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by rlpb 4y ago
I'm responding to a claim of "The whole OOo, mysqL, OEL junket...", and all you've got is to accuse Oracle of what they might do in the future? It's fine to hold a negative opinion of them because of what they mig
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by rlpb 4y ago
What's the problem with MySQL?
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by rlpb 4y ago
Maybe this is already implemented, but a voice recognition interface seems appropriate here. Because aircraft that are this complex have two pilots, and it's normal procedure for the pilot flying to call for the other pilot to make set
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by rlpb 4y ago
I got this: "<family member> wants you to be their emergency contact on Nextdoor. In case of emergency, <family member> wants their neighbors to be able to message you via Nextdoor. Please accept their invitation to join an
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by rlpb 4y ago
For many years I've been using "Grendel's" converter schematic and firmware that can be found here: http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=15526 This makes my Gameport Sidewinder appear as a USB Sidewinder
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by rlpb 4y ago
The body would still be claiming some piece of land for eternity; just somewhere else. This would still break my "no claim on land for eternity" requirement.
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by rlpb 4y ago
I don't think you have a right to claim some piece of land for eternity, at the expense of future people who want to use that space to live in (or for their infrastructure). So if your grave can't just remain there, what's th
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by rlpb 4y ago
This is why I'm not convinced "crypto whales" exist. If they really hold that much with no strings, why haven't they sold and retired to live a life of luxury by now? Do they plan to hold out to the grave? What good will
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by rlpb 4y ago
What level of replaceable battery is acceptable? Like you, I have an XPS 9360 and I replaced the battery recently. I had to remove a bunch of screws and pry open the lid to do it. I don't particular mind this. I'd rather have a th
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by rlpb 4y ago
My understanding is that most (or at least many) very significant scientific discoveries were serendipitous. They were discovered while looking for something else. So statements like "When you don’t have much to go on, and limited reso
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by rlpb 4y ago
I deleted my LinkedIn account many years ago because of unwanted notifications and an inability to disable them. I haven't missed it.
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by rlpb 4y ago
Patent lawyers consider the "not obvious to someone skilled in the art" test done by merely looking at prior art. If it's not previously explicitly patented, it's valid. According to them. This is exactly what a patent l
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by rlpb 4y ago
Electric cars get about 3-4 miles per kWh and efficiency is only going to get better, not worse. People aren't expected to drive substantially more in distance than they already do. So the overall energy needs of electric cars aren&#x2
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by rlpb 4y ago
Communications with others are expressed as a written or spoken number. But then calculations with that number (eg. "how long do I have?") have to be done with arithmetic. It's fairly rare that I wear a watch, but when I do,
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by rlpb 4y ago
It is illegal to make it difficult to "Reject All" and those who do not comply are being fined. For example Google and Facebook: "The CNIL found that Google and Facebook's failures to make non-essential cookies as easy t
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by rlpb 5y ago
In that time the world population has increased from 3 billion to 8 billion. Things like energy, food and construction are our most basic needs. In the past, production of these were limited by available labor. Today that's not the cas
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by rlpb 5y ago
My editor autodetects and preserves the line ending character sequence when I save. If I want to change it, I just need to change the setting. Doesn't yours? Why is this still an issue for you?
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by rlpb 5y ago
I wrote my own (in Python+trio). I still need to publish it :-/ I'm sure Home Assistant would also be fine though! Currently it uses openzwave, but I found that it didn't suit me very well. So I have a half-written replacemen
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by rlpb 5y ago
In an article covering bad engineering resulting in bricking, I think it's relevant to point out that Insteon's kind of bricking is impossible if you choose the right product, and which product that is. I did some research before
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by rlpb 5y ago
> The problem is that as you get deeper into Linux, you become progressively more and more likely to install your own packages from source, and then all of that curation goes out the window. It needn't go out of the window. The key
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by rlpb 5y ago
Also, most distros have the concept of stable releases. This provides a very valuable "focus point". It means that we don't just have to rely on the maintainers. Users can review packages for reasonable behavior too, and this
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by rlpb 5y ago
They've provided a mechanism to do that. Similar to the SSH mechanism you already know about.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Certifications work on a per-aircraft-type and per-engine-type basis. Converting a single aircraft type to a different engine is possible, but every single combination would need to be tested (I think this also includes flight testing) and
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by rlpb 5y ago
Enforcement is happening. For example: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-m... But yes, I'd like it to be happening faster.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Cookie banners aren't required for a working web. User-abusing organisations would like you to think that, because they want you to blame the EU rather than them. The fact is, if a cookie is strictly required to provide the service the
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think there's a lot of naivety around understanding what a distribution does and why they do things the way they do. This article is full of that. And yet, most people in the ecosystem depend on the product. In other words, I'm
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by rlpb 5y ago
A common misconception is that just because an upstream released some time before a distribution release, the distribution ought to have had enough time to update, and a failure to update is a failure on the part of the distribution. But it
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by rlpb 5y ago
I'm not sure that the threats of harassment actually came from Debian. Remember: Debian does (nearly) everything in public. People participating on the mailing lists aren't necessarily members of the Debian project.
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think it's misleading to claim that this came about due to "infighting". It came about due to https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 leading to DDs fearing being individually targeted due to ho
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Maybe that's just an interface configuration issue though? Maybe. I know there are two types of measurements in FreeCAD Sketches - ones that are actually constraining the design, and ones that you request to be displayed for other

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