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by mitchty 9y ago
If we're talking modern high speed rail speeds, aka 360kph or ~220mph and ~400 miles between Minneapolis and Chicago. How the hell did you arrive at 6-7 hours between them? And what is the door to door time? 1.5 hours to fly + how much
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by mitchty 9y ago
Yep, there is also /usr/xpg4/bin/awk vs /usr/ucb/bin/awk etc... I've long since had to deal with Solaris but for about 10 years of Solaris I always treat awk with a lowest common denominator appr
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by mitchty 9y ago
Err, xquartz is an install away for OS X? Not sure what you're referring to with X on OS X here. How is running a package install evil?
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by mitchty 9y ago
Solaris awk. :)
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by mitchty 9y ago
The best part about using the @F array, is you get more than 10 things you can split and dereference. $0-9 only in awk. That and maybe because i'm an old perl die hard, its just easier to pipe to perl than remember how awk does its she
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by mitchty 9y ago
> This seems like a bit of a troll? Umm, no, thats the accepted reason why the territory was split in two instead of becoming a state outright. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory because a
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by mitchty 9y ago
> For example, why are North Dakota and South Dakota separate states? Because the Republicans at the time wanted 2 states that would vote Republican. > If they were merged, and became just Dakota, would anyone notice? Yes, as someone
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by mitchty 9y ago
It depends on the humidity. We had a 113F day with over 60% humidity once. No way in hell do I think anyone could get used to that. That was at almost 47 Lat vs 40 Lat for the most north of greece. But I went to around death valley with min
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by mitchty 9y ago
We called them designated decoys where I grew up.
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by mitchty 9y ago
Ditto here, and I'm American so guess I don't count as western.
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by mitchty 9y ago
I rather like it to be honest. Much like marzipan its not super sweet and having a variety is always a good thing. Unrelated story: I tried a keto diet for 2 months, all I remember is at the end of that two months I ate a piece of plain old
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by mitchty 9y ago
It is beyond correct. Mysql's "utf8" only stores stuff from 1-3 bytes. https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4 You have to use utf8mb4 to have proper utf8 support. Yes its stupid, this is the main r
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by mitchty 9y ago
> Besides the fact, that screen can also do that, I think this should be implemented at the Window Management Layer anyway - tiling WMs do that. Genuine question, why? I run my terminal in one giant full screen window, or emacs. Emacs sp
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by mitchty 9y ago
Only for 4 ish years after the 4.0 release IIRC ~2013. Before that there was a patch floating around to do it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26685/how-to-split-... Thats the main reason myself and a num
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by mitchty 9y ago
> That is what exactly? Vertical split panes was the biggest reason, but for myself, the end comes down to a config file I can actually read and unlike screen, tends to not have things like this in the man page: > Attach here and now.
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by mitchty 9y ago
Go for it, its mostly inspired from nix in how I set it up. I can just run make and create dot files for whatever I need then rsync it over to where I need it. Aka I can customize my dot files based on if i'm going to a bsd/mac&#x
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by mitchty 9y ago
I'm one of those weirdos that sticks my config into org mode files too. https://github.com/mitchty/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.org (actually i use org mode to compile all of my dot files based on pre
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by mitchty 9y ago
I love use-package, has made my emacs init.el config file sooooo much more maintainable from its prior... lets just say mess.
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by mitchty 9y ago
Any advanced technology... :) I don't actually recall what the in universe explanation of it was outside of it running off water as its fuel. Either way its specific impulse is crazy.
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by mitchty 9y ago
That and the ships having to flip to slow down burn makes the expanse one of the more realistic portrayals of space flight (minus the epstein drive which is basically magic) in modern tv. Also, they show decompression way more realistically
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by mitchty 9y ago
As a twin cities human, i'm surprised that the bike lane thing isn't in more places. That said, knowing many people who bike, advisory might be the operative word. People have told me that most drivers treat it more as a "gui
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by mitchty 9y ago
Exactly. I remember hearing "eight megs and constantly swapping" as a joke, I think for anything javascript app related I can now say: 8 watts and constantly increasing The amount of energy javascript pages now take makes me in so
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by mitchty 9y ago
Presumably you would put the rules at the router level not the os.
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by mitchty 9y ago
Nuclear reactors still work fine for producing electricity.
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by mitchty 9y ago
Correct, however the argument I was presenting with the car was intended to demonstrate: 1: A product that ostensibly is not a communications device 2: The component providing LTE is but a small subset of the overall device 3: A rather high
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by mitchty 9y ago
Apple is pretty much in the right on royalty based on device cost is crazy. Even more extreme example. Imagine you're Rolls Royce and want to make your next car have a permanent cell connection. Does 2% of the cost of a car at say 500k
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by mitchty 9y ago
git clone --depth 1 if you don't need the history?
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by mitchty 9y ago
Why would you want to completely remove CO2 from the earth and not sequester it? There is a bunch of useful carbon and oxygen in it that you can at least leave for future humans to use if its sequestered.
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by mitchty 10y ago
> If you haven't actually poured asphalt, you shouldn't be using that road. If you haven't actually connected a pipe to city sewage, you shouldn't be using that flush toilet. If you haven't actually nailed shingl
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by mitchty 10y ago
Cool, thanks for the links! While I won't argue that I wasn't "conscious", I'll argue for all intents and purposes, I wasn't conscious at that time. My buddy said I'd basically completely forget everything

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