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by mrec 1y ago
I miss Lewis Page. It's a rare day when I'm so downhearted that the memory of https://www.theregister.com/2008/12/30/german_beaver/ can't raise at least a wan smile.
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by mrec 1y ago
I dunno, by that rationale you could argue that Tesla Roadsters have officially beaten the X-43B's altitude record, couldn't you?
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by mrec 1y ago
There's a big difference between "clear of the atmosphere" or "100km up" and "in orbit". Orbit is more about velocity than altitude.
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by mrec 1y ago
Valid option - I used it myself for a very brief toe-dip into blogging earlier this year - but maybe worth noting that Google seems to flat-out refuse to crawl anything you put there. Won't pick it up by itself, won't read a sitem
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by mrec 1y ago
I have to admit to a soft spot for the Affront. Terrible terrible people, but they did seem to be enjoying life more than anyone else.
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by mrec 1y ago
Are you aware of https://lib.rs/ ? Not "heavily", and a catalogue rather than a repository, but it's opinionated and curated.
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by mrec 1y ago
AIUI those plans typically involve injecting e.g. sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere specifically, not the atmosphere as a whole. Lightning can sometimes occur that high, but it's definitely not the norm.
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by mrec 1y ago
I was mildly amused (but not especially surprised) to see that the "Hunter's Vale" initial image includes what's pretty clearly a partial Skyrim HUD compass at the top.
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by mrec 1y ago
I don't think it's too tangential. If you haven't already seen it, I suspect you'd enjoy this; it really made an impact on me when I first read it, especially the ending. https://www.fantasticanachronism.com&#
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by mrec 1y ago
The "OOBE" post-update prompt has become incredibly toxic. The last one even started blocking Alt-Tab so you couldn't get out, and demanded a Microsoft account password which I never use so don't have memorized. And
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How Do Committees Fail to Invent?(infrequently.org)
2 points by mrec 1y ago|0 comments
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by mrec 1y ago
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family : system-ui Glyphs are taken from the default user interface font on a given platform. Because typographic traditions vary
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by mrec 1y ago
Yes, that was the one, thanks.
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by mrec 1y ago
I think it's more than just "hard things take time". The key sentence for me is this one: > Kayaking taught me to be okay with repeatedly looking dumb in public. I had the same thing when I first started running, in my e
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by mrec 1y ago
Wikipedia used to have a "List of pet cats of gorillas" article. Sadly it doesn't seem to have survived.
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by mrec 1y ago
Yes, I think this is broadly following the lines of Nozick's "Wilt Chamberlain" example in his response to Rawls' A Theory of Justice . If Wilt doesn't want to play for less than $N but is happy to play for $N, and
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by mrec 1y ago
Oh wow, I never knew he was an award-winning SF author too. I remember a couple of exchanges with him on the comp.lang.c++.moderated group back in the day.
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by mrec 1y ago
Nitpick - it's Unmitigated Pedantry, not Unusual.
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by mrec 1y ago
Coincidentally, I discovered this glorious page literally five minutes ago: https://github.com/SerenityOS/yaksplained?tab=readme-ov-file...
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by mrec 1y ago
I found it surprising that even one of the demos on the page appeared to get it wrong. (Chat example #5, explaining the "My Handwriting In Exams" meme.) Not horribly wrong, but still an odd example to cherry-pick for publicity m
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by mrec 1y ago
A beautifully-written and moving story; thanks for posting it. Have you written any other fiction? I couldn't see it (or even this one) in the list of writing on your frontpage. Wholeheartedly approve your reading list, by the way. O
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by mrec 2y ago
Was this someone on the Tauri team, or just third-party speculation?
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by mrec 2y ago
Amazon properties (the storefront, Prime) have been quite flaky for a long time now, but that may just be me.
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by mrec 2y ago
Mozilla thus far have been very reluctant to take donations to Firefox specifically. AFAIK you can still only donate to the Foundation, not the Corp, which means that most if not all of the cash will get spent on random non-Firefox-related
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by mrec 2y ago
It's still kind of surprising that the optimal design / speed for fuel efficiency has plateaued though, given how much more powerful the modelling tools are now. The FAA certification overhead presumably has something to do with t
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by mrec 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what "obvious reasons" issues have you had with Docs and YouTube. I use Firefox for everything, including those, without problems. (Though not in any kind of advanced way.)
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by mrec 2y ago
Ah, apologies - it does need that config flag, but it's also only available in Nightly builds.
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by mrec 2y ago
WebGPU still isn't enabled in Firefox by default (it's behind the dom.webgpu.enabled flag)
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by mrec 2y ago
If you're thinking of Marcus Crassus, the dynamic there was that he'd offer to buy your burning property from you at a steep discount, and would only put the fire out if you agreed.
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by mrec 2y ago
Looks exactly like Premium Bonds here in the UK. (Winnings on those are also tax free, not sure if yours are the same.)

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