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by nullhole 2y ago
Well, 5 1/4" disks were floppy on the inside & outside, so compared with them, 3.5" disks weren't floppy. To me, at least, the name 'floppy disk' already felt like an anachronism, even in the heyday of 3.5&
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by nullhole 2y ago
What intent do you infer from the fact that it's source-available instead of being FOSS?
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by nullhole 2y ago
One key thing is: don't feel like you have to suffer through reading an entire book if you don't like it. If it's a chore to read it, find something else - different author, or different type of book.
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by nullhole 2y ago
Not quite related to apostrophes, but I feel the need to point out my favourite street name of all time (as read on a street sign): St John St (-> Saint John Street)
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by nullhole 2y ago
I know, thus the smiley :)
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by nullhole 2y ago
> more than four times more expensive on a pound-for-megawatt basis oh, the units people use today :)
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by nullhole 2y ago
That is funny, though this is more tracking-by-users than tracking-of-users
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by nullhole 2y ago
The gravity of physics always brings me down. (sorry!)
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by nullhole 2y ago
I mean the GPS satellites are in medium earth orbit so most LEO satellites receive the signal more or less the same way as people a few hundred km further down, no? The comms between the GPS satellites and the ground stations is pretty inte
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by nullhole 2y ago
That makes me think: adding a live lighting map / lightning locations would be neat, since that is the kind of thing you can see from the video feed. There's a couple crowdsourced lighting status websites out there, might be possi
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by nullhole 2y ago
Also maybe do it across a few more industries.
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by nullhole 2y ago
On the plus side, you can reasonably claim that the brand new, non-bestseller, book you bought is a rare book, since "there are likely only a few hundred copies in peoples' hands* throughout the world". *A way of skirting the
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by nullhole 2y ago
Nice link - thanks! Related, Deep Sky Videos did a series of large-telescope tours / interviews a few years back. For example, this is their one on Alma; there are a number of others in their channel: https://www.youtube.com
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by nullhole 2y ago
FWIW you did make me consider it. As others have said, the mere process of writing out an idea means thinking about the idea in a new way, and can lead to new insights.
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by nullhole 2y ago
I stuck around using it for longer than I probably should have. The integrated chat and mail clients were useful. The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention. One of the main things I miss is the LCARSTrek them
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by nullhole 2y ago
People do tend to get mad about borders, to be fair.
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by nullhole 3y ago
> THIS! I put cookie popups on basically all my sites just to avoid having to screw with figuring out what minor analytics cookie might break some law somewhere. Lazy question, but have any new products popped up in the past few years wi
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by nullhole 3y ago
If we all just followed the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law, society would be a lot worse than it currently is.
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by nullhole 3y ago
I knew someone in high school who had started work at an auto repair place, and he described the process - and danger - of replacing car springs to me once. I'm sure there are various types of car spring, the kind he was talking about
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by nullhole 3y ago
Should have a (2023) on this, I think. The article says "An earlier version of this article was published in November 2023."
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by nullhole 3y ago
Called a “poke” by the team, the command is meant to gently prompt the FDS to try different sequences in its software package in case the issue could be resolved by going around a corrupted section. The apparent foresight of the ori
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by nullhole 3y ago
Not to be too aloof, but if the future doesn't care about the past, why should the past care about the future?
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by nullhole 3y ago
It's 299 words (so close to a round number!) of worse-than-useless filler before the recipe. You get two amazon sponsored links and one blog plug for some author with that. There's also an interstitial you have to click through. I
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by nullhole 3y ago
Looks nice! Where does the weather forecast data come from? I've used Clear Sky Charts ( https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/ ) in the past. Edit: scratch this question, it was addressed below: Also, is there a way to
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by nullhole 3y ago
What are you basing this on? Is there a place where measurements are catalogued?
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by nullhole 3y ago
I don't disagree, and I think the quote above follows that idea. Undefined behaviour means that anything _could_ happen, but compiler writers should ensure something sensible happens in those cases. At least, that's what I took fr
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by nullhole 3y ago
My favourite description of undefined behaviour. The poster is corrected later on in the thread about whether the specific operation discussed would invoke undefined behaviour, but the description of what happens when undefined behaviour oc
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by nullhole 3y ago
The maps are available directly through the USGS as well, if you want to avoid the 3rd party viewer: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/40.01/-100.06
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by nullhole 3y ago
> the static desktop OS background Eons ago, there was a (paid) 3rd-party program for MacOS Classic that would give you a slideshow desktop background. The images were of the Golden Gate bridge, and were a timelapse over the course of a
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by nullhole 3y ago
That'd make for a good story setup: aliens park a shadeship (c) at L1 and wait. They block out most but not all of the sun. After some time (months? years?), conditions on Earth become unbearable, so earthlings have to mount an attack.

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