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by nas 7y ago
I think the "by Linus" is a bit much. He was the founder of the project but others did a lot too. Dirk Hohndel has been the project lead for a long time already.
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by nas 7y ago
> The most obvious difference is that Git's index is a bit boneheaded, so I'm ignoring it. I use the git index nearly every day. I suppose it is possible to implement something like git without it but I would find it quite a
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by nas 7y ago
Gee, I wonder if this tweet is in any way connected to his previous one about weakening the USD to match the (alleged) currency manipulations of the Euro and China? Please hang on to those US dollars. They are very solid, strong and stable
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by nas 7y ago
Ken, I love watching you and Mike do your stuff (Marc too but usually he is behind the camera). Thank you for taking the time to explain things.
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by nas 7y ago
All those guys are amazing but I especially enjoy Ken and Mike reverse engineering stuff. Really impressive.
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by nas 7y ago
Valve's revenue models are going to kill it. At least, kill it as a studio that can create high quality games. I not opposed to them making money and getting compensated for hard work but the level of greed is getting insane. For the
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by nas 7y ago
This is a really nice video if you are interested in measurement precision for manufacturing: Machine Thinking: Origins of Precision and first project introduction https://youtu.be/gNRnrn5DE58
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by nas 7y ago
Workflowy could do this.
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by nas 7y ago
Yeah, Curious Droid is a nice channel. I really enjoyed this video on SLAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHONQAMV48 What an insane idea that was.
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by nas 7y ago
I hate the term "mining" for that reason. It is not like mining gold. I would have preferred if they called it "digital notary service". That's what the miners are doing. They are notarizing transactions so peop
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by nas 7y ago
The beta is now out. The big incompatible change is probably PyCode_New() (in order to support positional only parameters). At least Cython is broken by this change, probably other extensions. Hopefully it will not be long for that to be
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Python 3.8.0b1 is available for testing(python.org)
6 points by nas 7y ago|2 comments
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by nas 7y ago
I think a solution is to create a gradient of radioactivity, so it gets more and more dangerous as you dig deeper.
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by nas 8y ago
Some comments based on my understanding of the situation. I'm an engineer and I'm interested in the study of engineering failures. So, I have been following this. Initially I was thinking the blame was being unfairly placed on
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by nas 8y ago
This Seattle Times article is quite informative: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile... It seems the MCAS had a flawed design where it would move the trim further than expected and would a
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by nas 8y ago
Yup. The question is not if computer automation can be made 100% reliable. Instead, can it be reliable enough such that there are fewer accidents vs manual controls? The answer seems to be yes. So the trend is to more computer automatio
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by nas 8y ago
There is a large trim wheel (beside the pilot, about 10" in diameter) that the pilot can see turning if the system is automatically trimming. It is annoying how much speculation and misunderstanding is going on regarding that system.
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by nas 8y ago
Is he talking about the trim wheel? I don't know much about airplanes but that seems possible to me. Would the trim wheel get the spring force feedback like the yoke? Edit: here is a video of the trim wheel on a 737-300 https:/
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by nas 8y ago
MCAS is not a fly-by-wire system. Pages and pages of speculation by arm-chair aircraft designers going on. So depressing.
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by nas 8y ago
So much speculation is going on. The angry mob has already concluded that the MCAS must be the cause. Greedy Boeing was too cheap to redesign the plane and made a cheap software hack to fix it. Sneaky computers are overriding the decisio
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by nas 8y ago
Your explanation doesn't make sense to me. How many watts does a non-LED light consume vs charging an EV? A good sized light is probably less than 500 watts. To charge an EV you need thousands of watts. The street lights must have
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by nas 8y ago
After years of having AMD video cards, I recently got a high end Nvidia card, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. For 3-D gaming, Nvidia cards were clearly better performance vs price. However, dealing with the proprietary driver is just a pain in the a
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by nas 8y ago
If your Python 2 code is clean and your Python 3 is ugly, I don't know what the hell you are doing. They are almost the same language. Are you trolling?
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by nas 8y ago
Analogies are fun. If you have a tower of sand that collapses, do you find the grain that started moving first and put the entire blame of collapse on it? Your example is of relatively stable system (presumably healthy human life) that ta
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by nas 8y ago
Yeah, I think that's his idea. So, instead of tables of molar mass in g/mol, you would have tables in terms of "amount of substance"/g. E.g. number of atoms or number of molecules.
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by nas 8y ago
Yeah, I agree it is not an open source license based on rule 9 alone. I mean, the reason for the license not being open source is not an accident. It's not some unforeseen side effect. Their whole purpose of changing the license is
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by nas 8y ago
This has been my experience as well. 20 years ago, you could go to Walmart and buy good quality brands at good prices. E.g. you buy a Dewalt drill, it is actually a high quality drill. What happened over time is that because of the extrem
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by nas 8y ago
I enjoyed this video a lot (how to eat it properly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDr0Kbbw6D0 I love his voice and his accent. I've never tried it myself but I would be willing to if I could buy some. Eating it st
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by nas 8y ago
Slackware and 3.5 inch disks for me too. If I remember correctly, I was going to install SLS Linux but this "Slackware" thing was the new hotness. Time flies having fun I guess. Still running Linux on my workstation.
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by nas 8y ago
Guido's glasses are much cooler, IMHO.

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