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by rjmunro 3y ago
Whoops, you are right. I think it's too late to edit my original post. The point still stands, though, you have to get to nearly 8km/s otherwise you aren't in orbit and you fall back into the atmosphere. You can't get to
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Orbit is not about height, it is about speed. You have to get to almost 30km/s otherwise you aren't in orbit and you fall back into the atmosphere.
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Engineers objected and were ignored for the foam strike as well. What I don't know is how many engineers object, are ignored, and everything goes fine anyway. Maybe these are the only 2 times engineers objected. Maybe they get 100 obje
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You can't say that without mentioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009 Where the pilot said what is probably the most British thing ever said in history: > Ladies and gentlemen, this is
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> In reality the maximum number that can be sustained in this manner is less than the number of salaried listicle writers at media outlets. I think the maximum is probably quite lot more than there are salaried writers. But it's cer
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Not many TV shows are profitable with less than 20,000 viewers, which is what we are talking about here.
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Over-simplistically, I might have commits like: * Add new field to the database * Add new feature to API * Add new feature to front end * Add new feature end to end test Each would make sense on it's own from a code review point of vie
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Emergency alert (first time it has been used)(gov.uk)
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by rjmunro 3y ago
1 commit per PR sounds like terrible advice, unless it's a change of just a couple of lines. Don't squash your PRs to make logs look shorter, learn to use the `--first-parent` option to show only the merges if you want less detail
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I find gitx really helpful at understanding what's going on in git. Especially its ability to drag branches around the tree shows you that branches are just labels, they aren't the actual code. It doesn't do everything, but w
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If insurance pays out often enough that this might actually work as a sales tactic, they don't get another sale, everyone goes to another manufacturer because insurance is so expensive. Also most car dealers make more profit from ongoi
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Download the CSVs of https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-unodc and https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prison-population-rate Plot them on a graph. There is basically no correlation.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
> No level of technology will stop this. Why does no one steal Teslas?
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I think it's just that the bandwidth of the microwaves is not much by today's standards. It was capable of 150,000 simultaneous telephone calls, which is something like 10Gbs. It may be that modern numbers were higher, but possibl
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by rjmunro 3y ago
Just publish the script to a secret URL like: https://example.com/aeluaeualeraciuwefaljwefnalsduhgsdgasu.s... Rotate the URL from time to time.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I had to Google 7T. I assume you mean $7 Trillion, not some new chip or fab technology.
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> what would be good incentives to make companies like blizzard start reporting fraudsters? Having someone to report them to?
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by rjmunro 3y ago
To allow other browser engines on iOS, why do Apple have to do anything except change the policy of the App store to not reject them?
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by rjmunro 3y ago
The absolute worst example of this I have seen is the Tesla dashboard screen UI. It shows a car with labels on it, not buttons, that say "Open". That unambiguously means that the particular part is open. But that's not what i
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I think it's 8 calendar years between starting and finishing, not 8 man years of effort. Also Gustave Eiffel didn't build the original by himself.
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Or by using a bash builtin that duplicates a normal command.
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The end product is supposed to be 24fps for a cinema. But then a TV company wants to show the already-existing film. It needs to be solved. In PAL countries, 24fps movies are often played a bit fast at 25fps on TV so that each frame fits ni
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It would be good to include a video of it working, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChlD_ZfpPdw
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What exactly does the feature do? Share (some of?) your data with people you seem to be related to? If that data is sensitive, it seems a pretty risky thing to share even with relatives who you know quite well.
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I just looked at my clock; it was 10:59. So I tried 5 + 9 * 6 = 5 + 54 = 59. That doesn't seem right. Then it was 00. That doesn't work either...
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> rhymes with "tine of christmas". What?
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`git fsck --no-reflog` will show you orphan commits. Search for "dangling commit" in the output. It will take a while to run on larger repositories. If you have gitk installed, this command will show a complete git tree, including
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by rjmunro 3y ago
If it's possible for a virus to be embedded in a cartridge and infect the printer, or travel through the printer and infect other devices via the USB or network connection, that's a serious design flaw in the printer's firmwa
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I really liked the videos about dismantling, moving and reinstalling the organ at the museum. There's a playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxD...
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by rjmunro 3y ago
I want to move to something compatible with https://www.passwordstore.org/ - an open standard for keeping your passwords in a folder encrypted with OpenPGP. The problem is that I'm nervous to give an unknown Android ap

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