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by rkangel 5y ago
To oversimplify a bit, VNC sends a sequence of images of the screen that are then painted. It optimises this pretty well - only sending the fragments of the screen that change, allowing translation of blocks (e.g. for window dragging), but
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by rkangel 5y ago
NixOS changes some standard conventions of Linux filesystem layout and where tools can expect to find things. These are for good reasons and are due to the core of what NixOS is trying to achieve. For building most things those changes are
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by rkangel 5y ago
This is only semi-related, but would you mind explaining what libtool actually does and what problem it solves? I've never been able to fully grok it.
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by rkangel 5y ago
You're running the tool not embedding or linking against its source code. An equivalent example might be if Libreoffice was under the GPL licence[1] - that licence wouldn't have any implications for a spreadsheet you created usi
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by rkangel 5y ago
I use Nix in a very simple way - reproducible dev environments. This is very similar to what you might do with Docker - have the right version of the right dev tools. The result is much more user friendly though because it's layered &q
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by rkangel 5y ago
Part of the issue is that cars can't really differentiate on shape, and therefore go overboard to differentiate on styling. Europe has strict rules about pedestrian safety - placing requirements on the shape of the front of the car to
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think of road side food vans as equivalent to Indie games. There's a low buy in cost which means that there's much more opportunity for the creativity of the individual can flourish.
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by rkangel 5y ago
Not a classic card game but Coup ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup ) is based on a similar mechanic of claiming what you're playing and being called out but with more interestingly interacting c
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by rkangel 5y ago
> If those comms are cleartext, that also means its possible to start sending disinformation. This is a classic confusion of authentication and encryption. We can hear what they're saying (which is useful), but that doesn't mea
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by rkangel 5y ago
> The risk of NATO intervention is high, right? Russia understood this before invading, right? So it seems Russia is accepting a high risk of loss. I don't think they saw the risk as high. Crimea was their 'soft-launch' to
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by rkangel 5y ago
The achievement is as much a social one as a technological one. Having a common irrigation system shared by multiple competing businesses and having it operate well for hundreds of years is impressive.
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by rkangel 5y ago
> it completely sidesteps a lot of the platform-specific woes This is the key point where Flutter wins over both React Native but also the native Android and iOS toolkits. When you design a screen in Flutter, it will behave as you expec
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by rkangel 5y ago
In practice, research and experimentation is done to work out the right combinations of light colour for the particular sort of fish you are trying to catch, and then fixed light sources are built for that. In some cases the roll-off from c
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by rkangel 5y ago
There is a British company called SafetyNet producing products to make fishing more sustainable (I have a friend who works for them). One product is a light intended to work exactly in the way described here: https://sntech.co.uk
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by rkangel 5y ago
The consumer products industry is largely vendor driven - companies decide what products to offer and then make and sell them. The big money in the defence industry is customer driven - the DoD (etc.) decides what they need then goes out an
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by rkangel 5y ago
It's interesting that it now appears that the RTS genre is not dead, it just went on hiatus for a while. AOE4 came out recently, Frost Giant (a new studio from the people behind Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3) have got a game in progress a
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by rkangel 5y ago
Yes - this needs editing into the title as it's quite significant.
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by rkangel 5y ago
Absolutely. I'd have also thought it was criminal fraud. My comment was meant to be about the general case of firing people in the UK.
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by rkangel 5y ago
> The UK people think it is moderately difficult; its actually pretty easy It's not too difficult, but it's not quick (and that's ok). Outside of gross misconduct, you have to go through multiple stages of explaining the
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by rkangel 5y ago
> this would totally work with my mom, who after many years of visiting me in the USA is still afraid of giving her card to the waiter in a restaurant to pay for dinner To be fair - her instincts aren't bad. It was always a shitty s
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by rkangel 5y ago
> state-sponsored space exploration Let's be clear - we are talking about organisational structure not about funding. A lot of SpaceX's income comes from the US government. The money that they have used to develop Falcon was
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by rkangel 5y ago
> until such a time a server can deliver both HTML and server driven native UI for mobile interchangeably, I prefer the RPC approach. I really think this is such a key point and is the main blocker to this sort of architecture for cases
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by rkangel 5y ago
I don't see what the difference is in security architecture between a desktop app and a web app implementing the same scheme? My assumption is that you've got an E2EE link between the Signal app on the phone and the desktop app (w
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by rkangel 5y ago
Nice design. I like the stars as an extra feeling of success and pressure beyond just getting the word right.
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by rkangel 5y ago
There are two counterpoints that mean that this is unlikely to be what happens: Lego bricks are made to micron tolerances. When you add up tolerancing errors over 10 or 50 bricks in a row the differences can add up and things don't fit
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by rkangel 5y ago
One aircraft that I have always assumed existed was the SR-71 replacement. When they retired it the official story was that it was superceded by satellites, but satellites have a level of predictability and trackability that is best complem
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by rkangel 5y ago
I think that is probably true, but if they are going to get caught out it's likely to be an LEO fast moving object from Russia that they've lost track of rather than a commercial imagery platform that isn't trying to hide.
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by rkangel 5y ago
Alternatively you go PXE boot and network storage but then that assumes that you've got something else running to provide it. It's a nice solution when you've got half a dozen Pis around though (we use it in labs for our ha
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by rkangel 5y ago
They lose all the data though. They may have avoided some name smearing but it's the data that they really want.
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by rkangel 5y ago
There is an assumption here that 'people hosting their own instances' is the ultimate goal and I don't think that's true. The important thing is that someone can always set up a new instance if they don't like the e

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