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by rootbear 5y ago
I gave up as soon as I realized that the form at the top was an ad and not part of the page. What a mess!
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by rootbear 5y ago
And Hungarian (Kovács)
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by rootbear 5y ago
Ah, okay. I probably never knew about it, that was after I left Pixar. (This is Jim W. from Studio Tools, by the way. Great to see you here on HN.)
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by rootbear 5y ago
It was.I don't know exactly what, but we had a lot of Octanes.
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by rootbear 5y ago
That is not true. I was there. The film that was nearly lost was being made at Pixar. There was never any version of TS2 made by anyone else. I think this idea may come from the fact that Disney owned the Toy Story characters and if Pixar h
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by rootbear 5y ago
There never was a "Disney Version" of TS2. The film that was almost lost was to be the theatrical version and it was done entirely at Pixar.
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by rootbear 5y ago
The linked article is much better. This event happened right about the time I left Pixar and I heard about it long ago. In the end, much of what was recovered from Galyn's workstation wasn't used. Some time after this event, it wa
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by rootbear 5y ago
My group at NASA/Goddard, which was almost all CentOS 7, is moving to a mix of RHEL and Ubuntu (with paid support). This has, of course, increased our costs, but the agency was under some pressure to only run OSs that had formal corpor
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by rootbear 5y ago
And Clarke had a tendency to be free with his usage of the word Universe, sometimes using it to refer just to the Solar systems. It throws me off sometimes when reading his short stories.
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by rootbear 5y ago
Quite a few of my NASA colleagues worked today to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, and I'm sure most of them didn't mind working on Christmas. And I certainly appreciate all of those who work on the holidays to keep us safe.
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by rootbear 5y ago
Pilots retire at the mandatory retirement age of 65, which a friend of mine will do next year. He'd rather keep flying and I imagine his employer would prefer that too, given the pilot shortage. But he will also admit that the job his
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by rootbear 5y ago
Agreed on both points. I remember seeing some of these images back in the 70s when space colonies were first seriously proposed. The idea that I might live to see such things built was thrilling. But looking at these images now, they seem v
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by rootbear 5y ago
Mostly efficiency. A typical shell function doesn't spawn a new shell, which running a script would. On a modern system, it's probably irrelevant.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I seem to have about three dozen. Many of them are very simple and quite old and should probably be turned into shell functions in my .bashrc. Only a few are of any complexity.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I still have a .plan file, for nostalgia's sake: $ cat .plan To be the only person on this system who uses this obsolete feature of finger.
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by rootbear 5y ago
And a : in a file name at the GUI level gets turned into a dash! I just tried to name a text file "Foo/Bar 10:01.rtf" and it changed it to "Foo/Bar 10-01.rtf"!
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by rootbear 5y ago
In Larry Niven’s Ringworld, there were maps of various planets in the ocean, including one of Earth. I always wondered what projection they were in.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I have only been in that position once or twice, but yeah, knowing some secrets can be exciting.
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by rootbear 5y ago
My sister, who is on Medicare, is paying over USD 10,000 a year for her cancer drugs (ALK-positive lung cancer). That's out of her pocket.
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by rootbear 5y ago
Neither my grandmother, who died of a stroke that was probably related to her late stage Alzheimer's, nor my father, who died of severe Alzheimer's, experienced terminal lucidity. But it seems to be a real phenomenon, and worthy o
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by rootbear 5y ago
When I visited Bletchley Park a few years ago, I got into a conversation with one of the docents about the film and it was clear that they had a very low opinion of it there. Turing deserved a better film.
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by rootbear 5y ago
Thank you! I was curious about exactly this. But now I have a new question. If a photon is sufficiently energetic to be capable of briefly fluctuating into an electron-positron pair, does that imply that it would, over a long distance, be s
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by rootbear 5y ago
I knew glob was short for global, but I've never been clear on how the word global applies here. Perhaps it was something like "apply this command globally to all matching files"? As for the terse abbreviations common Unix co
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by rootbear 5y ago
My first personal computer was based on the Little Board. I put together a two floppy system and ran CP/M on it. I connected it to my HP19 terminal, which I had previously used with a modem to access the University computers. The syste
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by rootbear 5y ago
I reread this most years over the Holidays.
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by rootbear 5y ago
This idea has been around almost a hundred year. It is not supported by the evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_light
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by rootbear 5y ago
Thanks, Don. I took a class from Mark at UMCP but I can't remember which one just now. He was one of my favorite instructors and I was sad when he went to PARC, but much sadder still when he died at such a young age.
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by rootbear 5y ago
There is currently no way to service Hubble, now that the Shuttle fleet has been retired.
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by rootbear 5y ago
There is great interest in using both instruments to observe the same target simultaneously, for example, a new supernova. It would be a real loss not to have Hubble available for such observations after JWST launches later this year.
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by rootbear 5y ago
I'm at NASA and a while ago I wanted to experiment with using Pi's to monitor experimental setups, instead of using full-on PCs as we do now, which would save a ton of money. Trying to get permission to put one on the network, eve

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