robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
Yeah yeah, typical. "it's easy and popular to point to the worst engineer-designed interfaces to ridicule the design abilities of all engineers." The general dysfunction of open source design is much broader than UI desig
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by robonerd 4y ago
I guess you (deliberately) missed the part where the two features coexist perfectly fine. There is no "“Don’t do it the way everyone else does it" , you pulled that out of your ass. All the Linux DEs worth mentioning have dragg
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by robonerd 4y ago
I know, I've seen a few of those. Most of them are tiny replicas built ironically for the novelty factor. Besides the ones built for tourist traps, most are justified as radio towers. But as radio towers the design is laughably obs
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Don't these things show up on radar I'm sure they do, but they're quite small and mostly made out of composites that are fairly transparent to radar. Their radar cross section must be very small compared to a gen 4
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by robonerd 4y ago
> arriving at perhaps Mach 5 Quite a lot faster than that actually; Mach 20+ on reentry. The way the media talks about "hypersonics" without getting into specifics is very misleading. Hypersonic cruise missiles are a tough
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by robonerd 4y ago
As a "get to Mars" company it makes very little sense, they've invested virtually nothing into colony technology, just rockets. Mars is to SpaceX what manganese nodules were to Hughes' Glomar Explorer, a flimsy cover st
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by robonerd 4y ago
> So one can only assume that either Russia's air defense isn't as good as everyone thought, they aren't using it effectively, or the drone is harder to shoot down as operated than people thought. All of the above I bet.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> But now I think it's just a humdrum industrial eyesore. That was a popular opinion when it was built. Eventually it became iconic, but nevertheless I don't see many cities rushing to build their own.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Compare it to Linux UIs where you often have to grab a single pixel border on a 4k monitor to resize a window. On Linux you hold the super/windows key and click/drag anywhere on the window to move it, or right-click/dr
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by robonerd 4y ago
> 1) to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user experiences In other words, we jumped off this bridge because all our friends did to. Consistency... with other Microsoft products. What a joke. Wh
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "We decided to keep the uppercase menus because we want more energy in this part of the interface." It always seems to be new-age mumbo jumbo with these sort of design people. Design needs to be given back over to the eng
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Several news sources have reported that a single TB2 drone can be purchased for a million dollars, but Bayraktar, while not giving a precise figure, told me that it costs more. In any event, single-unit figures are misleading; TB2s ar
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by robonerd 4y ago
They've got a long way to go. Per wikipedia they have orders for 1383 planes but have only delivered 71. Compare that to Embraer which has already made 1621 E-Jets.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Now instead of pay phones in gas stations, if you have an emergency virtually every other person you might meet can call 911 for you on the spot, without having to run off to find a pay phone.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The discussion is dead anyway now, so sure. To make this fun for you, I've written two lists and mixed them together. I'll let you sort out the sometimes justified from the broadly unjustified . I believe cyclists are hated for
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by robonerd 4y ago
Despite the two-wheel connection, I think the ire cyclists and motorcyclists get is actually completely unrelated. I have a lot of thoughts on why cyclists get so much mostly undeserved hate, but I don't think it's relevant to
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by robonerd 4y ago
Honestly I can't say I have. I usually keep removals and other hazardous commands out of my shell history by prepending them with a space character. And, if the command is coming out of my shell history, probably the file is alread
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Windows 95 Deletion confirmations are more important in GUI systems like Window's file explorer, where accidentally deleting a selected file would otherwise be a single mistaken keypress away. The delete key is easy to accide
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by robonerd 4y ago
The S-Tank is my favorite tank. Although turretless, its hydropneumanic suspension allowed it to aim its gun up and down in a remarkable way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RVbqyz2lk4
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think Hollywood wasn't motivating anti-biker attitudes, just the opposite. Hollywood made these movies because the subject was of interest to the public. Motorcyclists were already notoriously antisocial by 1972, and that public se
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by robonerd 4y ago
If movies are a gauge of public interest, then people have been upset with motorcyclists since the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biker_films
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The size of the gap seems pretty arbitrary. I think the gap is vindictive, motivated by the general public's frustration with motorcyclists.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> We’re well past a polite society as a solution. Isn't that a bit fatalist? Perhaps our society has degenerated, but who's to say things can't get better? Things have gotten better before. Society used to be very rud
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by robonerd 4y ago
As I said, 95 decibels seems like a reasonable enough limit for motorcycles. But I suspect lower limit for motorcycles is motivated by people getting fed up with motorcyclists particularly. The worst motorcyclists have earned a horrible
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by robonerd 4y ago
> A legitimate reason to do this is for highway safety This seems like first-order thinking. Sure, it makes people more likely to notice the motorcycles. But it also makes people a lot more likely to hate motorcyclists and be unsymp
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think the limit should be the same for both, but I bet the difference is motivated by the pack behavior of motorcyclists. Loud cars usually travel alone, but loud motorcycles often travel in packs of dozens which may continue passing yo
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by robonerd 4y ago
Okular works nicely for .cbz files (zip files of images.) Oddly, it won't open the same files named with a .zip extension. Not a terrible inconvenience, just a little odd. My favorite okular feature is the way click-and-drag to pan
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Abandoned software that was moderately influential in the past. Hardware that's no longer manufactured and someone wants to memory hole it. This one is a bit surprising to me. From my perspective, wikipedia seems to have a str
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by robonerd 4y ago
Damn, I'm surprised they deleted his page. He was a real nutjob, but a notable nutjob. I have a pdf of one of his books about psyops archived somewhere.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Shame they don't seem to have a copy of the Bear versus Lion article. Wikipedia still has Tiger versus Lion and articles for Bear-baiting and Lion-baiting, but the Bear versus Lion article seems to be lost. Archive.org doesn&#x

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