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by rob74 2y ago
That's one of the reasons why you generally don't go to bed with shoes on (and why most people take off their shoes when coming home). If you don't use shoes however, I guess you probably have to wash your feet when you come
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by rob74 2y ago
I was wondering about that too. They can only detect aircraft with wingspans over 25 m, so most fighter jets (and also GA aircraft) are too small. Large commercial aircraft can be much better located (and identified!) via ADS-B. So that doe
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by rob74 2y ago
I used to revile (can you use this verb this way?) M$ in the 1980s/1990s as well, but at the moment I could think of several tech companies that I like even less. And yes, technically they can still be considered a monopolist because o
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by rob74 2y ago
The Guardian has the advantage of not being paywalled however (they occasionally ask for donations, but you can still read all the articles).
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by rob74 2y ago
Wow, this really puts into perspective how much work has to be put into even the most insignificant details of getting Linux to run on (Apple Silicon) Macs. I say "insignificant" with all due respect because, well, the built-in mi
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, if it's available on crates.io, I guess nobody will think that it's from Apple. Also, it could conceivably be used in other software besides Asahi too...
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by rob74 2y ago
I think you're confusing environmentalists with NIMBYs who use (among others) environmental arguments to argue against projects they don't like.
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by rob74 2y ago
One thing I learned the hard way is that various older relays, timers, dimmers etc. will kill LED "light bulbs", but most of the time not instantly, but over several months/years. When we bought our current apartment 10 years
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by rob74 2y ago
> We’d like to avoid the grave. Don't we all... but somehow I get the feeling that something was "lost in translation" here?
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by rob74 2y ago
Not sure if you're aware of it, but there's even a game engine written in Go that has been used for a few commercial titles: https://ebitengine.org/en/showcase.html
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by rob74 2y ago
Ok, fair enough, then maybe they shouldn't have picked this 50 year old guy who used to have a management job but was then forced to flee his country and work as a delivery worker, but a 22 year old who used to sell drugs but now makes
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by rob74 2y ago
So, a 50 year old former "business manager in a government role" is now working as a delivery worker in Colombia, and the fact that the company gave him a loan for an e-bike (they didn't even provide it to him!) is listed a
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, okay, the same arguments can be used to question why we need (crewed) space exploration at all. It's extremely expensive, it doesn't really bring any new scientific data. We've been to the Moon already, and what there i
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by rob74 2y ago
In this case, "soon" means 2030, which is the planned "retirement" date. Musk suggests to do it even sooner, in two year's time (that would be 2027).
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by rob74 2y ago
Becoming a space settler on Mars: cool Contributing to bringing Earth to a state where it will have to be "terraformed" itself: not so cool
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by rob74 2y ago
...especially since both are at an age where this will probably be their last mission.
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by rob74 2y ago
There has to be someone on the ISS at all times - unless you want to abandon and decommission it, that is, but nobody (except Elon Musk) is suggesting to do that at this point in time...
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by rob74 2y ago
Hm, have I watched the same video? Most of the difference I saw on the floors is lighting and shadows, the only case where the floor was really "shiny" was a tiled floor, and that is actually reflective in real life, so...
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by rob74 2y ago
> If a resolution requires a system change, what organization would allow one person at 3am to make it and push to prod? Well yeah, if you have on call, I guess you have to trust the on-call person to make that decision. If they get ca
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by rob74 2y ago
That's efficiency! I mean, Trump is so efficient that, besides dismantling the federal government, imposing creative tariffs and bringing Putin's peace to Ukraine, he has still found time to fly to Mar-a-Lago on Air Force One for
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by rob74 2y ago
Non-paywalled: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/conserva... So, the UK conservatives align themselves closer to Trump again - what else is new? Ok, Trump is more in the "climate c
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by rob74 2y ago
TIL also - until today, I thought it was just "mercaptan". Turns out there are actually two variants of that: > Ethanethiol (EM), commonly known as ethyl mercaptan is used in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and resembles odor of
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by rob74 2y ago
Sure, and that influences what the doctor will allow/approve :)
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by rob74 2y ago
> I'm always curious about this. How often can you get day off for stress? As often as your doctor will allow/approve it?
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by rob74 2y ago
Yeah, it's probably a good strategy to ignore the (unfortunately mostly incorrect) details and rather try to get a general feeling of what the videos are trying to tell you. For example the "shipyard" page - I was first compl
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by rob74 2y ago
It's also a bit disappointing how much AI still deviates from what you ask of it. In one case, the prompt is (with spoilers removed): > This star-lit scene in a [...] garden showcases [...] using a seven-foot reflecting telescope,
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by rob74 2y ago
I used to do that when I had a two-monitor setup - one full-screen window per monitor. Now that I have one 4K monitor I usually have two windows side by side, and very occasionally quartered (sometimes of course also one window on one side
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by rob74 2y ago
Yes, in fact that's one of the main reasons given in the two linked interviews: Go can generate "real" native executables for all the platforms they want to support. One of the other reasons is (paraphrasing) that it's e
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by rob74 2y ago
Seeing that Hejlsberg started out with Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and that Go also has a lot of Pascal-family heritage, he might hold some sympathy for Go as well...
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by rob74 2y ago
Those were exactly my thoughts while reading this article: if your codebase (over)uses inheritance, interfaces, traits, facades, dependency injection etc. etc. to thinly spread any given functionality over several files, no amount of format

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