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by nxobject 9mo ago
For what it's worth, cork is also a large component of heat ablation shields - my understand is that it's at the sweet spot of insulation and machinability/flexibility. Processed cork is a surprisingly technical material. ( h
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by nxobject 9mo ago
FWIW, Apple's known to have a slightly more aggressive mouse/trackpoint acceleration curve to account for this. (In retrospect it's probably why Apple went all out on luxuriously large trackpads.)
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by nxobject 9mo ago
In your experience, how often does Tailscale have to resort to an external relay server to traverse? I’ve had that out the kibosh on bandwidth/latency sensitive applications before.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Time to give priceless artifacts a holiday to the Moon?
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Knowing nothing about microbiology or mycology, it does make you wonder whether some “benign” outcompeting molds can be engineered, even if strict humidity control wouldn’t be allowed anymore.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
I used to think that “omit needless words” was a bit too strict to be meaningful… and then I read AI slop.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
He showed that it wasn’t only easy to not sound like AI—but that it was imperative for culture to flourish. Whether composing long hand or typing with a mechanical keyboard in Vim, he took back online discourse, one blogpost at a time. &#x2
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by nxobject 9mo ago
As someone who's lived in a SEA military dictatorship and has been through the same shenanigans - including protestors who've given their lives - I think the best way to honor their memory would be to heed those lessons in the spi
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by nxobject 9mo ago
> keep it on tech only. I don't think that was ever completely true - it was always "things hackers found interesting". But what was "interesting" then was a product of the much calmer times back then – talking a
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by nxobject 9mo ago
What they mean by "academic" is fairly limited here, if LaTeX is the main writing platform. What are their plans for expanding past that, and working with, say Jane Biomedical Researcher with a GSuite or Microsoft org, that has to
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by nxobject 9mo ago
I hope this law applies to all of the Electron applications out there...
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by nxobject 9mo ago
In an ideal world, we come to a consensus on best practices for specification to feed into AI, especially random non-tech companies looking for internal LOB applications. On the other hand, that would us to care about documentation again...
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by nxobject 9mo ago
And they have pen-plotter attachments, too!
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers when high-school computing classes used Scantron-style optical mark cards... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP_Educational_Basic...
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Given how the front page's ASCII diagram is misaligned on my browser, I think I have a few concerns about factors that might lead to, well, oversights...
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by nxobject 9mo ago
(sarcasm warning...) You're absolutely right! It's not just an inaccurate slogan—it's a patronizing use of artificial intelligence. What you're describing is not just true, it's precise.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Sadly, HP-UX just reached EOL. I think their Integrity servers let you choose between RHEL and SLES now?
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by nxobject 9mo ago
To beef up the historical comparisons, "creates their own workstations on RISC-derived processors" is also (historically) a sign of a (commerical) UNIX, too. It isn't to jarring to mentally replace "macOS Tahoe" wit
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by nxobject 9mo ago
They may have an inkling that the big LLM companies will want to pay for future/past data... I imagine either Google or OpenAI has something predictive and shopping-related in the books.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
For me, battery life and power management – even with the number of services that macOS runs. I run Asahi Linux when docked, but on the go I estimate I get a warmer lap and about ~1/2 hr less.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
I was reading an Ars article by someone who'd hacked up Apple II and Atari 2600 emulators to provide state introspection/reproducible input via MCP, sockets, file I/O - would that work? https://github.com/benj
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Time to bring out the flowcharts again!
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Veronika, the Tool-Using Cow(arstechnica.com)
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by nxobject 9mo ago
I think it's depressingly true of any novel language/framework at this point, especially if they have novel ideas.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Journal club hat on! Technical critique from someone who's done these types of statistical analyses (both the psychometric and SEM components): I'm surprised they didn't include between-person random slopes as well for cross-
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by nxobject 9mo ago
But think of the cumulative hours wasted trying to find some! Another thought: if bathrooms ran out of soap, how many extra illnesses would you get?
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by nxobject 9mo ago
As an aside, it's fun to see someone on the organizing committee affiliated with Cray, Inc.
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by nxobject 9mo ago
I’m sure that MS knows that NT is the one thing that’s right with their platform…
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by nxobject 9mo ago
Don’t tread on me, huh?
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by nxobject 9mo ago
> The Plan 9 way just seems very clean although you now have to secure the server more strongly because you are exporting filesystems from it and others are mounting it. With that I mind I wish (the standard Unix gripe!) 9P had a more co

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