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by rootbear 9y ago
Having dabbled in text-to-speech algorithms, I wish English had kept both eth and thorn, or had SOME way to distinguish voiced vs unvoiced th. There are few clues.
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by rootbear 9y ago
NASA has a rigid host naming scheme that is based on the center, the org code, and the property tag number. Fortunately, we can use aliases, or I would go mad.
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by rootbear 9y ago
I'm a fan of the names of the "First Generation" computers like ENIAC, EDVAC, ILLIAC, etc. My Raspberry Pi honors Pi inventor Eben Upton and is named EBENAC, the Economical British Educational Networked ARM Computer.
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by rootbear 9y ago
Excellent. It's a great story about how amazing the Voyager spacecraft are and I'm glad to see it getting a lot of attention, even with click-bait titles!
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by rootbear 9y ago
I've seen this article mentioned on several sites. The title is terrible, misleading clickbait that seem to indicate that the Voyager 1 has been unresponsive for 37 years. What nonsense! This is really about how NASA found they could u
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by rootbear 9y ago
I am a lifetime choral singer and during a recent medical exam I was asked to take a series of deep breaths. So I took my usual singer's diaphragmatic breath and was complemented on my "yoga breathing"!
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by rootbear 9y ago
Not every string is allocated from the heap. There is no way to know if a string passed to a function, for example, came from the heap or not.
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by rootbear 9y ago
Is Vulcan a locale? Is this so I can use Vulcan text in Windows apps under Wine? Oh, sorry, wrong Vulcan...
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by rootbear 9y ago
I wish I'd found that before I went to Iceland last August! I studied German in college but don't speak it now, but it was fun to see some cognates in Icelandic. I loved Iceland and want to go back some day.
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by rootbear 9y ago
I really wish that there was still a free version of QNX around. I enjoyed playing with it.
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by rootbear 9y ago
I think they missed an opportunity by not naming it WeeBSD. That's the hostname I gave my pi running FreeBSD.
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by rootbear 9y ago
Here at NASA Goddard, old wiring is often never removed. In the cable trays in the hall outside my office is some ancient coaxial Ethernet cable. At one point, there is a tap and one of the standard cables that went from the tap to a workst
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by rootbear 9y ago
Yes, on Ubuntu. I should have clarified that. And yes, when typing, the touchpad should be disabled.
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by rootbear 9y ago
DDR3 RAM was dirt cheap just a few years ago. I maxed out several of my systems.
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by rootbear 9y ago
It's a mess. Palm rejection is terrible. I use a wireless mouse with my XPS 13.
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by rootbear 9y ago
I have a 13" 9360 and have similar concerns. I just replaced my Killer WiFi, but Bluetooth is still broken. I think I just haven't found the right driver yet. Did you get it working under 16.04? The touchpad is a mess, I mostly us
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by rootbear 9y ago
I've seen rats in DC that would eat a cat for breakfast. Those suckers are huge!
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by rootbear 9y ago
The comments on Youtube for that video are not kind. I'll watch all of it later, but it seems to have some serious flaws. I enjoyed an older documentary on the AGC that was part of a series called Moon Machines. The episode on the AGC
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by rootbear 9y ago
It isn't just badly done math loops that can cripple performance. Years ago, some users were complaining that it was taking forever to load their data into their analysis program. It turned out they were reading thousands of structs,
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by rootbear 9y ago
I'm 60. My mother is 97. So yeah, as far as I'm concerned, he died young.
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by rootbear 9y ago
Something is seriously strange here. I work at NASA as a system administrator. That system should not still have the asset tag attached. Those are removed when an item goes through excess. Also, NO hard drives are to leave NASA with any dat
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by rootbear 9y ago
He likely meant the 8086 and 8088.
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by rootbear 9y ago
This idea was part of the motivation Dr. Zamenhof had in creating Esperanto. He felt that if everyone spoke it, in addition to whatever other languages they spoke, then there might be a greater level of understanding between peoples and few
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by rootbear 9y ago
I've never been to Ireland, but when in Scotland I had no trouble in Edinburgh, but the Glaswegians were much more difficult to understand.
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by rootbear 9y ago
My Adabox 5 came with a Pi Zero and the Pimoroni Hammer Headers [1]. Not cheap, but it doesn't get one out of soldering a lot of pins. [1] https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/gpio-hammer-header
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by rootbear 9y ago
I (mostly) loved working at Pixar. They have some of the smartest people I've ever met there. I'd love to say I worked on some amazing, cutting edge features of the animation software, but honestly, I think the most important thin
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by rootbear 9y ago
I still haven't read it, but I really need to. I was in the Studio Tools group in the late 90s and thought that group functioned pretty well. I also never heard anything about John behaving badly, although it was generally acknowledged
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by rootbear 9y ago
Nice chart! The speed with which Linux supplanted proprietary Unix systems is remarkable. It would be interesting to know what version of Linux is used most often on current supercomputers. The supercomputer here at Goddard runs SLES (Suse)
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by rootbear 9y ago
Both Cray and SGI (now HPE) are both still very much in the game. Their systems all run Linux.
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by rootbear 9y ago
There is a whole branch of the conlang (constructed language) community that is interested in what English would be like if it hadn't been manhandled by Norman French. Science Fiction writer Poul Anderson wrote an essay in which he tri

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