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by prewett 2y ago
If the control systems have hard real-time requirements, FreeDOS may be one of the few options. (At least I assume FreeDOS is, since MS-DOS was.) Presumably it's a lot cheaper than QNX, too.
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by prewett 2y ago
> These rocks have retained their original state, having neither melted nor resolidified since their inception How are they able to tell that?
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by prewett 2y ago
I figure we could get a Falcon Heavy filled with rocks or something launched in a hurry. But, I did the math, and like you say, all we could do is watch. Assuming the standard asteroid density of 2000 kg/m^3 [1], a 260 m diameter aster
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by prewett 2y ago
I think the purpose of the inscrutability serves is to "idea launder" obvious falsehoods into something believable, much like the convoluted path one takes to convert stolen money into believably-legal money.
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by prewett 2y ago
We do expect people with medical conditions to take actions. Have cancer, do chemotherapy or get surgery. Overweight, change diet (or take thyroid medication, depending). Celiac, don't eat gluten. Bacterial infection, take appropriate
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by prewett 2y ago
Well, on the web side, it'd be a lot less complex if we weren't trying to write applications using a tool designed to create documents. If people compiled Qt to WASM (for instance), or for a little lighter weight, my in-developmen
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by prewett 2y ago
The government you (plural) elect is the government you (plural) deserve. If as a society you (plural) cannot figure out how to work together--due to ideological intransigence, culture values that preclude it, unwillingness to put in the ha
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by prewett 2y ago
Well, it's more niche, but it's still necessary. For instance, if you write a printer driver you'll need a good dithering algorithm, since you only get pigment on/off (even in CMYK). In fact, for multi-channel dither you
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by prewett 2y ago
I think we should assume it will be badly aligned. Not only are there the usual bugs and unforeseen edge conditions, but there are sure to be unintended consequences. We have a long, public history of unintended consequences in laws, whic
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by prewett 2y ago
A little off-topic, but since the article mentioned macOS not necessary actually doing a flush even on fsync(), I've been wondering how long it is before macOS actually writes to the drive. A non-trivial number of my writes are a compi
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by prewett 2y ago
> It means not the creation of a black hole (like I initially thought), There was a candidate for a stellar collapse to a black hole a few years ago: https://www.livescience.com/disappearing-star-black-hole-no-... Unfort
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by prewett 2y ago
> their onboard clock is pretty good They use atomic clocks, so it's accurate to something like 1 part in 10^16, or about 1 second in a billion years! A friend of mine is working on the next generation, which will be even more accur
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by prewett 2y ago
Given the 50% divorce rates, we don't seem to be able to handle our most intimate relationships right now. Being able to access people's naked thoughts sounds like a disaster. Both the perceiver and the thinker are going to need t
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm curious what mythology has time travel? I can't think of any in Greek and Roman mythology. Celtic mythology doesn't seem to have time travel either, unless you count going forwards at different perceived speeds.
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by prewett 2y ago
Apparently Asimov linked the robots into Foundation some decades afterwards, so maybe he agreed with you. (I've not read past the original trilogy, so can't say for sure.)
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by prewett 2y ago
But the "better" languages have their own problems. UI calculations tend to need to mix int/float frequently, and the calculations can get fairly unreadable from all the casting (and I'm the sort that religiously casts t
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by prewett 2y ago
Automates the tedious/boring parts of flying between regions in Microsoft Flight Simulator. On higher difficulty levels, can use voice recognition to accept tasks ("Copilot, we are losing fuel, find the nearest airport we can land
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by prewett 2y ago
Someone asked a substitute teacher if she would make that trade, and she said she wouldn’t, not unless she could retain what she knew now. So, buy a renewed youth? Sure. But do 22 again as a 22 year old? Nope. Now that I’m “over the hill
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by prewett 2y ago
Technology makes possible things cheaper and impossible things possible, which is a form of wealth. At any rate, both money and technology can make us materially comfortable. But the reason “money can’t buy happiness” is that a large part o
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by prewett 2y ago
I've never uploaded pictures of myself to Facebook, other than a few profile pictures, so you'd think I'd be in the clear, right? I doubt it. My friends have uploaded pictures with me to FB. I never authorized Facebook to use
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by prewett 2y ago
I hope the reason given was something like "people have free will and sometimes they use it to do evil" (which is why forgiveness is a thing), and that "God has a plan" includes a plan to heal and restore (for instance,
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by prewett 2y ago
> I know online spaces will tell you [being vulnerable] is dangerous, and that your partner might leave you. The possibility of being rejected by being vulnerable is definitional... It's not being vulnerable if there isn't the
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by prewett 2y ago
You certainly have the choice whether to continue being religious as an adult. Also, there are plenty of children who reject religiosity (although that may not get a chance to express itself until high school / college)
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by prewett 2y ago
I regularly see some article on the iPhone stock app saying something like "Dow (rise|plunge) on <reason>, markets wrapped", five minutes after open. Look guys, "markets wrapped" means "it's after close&q
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by prewett 2y ago
At a price of $100m and net income of $8.9m, that would be a P/E of 11 and a dividend yield of 5.34%. Assuming limited net income growth, such as a large corporation such as Coca-Cola (KO), this is a great stock! KO is kind of the post
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by prewett 2y ago
Artists in the art world seem to have bought in to a nihilistic worldview, too. My impression of the NYC artistic world (literary and visual) of the early 20th century is a bunch of people having parties and trying unsuccessfully to find me
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by prewett 2y ago
Johnson and Johnson is very explicit NOT amoral. They have guiding principles that basically put the needs of their customers first, then employees, communities, and finally shareholders. [1] These old companies were founded in a society th
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by prewett 3y ago
I helped my dad castrate some of cattle one time, and we just tossed the ... parts ... off into the grass. Later I saw one of them come over and eat one. So I'm not so surethey would not eat meat on their own, but since they are too sl
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by prewett 3y ago
I took me some reflection and some education from the comments here to see this, but it seems like Powell had the same pique to the interviewer's questions as he did to his colleague's. So he answers the questions, but at the same
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by prewett 3y ago
Not being able to afford a house doesn't imply that you're in risk of being homeless. OP seems to be using home owning as the measure for having hope in life, which is ridiculous. Now when I lived in Beijing, rent was expensive (f

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