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by russfink 2y ago
Cool related link (from the same site) on the expected lifetime of the golden records - https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-dist... 20,000 years until V1 transits the Oort Cloud. Twenty thousand years.
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by russfink 2y ago
Another secret sauce is the overwhelming community support for it. That’s one of the reasons why I rebased my side project from Fedora to Debian.
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I was probably 2 years old and was fussing loudly in the middle of the night, when a kind lady came through a door and walked over to me and hushed me down. She was in a blue ball gown-like dress. The next morning, I remember looking at the
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by russfink 2y ago
Drafting was taught in my high school through the late 1980’s, and into college in the second half of the 80’s. However, in 1986, we had CadKey for the IBM PC, which could work with an optional mouse. The students who could afford a mouse h
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by russfink 2y ago
This was true 25 years ago and is still as true today.
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If you think that, then you’re impugning the entire field of philosophy (and likely psychology, too). CS/EE/Math are not the only fields with “hard” papers in them.
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by russfink 2y ago
Further thought - humans are obsessed with powers of 10. These stones were arranged 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. Would it not make sense that the traveler dialed up “10,000 years ago” in their machine? Can we use this with our own relative p
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by russfink 2y ago
… and yet another theory was that a time traveler became stranded in the past, and devoted the rest of their life to marking their presence as a signal to their colleagues in the future, similar to a Vernor Vinge or Michael Crichton storyli
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by russfink 2y ago
But is the conversion maintainable by a human? I’ve seen Fortran to C translators that end up encoding state transition machines that are impossible to read.
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A TPM ensures the right software was run, not that the software is running right. Once the TPM unseals the key, software is free to do whatever with it. To imply that the TPM protects keys resident in the OS memory space is misguided.
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by russfink 2y ago
Engaging article about civilian-soldiers lending their expertise to a critical fight to maintain independence.
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Could you embed a series of metallic needles as you melted your way down, then communicate via radio waves that travel needle to needle? They would not need to be connected. Just close by.
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Looks great, why is it free? Rather, how is it free?
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by russfink 2y ago
Why not just make a hawk silouhette into an antenna? They paste those on windows all the time to minimize bird strikes.
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Maybe not so much lauded as put forth for its audacity.
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Agreed.
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I wonder about the security of this. Are programs executed in some kind of jail? Is there a limit to certain features, e.g., opening a socket to somewhere?
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If I may speculate, then opine, (1) was the attacker more than just able to compromise the supply chain, were they able to BECOME part of the supply chain? The credentials of the BAC corporation seem highly suspect. (2) The execution of th
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Pager and Now Walkie-Talkie Attacks on Hezbollah(theguardian.com)
1 points by russfink 2y ago|6 comments
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Would that by chance be the Pointfree font?
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by russfink 2y ago
Sounds like a missed STTNG story line. I can imagine that such a “Data,” were we ever to build one, would hallucinate from time to time.
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by russfink 2y ago
The BOFH is soon to be replaced by the BAIFH.
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by russfink 2y ago
DeJoy was a Trump appointee. As witnessed by other such appointees (education, EPA), I was concerned DeJoy would gut the postal service. Sounds like that isn’t the case.
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What does one do with all this storage?
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I also feel that the fact that the systems were not modernized foreshadowed the demise of the concept. I would love to know any insight of the behind closed doors discussions, ie when did they know Concorde was unprofitable and shutting do
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by russfink 2y ago
It follows the UNIX philosophy: do one thing well. Nice work!
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by russfink 2y ago
Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing; Many, many men can't see the open road…
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by russfink 2y ago
Page limits are at once both the savior and the tormenter of science.
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For me, the question of why is because it’s already installed in the environment and available on every UNIX system I have used. This is a case of conforming myself to the tool, rather than the other way around. If you are of a certain vint
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by russfink 2y ago
No Debian (Ubuntu, Mint and friends) version?

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