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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's unrelated to the article, and is likely to spur even less related comments.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Getting on plane requires a high peak power output Could a capacitor bank be used to deliver a burst of power to plane out? Or does the weight and volume of capacitors still exceed what's practical? Also seems like it wouldn't
693.
by nitrogen 5y ago
The BSD license still requires attribution and copyright notices visible to the end user.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Scream Tracker 3 did have an Adlib output mode, and there were a few .s3m files out there that used Adlib FM instruments instead of sampled instruments.
695.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Can't speak to this theme, but in general: Some users don't like unmaximizing and resizing their browser windows, and also don't like reading full-width text on a widescreen monitor. Rather than browsers providing a workable
696.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Give us content creator tools and let us do the rest. What ever happened to Second Life, anyway? I never tried it, but some of the ideas seemed cool.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The people talking down are the people who think gamers are beneath them (but might play NFL or CoD on their console). AKA jocks vs. geeks.
698.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Someone with an IQ of 80 who's literally incapable of coding? Fail. I actually worked with a developer who said their tested IQ was in the 80s.
699.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Could there one day be a stamp that also has an RFID/HSM inside, that signs things digitally but gives the same UX?
700.
by nitrogen 5y ago
NSIS installers used to get flagged as malware occasionally, too. Was very frustrating for distributing software.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
When we all first hear this expression we assume that ignorance is a bad thing, thus we should not be like all the blissfully ignorant. But maybe it was really advice -- don't expand your circle of awareness too far beyond your circle
702.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Horns are already a button in some cars, presumably to make way for an airbag. You don't want your palm on the center of the wheel when that airbag goes off.
703.
by nitrogen 5y ago
At some heights, in some cars, the wheel blocks the speedometer all the time , so you have to duck and bob to know if you're going too slow or too fast if there's no traffic to blend with.
704.
by nitrogen 5y ago
There is absolutely zero need to reinvent the car UI/UX. Don’t try to fix what’s not broken. While nobody has yet improved significantly on the traditional control layout of gas/brake/[clutch]/wheel, I still think as a
705.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Push to accelerate; pull to decelerate; relax to cruise. I've had similar ideas for speed control, but with something in the gear/handbrake area. The problem I couldn't solve was choosing an orientation and response curve
706.
by nitrogen 5y ago
The cybertruck is the most attractive truck ever conceived by a real car company. Traditional cars are boring and ugly by comparison, just like traditional McMansions wither in comparison to a well-architected modern building. Give me som
707.
by nitrogen 5y ago
If the steering ratio is smaller, so something like 90 degrees is full lock, you could maybe get away without hand-over-hand.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Strong Towns is just one perspective with a strong agenda. I began doubting everything they publish when they got all the important details completely wrong in a story about my home town. The money that goes to cities is paid by the employ
709.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Even if you are just practicing, it's still an opportunity for the company to convince you to change your mind.
710.
by nitrogen 5y ago
While externalizing repeated constants can be useful (e.g. defining PI_4 for a math routine that uses pi / 4 a dozen times), taken to an extreme like that it leads to more bugs, not fewer.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Also, gate-keeping is not helpful. This term is really getting over-used. The purpose of job interviews is to decide who gets to pass through the gate. It is literally keeping of a gate.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Because theres not enough land There actually is enough land if you look outward from major cities, but billionaire investors already own that, too.
713.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Checkinstall makes packaging pretty easy for anything you aren't trying to distribute through the official distro channels. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> Note that usernames are only for login and moderation purposes, and you have the option to display a different name with your comments after you have finished registering. Is this what they were referring to?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are there opportunistic invertebrates that might move into an infected person's lungs or sinuses that could explain reports of it working, if there are such reports?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The general human in 2021 who buys IoT gear puts it on their Wifi and goes back to other things. Fallacy of the "general human" aside...how do you configure it? How do you configure your Wifi in the first place? The app- and se
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Is there a solution yet for universal TLS with offline "IoT" (but not on the Internet) devices?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It will take you 18 months to get kubectl access on just the staging environment though, and then another 6 to track down only 90% of the obscure people and processes that generate and mutate the manifests before deploying. Finally you&#x2
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Someone walking away from an offer because the company doesn't use unnecessary tool X is potentially a sign of a flaky engineer. I'd hesitate before working at any company with fewer than 100 engineers that does use k8s, beca
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by nitrogen 5y ago
My experiences with k8s have led me to never propose k8s in a new project. The k8s instances I have seen were bureaucratic and technical nightmares of unnecessary complexity. It doesn't provide a common ground for deployments because

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