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by nvy 3y ago
Well I have run a few sizeable communities (albeit smaller than HN) in my day and it seems to me the correct approach is "no posting about Steve Jobs at all" rather than "only Steve Jobs worship is allowed".
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by nvy 3y ago
>[...] not doing it arbitrarily. HN does quite well in this regard [...] Hard disagree on the arbitrary part. What's considered "intellectual" or "curious conversation" depends entirely on dang's personal p
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by nvy 3y ago
>comrade@gnu.ai.mit.edu Ah of course it's GNU. That explains the, uh, peculiar sense of humor. Or rather the complete dearth thereof.
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by nvy 3y ago
If the agency finds something they don't like they'll just come up with a plausible way to arrest you for something unrelated.
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by nvy 3y ago
Look up "parallel construction".
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by nvy 3y ago
My gut says this is the actual reason why lisp remains niche; everyone wants to make their own DSLs all the time.
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by nvy 3y ago
Imagine a future where GPT can fact check something. What a beautiful dream that would be.
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by nvy 3y ago
Avionics code isn't written by hand any more. We (society) can't write sufficiently reliable C such that pilots and passengers can rely on it. Writing C by hand these days is hubris, in my opinion. Most avionics these days are d
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by nvy 3y ago
That's my point. Just because things are "from the environment" doesn't mean they aren't toxic or pollutants.
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by nvy 3y ago
>The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? PFAS, phosphates, CFCs, carbon monoxide, and BPA are all "f
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm most familiar with the C-130 but I believe it's common on many types: the pad is replaceable but in order to do that you have to remove the entire brake assy, which means it's more efficient to just slap a new assy on and
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm an aerospace engineer so I know all about Windows shops that operate on the "RequirementsSpec-final (3) Nate's comments.docx" school of version control. Half the industry runs on excel spreadsheets. I feel your pain
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by nvy 3y ago
>Fetch updates your local repository (which is behind the scenes, separate from your literal local files). Therein lies the chief problem with git: it's a leaky abstraction. Nobody actually should give a flying shit about commit ha
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by nvy 3y ago
Yep. I've been using git for years and still don't really understand the difference between fetch, checkout, and pull. The official docs are dogshit so I just don't have time to figure out the minutiae.
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by nvy 3y ago
>But after looking at other source control options, I find it to be an absolute joy to use Git is objectively pretty janky, though, so it seems to me this statement is an indictment of Subversion and CVS rather than some statement about
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question. When the techs install a new brake assembly, the wiring harness is connected at the same time as the hydraulic system. The pad itself is never changed on the flight line. It's quicker and ea
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by nvy 3y ago
>why does it use such a vague light. I was just being cute. There are typically very precise warnings and indications.
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by nvy 3y ago
So I used to work in aircraft maintenance (never in Russia though) and the policy is to change the brakes when there is $minimum_thickness of brake pad remaining. There's a little wire embedded in the pad and eventually as the pad wear
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by nvy 3y ago
>Eventually there will be an accident as a result of parts that can't be replaced, we don't need more lives lost to this war. Such an accident would solely be the fault of the (well known) piss-poor safety programs in Russia. T
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by nvy 3y ago
I'd love to see that but it will never happen because there's an enormous demographic whose identity is largely wrapped up in "driving a pickup".
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by nvy 3y ago
Oh shit, forgot about Arkells. My wife went to high school with the bass player.
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by nvy 3y ago
Well we're certainly overrepresented domestically, but there are still a reasonable number of Canadian acts that are known quantities south of 49.
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by nvy 3y ago
> I can only think of Rush, Bieber, and Kids in the Hall. Don't forget Avril Lavigne, Drake, Gordon Lightfoot, Céline Dion, Joni Mitchell, deadmau5, The Weeknd, and Nelly Furtado. Just off the top of my head. Interestingly enough I
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by nvy 3y ago
I can fly from Vancouver to Toronto in about 5 hours. The same trip via bus would take about four days via the USA, or a week if you take the longer route through Canada. All day, every day, sitting on a fucking bus watching the telephone
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by nvy 3y ago
s/Easy/East
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm from SW Ontario and live in BC. Apparently I sound like an American because I routinely get asked if I'm from Seattle. There's definitely an Easy-West divergence even north of the border.
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by nvy 3y ago
I don't understand your objective in this conversation. Are you trying to argue it's okay that Microsoft is incompetent, because Google also has bad customer service? Or that we shouldn't criticize Microsoft's awful se
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by nvy 3y ago
Yes, and Google rightly gets criticized for it. Microsoft is getting the same treatment for being equally shitty.
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by nvy 3y ago
>Why? Why does company size have anything at all to do with the security of their product? Because they have the money to hire people who know what they're doing, though it seems they are having difficulty selecting the right candid
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by nvy 3y ago
>I know Dresden was not a purely civilian target I feel like we're pretty much on the same page, then.

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