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by nine_k 3mo ago
That would be a strategic move.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Linux on servers has been very mainstream for last like 20 years. Big distros like Ubuntu become ever more complicated though, they run a ton of stuff by default, like Windows. OpenBSD is, first of all, very small in comparison. Then, it&#x
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Try e.g. Void Linux, it's built by BSD-inclined people and is also refreshingly simpler than most big distros. (It's my daily driver for the last 8 years.) But if you want tighter integration of userland and kernel, I suppose what
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Isn't it good? On one hand, the world is more rich than you (and I) had thought. On the other hand, the people who would go for a Communist revolution do not surface near you as prominent media figures, at least, not yet.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
In short, newer versions of git implemented three really frequent use cases of `git rebase --interactive` as separate lower-friction commands. Apparently they only work when there are no conflicts.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
No, it starkly contrasts the RPi ecosystem because it has an "all in one" main unit, which works without shields, cables, extra cases, etc. It's approximately as self-contained as a mobile phone. But on top of that it offers
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Very much so. This is why, wherever I move in, I try to put shelvesn on the walls, hang something non-flat off them, put closets and drawer units so that they form a jagged line. Not only are these things functional, they do away with the t
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Indeed, the key low-cost mass-produced drone tech is Ukrainian, and NATO currently sorely lacks comparable capabilities.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
There's a limit to the number of targeting systems you can afford to deploy on a weapon, and there's the problem of reconciling their signals if their views of where the target is start to diverge. "Counter-blinkenlights&quot
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by nine_k 3mo ago
"Everything should be built top down, except for the first time", as the saying goes %) The problem is often that new things are built with tools that allow for flexibility, because the builder hasn't decided on the shape of
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by nine_k 3mo ago
The difference is that when you add all these mechanisms yourself, you can do it differently than TCP does, sometimes to a great effect: see QUIC and HTTP/3. OTOH I don't see a similar superpower arising from handcrafted data type
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by nine_k 3mo ago
That could be immensely helpful for people who cannot speak due to vocal chord problems. It could also be the ultimate, always-on remote control for everything around, with a near-zero error rate.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
I suppose Spanish or German would be easier to recognize than English, due to the more distinct sounds, but Chinese would be much harder, due to the tones.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Not touching JavaScript might be a reason enough. (Though I bet it has a Typescript API, and Typescript is great.)
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by nine_k 3mo ago
It's a different kind. Say, some reaction should run 1.23x faster theoretically. But the theory is approximate (in order to be tractable at all), and so are its predictions. This particular element is special in its own way, diverging
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Tencent seems to have subsidiaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Subsidiaries Also they have large European / South African shareholders.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Mr Madison, and a bunch of other Founding Fathers, might disagree a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Amending the US Constitution takes a lot of voting, with very large majorities in Congress / Senate and state legislatures. This has been achieved a number of times, and some of these decisions were rather unwise, like the Prohibition
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Maybe it's even the other way around: different cultures and tastes give birth to different languages and community norms around them.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Open protocols are great. The software in question is OSS. But this software is not for expanding the audience, it's for limiting it, and their exposure. Much like Tailscale is not for extending your network with more nodes that can
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by nine_k 3mo ago
But the point here is that you don't want the network effects. You want a chat server for people you know and explicitly invite, for a specific purpose, under your control. Maybe you want the data to never leave your colocated box an
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Ah, these so-called SciFi routers.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
But usually it is a phased-array setup, or it seems to be, with a row of antennas. Another setup is circular or semicircular. I suppose it allows for a more uniform directional diagram across the entire 360°, because a straight phased arr
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by nine_k 3mo ago
The spider look comes from multiple antennas. Multiple antennas are needed for beamforming [1]; they represent a minimal phased array. [1]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/967954/beamforming-expl...
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Do CoMaps somehow support overlays, like bus routes? OSMAnd does that, but I see no such option in CoMaps anywhere (a map layer, a separate map, etc).
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Looks like a glue-together narrow-purpose kind of app that AI is relatively good at producing.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Mosquitoes depend on the existence of highly developed, warm-blooded vertebrates. Are they therefore a luxury? A luxury is something that makes your life actually better, but too expensive for most people.
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by nine_k 3mo ago
> today's luxury is tomorrow's necessity Indeed, see stuff like fridges, cars, phones, internet access... > pop-up ads, selfies, subscriptions, the cybertruck... None of these are a luxury, or ever was; in a way, they ar
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by nine_k 3mo ago
They are looking for a different human buy-in. "Yes, the AI rewrote the code. No, we do not pretend that we've scrutinized the code, or that we understand it. It works, tests pass, so we don't care, and so shouldn't you
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by nine_k 3mo ago
Often life doesn't just imitate a movie, but imitates a goofy movie.

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