nick238

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by nick238 2y ago
Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?
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by nick238 2y ago
> All 13 engines ran successfully until six engines began shutting down, triggering a benign early boostback shutdown. [...] but the six engines that shut down early in the boostback burn were disabled from attempting the landing burn st
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by nick238 2y ago
So you want it to compile to POSIX sh but you're unhappy it doesn't use more POSIX-incompatible features? Maybe full POSIX sh compat is WIP, or in some simpler cases maybe it already is?
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by nick238 2y ago
You're assuming things are inelastic and won't 'bounce'. Pretend you're walking down the aisle: One second of higher-g: you compensate and your legs push harder against the ground. One second of weightlessness: the
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by nick238 2y ago
If you plan on needing much in the way of cross-references (i.e. like in documentation where you're linking to other things all the time), you can use a slightly more advanced markup language like rST (reStructuredText) which is used b
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by nick238 2y ago
I think most of the "fuck yous" where you just simply get dropped at the main Broadcom page is because most enterprise sites just redirect what would be a 404 to the main landing page. I hate that pattern because it's super c
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by nick238 2y ago
Are there applications where having more, but slower memory, would be useful for GPUs? Tiered storage for GPUs?
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by nick238 2y ago
Is LPCAMM2 just a new form-factor, kinda like 2.5" drives to m.2 drives, or is there some leap in how it works? I don't quite get if the "C" in CAMM is for data compression or just it's 'physically' compre
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by nick238 2y ago
The source article is Enhanced Energy Storage [...] Ferroelectric Ceramics via Domain Engineering https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10381779/ It seems like they didn't really look at leakage c
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OpenAPI v4.0 (a.k.a. "Project Moonwalk")(bump.sh)
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by nick238 2y ago
I'm not saying it's substantiated at all, it just feels very sudden and too weird.
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by nick238 2y ago
Civil war era muskets fired 14.7mm caliber bullets, and revolutionary war era: 19-20mm, which, bullet-for-bullet probably accounts for the increased danger. Something I read said they have similar energies as modern ammunition--a few thousa
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by nick238 2y ago
I kinda had an out-of-body experience when watching the Kurzgesagt video on The Largest Black Hole in the Universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FH9cgRhQ-k Watching the zoom-out to picture ultra-massive black holes is s
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by nick238 2y ago
If you're writing proprietary software and trying to get it out there so you can get paying users, it's your job.
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by nick238 2y ago
Probably something like an "80% of applications can be supported with 20% of the MySQL-specialized flavor", which is probably closer to 90/10, and those 90% of applications account for 99.9% of MySQL installations.
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by nick238 2y ago
Wait, are building codes currently not copyrighted? Then why is it currently so hard to get a copy of them? My city (Chicago) basically has codes that say "NFPA NEC 2020 code, but you can't do any of this stuff, and need to do t
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by nick238 2y ago
I like the Captain Disillusion quip about these things: "What began as a primitive box with a light source projecting low quality pictures onto a matte surface, has been developed for over a century into a high resolution, self-illumin
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by nick238 2y ago
Do you have a related project "WireWiz"? Was that the original name? (Ctrl-F on your README :)
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by nick238 3y ago
The mass of a bus or train will happily cleave through wayward objects, so there will be less acceleration of your face into seat backs, poles, and other passengers. School busses to my knowledge do have padded seat backs, plus they're
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by nick238 3y ago
For general transport/rebasing, it seems like it would just make life easier on air traffic controllers, and probably also other traffic in the air (I think TCAS uses ADS-B?). By way of analogy, the military might have permission to dr
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by nick238 3y ago
Yeah, I need to take some forget-me-nots when I have to work on the service our system's architect said had to be in Golang, and is constantly undergoing API changes because things keep getting added/changed. It currently serves ~
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by nick238 3y ago
No keys or accounts, but you need to maintain a (volatile as they all are) cryptocurrency wallet? It would be nice if ye olde banks and fintech actually came up with some standard for a sort of digital cashier's check though. IP-based
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by nick238 3y ago
SMS 2FA to get an API key is usually when you get free credits and for one or both of a) get your phone number for marketing purposes and b) make it slightly harder to bot farm those credits on hundreds of different accounts (you need to do
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by nick238 3y ago
I picture some division in [nation-state] where they're constantly creating personas, slowly working all sorts of languishing open source packages with few maintainers (this is the actual hard, very slow part), then once they have a bi
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by nick238 3y ago
Feed in calcium carbonate, heat it up and sequester the CO2, and use the hot calcium oxide once then ship it off to the cement plant. Or, how about taking an existing cement plant and have it use the air heat-exchanger/turbine/gen
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by nick238 3y ago
Comparing water's 4.18 kJ/kg-K * ~75 K (25 °C -> 100 °C) to the sand's 1.1 kJ/kg-K * 900 K? I think you can (or it's easier) get more useful work out of a lesser amount of hotter stuff, even if the thermal energy
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by nick238 3y ago
A 1000 gallon tank stores about 146 gigajoules of energy (diesel motor fuel = 138,700 BTU/gallon, "138700 BTU * 1000 in gigajoules"). 1000 gallons of sand (about 6000 kg) heated 1000 °C above ambient stores about 1000 K * 600
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by nick238 3y ago
Love the idea. Hate the acronym...ENDURING, short for "Economic loNg-DURation electrIcity storage by using low-cost thermal energy storage aNd hiGh-efficiency power cycle"? ELDESbULCTESaHEPC.
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by nick238 3y ago
Wasn't Zuma involved in a ton of scandals and bribery (allegations(?)) Last I read up on South Africa, the ANC's extremely dominant position means there's pseudo-one-party rule, with all the usual downsides that entails. Poli
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by nick238 3y ago
Seems like the lede was buried in the article; I know a bit about QR codes: there's different modes for alphanum, binary, kanji, etc, and error correcting capacity...but being able to switch character sets in the middle was new to me.

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