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by quink 1y ago
Hooks were first introduced in 16.8. Make it 18 maybe?
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by quink 1y ago
One of these days I’ll get a model railroad bridge and put it over a borehole. But that day shan’t be today because arguing technicalities on HN seems easier :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_bridges v
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by quink 1y ago
Note: highest, not tallest. Highest should technically be the building here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole which is more than 12km above ground, that is to say 12km high. Or, rather, was, havi
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by quink 1y ago
Just make it a well-defined class. Like option structs in Go. Simple.
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by quink 1y ago
I'm not even talking about compilers though... all I want is a baseline standard that I can point to and say: "Here. This right here is where it says that 'curl' and 'wget' shall be available and in $PATH.&quot
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by quink 1y ago
I may have mentioned on occasion, here or there, about how ludicrous it is that there appears to be no well-defined standard that user space shall have sqlite3 and git and gzip. So, for all intents and purposes, nothing that would be releva
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by quink 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country In fact, I’d call electronic voting unpopular given the many, many examples on this page.
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by quink 1y ago
Australian here. Electronic voting is a joke. And a not very funny one.
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by quink 1y ago
> I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the dese
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by quink 1y ago
> Apple released its final CRT monitor in 2000 Not a standalone monitor, but eMac. 2002, with the last revision first released in 2005.
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by quink 1y ago
> Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems Echoes like, if you look really closely, how window management without third-party tools is as garbage in 2025 as it was in 1984. Never change, love you Mac.
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by quink 1y ago
And for an encore, I guess they'll start tearing out random pages in the books I didn't happen to read last August?
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by quink 1y ago
New cars... but a 22 year old used Toyota, like mine, seems perfectly fine. Sure, it'll kill me because of the comparative lack of safety, but that seems like a minor sacrifice in the face of needing to deal with a new car. It also doe
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by quink 1y ago
> she literally could not get it right Eh, they get their revenge. As any Australian of a certain age can tell you TelSTRA could not get it right, for any value of right, without expending an equivalent effort to moving a mountain.
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by quink 1y ago
The US population is about 4% of the worldwide population. Anybody who thinks that the aviation industry does or doesn’t do anything significantly different because of something that touches 4% for 4 years is probably in the market for some
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by quink 1y ago
Wouldn’t mind if Torvalds could do to CI/CD what he did to VCS with git.
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by quink 1y ago
I didn’t exactly see a litany of breaking changes here… In fact, zod is one of the leading forces behind this: https://github.com/standard-schema/standard-schema A major version increase in four years doesn’t exactly s
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by quink 2y ago
Power, not signal, sigh.
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by quink 2y ago
Furthermore: > Active Safety Features > > Active safety features come standard on all Tesla vehicles made after September 2014 for elevated protection at all times. These features are made possible by our Autopilot hardware and sof
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by quink 2y ago
Here's what the official Tesla website has to say about FSD vs. Autopilot: > In addition to the functionality and features of Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot, Full Self-Driving capability also includes: > > Traffic and Stop S
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by quink 2y ago
> you'd quickly notice how many derivative anime are released each season. Never could get used to the term 'derivative' in that context. Everything's derivative. Hard to know what word to use instead, but I just woul
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by quink 2y ago
Wonderful to see Flip Flappers have that bit of over-representation that it so richly deserves. It's a true work of love, so it's not surprising to see fansubs of it reflect that as well.
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by quink 2y ago
> or the ones who abdicated the real power Missed that part in your parent reply originally, you're right of course, cheers :)
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by quink 2y ago
OK, let's consult the article, starting right at the beginning: > Serfdom was Huh.
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by quink 2y ago
lol. I lived under the same monarch, QEII, who has ruled for seventy years, and I assure you that I and my compatriots feel far, far, freer in practice and guided more well than any single American ought to feel currently.
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by quink 2y ago
"guest workers" as a term completely excludes serfs. Serfs are attached to the land, guest workers on the other hand come from a completely different place. North Korea is not a monarchy, and what's happening there is forced
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by quink 2y ago
There’s no serfdom anywhere in the world currently. There are plenty of monarchies in the world. Meanwhile, currently, slavery is far more common in non-monarchies than monarchies. Your “relatively common” is literally zero in the current r
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by quink 2y ago
Which can be mitigated by making the monarch powerless. I’m in Australia and the Trump presidency will be the thing for the next century that we can point to and say that this is why we are not going to ever, ever, ever get rid of the king
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by quink 2y ago
OK, had a look through the linked paper. The big graphs, on page 8, tell you that if you decrease the twist length - which would entail relaying all the copper in the entire network, at which point you may as well put down fibre instead - y
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by quink 2y ago
Of course ancient telephone wiring can carry 1 Gbps. The real question you always, always, always, need to be asking yourself is: Over what distance? Make that distance short enough, as has happened with FTTN, or FTTC deployments in a whole

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