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by neurobashing 5y ago
The very short story is, one member of the crew maintains control of the aircraft (hands on yoke and throttles, maintains general situational awareness) while the other enters the data into the autopilot (set altitude to X, bearing Y, at sp
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by neurobashing 5y ago
FWIW I am using Deadpool Telephony LLC, which uses the T-Mobile network (as MVNO), and Private Relay works fine.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
One of the things they told us in infantry school was, "if you get shot, don't die", meaning: don't immediately think that you're dead, because experience has shown that you might actually die from a survivable woun
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by neurobashing 5y ago
If I had to guess: someone will eventually build a transpiler/converter of some sort, most likely vim9->Lua (assuming my guess that vim still has more users than Neovim).
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by neurobashing 5y ago
be wary of any person talking about you're going to have this big distributed consensus, based on some kind of buy-in to something, without first finding out who has the most buy-in, and just what it takes to overcome their %.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
Just a (hopefully amusing) piece of anecdata: we have a squaredrop trailer, with a set of solar panels to power/charge the 12v marine battery and a pair of Jackery power banks. Most of our camping is done in the eastern woodlands: WV,
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by neurobashing 5y ago
A lot of people here talking about splitting semantic hairs/what it means to propagate/etc and not enough fond remembrances of when DNS really did take 48 hours - maybe more! - to update. Like at one point I remember being on the
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by neurobashing 5y ago
if I had to guess: things like Docker, K8s, and Lambda. All of them make installing sprawling apps with tons of dependencies really troublesome at best. A single executable with almost no dependencies really simplifies that problem.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
Perhaps I'm pedantic here but, no, you don't need "a bookshelf". The PHB/DMG split is obvious; you don't need the DMG (or MM) if you're a player. You don't need any of the supplements. Also, you c
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by neurobashing 5y ago
I took it to mean something about use of blockchain, especially but not limited to Ethereum, and "smart contracts", to create a new kind of distributed app platform. But I am not sure that's right.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
for some, simply not allowing me to opt-out without using other mechanisms (some sort of internal firewall etc) is enough. It's my computer, my network, and I get to say precisely how it is used; and that includes telemetry. There are
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by neurobashing 5y ago
well there's Dave Hyatt, co-creator of Camino, who left to work on Safari. That didn't help.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
I think we need the denominator here to put '20' into context. 20 out of 100 million possible mutations is, meh, I'll take those odds. 20 out of 100, well, that's something else entirely, isn't it.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
well for example there is no law against standing in a public square, be it physical or virtual, and screaming racial epithets. The government cannot forbid it, and within certain limitations (eg "disruption of the peace") they ca
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by neurobashing 5y ago
It gets a small (peripheral?) mention but The Jackpot books - The Peripheral and Agency are really good. They're going to be a series on Amazon Prime too.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
The (IMHO wonderful) film Real Genius riffed on the real-world examples of people trying to exploit corporate sweepstakes: "When Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jon Gries) sends in a large number of entries to the Frito-Lay contest, he is mirroring t
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by neurobashing 5y ago
I have never been more miserable than when I was doing fasting. It was truly one of the most horrible times of my life. I tried for months. My sleep as disrupted, I felt awful, and I had no energy. But more to the point, _nothing happened a
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by neurobashing 5y ago
An interesting thing in this whole tempest is the notion of the CSAM itself. Specifically, there are more than a few people whose argument against Apple seems to be, implicitly, that CSAM is something of a moral panic. It exists but not at
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by neurobashing 5y ago
A few other points I didn't see anyone mention: Extensive Applescript support. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume most HN readers are not fans, and probably those who know any of it hate it. But, BBEdit has great docume
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by neurobashing 5y ago
that's a common trope, though. Baxter did it the Xeelee Sequence: the monads selected our particular universe "seed" bc it was amicable to life, and the proto-Xeelee and others tweaked universal constants (via unexplained met
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by neurobashing 5y ago
I guess the answer to me is "it depends". Modern cruise missiles are pretty much drones, but at the same time they're always what I guess I'd call "weapons of state". Big, expensive, and part of a large decisio
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by neurobashing 5y ago
This started happening to me a few weeks ago; my assumption was they'd changed their paywall promo thing and my Pihole was blocking it.
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by neurobashing 5y ago
it seems to me to be the white-collar version of the blue-collar "I have 14 jobs to stay afloat" thing, some sort of weird awfulness that a certain group has spun into a sign of moral goodness. Look how great things are, they work
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by neurobashing 6y ago
Fans of the Xeelee Sequence are probably thinking, Meh, just go find a Starbreaker, and take out all of the system!
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by neurobashing 6y ago
well the point is that OpenBSD does not support it, so having OpenBSD on a laptop removes the laptop-ness.
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by neurobashing 6y ago
kidding aside, I'm opinionated: if it doesn't suspend/resume, it's not a laptop.
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by neurobashing 6y ago
Makes me think of boot camp. Once you realize Parris Island is as much a mental exercise as physical, it completely changes. Yeah an hour in the sand pit doing mountain-climbers after you just humped 10 miles is a bit tiring, but you just h
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by neurobashing 6y ago
> I know a lot of you are married so let me put this out here: I (and most young people) will not put their romantic life on pause cause of a virus. I'm Gen X, I came of age the last time there was a virus going around that had pote
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by neurobashing 6y ago
the fee exists, at least from what I have gleaned historically, to provide some mild barrier to people who would otherwise spam the App Store with crap. By building a modest amount of hoops, it keeps the laziest spammers out. (Also somethin
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by neurobashing 6y ago
for what it's worth I've got a Pi-Hole running on my local network instead of in-browser adblock, and it's pretty good, and before that i had some success with 1Blocker, which IIRC uses the same lists as uBlock Origin.

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