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by philsnow 2y ago
It was my understanding that RTGs are relatively dense compared to their energy output. They made sense for Voyager because incident light from the sun falls off as the square of the distance and they were designed to be the farthest-away
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by philsnow 2y ago
> What I'd really like to have instead is terminal session management at a higher level, i.e. involving my actual graphical terminal app itself. Attaching to a running session would mean restoring the terminal app's windows and
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by philsnow 2y ago
The charts produced look a bit like Gantt charts but this vis doesn’t seem to track dependencies; you would only see dependencies spread out on the x axis if you let it start unlimited concurrent jobs, i think.
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by philsnow 2y ago
You may absolutely be right, I don’t know who did it “first”. I read your comment in exactly this voice https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6b70f8d0-5706-4e10-a6e9-e61... (In this scene, Steve Martin’s character Vinnie is
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by philsnow 2y ago
Thank you for keeping me honest, I concede the point; I was quoting from his Wikipedia entry and wasn’t particularly critical because I took an architecture class from him in grad school and liked him as a professor.
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by philsnow 2y ago
> you may have heard of techniques such as carry lookahead, Kogge-Stone addition Just an aside, that is Peter Kogge, who did his PhD work at Stanford, worked on the space shuttle, is an IBM fellow, and invented the first multi-core cpu.
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by philsnow 2y ago
I love having the system-of-record being something powerful on a laptop, alongside having some paper artifact with just a small constrained view, which you update with a pencil and then reconcile with the SoR later. This is what I do for to
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by philsnow 2y ago
Absolutely agree. Remind has been around for literally decades and so has tons of user discussions that are easily searchable.
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by philsnow 2y ago
> Bonus: you can open the ggwave web demo https://waver.ggerganov.com/ , play the video above and see all the messages decoded! I could not get this to work unless I played the video on one device and opened it on another
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by philsnow 2y ago
All kinds of modems use this kind of scheme as well, PSK is too low-bandwidth for modern needs so everything is QAM these days. DOCSIS specifies I think QAM-256. Inter-datacenter fiber links use "modems" as well.
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by philsnow 2y ago
If you're going to keep partial hashes in memory, may as well align it on whatever boundary is the minimal block/sector size that your drives give back to you. Hashing (say) 8kB takes less time than it takes to fetch it from SSD
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by philsnow 2y ago
Ultima VII (and its expansions) and Star Control 2 form a core part of my childhood computer experience.
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by philsnow 2y ago
That’s a false dichotomy. Another choice, however unpalatable to all parties, would have been for Apple to stop doing business in the UK.
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by philsnow 2y ago
The commonly-thrown-around figure for comparing contracting work to salaried work in the US involves multiplying the salary by about 3x to reach parity, since you have to pay your own employment taxes and health insurance, and to account fo
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by philsnow 2y ago
In my mind, conda has always been a purpose-specific environment manager for people who live in data science / matplotlib / numpy / jupyter all day every day. Ruby-the-language is now inseparable from Rails because the venn d
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by philsnow 2y ago
When I was going back and forth between bash and zsh more, I started keeping a ~/.commonrc file that uses only some subset of syntax that's compatible with both, and sourcing that file from both .bashrc + .zshrc . Things like addi
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by philsnow 2y ago
Another way is plain old wget wget --no-host-directories \ --cut-dirs=1 \ --recursive \ --no-parent \ --accept '*.pdf' \ https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments
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by philsnow 2y ago
I only wanted to say I appreciate the F-clef in your shell prompt: 𝄢 yknotify {"ts":"2025-02-12T20:09:03Z","type":"FIDO2"} {"ts":"2025-02-12T20:09:14Z","type":&qu
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by philsnow 2y ago
You can easily pasteurize both eggs* and flour at home, and make Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You (Nearly As Quickly) * with the right equipment
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by philsnow 2y ago
Also read keyboard events / do keylogging
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by philsnow 2y ago
Tabs for indenting, spaces for aligning. Por que no los dos? You both it. GIVE ME BOTH ! Both is good. Get you a dev who can do both.
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by philsnow 2y ago
(Gray check marks in the application support matrix apparently mean "not yet", not "yes support but maybe not perfect")
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by philsnow 2y ago
The first image jumped out at me because the author chose to use blue and red which, when used on a map of the United States always indicates political affiliation, but the areas that were marked "red" and "blue" were
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by philsnow 2y ago
> In almost 10 years, Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success oh neat, I like learning about “secret weapons” like lisp/erlang > for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market: Norton Antivirus
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by philsnow 2y ago
> meander from one surrealist allegory to another because additional seasons were ordered This is how I find many shows made in the last ~20 years, but changing out "from one surrealist allegory to another" for various other th
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by philsnow 2y ago
I don't know -- I don't think that there's a particular social contract (much less a legal one) between companies and users that the offering they provide today will be unchanged forever. I don't mean to defend the dark
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by philsnow 2y ago
Not exactly the same but this reeks of https://sso.tax .
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by philsnow 2y ago
> Its been almost ten years since I've worked there and I occasionally log on just to see if they've updated anything. Nope. Last time I checked was early 2024. Still nothing was updated. ... but.. why? Why let them live rent-f
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by philsnow 2y ago
That reputational loss is almost exclusively among those who understand how the crowdstrike products work, but the Venn diagram with those folks and “people at companies who can approve large expenses” is nearly empty. Yes, the CRWD ticker
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by philsnow 2y ago
I miss webrings [0], and especially the 'random' link that would take you to a random site within a given webring. [0] it feels weird to have to link to this but there's probably somebody who's never heard of them: htt

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