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by mrec 2mo ago
Hey, this beer glass is cold, lemme get my Handschuh.
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by mrec 2mo ago
This is an interesting angle, and one I hadn't considered before. Would it be overly cynically to draw a line between it and the recent willingness [1] of many on the frontier to support some sort of coordinated pause or slowdown? I th
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by mrec 3mo ago
I've never had it require SMS either. Probably because I've never given it a portable telephone number. (Until a couple of years ago I didn't have one, and I still use it as little as possible.)
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by mrec 3mo ago
Two? Since the Franchise Wars, all restaurants are Taco Bell.
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by mrec 3mo ago
Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably a better-known example of that.
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by mrec 3mo ago
Ah, I see. You're aiming to become the hashbrown of testing.
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by mrec 3mo ago
Have there been any discussions about upstreaming this into cargo proper? Are there any significant downsides to nextest compared to its predecessor?
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by mrec 3mo ago
I've seen this bouncing around since the early 90s, with New Agey people like Danah Zohar, and probably predates even that. There never seemed to be a whole lot to it; not much more than "well, consciousness is weird, and quantum
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by mrec 3mo ago
Pretty sure it originated with the Wikipedia annotation. See e.g. https://xkcd.com/285/ from 2007.
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by mrec 3mo ago
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
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by mrec 4mo ago
I'm sure they were originally hoping for mass-market success, but given the RAM drought and ensuing pricing, I'm guessing the best possible outcome at this point would be to break roughly even and learn, so that they can put out a
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by mrec 4mo ago
Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being waged against the Ukrainian public (via killing, occupation
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by mrec 4mo ago
He's very proud of having been rejected by a Russian publisher for being "too dark".
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by mrec 4mo ago
<FourYorkshiremen>Luxury.</FourYorkshiremen> I'm still using a 1650 Super with 4GB VRAM and it's basically fine. Holding off on a few newer titles, but I'm old and my eyesight is going so 1080 resolution is p
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by mrec 4mo ago
A noble principle, albeit not without its lamentable failures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
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by mrec 4mo ago
But in that case this bit of TFA feels a bit out of place: > To eliminate the possibility that the owl was [...] detecting heat from the body of the mouse (for instance, by sensing infrared light emitted by a warm body), the experiment
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by mrec 4mo ago
> Over the next few days, the owl makes 16 more strikes at mice, missing only four times, each time by less than two inches. How did the experimenter measure miss distance in pitch darkness? IR illumination is presumably out in case th
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by mrec 4mo ago
That one's explicitly mentioned at the end of TFA itself, though.
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by mrec 4mo ago
I wondered if this might have been the basis, either physically or at least aesthetically for the Aliens APC. Apparently not; while very similar in low-slung form factor, that was a Hunslet ATT77 air towing tractor: https://www
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by mrec 5mo ago
`export template` was included in the C++98 standard without any experience, experimental or otherwise. The first implementation was achieved by EDG after enormous pain in the early 2000s, and their advice for any others attempting it was
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by mrec 5mo ago
I read it as "agents can't program, and with each new generation of agents it's taking longer and longer to realize that that specific iteration can't". Maybe taking the Principle of Charity too far, I dunno.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Agreed. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn: there's a reason it's a classic.
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by mrec 5mo ago
And meanwhile the webapp's library UI doesn't even let you filter by read status.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Ooh, I honestly hadn't considered that; thanks for the tip. The waterproof seal around the screen has degraded too, but I very rarely read in the rain these days.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Already do. I hate to think what it would be like now otherwise.
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by mrec 5mo ago
I was about to complain that my Paperwhite only lasts a couple of days between charges (it shuts down when battery drops to ~50%) but then realized that I've had it 7-8 years. No Indian heat here though, I'm in the UK.
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by mrec 5mo ago
Not 100% sure whether you're being sarcastic but... yes? IMO more misses than hits, and the misses tend to miss by more than the hits hit.
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by mrec 5mo ago
HN only allows editing for a fairly short period after a comment is posted.
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by mrec 5mo ago
> very few people will pay to advertize on them That sounds like an unalloyed plus. The perverse incentives caused by advertising have been the biggest driver of the web's decline, IMO.
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by mrec 5mo ago
What kind of thing do you write? I'm still amazed at how much functionality is packed into tiny binaries like the sysinternals tools, and depressed at how acceptable 50MB todo apps have become.

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