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by mkl 3mo ago
Starlink is letting them skip dial-up and ADSL.
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by mkl 3mo ago
The location of Mallory's body was unknown until 1999. The location of this one has been known pretty much the whole time.
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by mkl 3mo ago
Most initial work for them would be in familiar, well-controlled environments - replacing humans in existing factories. I think whether they'd be cost effective for that will remain unknown even after a few years in service though.
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by mkl 3mo ago
That doesn't contradict anything I said. Private networks can be huge, e.g. in big companies, and they can still use .internal. .internal serves quite a different purpose to that proposed for .self, so the top level comment I replied
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by mkl 3mo ago
That's no use for self-hosting unless all your users are on your private network.
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by mkl 3mo ago
Site errored out and gave me three different error messages as I reloaded. I guess it's self-hosted on something underpowered, and dynamic where static would do the job?
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by mkl 3mo ago
Everyone knows Oxford, but the are many thousands of universities, most of which are not known to most employers. I am not an employer, but I work in higher education and see transcripts of transferring and exchange students, and many (pro
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by mkl 3mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gossamer#Noun
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by mkl 3mo ago
Also the Python sorts by string content and the Gossamer sorts by string length.
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by mkl 3mo ago
The problem is when you can't tell which bits are unmangled. OCR systems will happily give you plausible but wrong readings, and even some scanners/copiers will change things: https://dkriesel.com/en/blog&#x2
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by mkl 3mo ago
> I assume they're secretly trying to get people over to Mageia. I doubt they've even heard of Mageia.
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by mkl 3mo ago
It's in the linked Neowin article on how to get the updates: https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-get-one-more-year-of-wi...
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by mkl 4mo ago
Also: https://lowendbox.com/
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by mkl 4mo ago
Some info here: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus-reference/Repetitions.h...
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by mkl 4mo ago
I think you misunderstood. The 1963 term is "hacker", and its 1963 meaning is "computer intruder". I.e. the journalists are using the earlier definition and the definition referred to by "Hacker News" came
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by mkl 4mo ago
Not really a square if it's 1D - everyone ends up on top of each other.
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by mkl 4mo ago
Having no map is weird. Wikipedia has one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel
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by mkl 4mo ago
Doh, you're right, it's way bigger. I was in too much of a rush.
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by mkl 4mo ago
100×10^12 km is about 10.6 light years. There are about 16 other stars closer to the sun than that. It's a bit like a human body containing blood vessels with total length greater than twice the Earth's circumference.
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by mkl 4mo ago
Of course not, but the probability is significantly higher in a language full of memory footguns.
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by mkl 4mo ago
There's no indication it was MSVC, and there are lots of compilers (and used to be more).
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by mkl 4mo ago
What's strange? Yours got no comments, so another attempt seems okay. It's pretty random what gets to the front page when.
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by mkl 4mo ago
It's not for street cred, it's what makes it usable everywhere: Rust, JavaScript (server or browser), Python, Kotlin, Swift, C. Written in JavaScript or Python means limited use, Kotlin or Swift means it could be tricky outside t
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by mkl 4mo ago
Please consider putting the first paragraph of [1], "iroh is a modular networking stack written in Rust. It provides the building blocks to create applications that can communicate using fast, cheap, and reliable connections.", at
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by mkl 4mo ago
How will that help your computer behind your NAT communicate with my computer behind my NAT? (I think you're still stuck on the blog post's very confusing opening, which does indeed make it sound like a terrible alternative to DN
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by mkl 4mo ago
> These days all he does is hold the copyright You mean trademark. The copyright is held by the authors of the code (or their employer, etc.), since there is no copyright assignment requirement. This is similar to how Linus Torvalds own
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by mkl 4mo ago
It doesn't say anything about launch location, and you'd need to ship it out there from a country using a large (registered) boat. That loophole won't work.
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by mkl 4mo ago
The Outer Space Treaty [1] says "A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object", so no escaping jurisdiction. [1] https:/&
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by mkl 4mo ago
Yes, I expect the problem is in this summarisation of the research, not the research itself.
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by mkl 4mo ago
That statement seems totally empty and could be true even if those 12 months in 2024-25 were cooler . 10% of days in 1991-2020 were hotter than 90% of days in 1991-2020, which is on average 36.5 days in a 12 month period.

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