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by nick238 3y ago
Though because that license says "for any reasonable purpose" it's something that's vague when it comes to "is this FOSS" as it's vaguely Crockford-like ("this software shall be used for Good, not for
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by nick238 3y ago
Is the question "why async X" just short for "why cooperative multitasking in X language"? Coming from the Python world where I've written a ton of async code there (which I think is just a short way of saying coope
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by nick238 3y ago
There's plenty of silicon in the world that's not designed by AMD, Nvidia, or Apple. Recall, if you will, the 2021 chip shortage.
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Paul Stamets on Joe Rogan (crazy stuff, apolitical topics are all I can stand, then only barely...) mentioned that Cordyceps sinensis seems to have different fruiting forms, and in the wild it often grows with another fungi so you get very
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by nick238 4y ago
Having print as a function is actually useful if you want to use it like any other function, e.g. `def whatever(x, y, z, , output=print):` then you could use the default or put in whatever that's like `print`. I also don't get wh
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For the sake of argument, I'd just ignore what is/isn't a religion and lump it all into "principles" or "beliefs". That said, (I believe, ha...) there should always be the freedom to not engage with belief
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So the Ethereum network is entitled to their cut, but not Apple?
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I don't think in banking apps you're purchasing anything while using the app (in-app purchases). If you buy an NFT in an app, you are purchasing it in the app, no?
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Elon can sure help design some shit, but he sucks as a manager.
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One of my existential worries before IoT devices were at least a little security-aware, was if there was a large coordinated attack where someone would constantly power on/off tens or hundreds of thousands of AC units in a region cau
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by nick238 4y ago
SO3 can react to form H2SO4. If you dissolve SO2 into water you get 'sulfurous acid', which is not a strong acid. The Wikipedia article on 'acid rain' mentions the chemistry to convert SO2 is as follows: SO2 + OH· → HOSO
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Tail end of the video has the dog walking calmly in the background. This_is_fine.png
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I hope this brings back the ear-splitting PA-DURRRP that I heard everywhere in my old job where Nextel (later Sprint, now T-Mobile) cell-phones were basically walkie-talkies. /s
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Python 2 packages gone, so just need to wait for RHEL/CentOS 8 to die in 2029 and Python 2 should finally be gone?
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I usually just use base62 (ASCII letters/numbers). Visual inspection/comparison of a long random value seems unlikely, and when you get into 10+ random gibberish characters, you're just as likely to gloss over a transposition
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That's great, but how do I sell a $2 candy bar to someone and not have to charge them a $2 transaction fee (or $20 if there's a gas war), and also make sure their transaction actually goes through. With crypto you still need to tr
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by nick238 4y ago
There's an alternative to only on motorways and never on motorways: sometimes on motorways. 90% of the time you can use ordinary roads, with autonomous driving acting like a normal truck, giving the meat bags plenty of space. The
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Those laws are usually about eavesdropping, and most states (e.g. my state of Illinois) have carveouts for a "reasonable expectation of privacy" (though I found something saying Montana doesn't?). Recording people inside an I
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by nick238 5y ago
The density of air is about 1.2 kilograms per cubic meter (water is 1000 kg/m3). So, it'd take about 830 cubic meters of air to make a ton (1 m x 1 m x 830), or a cube with each side of length 9.4 meters or about 30 feet. A ton is
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by nick238 5y ago
It's suuuper annoying when the type-to-pick-dropdown doesn't work. Mildly annoying for US states, I live in Illinois, so when it flashes "Idaho", "Louisiana", oh boy. These are usually the forms that then have
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by nick238 5y ago
I wonder what the yaw string on the U-2 is made out of/what it costs.
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That's not how the MIT license works though. It says: "Permission is hereby granted, [...] without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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by nick238 5y ago
> They have also looked into capturing some of the energy released as sound waves by humans speaking into their remotes as part of voice commands. This makes me want to dismiss the entire article as crackpot nonsense. Apparently there ar
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To my big fancy human brain, this test seems pretty simple, and if you just fiddle with it for a little while you'll succeed. Are there examples of animals that totally fail the string-pull test? Also, there is some research out (free
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by nick238 5y ago
The 'Forum' link goes to https://github.com/invictus2010/fixvms/issues which seems to be a private repo. Is that intended?
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There's a ton of journey left in the software side for those more interested in that.
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There is a pretty good set of maintainers/packagers that compile Python libs for Alpine, but if you stumble across one that doesn't have a binary built, you're going to have to install the whole build toolchain and get all th
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by nick238 5y ago
That stress/strain curve in the Cell Matter "Graphical Abstract" is garbage past the point of peak stress. If it's tested in their double shear jig as shown, once it displaces significantly (> radius of the nail) the
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Viewing source is hacking! /s I got sent to the principal's office (years ago...) for opening a command line and trying to ping a printer that said it was offline but was sitting right next to my station and looked happy. Most peo
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If there's such a large voltage, would it discharge fast enough that the actual force doesn't matter that much? The extreeeeemly high force is probably commiserate with the extreeeeeeeeemly fast discharge, so you wouldn't bui

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