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by pengaru 3y ago
> And this is in L.A., home to probably the least-challenging weather in the country. We have entire generations of junior-high and high-school kids who are apparently too feeble to ride their bikes, walk, or take the bus to school. Path
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by pengaru 3y ago
RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
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by pengaru 3y ago
I implemented something similar[0] a while back in rototiller[1], there's a short low-res youtube clip here[2]. It was a fun little hack, I didn't realize this is a thing . I was just messing around with an idea of pushing parti
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by pengaru 3y ago
There are far too many books[0] and too few hours in a lifetime to not aggressively cut your losses when something awful (or even just mediocre) has found its way before your eyes. Carl Sagan made this fairly obvious in Cosmos[1] speaking
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Fructose is usually considered healthier than sucrose or glucose - the whole "natural fruit sugars are OK" premise - though that seems likely to be nonsense given it's immediately and easily converted to glucose after yo
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by pengaru 3y ago
> You die of starvation when you can no longer produce glucose. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis 2. Sugar is 50/50 fructose and glucose, the fructose half is arguably poison to humans. It's impor
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by pengaru 3y ago
After a long-time collaborator got bit by the ansi/ascii art bug we slapped together a silly little game during the covid lockdowns using his ANSIs for sprites: https://sars.pengaru.com/ experimental outdated wasm buil
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by pengaru 3y ago
You should probably stop assuming the possible outcomes are ticket vs. no ticket. There's far more on the menu and cops vary wildly in competence and intention. I prefer the be respectful and say little more than necessary to excuse yo
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by pengaru 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_law
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by pengaru 3y ago
More granular filesystems limits the blast radius of filesystem corrupting events. Hard disks used to fail pretty often, filesystems had (and still have) bugs. It makes sense to stick your administrative utilities needed to run/recove
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by pengaru 3y ago
Case in point: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
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by pengaru 3y ago
Folks you're killing me with the comments re: Blazer naming as if it's some new thing introduced for the EV. The Blazer line has been part of GM since 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Blazer
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Unlike screaming fire in a crowded theater, it's not causing immediate harm: maybe it's causing long term, but that's not enough to remove the free speech protection. It's ok to be wrong.
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Then I'd say is some kind of speech, and therefore should be protected. Speech causing immediate harm to others is explicitly not protected. If you want to interpret rolling coal as political speech, directing it at pedestrians&#
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by pengaru 3y ago
It's not just the non-competes though. California explicitly protects ownership of inventions made on your own time/equipment[0]. AFAIK other states tend to default to employer ownership of inventions. This alone is a huge win for
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Nobody should ever fix anything unless they can fix everything! Oh please. "Fix everything " in this context would be legalizing all drugs federally. This fixes nothing except perhaps shifting some public perception in
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by pengaru 3y ago
Symbolic half-measure having little to no actual impact. They should just legalize marijuana federally, that would be real change with tangible consequences. This is shallow campaigning for reelection, in lieu of actual legalization.
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by pengaru 3y ago
Considering it's from NIRCam I don't think there's reason to expect a "real" visible light image... that's not what this sensor does.
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by pengaru 3y ago
That and APUE are classics, RIP Mr. Stevens.
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by pengaru 3y ago
> with good winter tires, it was more than capable of dealing with northern Minnesota winters What fwd vehicle is this not true for? fwd shitbox + Blizzaks + working hand brake = poor man's rally car on snow.
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by pengaru 3y ago
McKusick and Stevens will always be welcome guests on my bookshelf.
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by pengaru 3y ago
Congrats on solving the vermin housing problem
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by pengaru 3y ago
Good. The more visibility the US's failure to house and assist those in need the better. Shame this nation into oblivion until it changes its ways. People use drugs across all social classes. Those living on the streets just use them
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by pengaru 3y ago
There's at least some hope of nature balancing this out, eventually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-pB1R64mI
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by pengaru 3y ago
`gpg --auto-key-locate` is a thing, except not many actually use DANE for key distribution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
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by pengaru 3y ago
The linked video makes a pretty strong case for it being a "show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome" situation...
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by pengaru 3y ago
One problem with your claims is this is pretty well documented as a uniquely McDonalds franchise problem at this point. Competing fast-food franchises serve similar frozen dairy products, in a similar staffing environment, without their mac
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by pengaru 3y ago
This strikes me as one of those uniquely British oddities.
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by pengaru 3y ago
> CNN is now owned by a right-wing nut Who's that in a "Warner Bros. Discovery" world? Glancing at the wikipedia page I see no clear single owner anymore. Edit: not intending to come to CNN's defense in any way here,
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by pengaru 3y ago
The standards extensions reservation of _t is such a non-issue I don't understand why people even bother mentioning it anymore. It's become such a common practice to suffix your typedefs with _t it's practically a de facto st

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