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by nneonneo 5y ago
This typo has now been fixed, of course, but if you want a teensy bit of amusement you can always see the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220209040744/https://www.space...
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by nneonneo 5y ago
> SpaceX deploys its satellites into these lower obits Unintentional pun on "orbits", perhaps? It's incredible to me that launching satellites is so easy now that a failure of 40 satellites can be tolerated. On the bright
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by nneonneo 5y ago
You note that the interface accepts a lot more words than are in the dictionary, much like the normal Wordle game. I wonder if you can exploit the full set of acceptable words to narrow down the possibility space even further? I would not b
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by nneonneo 5y ago
I don’t know what specific “suspension of the constitution” you’re referring to, but if it was the October Crisis, that was the activation of the War Measures Act (martial law) in response to the FLQ kidnapping of a British diplomat and a r
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Conferences are aware of it too! At least one major conference requires you to either upload your documents at the deadline, or a cryptographic hash of your documents, which can be submitted up to a week later. That way, they mitigate the
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by nneonneo 5y ago
The Teams Mac app is hot garbage. Every third or so meeting it will randomly hang, logout, hang up immediately, or even straight up crash when attempting to join a call. I’ve reinstalled it multiple times, cycled the sign in, all to no avai
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Debugging stuff like this is a real nightmare sometimes, but hey, maybe you’ll learn something cool in the process! One thing I’d try would be to make a new profile - you can launch Firefox with the -P option to bring up the profile manager
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by nneonneo 5y ago
I've had to replace...a lot of wired earbuds. I have an entire shelf full of dead wired earbuds, from all sorts of manufacturers (Apple, RIM, cheapo $5 earbuds, Sony, Shure, ...), which almost uniformly failed in the same weird way: th
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Annoyances 1 and 7, at least, can be solved by disabling the automatic switching logic. When connected to the AirPods, under Bluetooth -> (AirPods name) -> Connect to this {iPhone/iPad/Mac}, select "When Last Connected&
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by nneonneo 5y ago
One of my favorite (ab)uses of operators is the "q" package for debugging: https://pypi.org/project/q/ You `import q`, then you can slap `q/` or `q|` in front of an expression to log the value (q&#x
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Thanks for confirming the report. I'm curious - if you hand-wrote a URL on a piece of paper (or printed it out from a printer/displayed it on a different screen), and then scanned it with the camera, would the camera pick it up? W
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by nneonneo 5y ago
There is no reason to autocorrect a QR code scan. QR codes come with built-in error correction, so there’s a vanishingly small chance of a successfully-scanned QR code containing an error. It seems like Camera here might be treating QR co
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by nneonneo 5y ago
> It took a while to realize that different sterile cultivars within the reach of the same pollinating insect could cross pollinate and produce fertile fruit. “Life, uh, finds a way.”
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Blackberry commanded the same level of loyalty via BBM ages ago. Apple has definitely refined that strategy with iMessage. The network effects of it are very strong (in the markets where it is dominant, anyway). Meanwhile, Google is content
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by nneonneo 5y ago
The running water in even large cities isn’t potable, since the Chinese apparently don’t put a high emphasis on water purification. Instead, the tap water is cleaned just enough to be free from major impurities and contaminants. Everyone is
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by nneonneo 5y ago
The article in Chinese gives a lot more technical detail: http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2021/1231/c1004-32321622.htm... In short, every one of the over 600,000 “administrative villages” in China ( https:&#x
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by nneonneo 5y ago
From perusing the source of the MIT/GNU Scheme compiler, I suspect that “only” two changes are needed to support W^X: - Compiled code needs to be allocated separately from Scheme objects. It can still be garbage collected and such - th
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Windows DEP only applies W^X (more accurately, !X) to the default stack and heap; programs can still freely allocate new memory as PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE if they want RWX memory. macOS W^X on Apple Silicon, however bans RWX memory outright,
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Both of the compilation errors identified in this article were just fixed in the master branch of MIT/GNU Scheme five hours ago: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mit-scheme.git/commit/?id=... , https:&#
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by nneonneo 5y ago
It should always, because the APNs (gateway for your IP packets) for Google Fi are in the US no matter where you are roaming from. That’s standard fare for any cellular service: you always connect to the internet gateways in your provider’s
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Google Fi, along with many other mobile telecoms, tend to limit the speed that you can attain from tethering, especially when roaming. Since computers don’t usually expect this, programs tend to misbehave on such metered connections. In fac
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by nneonneo 5y ago
There absolutely are, or at least were. I attended a computer security competition in Shanghai in 2016, and the organizers told us explicitly that they’d obtained an exemption to get unfiltered internet access at the site. It was indeed unf
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Yeah, the biggest risk with for-else is that some inexperienced dev comes along and misreads the else as belonging to an if statement inside the for (or, worse, attempting to “fix” it). I’ve seen this happen more than once…
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by nneonneo 5y ago
I used it a bunch in Advent of Code as well. It’s very useful for “search” loops, which should break on finding the target, or do something else if it isn’t found. Generator return, on the other hand, is something I didn’t even know about
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by nneonneo 5y ago
(cross posting from my comment on the other story) It isn't human subjects research just to read what a website says about its compliance to a law (or lack thereof), but once you start reaching out to actual humans to discuss the matte
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by nneonneo 5y ago
It's very limited, and doesn't work for things like constants that might be compiled straight into the code. By contrast, a true hot-reload can swap out the actual code at runtime.
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by nneonneo 5y ago
Yes, thanks for the clarification. I was trying to make my comment specifically about secession - debunking the notion that Hong Kong is not part of China. The HK Basic Law, the same document that guarantees the "One country, two syste
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by nneonneo 5y ago
It isn't human subjects research just to read what a website says about its compliance to a law (or lack thereof), but once you start reaching out to actual humans to discuss the matter, it definitely does become human subjects researc
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by nneonneo 5y ago
If you're intending to imply that the British didn't need to hand over Hong Kong because China changed rulers, I'm afraid that's not really how the law works. And, in any case, the negotiation of 1984 ( https:/&#x2F
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by nneonneo 5y ago
I feel compelled to clarify this: Hong Kong is part of China, and has been since 1997. Saying that Hong Kong is not part of China is like saying that Texas is not part of the United States because at one point they seceded. These days, Te

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