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by mpyne 5y ago
> No other industry could you sell products that only slightly work as advertised for some people Gambling? Options trading? Do you get refunds from your weed dealer when it doesn't hit quite right? > And you can't even su
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by mpyne 5y ago
Indeed, you can never tell what those companies put in their Ivermectin and HCQ tablets these days.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Honestly the Wii U had an amazing library of games. Nintendo squeezed a bunch of extra juice out of Switch using nothing more than straight ports of Wii U games onto the more popular Switch. But like you say, the Wii U hardware just didn&#
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by mpyne 5y ago
You can take advantage of high-level emulation since the graphical primitives map more directly onto what the GPU is already poised to provide. Plus modern games are also coded more in line with modern practices (e.g. to do their own frame-
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by mpyne 5y ago
The day used to be that "good enough for government work" was a compliment, an expression of the satisfaction that comes to a craftsman for doing work to high standards.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Some of the largest battles of World War II involved nothing more substantial than moving goods from point A to point B, or stopping the other country from moving their goods from point A to point B. Logistics is the lifeblood of society an
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by mpyne 5y ago
The paper seems to go into this. * There is no generic way to say whether a defer should free up a variable based on the value it has when the defer was encountered, or a potentially-different value the variable might have when the defer is
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by mpyne 5y ago
> But GitHub claims to be your home for public hosting of your own personal code. Github claims to be a home for developers to publicly host code of public use. Any benefit to an individual developer is incident to that overriding purpos
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by mpyne 5y ago
> at what point did I mention that FTPS is SFTP?? I had also understood your comment to mean that SFTP is "just FTP tunneled through SSH" (i.e. FTPS) rather than a redesigned protocol.
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by mpyne 5y ago
> Long compile times disrupt flow, and it requires great ongoing mental effort to work around slow compilation. We once reimplemented automake in KDE land (into a tool 'unsermake' by Stephan Kulow), for a few reasons but foremo
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by mpyne 5y ago
I assure you the 2018 effort was separate and deliberate. Read the NAVADMIN yourself if you wish, https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Messages/NAVADMIN/N... The Navy (and wider DoD) had also been
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by mpyne 5y ago
> Why does a museum buy a Van Gogh when they can just commission a replica, or easier yet, take a photo and print it on canvas? A photo of a Van Gogh is not a Van Gogh. But JPEG bytes that SHA-256 to 97db5f2753176670ae8b2d8a2aad44d8bb83
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by mpyne 5y ago
> I call mine Dotcom Bubble Chain. It may or may not surprise you to find out that the U.S. Navy came ->this<- close to trying to standardize all data storage and data interchange on XML, in 2018 , so that we could use XSLT and ot
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by mpyne 5y ago
Even by 1999, when Qt 2 was released, the new "Unicode-aware" QString class used UTF-16 internally, not UTF-8. This remains the internal Qt encoding even today (see https://wiki.qt.io/QString#Unicode_methods_in_QS
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by mpyne 5y ago
> I would say this is because the experience of someone with “high-functioning,” or whatever euphemism we prefer now, autism is utterly different than that of someone with nonverbal autism (which is often comorbid with profound mental re
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by mpyne 5y ago
The very short story is that unlike with something like gasoline combustion, where the energy output basically happens nearly instantaneously, a nuclear fission event releases energy both directly (from the fissioning) and indirectly (from
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by mpyne 5y ago
I'm a nuke proponent but it's very worth pointing out that a nuclear reactor that has been recently shutdown will need days of cooling to be available in order to safely avoid damage to the reactor and potential meltdown, pressure
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by mpyne 5y ago
Fun fact about SpeedCrunch history, the software descends from an off-hand blog post by Roberto Alsina, a KDE developer, complaining about KCalc usability [1]. Back then developers were often just unthinkingly cloning 'skeuomorphic&#x2
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by mpyne 5y ago
> I don't imagine there are many protections for active duty folks that are designed purely to protect the individual. On the contrary, for reasons political ('everyone loves the troops'), administrative (Congress in many
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by mpyne 5y ago
Nope. I've had this exact page printed out an posted on my office cube at Navy military HR headquarters by 2018, and independently a separate Navy office had also been introducing this into innovation briefs they give. But complaining
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by mpyne 5y ago
Some orgs really do have lousy availability figures (such as my own, the Navy). We have an environment we have access to for hosting webpages for one of the highest leaders in the whole Dept of Navy. This environment was DOWN (not "d
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by mpyne 5y ago
The author isn't suggesting to replace VMS with Google Maps. The author is suggesting to implement what VMS is meant to do with an application with the same level of usability, reliability and performance as what was put into Google Ma
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by mpyne 5y ago
VMS is used across submarine designs spanning all the way back to 2005. Currently there are 67 submarines actively part of the battle fleet ( https://www.nvr.navy.mil/NVRSHIPS/FLEETSIZE.HTML ), let's say $3B per sub
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by mpyne 5y ago
If you have a business you can start by going through a program like SBIR ( https://www.navysbir.com/ ) or STTR. The catch is that the Navy has to want to buy a replacement (i.e. I don't see VMS on the list of SBIR top
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by mpyne 5y ago
Exactly. VMS probably literally "meets the requirements". HN dunked all over that agile vs. waterfall article from a few days ago, wondering whether or not waterfall wasn't just some boogeyman that a bunch of consultants had
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> It has to be more reliable and trustworthy than possibly any other map software. Did you read the detailed examples on the website? Because the point you make is the same point the website makes: VMS is crap, compared to the map applic
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This isn't what the website is referring to. You should go read it. They literally give an example of a sailor entering a proposed navigation track into VMS which is unsafe (it hits the seabed or comes close based on static data availa
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by mpyne 5y ago
The ultimate arbiter of whether a cloud service gets used isn't FedRAMP, it's the Agency Authorizing Official. FedRAMP just makes much of the work reusable. With GCP, you can build something that obeys and uses DNSSEC without need
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by mpyne 5y ago
FedRAMP is designed to provide reusable cybersecurity work against the NIST security controls that your Federal agency's Authorizing Official deems your Federal IT system must implement. Those security controls come from a document NIS
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> Presumably, Slack did DNSSEC (they don't anymore!) in service of FedRAMP compliance. Why? Slack has one of the most popular products in all of computing. What bad thing was going to happen if they said "nah, we're going

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