mbonnet

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by mbonnet 7mo ago
in order, is is best to reduce, reuse, THEN recycle.
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by mbonnet 7mo ago
This is why I enjoyed EVE Online. You had to earn it, and if you lost it, that was that.
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by mbonnet 7mo ago
I have an old 2020 M1 Macbook Air that is on its last legs because 8GB RAM isn't enough for regular use cases. If this had a 16GB RAM option I'd go for it, but alas.
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by mbonnet 7mo ago
mfw the rocket company is too irrelevant for name collisions
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by mbonnet 7mo ago
all men must answer to themselves
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by mbonnet 8mo ago
Rust is making huge headway in mission-critical embedded.
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by mbonnet 11mo ago
Canadian banknotes being different physical dimensions from each other makes them distinguishable to the visually impaired too.
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by mbonnet 11mo ago
The average user is a moron. This is key to all tech and key to why complex shit like Mastodon will never see wide adoption.
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by mbonnet 11mo ago
The average user does not care about ads being present. Speed is paramount .
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by mbonnet 1y ago
FCC (or FAA, can't remember, that's systems engineering's job) mandates that all satellites, including cubesats, be able to deorbit within 5 years of the end of their mission with some confidence rate (90%, iirc). Almost all
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by mbonnet 1y ago
I've participated in the design or manufacture or launch of dozens of cubesats. The ones with RPis as their flight computers either accept that they'll get messed up by radiation with some regularity throughout their mission (and
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by mbonnet 1y ago
> does not seem to demonstrate any effort to accurately represent the human face you must be being facetious. This is plainly obviously a human face.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
If Python packaging problems are solved, why is Python known for having the worst tooling ecosystem of any "modern" language?
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by mbonnet 1y ago
this is the kind of statement that will get anyone who works for me PIPd
45.
by mbonnet 1y ago
In some industries, all the tools you actually need (say, MISRA checking) all work with GitLab out of the box.
46.
by mbonnet 1y ago
how exactly is a .txt not greppable?
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by mbonnet 1y ago
It's not overly simplistic at all. It inarguably gives more freedom to do as any entity wishes with the code.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
especially when LLMs "speak" human language.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
I wonder if that experience is what inspired the scene in A Farewell to Arms where his trench is hit by a shell and his soldier next to him is killed.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
It won't go anywhere because in British jurisprudence, Parliament is supreme.
51.
by mbonnet 1y ago
Worth noting that you need hundreds of plants in a small room for any actually useful magnitude of effect.
52.
by mbonnet 1y ago
Advantages: potentially useful/extant/readable documentation.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
or non white, or foreign, or not cishet, or ...
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by mbonnet 1y ago
Plenty of big businesses will use AGPL software ... because you can dual license. AGPL lets you claim "open source" while still being able to pretty universally charge for the software's use via your commercial licensing opti
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by mbonnet 1y ago
Light injuries from misused tool is an important lesson I will not deny my children.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
> There was a common law presumption that a computer was operating correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary This is horrifying. I presume software is working incorrectly until proven otherwise.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
I work on satellites that are intended for use in missile tracking. If I fail in the software, it might not "kill people", but people will die due to the failures. Though, I used to work on fighter jets and SAMs. People do die d
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by mbonnet 1y ago
Great analysis.
59.
by mbonnet 1y ago
And yet only in non-American printed English.
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by mbonnet 1y ago
it must be when everything costs money.

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