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by milcron 9y ago
Ah, I think you're right. In my specific case the default "did nothing" because TTY settings were improperly configured. I actually needed the boot menu to be there.
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by milcron 9y ago
I had not yet picked up the habit of reading the manual. https://man.openbsd.org/boot.8#EXAMPLES Being able to reach the boot menu is critical when installing to a range of embedded devices such as routers. I use a null mod
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by milcron 9y ago
I am a newer OpenBSD user, so I encounter roadblocks/papercuts quite frequently. What I like about the OS is that the problems are all easy in retrospect. I never struggle with the same issue twice. For instance, the first time I boote
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by milcron 9y ago
Based on this mailing list thread, I would assume so. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=148961125932497&w=2
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by milcron 9y ago
Used it starting in 2013, uninstalled after they started filling it with crap. For me its killer feature was how easy it was to send videos. But it's not worth all the advertising they're stuffing into the app.
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by milcron 9y ago
Not true in this instance. They implemented the Linux ABI, which means software can run on the linux subsystem without recompilation . Cygwin allows running GNU software on Windows, but it doesn't implement the Linux ABI. Therefore Cy
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by milcron 9y ago
Nuclear plants were originally designed small, as for submarines. For some reason the design trend has been towards larger plants. Perhaps for economies of scale? An interesting watch is Adam Curtis' documentary "A is for Atom&quo
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by milcron 9y ago
And the 3rd name is backwards. It ought to be called 'Linux Subsystem for Windows'.
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by milcron 9y ago
Whales indeed.
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by milcron 9y ago
Well, I say "gem-quality" because the article did, but it also points out that the diamonds were a greenish color, and incredibly consistent in size and quality. When DeBeers finally got a 20-minute tour of the Siberian mine, far
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by milcron 9y ago
It sounds as though they were creating gem-quality synthetic diamonds but kept it on the down-low, and used their Siberian mines as cover.
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by milcron 9y ago
Pandora's Box is my favorite introduction to Adam Curtis. In short, the theme is "times that people thought they knew what they were doing, but actually didn't."
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by milcron 9y ago
Oof, no telemetry please. They know I'm a subscriber and have my email address.
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by milcron 9y ago
The users of this feature, of course.
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by milcron 9y ago
So the predictable checkups are predictably priced, and the unpredictable treatments are unpredictably priced.
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by milcron 9y ago
Yes, but I prefer MSYS2 these days. It's a lot like Cygwin, but uses pacman as a package manager instead of Cygwin's setup.exe.
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by milcron 9y ago
IoT Core has a headless mode. I don't think it can run Firefox though... UWP apps only.
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by milcron 9y ago
An economist and a normal person are walking down the street together. The normal person says “Hey, look, there’s a $20 bill on the sidewalk!” The economist replies by saying “That’s impossible- if it were really a $20 bill, it would have b
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by milcron 9y ago
In that case I agree. I ought to have said, " labor income tax is the wrong way to tax the extremely wealthy."
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by milcron 9y ago
Income tax is the wrong way to tax the extremely wealthy. They make most of their income from capital gains, which is taxed at a different, low rate.
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by milcron 9y ago
I think they were saying that Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and The Expanse are all good examples.
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by milcron 9y ago
How much of the standard library can you use in that mode?
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by milcron 9y ago
D's standard library uses garbage collection.
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by milcron 9y ago
Uninstall Facebook's phone app and check out mbasic.facebook.com. It doesn't require javascript to run. You can access Messenger and everything.
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by milcron 9y ago
They should declare limits, then.
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by milcron 9y ago
> I really want a statically typed Python. You need to give type annotations a shot! https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#abstract pip install mypy mypy script.py
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by milcron 9y ago
And when you do find yourself wishing for static typing, there is MyPy. It's not perfect but it's much better than nothing.
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by milcron 9y ago
> productivity increases increase the value of labor We might be using terms in a different way here. This statement is true in one sense, and untrue in another sense. When there is higher productivity, an hour of labor accomplishes more
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by milcron 9y ago
It's always a good thing, plus the additional "bad" side-effect of less work for the populace to do, driving down the price of labor. As the price of labor trends downwards, some cohorts are going to have a harder time sellin
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by milcron 9y ago
>Nowadays it seems like people try to accomplish this via Javascript running in the browser. I filter out lots of cruft by doing the opposite - using NoScript to block extraneous junk.

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