but the processed outputs don't need to go that fast. At 65MPH, 18fps is one frame for every 5 feet of travel.
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by maccam94 7y ago
Tesla vehicles equipped with the Full Self Driving package do have an onboard computer that runs neutral networks in real time to process sensor data and control the vehicle. https://ww.electrek.co/2019/04/22/
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by maccam94 7y ago
You might be confusing rust-analyzer with coc[1]? 1: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

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