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by qchris 5y ago
I know you're using "garden" in a somewhat hyperbolic sense here, but I have to say that I've never particularly liked that framing; I think it implies a degree of control/domesticity over the natural environment th
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by qchris 5y ago
On a related note, there's a book called Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter [1] that I read over the holidays that goes really into detail about the animals and their effect on the world around them. Rea
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by qchris 5y ago
This looks like it's still developing, and thankfully the user who posted this (u/jaylittle) appears to have posted significant details and evidence. This matters imho, because from my point of view as a lurker on r/Purism (d
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by qchris 5y ago
I literally did the same thing last night! A DO droplet hosting a statically-generated site composed of html generated from some markdown and sandwiched between some html headers, then served up by the Rocket[1] framework. It's my firs
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by qchris 6y ago
Thanks for the info, I hadn't heard about the USB isolation architecture issue. I'm not sure about the status of LUKS on PureOS, but I know that Mobian supports it and there is a supported build of Mobian for the Librem 5. First-h
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by qchris 6y ago
Would you mind elaborating on that? My understanding is from a verification point of view, the Librem 5 is functionally at the absolute top-tier in terms of OpSec concerns, with everything from the bootloader up being open and customized, f
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by qchris 6y ago
I believe this is actively being worked on; there's a compiler backend being built using Cranelift instead of LLVM that will supposedly improve debug built times by a fair amount, and then the full release builds will switch over to th
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by qchris 6y ago
This is a technology demonstration of a novel robotics system build using many off-the-shelf parts, on a planet with night-time temperatures as low as -130F [1]. Ingenuity survived, literally, a first freezing night. That is an accomplish
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by qchris 6y ago
But tens of thousands of finished-ish products is a drop in the bucket compared to the total scale of FOSS software through Github/Gitlab. For GPL alone, a quick license search on Github reveals almost 2M individual repositories wit
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm some ways, I get your analogy, but I think you're making an assumption that it doesn't support. Open source software is rarely "here's a free chair, that also doesn't have splinters." It's far mor
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by qchris 6y ago
This is my understanding as well; one of the reasons why China has such a high percentage of that market isn't because no one else can, but rather that they don't want to. The environmental damage is often horrendous [1][2] so eve
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by qchris 6y ago
I absolutely believe it-I use one professionally to maneuver an underwater ROV. They're intuitive, already familiar to a lot of people, and surprisingly reliable.
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by qchris 6y ago
Alternatively, maybe in an era of climate change, there could be an incentive to use the extra to run processes like carbon capture. If carbon credits became a thing in a global economy, I could see some companies in a cap-and-trade scenari
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by qchris 6y ago
> (Am I misinformed?) Quick appreciation regarding the intellectual humility required to add this to the end of your comment. In my humble opinion, this kind of attitude and approach represents some of the best of the HN community.
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by qchris 6y ago
Whenever something like this comes up, I think that a closely-related topic is replication of scientific studies. One of the best articles I've read on this was by Stuart Buck here [1], which I think offers a great starting point. I al
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by qchris 6y ago
I absolutely agree that cave diving is a way to get where people have never been before, and to explore the extraordinary. But to remark on those people as "ordinary middle class" is a bit misleading. I'd probably lean more t
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by qchris 6y ago
I can confidently say that I personally saw a sea otter about 15 miles north of Santa Barbara about 5 months ago that was snacking on purple sea urchins. It would go down, come up, do something, and repeat, and I came across several very-re
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm having trouble finding the thread, but I believe the lead developer has stated that even in the kernel, the code only sits at something like 20-30% unsafe anyway, which is a huge reduction in overall vulnerable surface area.
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by qchris 6y ago
This feels like a gross generalization that's not applicable in many situations, and is immensely dependent on each individual person and situation. I can write non-trivial performant code in Rust, including bindings across a C FFI muc
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Immortal Technologies (2006)(kk.org)
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by qchris 6y ago
I think this kind of a system is extremely unlikely to be applied in practice, at least in the United States--it's just too costly. You can reasonably train a 16-year-old to be a lifeguard in less than 30 hours[0]. Meanwhile, even the
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by qchris 6y ago
For whatever it's worth, the user that posted this link (onebookaday) appears to be a dedicated account for posting links to Boox products; active 7 months, 4 submissions, 5 comments, all surrounding the release and promotion of Boox p
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by qchris 6y ago
I appreciate your feedback on this--I did end up finding the Mouse Model documentation after a bit, but I think there was some frustration built in on my end by that point. I'm certainly open to trying it again in the future, and hones
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by qchris 6y ago
I tried designing a relatively simple assembly in Freecad recently (again, as I've come back to it multiple times), and remembered how uniquely terrible some the design decisions have been. I mean, fundamentally user-hostile approaches
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by qchris 6y ago
Those mechanisms do already exist--marine snow, compacted biomass in wetlands, heck, even things like whale falls store carbon for enormously long periods of time. The buffer duration/cycle period matters significantly. I agree, turnin
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by qchris 6y ago
If only there were existing storage mechanisms that existed in remote areas like forests or swamps. We could probably protect those areas, maybe even put new storage devices in. Ideally, of course, they'd run off a renewable source of
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by qchris 6y ago
> The estimated cost of this report or study for the Department of Defense is approximately $159,000 in Fiscal Years 2020–2021. This includes $24,000 in expenses and $134,000 in DoD labor. I don't know, for some reason this cost fee
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by qchris 6y ago
In case anyone misses the comment by "MicaiahC" at the bottom of the page (not mine, but I clicked their link and found it very interesting), the ethics interpretation that is referenced in footnote 4 is the Copenhagen Interpretat
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by qchris 6y ago
Perhaps it's just my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Cortana was never really a name of a person, but adopted from the Halo franchise (now owned by Microsoft) as the name of the main character's AI companion, which
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by qchris 6y ago
I think that this could be an underlooked, but absolutely killer feature for this board. Built-in support for high-capacity li-ion batteries that automatically kick-in for a battery backup would be awesome for homemade NAS set-ups, not to m

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